Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
When you know language matters you don’t to repeat the common discourse that ‘frames’ the Discourse that hides undisclosed assumptions and ideological agenda. I read an AIHS piece about a a so called ‘safety thought leader’ who referred to the skills of Listening, Helping, … Learn more >>>>>
The research shows that people are most gullible when:
1. What is presented to them is the first they have heard it
2. The source seems authoritative
3. The ideas seem logical, simple, binary and orderly and,
4. Ideas match popular discourse.
It is not likely that people are going … Learn more >>>>>
Anchoring refers to a human bias that ‘holds’ to a view or position based upon how it was introduced and ‘sunk-cost’ associated with commitment to that position. Anchoring acts as a ‘fast and efficient’ heuristic that short cuts any need for challenge, questioning and debate and … Learn more >>>>>
Safety is the Wrong Anchor
We are all shaped by starting points, what Jung called Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (SDICs). SDIC is sometimes known as the ‘butterfly effect’. This is the idea central to Chaos Theory that a simple starting point can lead to wickedity. Foundational to SDIC is … Learn more >>>>>
One of the foundations of communicating to the unconscious through semiotics is understanding how words, language, signs, symbols and discourse ‘prime’, ‘frame’ and ‘anchor’ at an unconscious level. Every communication operates at a number of levels and it is most often the ‘hidden’ message that … Learn more >>>>>
