A collection of us are writing our next book Poetics and Risk, Feeling Into Being at the moment and we expect it to be released early next year. The book is about the importance of language in risk and being sensitised to making meaning (semiosis). Our contributors to the book are from: … [Read more...] about The Nature of ‘Safety Speak’
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Can Innovation Come From Within Safety?
The language and discourse that floats about so much of safety is little more than marketing and propaganda. The noise of all these competing interests, selling the next fad, is deafening. Is it really that easy to sell and con in this industry? Perhaps so, as there is simply no curriculum for … [Read more...] about Can Innovation Come From Within Safety?
Poetics and Risk Part X: Embodied Knowing
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
What Can Poetry Say to Risk?
The question itself uses personification to pose the question. Neither Poetry or Risk are persons yet, we easily understand the poetic device (metonym). This kind of poetic device is used all the time in risk and safety where a thing is substituted for another or an object/topic is given a life of … [Read more...] about What Can Poetry Say to Risk?
Is There a ‘Soul’ in Safety? A Poetic Guide
Everyone accepts the idea of a ‘soul’ (https://discover.hubpages.com/entertainment/Songs-With-Soul-in-the-Title ). Like the metaphor of heart (https://safetyrisk.net/do-you-have-the-heart-for-safety/ ), it has been in the Poetics, Art and Musicology … [Read more...] about Is There a ‘Soul’ in Safety? A Poetic Guide
Podcast (audio) Series on Poetics and Risk – 14 Episodes
If you have been following the video series on Poetics and Risk (https://safetyrisk.net/poetics-and-risk/) then you can now listen to these conversations in your car through the SPoR Spotify channel - https://open.spotify.com/show/1Au9CC2plFXLWQlqejpG82 The series starts at Episode 40. Poetics … [Read more...] about Podcast (audio) Series on Poetics and Risk – 14 Episodes
Poetics and Risk Part IX: Poetics and the Unconscious
Personality, Faith, Mystery, Paradox, Hope, Dreaming, Psychedelics, Transcendence, Envisioning, Existential Existence, Imagination, Spirit – Soul – Mind, Synthesis. All these are a part of the unconscious, and a part of everyday life, so why are they not considered in how we organise at … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part IX: Poetics and the Unconscious
Poetics and Risk Part VIII: Mimesis and Mimetics
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 … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part VIII: Mimesis and Mimetics
Poetics and Risk Part VII – Poetics and Personhood
Language, Community, Senses, Sight/Vision, Touch Voice, Taste, Hear, Listen, are all very personal characteristics, which help make up a person. So what does it mean to be a person? As we are filming this video, which both Rob and I enjoy doing, we are out in nature, enjoying the sun, on a … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part VII – Poetics and Personhood
Poetics and Risk Part VI; Freedom and Play
How does Perfection, Zero Error, 100% etc effect creativity and Risk in your Organisation? What is Poetic Practice? In Poetics there has to be a certain level of freedom, balanced with responsibility, that allows you to come with things that are different. Where does play sit in the … [Read more...] about Poetics and Risk Part VI; Freedom and Play