Archive for the ‘Vizual Thinking’ Category
Graphic Harvest – from chat to dialogue
Filed in Creative Stuff, Facilitation, How Stuff Spreads & Changes, Living Systems & Complexity, Vizual Thinking
Last week I was part of a learning conversation with practitioners, policy makers and researchers, all interested in diving deep into the complexity of behaviour change. We started by helping each other out with current problems, challenges and questions about our work – this was highly practical stuff and focused mainly on principles and practices. At the end of the conversation we created a map of the group’s current thinking about behaviour change in practice. I felt we were able to go beyond ‘talking’ and enter the realm if Dialogue … we were thinking together. Here’s the map I drew …
Read MoreSimplifying my digital habits
I started thinking and drawing about the many & varied ways I store, share, create and consume media and information. So this map emerged and it has provided me with a simpler ‘way’ of doing stuff this year. At the core of ‘creation’ is my blog – YesAndSpace At the core of ‘sharing’ is Twitter (for rapid stuff) & Posterous (for everything I notice worth sharing) At the core of ‘reading & sharing’ are the feeds I subscribe to via Google Reader. At the core of ‘collaboration’ is Skype & Google Documents. At the core of ‘storing’ is Evernote & …
Read MoreYes! Its a tangled mess
Big HT to Andrew Rixon for noticing this Leunig Cartoon in the weekend Age … Andrew suggested that Leunig really understands complexity theory – I agree! This metaphoric-tangle that Leunig uses is so true of life and most of what we do. So why are we still trying to control and manage this tangled web with rules? Luenig knows that there are no ‘rules’ for getting through this mess. Instead, he has captured some ‘principles’ in this cartoon … principles that might just help change our mindset. There are probably some other principles too but there is no rule book …
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