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How to take charge of the story?

Leadership, who should be able to take an objective view of everything that is happening in an organisation, usually become increasingly removed from the inner story circles. And often when they hear the stories, they will have been sanitised and edited because thats what everyone wants leadership to know. By their absence from the day-to-day […]

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The Biology and Chemistry of Creativity

Ultimately your experience of the world is reflected in the many billions of electro-chemical changes that occur continuously in your endocrine system, your immune system and your nervous system. It is known that the various substances we consume can have a profound impact on the way in which we experience the world. Make it your […]

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Facilitation training for Isivivane

The Isivivane is a knowledge creation and sharing model designed for organisations of all kinds and sizes. Isivivane can be used for a variety of applications including KM, Change Management, Conflict Management, Teambuilding, Innovation, Project Management, sustainable system design, branding & identity work. A key benefit of the game is that it creates shared understanding […]

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Relationships with brands and how they are developed

I know exactly how I fell in love. There are some of us who are not very smart around technology. Our thinking tends to be more in the realm of ideas and random connections than remembering what F9 does. We get nervous and confused rather quickly and feel inadequate, especially when we’re around techno-wizards. After […]

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Art of Deception, full movie

Art of Deception looks at persuasion/propaganda techniques used in documentaries – covers stories like #kony The Disney Lemmings jumping over a cliff story, the climate change stories among others. Views: 2

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Paradigms and Change

A paradigm is a self-consistent set of ideas and beliefs which acts as a filter, influencing how we perceive and make sense of the world. Examples of paradigms include – how to make bread, what a bed looks like, the characteristics of a chair that lend the idea of “chairness”, how we treat sick people […]

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Stories are not simply reflections of reality

Stories are not simply reflections of reality, but rather, they are constructs that actively shape our internal experiences and our understanding of the world. This is how individual narratives and cultural contexts interact: In summary, individual narratives and cultural contexts are in a constant state of interaction, with each influencing and shaping the other. Cultural […]