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This morning I picked up on a tweet by Zahmoo (Anecdote's new story bank software) that pointed towards a post about the Periodic Table of Storytelling. I've spent a few mintues wading through it and I'm pretty impressed. TVtropes.org have done an exquisite job of plotting out the basic elements of stories, in both literary and film form. Besides the natural link to the work we do, I'm interested in this table because we have developed a workshop process based on Christopher Booker's [...]

We received an introduction email about two months ago from a graduate who had come across the work we do in his course on Knowledge Management. We were quite chuffed to hear that The Narrative Lab is getting some airplay in the lecture halls of some of South Africa's leading universities. We were however not in a position to hire at the time, but the tide has turned, and we have just welcomed David Sebe to the team. David is [...]

We're pretty interested in all things systems and change related. And so, when we came across the Nexus for Africa movement, we were introduced to the idea of "whole system change". Nexus for Africa is a two conference (12th to 14th September) will be a unique experience where powerful approaches to collaborative change, selected from a repertoire of more than 60 methodologies broadly referred to as large-group methods/ interventions, whole-system change, or large-scale change, will be used to illustrate how organisations and [...]

We love working with cartoonists and doing things differently.  We also believe that conversation is of much greater value than simply sitting passively listening to the guru's speak (as is the case in most conferences). I found this approach to conferencing, and also conference reporting really refreshing.  Let's hope that more and more conferences will be run this way!