Diverse teams help us notice the behaviours we’ve normalised. Then we can decide if we like it or if we want to change it.
From the Blog on perspective
Things not going according to plan?
We tend to like perfection. It feels more certain, less stressful, and just easier. And yet, perfection is rarely, if ever, attained.
Knock On Effects
Alternative perspectives like this one help us to think differently. They help us to see different knock on effects of choices we make.
Why did you do that?
Our ‘why did you do that’ comes from an angry place rather than a place of learning. ‘What did you learn?’ might even be a better question.
Forging New Paths
We are all skilled practitioners in some areas and first timers in others. The trick is to be open to the other. Then we can forge new ways.
Disability?
There are many people for whom the current way of doing things doesn’t work – people with disabilities. What if we learn from them about change?
Sometimes a Point Becomes a Triangle, then a Hexagon
Visually I thought about it as a line, a spectrum. Then my visual became a triangle. But then it became a tetrahectagon.
A wheel finds it easier to go downstairs than going up
When we needed to push the hut by hand, if the boards are put on top of the previous one, it is like we are trying to push the hut up stairs.
Remembering the Other
Remembering there are other stories, other narratives to view the event through can help us see insight we were blind to but that was always there.