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Enabling coherent explore spaces

The difficulty of complex thought is that it must face messes … interconnectedness among phe- nomena, fogginess, uncertainty, contradiction. (Edgar Morin, On Complexity, 2008: 6) I have written before about the need to embrace messyness. Specifically to shift from seeking alignment and neat categories to messy coherence (or coherent heterogeneity…

Complexity

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Enabling coherent explore spaces
Enabling coherent explore spaces
Complexity

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Jul 17

On getting lost

Being really and truly lost triggers primal survival anxieties. Michael Bond writes: “Lost is a cognitive state: your internal map has become detached from the external world, and nothing in your spatial memory matches what you see. But at its core, it is an emotional state. It delivers a psychic…

Complexity

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On getting lost
On getting lost
Complexity

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Jun 23

Complexity is not supposed to be complex

Life is complex: an ever-changing tangle of joy and pain, failure and success, beauty and despair. Sometimes it sucks, like watching your mother fade away into dementia, or losing a beloved dog. Sometimes it is so beautiful it brings you to tears, like dancing with soul friends under a sky…

Complexity

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Complexity is not supposed to be complex
Complexity is not supposed to be complex
Complexity

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May 2

Trust, confidence & complexity

Where do confidence and trust come from? How do we develop faith in ourselves and others? And what role does complexity play in all of this? These are questions a client recently asked me to develop a workshop around as they have found it increasingly difficult to cultivate trust and…

Trust

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Trust, confidence & complexity
Trust, confidence & complexity
Trust

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Mar 7

Complexity lessons from my garden.

Growing up in Africa, I’ve always been a nature lover and keen birder. So, I dreamed of creating a garden that would be a haven for wildlife in the middle of the city. Our neighbourhood was brand new when we built our house in…

Complexity

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Complexity lessons from my garden.
Complexity lessons from my garden.
Complexity

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Feb 19

Wayfinding the complexities of hybrid work

Co-authored with Michael Göthe. As we emerge from the exceptional conditions of the pandemic, the topic of distributed work (WFH or work from anywhere) vs on-site at the office has been the hot topic during client meetings and lunch discussions at training events. There are always many differing, even divergent…

Hybrid Work

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Wayfinding the complexities of hybrid work
Wayfinding the complexities of hybrid work
Hybrid Work

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Jan 30

ChatGPT doesn’t quite get complexity (at least not according to Einstein!)

Update: Before reading on, a warning. ChatGPT creates references out of thin air and presents them with great confidence as factual. You cannot trust a reference provided by the bot, you HAVE to double check. I found non-existant papers attributed to real authors; real papers attributed to the wrong authors…

Complexity

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ChatGPT doesn’t quite get complexity (at least not according to Einstein!)
ChatGPT doesn’t quite get complexity (at least not according to Einstein!)
Complexity

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Nov 11, 2022

Waiting

There are about 10 unfinished blog posts that I try to avoid seeing every time I open my laptop. Every time I sit down to write, I end up with half-finished paragraphs. There is always another bit of research, or a new tantalising insight that seems important enough to delay…

Writing

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Waiting
Waiting
Writing

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Apr 20, 2022

Crossing thresholds.

“Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me.” — Sigmund Freud Anyone who reads my blog probably knows that I have a love for Celtic poets. One of my favorites is John O’Donohue. I have several of his books on my bedside table, and last night…

Ritual

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Crossing thresholds.
Crossing thresholds.
Ritual

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Apr 8, 2022

Re:Membering the future

The future used to be synonymous with dreams, exciting new things, and bucket lists. Yes, it was always uncertain, and I always knew many of the things I dreamed about probably wouldn’t become a reality, but it was energising to plan for “one day”. Now, thinking about the future, I…

Hope

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Re:Membering the future
Re:Membering the future
Hope

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Sonja Blignaut

Sonja Blignaut

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Exploring our relationship with uncertainty. Enabling future fitness. Complexity nerd, Waysfinder, Artist, Scientist. https://complexityfit.com

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