Dr Nippin Anand and Prof. Rob Long are pleased to launch their second book: SEEK Investigations, A Semiotic Method. This is the 20th book in the series on the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR).
This book is available for free download: https://www.humandymensions.com/product/seek-investigations-a-semiotic-method/
You can download all of the previous books here, for free: https://www.humandymensions.com/shop/ as well as free audiobooks.
SEEK (Social psychology Event Exploration and Knowledge) is an investigations method develop by Dr Long in 2004 as part of the discipline of the Social Psychology of Risk.
SPoR is a discipline that looks at risk through the lens of Social Psychology and is grounded in an existentialist phenomenological ethic. As part of the SPoR approach to risk, a number of vital disciplines are included that incorporate the work of: Semiotics, Poetics, Ethics, Education, Religious Studies, Anthropology, Cultural and Critical Theory. No investigations model in the market has such a methodology or method as SEEK. The book teaches the SEEK method but can only be approved with extensive training and accreditation, in order for the method to be used properly.
The tools of SEEK as a ‘method’ operate through embodied intuitive engagement situated in SPoR Methodology. These ‘tools’ take quite some time to learn and enact and, cannot be confined to checklist thinking or commonly accepted in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) paradigms.
This book commences in Chapter One with an examination of the 22 most common forms of investigations methods on the market in the light of SPoR methodology.
In SPoR the following are considered vital if an investigation method is to be holistic and effective: Fallible Humanity, Unconsciousness, The Collective Unconscious, An Ecology of Mind, Social Psychology, Anthropology, Culture, Embodied, Personhood, Ethics, Moral Meaning, Metaphysics, Religious Belief, Transdisciplinarity, Socialitie, Mentalitis, Ontologies, Intercorporeality, Interaffectivity, Intersubjectivity, Poetics, Semiotics, Wickedity and an understanding of Technique.
A consideration of all these is present in the SEEK Investigations Method.
When we hold critical elements of SEEK up to the common 22 methods of investigations, they are all found to be insufficient for delivering a holistic approach to investigations.
It is important to note that SEEK is not exclusive but is considered something that can complement orthodox investigations methods that tend to be technicist, mechanistic and behaviourist. If SEEK Methods are used in tandem with any traditional methods of investigation then it is possible to get much more effective outcomes because the whole person comes into view through SEEK.
The best way to learn SEEK is to practice it and do it. This involves extraordinary skills in: visual literacy, special literacy, One Brain Three Minds (1B3M) knowing, Temperament Listening, Framing, Pitching, Priming and Anchoring, making the unconscious/conscious, Concept Mapping, Knowing Layers of Risk (Workspace, Headspace, Groupspace – WS, HS, GS), Cultural and Semiotic Knowing, the Psychology of Goals and Motivation and, Dialogue. These are all be explained in the second half of this book.
So, this book is a practical book. Whilst the first half is about analysis of common models of investigation, the final chapters are extremely practical and teach the SEEK method.
Accredited Training
If you or your organisation are looking for something new and more holistic in investigations methods then write to us and we can deliver the three-day SEEK program in you location or at a shared location with other organisations. Simply write to us here: admin@spor.com.au for a free quote and appointment.
SEEK can only be taught by accredited trainers.
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