The Art of Contemplation: A storytelling perspective
Written by Stuart Haden on August 7, 2024
The opening lines of this 8 minute read drew me in immediately…
“Allow yourself to think differently about leadership for a moment, and imagine that the issue is not what you know but instead how you know.”
Posted by Cranfield School of Management, they quicky define the art of contemplation as…
“As a leader, it is impossible to make sense of intellectual, emotional and visceral intelligence connections without resorting to the ‘inward gaze’ of contemplation.”
The article introduces the concepts of making meaning through mandalas, something that I hadn’t heard of…
“A mandala (Sanskrit for “circle”) is an artistic representation of higher thought and deeper meaning. They have been used to explore the spiritual, emotional, or psychological aspects of work and to focus attention on what lives most saliently beneath the surface.”
I could keep up the copy and pasting but instead here are some of the themes that are picked up…
- Organisational Reframe
- The ‘Big Picture’ of Leadership
- The Wheel of Intelligence
- Storytelling
- Lessons from The Odyssey
