How many do you want harmed today? It seems not a week goes by on Linkedin without the perpetual Safety demonstration of nonsense talk, nonsense language, life denying, fallibility denying and the immortality delusional semiotics of zero. As usual it starts with the silly binary question ‘How many … [Read more...] about How many do you want harmed today?
Robert Long
March Workshops, Following-Leading-Managing-Supervising
There are still a few places in this workshop series to be held online on 4, 11, 18 and 25 March at 7.30 pm Canberra time. The workshops will be facilitated by Dr Ashhurst and Dr Long. You may ask: Why are these four activities hyphenated and joined together? The hyphen is often used in SPoR … [Read more...] about March Workshops, Following-Leading-Managing-Supervising
Book Launch – Poetics and Risk, Feeling Into Being
Well, hot off the press is book No 17 in the series on the Social Psychology of Risk. A project with 10 authors from all over the globe writing on Poetics and Risk, Feeling into Being. Your free download is here: … [Read more...] about Book Launch – Poetics and Risk, Feeling Into Being
Imaginology and Envisioning Risk
Imagination (Phantasie) can become fantastic. “The fantastic is generally that which leads a person out into the infinite in such a way that Philosophy and Imagination leads him away from himself and thereby prevents him from coming back to himself” - Kierkegaard Safety 2 (Hollnagel) talks about … [Read more...] about Imaginology and Envisioning Risk
The PCBU, the Law, Blame, Reality and the Con
The Work Health Safety Act and Regulation (https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2011A00137/2018-07-01/text) name the Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU) as those responsible and accountable for WHS in the workplace. A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) has a primary duty … [Read more...] about The PCBU, the Law, Blame, Reality and the Con
Work as Imagined is Good, Learning from Normal Work is Myth
One of the many myths created by the HOP, NV, RE, S2 and SD group is the binary opposition of ‘work as imaged vs work as done’. Unfortunately, just another simplistic slogan among many for this group. However, what does this slogan mean? Indeed, why is it that something imagined is somehow wrong? … [Read more...] about Work as Imagined is Good, Learning from Normal Work is Myth
The Meaning of Blame, Thinking Beyond the Spin and Slogans
Slogans make cults, not moral character - Barry Spud One of the profound issues to do with the issue of blame is its complexity. Anyone speaking about blame as some simplistic black and white thing has little idea what they are talking about. But hey, ‘blame fixes nothing’. In order to … [Read more...] about The Meaning of Blame, Thinking Beyond the Spin and Slogans
Psychosocial Risk, An iCue Conversation
After a week of sharing, learning and coaching in Canberra, Dec and Manu from Romania are on their way back home. On our final day of sharing and learning we decided to record some conversations about issues that were concerning them. One such issue was the challenge of psychosocial risk. So, … [Read more...] about Psychosocial Risk, An iCue Conversation
Humanising Risk in the Workplace- A Video Conversation
This week we have had the two directors of Corporate Dynamics from Romania (https://www.corporatedynamics.ro/) in Canberra, seeking coaching in SPoR. The two partners/Directors are: Decebal Marin and Emanoil Draganescu. You can contact them here: decebalm@corporatedynamics.ro … [Read more...] about Humanising Risk in the Workplace- A Video Conversation
Following-Leading and ‘Meeting’ in the Hyphen
One of the dynamics that drives a SPoR view of leadership is Buber’s i-thou. The structure of this language is how a hyphen makes two words connected. Indeed, i-thou is one word. Similarly, Following-Leading is one word. And, this linguistic structure is active. It is not followership-leadership … [Read more...] about Following-Leading and ‘Meeting’ in the Hyphen