Poets and scientists alike, have advocated that dreams are the main driver of life. If you can dream it, you can live it. Dreaming is how the unconscious communicates to the conscious, and through imagination and creativity, our dreams communicate our desires, aspirations and ambitions. They bring … [Read more...] about Living the dream…
Unconscious
You Might Not Be Paying Attention, But Your Semiotic Unconscious Is
Even when Safety uses words like ‘innovation’ and ‘creativity’ these are located within the behaviourist/materialist/positivist framework of safety orthodoxy. There is never any discussion of semiotics or the unconscious. Even when Safety talks about ‘awareness’, ‘carefulness’, ‘consciousness’ and … [Read more...] about You Might Not Be Paying Attention, But Your Semiotic Unconscious Is
The Behaviourist Human and Human Being
The Behaviourist view of what it is to be human is A view, not THE view of human ‘being’. Indeed, if you want to understand human judgment and decision making or ‘human error’ the last place to consult is a safety behaviourist. We see the problem in a recent article by Cooper. The kind of human … [Read more...] about The Behaviourist Human and Human Being
Zero Hour Part 5 – Surfacing the Unconscious
Surfacing of the Unconscious, Psychotherapy, dreams, reality, psychiatry, Zero from the Unconscious to the Conscious, Mental Health Crisis, knowing yourself. Zero Hour - Surfacing the Unconscious #5 from Risk Diversity on Vimeo. … [Read more...] about Zero Hour Part 5 – Surfacing the Unconscious
Zero Hour Part 4 – Zero and the Unconscious
Metaphysics, Zero, the Underworld, Bosch and Dante, Linguistics, Freud’s Museum, Religious audits, Spirituality, In the spirit of Zero, ‘in the Blink of an Eye’, Apostle Paul, regrowth, reincarnation. Just your normal Safety Conversation. Zero Hour - Zero and the Unconscious #4 from Risk … [Read more...] about Zero Hour Part 4 – Zero and the Unconscious
Goal Setting and Zero
When we set goals, they are never neutral or objective and they all come with competing goals, by-products and trade-offs. This is illustrated in the SPoR Goal setting semiotic (See Figure 1. Goal Setting) Figure 1. Goal Setting The same occurs with any design, there are competing … [Read more...] about Goal Setting and Zero
How Do Workers Make Decisions?
How Do Workers Make Decisions? This is the question on the tongue of Safety but has no idea of an answer. I saw a video recently about ‘predicting behaviour in safety’. This was a slick piece of multimedia that probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars with executives speaking and sports … [Read more...] about How Do Workers Make Decisions?
Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious
Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious An essential in understanding culture is understanding shared consciousness and shared unconsciousness. The work of Jung charted the frontier in understanding the Collective Unconscious (https://www.are.na/block/1493356 ). What Jung discovered … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety The Collective Unconscious
Chronic Unease is Not Enough
Chronic Unease is Not Enough The concept of ‘chronic unease’ has been about in safety for some time. It was unfortunately put forward by Reason as a mindset to tackle complacency. Complacency is rarely well defined and is most associated with: in-alertness, lethargy, laziness, not being … [Read more...] about Chronic Unease is Not Enough
Gesture in Risk Matters
A gesture is an embodied communication that signals a bodily sign with or without language. When we wave goodbye or shake hands on ‘hello’ we communicate symbolically which is the power of embodied communication. Whether the ‘pat on the back’ is a metaphor or a physical gesture, it conveys … [Read more...] about Gesture in Risk Matters
