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 […]
Category: thinking skills
Start thinking in new dimensions Our ThoughtFormz in-house thinking skills workshop is designed to stimulate responsible innovation in a corporate context. The workshop is designed to equip participants with the critical and creative thinking skills required to face challenges and risk innovation, increase your organisations’ ability to be competitive and help everybody to see the ‘Big Picture’. […]
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 […]
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 […]
When I was initiated for the first time in 1937 into the mysteries and knowledge of Mother Africa I was ordered by my teacher who was my aunt. She said I should go outside and fill a small clay pot with water. And then she said to me, “Look into the water – what do […]
Here are some tips for skillful storytelling. Start off by Visualising the story! Imagine the sounds, tastes, smells, textures and colours in the story. It is only when you experience the story vividly yourself that your audience can experience it! Experience your story until the characters become as real to you as the people and places […]
If you research ‘game theory’ on the web, you’ll find the main references refer to game theory in terms of mathematical models as would be used in economics, psychology, politics etc.. The main focus of this piece is upon social games that include many of the games that we play in our daily lives. The […]