Author: IO
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Men, Violence, and the Shadow of a Nation: Reframing GBV Through Myth, Psychology, and Social Reality
In recent Movember gatherings, a sentiment echoed in separate circles: the increasingly common refrain, especially on social media, that “Men are trash.” This phrase reflects collective frustration, yet it also creates an image: men as hollowed-out containers, stripped of value, discarded to rot on society’s margins. This conversation intensifies in light of President Ramaphosa’s second…
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Men and Mindfulness – survey discourse
Getting comfortable Being curious about why men seem to not practise mindfulness, I set out to find the profile of men who do practise, and compare it with those who don’t. The discussion below insights into the results of the survey – in-sight, a turning inwards – into the psyche of men, rooted in depth…
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Men and Mindfulness
As you can guess from the title, my intention was to write a blog post about men’s mindfulness. I realised less than half-way through that I don’t really know men’s attitudes toward mindful practice. . I don’t want to sit here and write about it as if I know the facts. I really don’t. And…
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The beautiful office
“Small is Beautiful”, wrote E.F. Schumacher in his seminal book on economics and corporate structure in the 1970s. Beauty has a direct bearing on understanding the soul of the corporate organisation. It is very rare that in workshops, talks, seminars on leadership, management, system thinking or performance improvement that beauty is part of their content.…
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Ground floor
Since 1879, psychology has been recognised as a formal field of study, yet throughout the history of humankind, we have pondered the mysteries of thought, and behaviour, consciousness. We have many schools of thought and of practice, including clinical, analytical, industrial, humanistic and Jungian. Archetypal therapy evolved from Jungian psychology. As defined by its foremost…