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I recently facilitated a one-day change readiness workshop for an organisation embarking on a significant organisational change initiative. In essence, the change initiative invited the organisation to shift is cultural mindset from one of ‘problem finding, solution identification‘...
The conversations a social system has about itself – who it is, what it has, and what it wants for itself into the future – will impact its current level of viability determine its future potential. Collaborative Conversations involve the intentional use of conversation as...
Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology focused on the development of positive human functioning. The aim of the positive psychology movement is the exploration and scientific understanding of effective interventions to build thriving individuals, families, and...
There is a lot that competes for our attention in life and work. In seems to becoming increasingly difficult to commit to those things we most want to be a part of. In fact, I would go one step further and suggest that it is increasingly difficult to even notice those things that we would like...
A couple of weeks ago I was having dinner with some friends and chatting about a colleagues upcoming UnConference in Adelaide. Together we were exploring some potential design elements for the conference and how these might be stitched together to form a cohered whole that would deliver the...
Last month I was invited by a friend, Peter McDonald, to spend a day with him establishing a new Community of Practice (CofP) focused on Community Development. His organisation is Uniting Communities and it works with some of the more disadvantaged elements of society...
This morning I attended a short workshop facilitated by a member of The Holos Group team, Adam Jorlen. Adam is a foresight practitioner working with organisations at the intersection of futures thinking, creativity and more agile approaches to organisational innovation and...
Earlier this week with two business colleagues, I launched a new product called The 3rd Space.
The 3rd Space is both a board-game and a tool that gamifies problem solving to help individuals and groups better understand what is stopping them from achieving their goals, and what to do about...
I keep returning to a TED talk I watched early last year by Brene Brown, called The Power of Vulnerability. It is one of the most personally profound and insightful TED talks I have ever watched, and continues to reward me time and time again.
By way of context, Brene is a qualitative...
Why is is that some people thrive in times of uncertainty whilst others stumble? Why is it that yet others see possibilities during times of challenge when others see only problems?
Certainly, mindset plays a role. The founder of the positive psychology movement and author of the international...
