Archive for July, 2009
A true living story – Theatre of the Oppressed
Posted by Andrew 27 July 2009Thanks to Sascha for forwarding this story. To me it speaks of the humanising power of story and narrative to our lived experiences.
A breakthrough community project teaching inmates to express themselves through Shakespeare has had its first encore performance.
A group from the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble led by Artistic Director and UQ Linguistics Professor, Rob Pensalfini [...]
The end of Homo Economicus – The beginning of Homo Narrans ?
Posted by Andrew 21 July 2009In this months edition of the Harvard Business Review there appears an interesting article titled “The End of Rational Economics”.
The idea in brief of this article is (to quote HBR):
“The global economic crisis has shattered two articles of faith in standard economic theory: that human beings usually make rational decisions and that the market’s invisible [...]
Interested in our story conference and like a free postcard?
Posted by Andrew 11 July 2009Provide us with your address details and we’ll send you one!
(Or email me…)
How adaptive are we? Really?
Posted by Andrew 8 July 2009Anticipating Tomorrows Organisation
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This tells the story of what might be considered a forgotten fairy tale.
With today’s environment asking us what will tomorrow bring for organisations, this story explores what might become of hierarchies.
Telling the story of a workshop…
Posted by Andrew 6 July 2009Story Of A Workshop
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This is the story of a workshop that I facilitated earlier this year. But its not a story told by me, it’s a story told by one of the workshop participants.
Like they say a picture tells a thousand words…