Well, what an amazing lot of fun and learning in SPoR over the past 4 days. We finished our fourth day yesterday bringing myth and embodiment together in tackling the realities of psychosocial risk.We started surveying the current approaches to psychosocial risk that are dis-embodied, looking at the … [Read more...] about Embodiment, Myth and Psychosocial Risk
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Embodied Enactivity in Safety
Day 3 of our SPoR workshops in Canberra saw a shift to a focus on embodiment and the way that the safety industry has a dis-embodied view of persons. This focus has a bias on brain-centrism and the idea that the brain is a computer that directs decisions. This is NOT the case. When we … [Read more...] about Embodied Enactivity in Safety
Myth Making and Why it Matters to Safety
It was great to see some new and old faces as we commenced our workshops on Mythology and Embodiment in risk. Craig did some great groundwork on Concept Mapping myth and the Linguistics of myth as well as work on models and the myth of the Scientific Method. I started out by exploring … [Read more...] about Myth Making and Why it Matters to Safety
The Embodiment of Christmas
The Embodiment of Christmas One of the messages of Christmas is the importance of embodiment. It is in our bodies that we experience the necessities of being human as well as the joys of being human. It is through our bodies that we know the fullness of fallibility and the many ambiguities of … [Read more...] about The Embodiment of Christmas
Embodied Risk
One of the challenges with the engineering-behaviourist worldview of safety is that it has no answer for the question: what is the body for? (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-the-human-body-for-in-safety/). (Other than it is simply a carrier for a computer) So much of safety work is brain-centric … [Read more...] about Embodied Risk
Culture Silences in Safety – Embodiment
So much that is critical to culture is never spoken about in safety. Safety is so noisy about zero ideology, whilst people voluntarily harm themselves under cultural pressures. Yet, you will never read about the importance of embodiment in relation to culture anywhere across the globe in safety. The … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – Embodiment
