Your Narrative (or story) can be seen is an operating system upon which your user interface and apps run. Transforming your story is like changing your operating system and gives novel ways to access, visualise and influence the endlessly transforming chaos of zeros and ones in the machine that represent your inner world/nervous system/perception and […]
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By consciously engaging in storytelling, both by sharing our own narratives and by analyzing the stories that influence us, we can gain valuable insights into ourselves, challenge limiting beliefs, and actively shape our personal growth and future. Aspect of Self-Discovery/Growth How Storytelling Facilitates It Understanding Self and Identity Our understanding of ourselves and the world […]
Storytelling plays a profound and fundamental role in creating and shaping reality, both individually and collectively. Our experience of the world is not a direct apprehension of “what is,” but rather an internally generated “model” of what we think is going on. This model is built from filtered sensory information, and stories are central to […]
An African Dilemma tale is a unique style of participative storytelling. It is a story that has no end other than that provided by the participants. And even then, the story continues…… Why are dilemma tales important for children in the digital age? Children are bombarded with conflicting stories every day. They ingest cartoons, news, […]
How did humans ever come to agree that one of the primary ways they would represent their experience of the world is through the rectangular shape? The rectangle is rare in the natural world but it is the shape of the canvas almost invariably used by the artist to paint on. Rectangles are about limits […]
I’m lucky enough to live on a river in northern Johannesburg and have done so for 25 years now. The river has her moods – mainly she burbles along most of the year at knee depth, continuously exposing the granite and tangled roots underneath, but sometimes in summer rainfall season she roars close to the boundaries of […]
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/30/metaphor-map-charts-the-images-that-structure-our-thinking Metaphor is not the sole preserve of Shakespearean scholarship or high literary endeavour but has governed how we think about and describe our daily lives for centuries, according to researchers at Glasgow University. Experts have now created the world’s first online Metaphor Map, which contains more than 14,000 metaphorical connections sourced from 4m pieces of […]
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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The edge of the village
Once there was, and once there was not that a traveler arrived at the outskirts of a village where he saw an old man sitting on a rock. ‘What kind of people live in this village?’ Asked the traveller. ‘First, tell me where have you come from and what were the people like there?’ Answered […]
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 […]
Leaders and those in the healing professions are often able to help people understand and appreciate their personal narratives. In effect, the leader or healer is given powers of authorship (authority) over the personal mythologies. The leader helps them interpret a set of circumstances in a more positive, empowering light. Doing this creates a new […]
Stories come and go but some hang around, influencing, teaching, inspiring and enlightening. But stories can also even destroy and damage individuals and organisations. A story may be considered powerful if it fulfills the following criteria; the more criteria met, the more powerful the story: People are surrounded by bits of information. All competing for […]
What is consciousness? How does it work? Can consciousness be expanded? This facilitated workshop allows you to experiment with mind tools that allow reflection on the most human and mysterious of experiences; the awareness of your awareness in what is called “the ever-present now”. The problem with consciousness is that it is used to reflect […]