Imitation, Representation, Aesthetics, Imagination, Simulacra, Kinesic codes.
Ask an Australian what this does.
These are integral parts of learning in an organisation, where power must be given up for learning to happen, be adjusted, communicated and accepted.
There is no checklist other than opinion. Can ‘Bob’ do the task? ‘Bob’ may be capable, but is it the best way? Why is this the best way? Was it the way he was taught? Is it efficient? Is it the company way? Is ‘Bob’ left handed and does everything in mirror image?
‘Bob’ learnt the task by mimetics, and through play, continues to perfect his craft.
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Matt Thorne
Executive Director at Risk Diversity
Risk Diversity coaches and mentors Companies and People to understand Leadership, Culture and Risk, helping them to humanise and harmonise their systems.
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Rob Long says
Understanding the complexities of Poetics demonstrates that much goes on in and under the ‘text’ of safety that is never considered. Indeed, it was Weick who stated that organising was ‘consensually validated grammar’. Such an insightful definition. Understanding text as symbolic is the beginning of tackling much of what is said and repeated in safety through mimetics. None of this appears anywhere in any safety curriculum.