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 […]
Category: thinking skills
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 […]
Daiju visited the master Baso in China. Baso asked: “What do you seek?” “Enlightenment,” replied Daiju. “You have your own treasure house. Why do you search outside?” Baso asked. Daiju inquired: “Where is my treasure house?” Baso answered: “What you are asking is your treasure house.” Daiju was delighted! Ever after he urged his friends: […]
I was staring into the distance at nothing in particular when it occurred to me that everything is a story, a narrative. Each one of us is a unique narrative with a beginning and an end. In that narrative there are chapters, sub-sections, paragraphs, sentences and words. But it’s a juicy story, filled with pictures, sounds, […]
This story was developed for a large organisation that had, at the time, a number of IT outsource partners that needed to work together more efficiently within the same infrastructure. Everyone had a very different view of “what was going on” and there were frequent conflicts and system problems. Rationalisation and downsizing was in the […]
*a “Skroplap” is Afrikaans slang for the dirtiest dishcloth of them all, the one that is used to clean the messiest mess. I first noticed “Skroplap” as he strolled easily into the MDs office in the middle of our meeting. Skroplap took the contents of the MDs “Out” tray and left as unobtrusively as he had […]
Exactly how to portray the human mind has preoccupied philosophers for centuries and more recently psychologists, educationalists and physiologists have contributed to the debate. [technology creates new metaphors, tools to manipulate our experience that create our stance towards the world]. With the advent of information and communications technology, the brain has been compared to a […]