Re-Framing
Metaphor originates from the Greek word meta meaning ‘across’ and pherein meaning ‘to carry’. Metaphor allows us to bring forth or carry over a deeper context which words on face-value can lack.
Giles Hutchins • The Need For Metaphor: A Shift from Machine to Nature
Sympoietic and autopoietic systems: A new distinction for self ...
researchgate.netMetaphors of Movement – Decoding the Symbolic Architecture of The Unconscious Mind
metaphorsofmovement.co.ukA metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Themes and Tools — Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
collectiveimagination.toolsFour-and-a-half years ago, as the COVID epidemic hit its first, horrible spike, Jamais Cascio , a professional futurist, wrote a prescient and helpful post titled, “Facing the Age of Chaos.” He began with this simple insight: “This current moment of political mayhem, climate disasters, and global pandemic — and so much more — vividly demonstrates... See more
Micah L. Sifry • When History Overflows, Build a Lifeboat
Equanimity helps us see the world with spacious awareness – and that is a world from which we feel less divided. When we feel most separate from the world, that is when we experience most profoundly all the limiting conditions from which we seek relief: anxiety, depression, anger, loneliness, boredom and meaninglessness. Equanimity offers a path... See more
Michael Uebel • Equanimity is not stillness – it is a mobility of the mind | Psyche Ideas
s the philosopher Elisabeth Camp explains, a perspective ‘helps us to do things with the thoughts we have: to make quick judgments based on what’s most important, to grasp intuitive connections, and to respond emotionally, among other things.’ Through perspective some features of our experiences ‘stick out in our minds while others fade into the... See more