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News: Narrative Lab joins SAMEA

By |January 29th, 2014|Categories: Monitoring&Evaluation|

We are proud to announce that The Narrative Lab have become members of the South African Monitoring & Evaluation Association. Our narrative methodology has always lended itself towards M&E work. Some of our longest standing client engagements have involved the ongoing collection of narratives from beneficiaries of development programmes. Joining SAMEA forms an integral part of our strategy to deepen our contacts within the M&E field while also strengthening our particular methodology. For more information about how we can assist [...]

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Navigating Stuckness – A manifest by Jonathan Harris

By |January 15th, 2014|Categories: Art, Management, Narrative Therapy, organisational development, Story|

I've respected Jonathan Harris' work ever since he blew my mind with the web-art application We Feel Fine that trawls the internet for human emotion and visualises those emotions in amazing ways. He is a prolific artist and storyteller, of sorts. Unbeknownst to me, he has recently fallen off the radar somewhat and has just published a manifesto on stuckness, chronicling his life story and experience of engaging with creativity and a search for purpose. It is a great read (click here). What fascinates [...]

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Stories at play in our world – the context of our work

By |January 3rd, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , |

We’ve taken a standpoint on the state of our world. It is a world where problem-saturated narratives dominate and where healthy, perspective opening and possibility-generating alternative narratives are not given their place. This is an ethical standpoint. Shifting this power balance is ultimately what re:humanisation is about. We’re disturbed by how individuals are disconnected from their ‘selves’ and are stuck in living out problem-saturated narratives. We want to help people re:author their stories. We’re saddened by the state of teams [...]

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The lenses through which we see the world

By |January 3rd, 2014|Categories: Narrative, the narrativelab|

Narrative Therapy What is in a word? A world. – Michael White Narrative therapy engages with a client’s world through the dominant stories at play in their life story. These are often problem-saturated narratives and the purpose of narrative therapy is to identify alternative narratives that allow for thicker and richer descriptions of who we are. Central to our work is the application of narrative therapy principles to re:authoring the narratives of self, teams and organisations. This work is about [...]

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Developing a strategy for the aging workforce

By |August 3rd, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|

The issue of the aging workforce is common in organisations, particularly in large, established corporations. In most instances, a significant portion of the senior management team comprises a fair amount of employees who are about to retire. This issue has become prominent in this era of business. It has also called for the attention of leaders within various organisations, with most of them trying to devise strategies attempting to cater for the exiting employees who have reached their retirement age. [...]

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The Facilitation Of Knowledge Transfer In Organisations

By |June 19th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , |

Knowledge transfer within organisations has always been a prominent topic in our current knowledge economy. Many leaders, practitioners and employees in different industries seem to have their own angle of understanding and interpretation on this particular issue. But I can say with no doubt that most organisations have centered their Knowledge Management practices only on technology and they are relying on tools such as portals and other automated systems as the core of their Knowledge Management processes and solutions. There’s [...]

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How to create a movement

By |June 12th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|

There are sooooo many theories out there on leadership. And there are soooooo many recipe's of how to shift a culture, or move a group of people in a certain direction. But there is one quintessential component to creating a movement: the first follower. This short TEDvideo by Derek Sivers captures this with a real-life example:

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New seasons and adventures

By |April 4th, 2013|Categories: Uncategorized|

Almost 7 years ago, Aiden Choles, Raymond Salzwedel and I decided to embark on a journey together that became The Narrative Lab.  Raymond has since moved on to a successful consulting career in EOH, and now the time has come for me to venture out on my own as well. I am very proud of what we've built in TNL.  In many ways, we have been pioneers.  When we started our business with an offering based mostly on Complexity thinking [...]

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If you want a certain culture, then act that way.

By |November 5th, 2012|Categories: Leadership & Decision Making|Tags: , , |

Here's a nice little nugget of wisdom from one of our favourite organisational thought leaders at the moment, Henry Cloud. The message is simple. If you want a certain culture, then do more of that deed. A culture is powerful. It has the ability to help us thrive or suck the life out of us. And at the same time, whatever culture we are in, we influence it as well. Everyone is a force who exerts a bit of themselves [...]

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