Dolphyn Newsletter – May 2018 IN THIS ISSUE Welcome to our third Newsletter for 2018, where we again welcome new subscribers, many of who join us after recently purchasing Social Sensemaking eBook edition. We love hearing feedback after people have read the book and we share in some of this feedback below. Next week we […]
Sensemaking and ‘Hapori’ – Essential for Tackling Risk in New Zealand
Sensemaking and ‘Hapori’ – Essential for Tackling Risk in New Zealand “The minimum unit of a human being is two” These are the (wise) words of Graham Long, the Pastor and CEO of The Wayside Chapel in Sydney’s Kings Cross; an example of a community who practice, rather than simply preach about, their mission which […]
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The Mystery and Paradox of Being an Individual in a Social World
The Mystery and Paradox of Being an Individual in a Social World I had the privilege today to meet up with a friend, one who I’ve known for a while, yet up until today we’d not had the opportunity to meet in person, so we both made the time and effort to catch up. We […]
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Dolphyn Newsletter – March 2018
IN THIS ISSUE This is our second Newsletter for 2018, and we again welcome new subscribers, many of who join us after purchasing Social Sensemaking. In this edition we share news of upcoming programs, including two in Auckland New Zealand, along with our usual news items including blogs, articles, books, a theme of the month […]
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Helping in Safety
Helping in Safety Since moving from a field wedded to ‘crusading’, to one where the fallibilities of human beings are revealed in almost every interaction, the real differences between the fixing of Safety and the helping of Counselling are becoming clearer. For example, contrast the often controlling practices of Safety with the helping activity of […]
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I Do Not Understand…!
I Do Not Understand…! How can we understand? Why do we feel the need to understand? What is it that we think we understand? Gina was sharing her story, opening up about a situation where she didn’t feel appreciated. She was talking about her feelings of being betrayed after other people had taken what were […]
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I Just Can’t Stop!
I Just Can’t Stop! First published here: https://dolphyn.com.au/i-just-cant-stop/ “I just can’t stop! I’m smart enough to know what it’s doing me, but its grip takes over everything; relationships, responsibilities, my very being. I think about it all the time; how can I get it? what if I can’t get it? do they know I’ve had […]
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The Human Race…
The Human Race… It’s Christmas, a time of the year that can create both a feeling of community and togetherness (we) while (ironically) also drawing us easily into a world of ‘I’ and ‘things’ (me). Christmas, set within the Christian tradition, is a story about the birth of Jesus as a human on earth and […]
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Safety in the Silly Season…
Safety in the Silly Season We often refer to this time of the year as the silly season. A time where we let our hair down, have a bit of fun and feel free to be a bit silly. There are parties, after work drinks, family catch ups and barbeques with friends. It’s often a […]
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Good Grief…
Latest blog by Rob Sams and first published here: http://dolphyn.com.au/good-grief/ Good Grief… Max Geyer was a gentleman, an archetypal family guy, a real giver and a lover. After commencing formal post-graduate studies at the age of 59, Max would often joke that he needed to live until the age of 200, just to read all […]
