informal coalitions

Gaslighting

""As stated in Wikipedia, 

"Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment."

In an important article on the Becoming International website, which is aimed at leadership and development for women, Alison Maitland calls this out and offers some practical help for those affected by this pernicious practice. 

I penned a relatively short comment in response to Alison's LinkedIn post on this, but the site's 'word counters' intervened and prevented my posting it in the form that I had intended.  So I scrapped the comment and decided to post my response on the blog.   So here it is...

The wiggly world of organization: A new possible...

In a recent post on LinkedIn, Jeanne M. Lambin suggested using Kenn Adams’s “Story Spine” as a way of provoking shifts in established patterns of thinking, and as a basis for “imagin[ing] a new possible”.

 

As she describes it, the Story Spine takes the following form:

Once upon a time...

Every day...

But one day...

And because of that...

And because of that...

And because of that...

Until finally...

And ever since then...

To get my mind off Derby’s defeat at home to Norwich(!), I thought I’d spend a few minutes setting out what Lambin calls the “What Does This Make Possible Story” for my soon-to-be-published (strictly non-fiction!) book, The Wiggly World of Organization.

So here goes...