Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis

Any cluster of ideas or imaginaries can be pictured as a series of layers, stretching from a base that is practical, concrete and everyday to a summit that is aspirational but also misty. At the top, the first layer is ethos and vision, where imagination plays a role similar to religion. It provides an overall vision or direction for society that c

In dreamwork, we are stepping into the imaginal borderlands to consciously participate with those images that shape us instead of allowing them to replicate autonomously. As we engage with our metaphors, we change the way we see the world. Like doubling the number of colours we can paint with, we develop a subtler and more complex palette for viewi

itself. Images used as metaphors help to hold complex and disparate elements. Conflict and chaos are clarified, simplified, and unified with fitting metaphors, and thus, we should expect to find a distillation of useful metaphors at the core of the practice of the art of adaptive leadership.