So much of the semiotic of safety is about brains, supporting the metaphor and myth that the brain directs thinking. It doesn’t. Belief that the brain works like a computer is a myth based on 350-year old ideas about body-mind dualism. There are no evidences for such a belief. But it is a convenient belief… Read More Believing is Embodied, The Foundation for New Beliefs in Safety
Cotton Wool Capers I was on a building site last week where milk crates have become a sackable offence. If someone is found bringing a crate on to site or using a milk crate as a device, it’s the sack, zero harm. On the same day I had a coffee at a local shop where… Read More Cotton Wool Capers – SafetyRisk.net
Indoctrination is anti-education, anti-learning and limits the purpose of risk. Just think of that for a bit. What is the purpose of risk? I have seen these alarming pieces on Linkedin lately that are of great concern to the Social Psychology of Risk. They involve the delusions of indoctrination and the unethical use of children… Read More Indoctrination, Risk and Learning with Childhood in Mind
The study of Epistemology (theory of knowing) is foundational to philosophical study. Yet, if Safety were to give these value, they would change the way Safety works. The foundational question of Epistemology is: how do you know what you know? If you have the courage to get started on this tough question, you can read… Read More A Safety Theory of Knowing, Free Workshops on Safety Beliefs, July.
In Making Sense of the Organisation, The Impermanent Organisation (2009) (book 5) Weick explores six styles of organisational theory and owns his own style as ‘poetic’ (p.11). I have written about Weick’s Poetics earlier (https://safetyrisk.net/weicks-poetics/). What does it mean when one identifies an organisational style as ‘Poetic’? Poetics is about all that is not measurable… Read More The Radical Pioneer in Organising and Risk, Prof. Karl. E. Weick