How do we know something? If the unconscious in our body, rather our brain, the we digest without thinking, our hearts beat without thinking, we can walk without thinking about walking, language comes out of my mouth without thinking, unconsciously. So as a part of embodied knowing let us also … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part X: Embodied Knowing
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Embodiment through the eyes of grandparenting
by Billy Snead I visited 3 of my grandchildren, about 30 miles from my house where my daughter lives. I had work to do nearby and decided I would buy them lunch, play with them, and visit until my work began later in the day. While I was playing with them, I was thinking a lot about embodiment. … [Read more...] about Embodiment through the eyes of grandparenting
THE POWER OF BEGINNINGS…
by Billy Snead We just finished an exciting class with Rob on Embodiment in Risk yesterday. I am so grateful to be engaged in the SPoR learning process. As we finished the course with a short session Mind Mapping the learnings of us all, someone added that their key takeaway was that there is power … [Read more...] about THE POWER OF BEGINNINGS…
Resonance and Risk
Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) has recently commenced a new course in Embodiment and Risk. Screenshot page 1 Embodiment course participants. A wonderful group of people that have come together from all over the globe, to discuss embodiment to further enhance their job roles, often in the … [Read more...] about Resonance and Risk
Embodiment and Risk – Online Workshops – February 2025
Requests for workshops are already coming in for 2025. First cab off the rank and with 18 registered already is the Embodiment and Risk Module: https://cllr.com.au/product/embodiment-learning-and-risk-module-26/ You can register here: admin@cllr.com.au and the cost for the 5-session series is … [Read more...] about Embodiment and Risk – Online Workshops – February 2025
Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk
Well, what an amazing lot of fun and learning in SPoR over the past 4 days. We finished our fourth day yesterday bringing myth and embodiment together in tackling the realities of psychosocial risk.We started surveying the current approaches to psychosocial risk that are dis-embodied, looking at the … [Read more...] about Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk
Embodied Enactivity in Safety
Day 3 of our SPoR workshops in Canberra saw a shift to a focus on embodiment and the way that the safety industry has a dis-embodied view of persons. This focus has a bias on brain-centrism and the idea that the brain is a computer that directs decisions. This is NOT the case. When we … [Read more...] about Embodied Enactivity in Safety
Myth Making and Why it Matters to Safety
It was great to see some new and old faces as we commenced our workshops on Mythology and Embodiment in risk. Craig did some great groundwork on Concept Mapping myth and the Linguistics of myth as well as work on models and the myth of the Scientific Method. I started out by exploring … [Read more...] about Myth Making and Why it Matters to Safety
The Embodiment of Christmas
The Embodiment of Christmas One of the messages of Christmas is the importance of embodiment. It is in our bodies that we experience the necessities of being human as well as the joys of being human. It is through our bodies that we know the fullness of fallibility and the many ambiguities of … [Read more...] about The Embodiment of Christmas
Embodied Risk
One of the challenges with the engineering-behaviourist worldview of safety is that it has no answer for the question: what is the body for? (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-the-human-body-for-in-safety/). (Other than it is simply a carrier for a computer) So much of safety work is brain-centric … [Read more...] about Embodied Risk