Responding to Moments
“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Moments of disruption are also moments of opportunity.
Whether it’s a disruption as big as a global pandemic, or as predictable as an election, it is when we depart from the normal way of doing things that opportunities arise to try new ways.
The readings below take our deeper learnings and apply them to moments as they happen.
Memos
Memos are primarily written for organisational leaders as communications briefs, but we hope many within our wider reMAKER community will also find them useful.
Peace in a time of peril and possibility
How do we talk about peace in a time of invasion, suffering and a world holding its breath?
Leading in times of crisis
We’re told not to panic, but for many Australians our sense of vulnerability is all too real.
The age of uncertainty
How do we talk about peace in a time of invasion, suffering and a world holding its breath?
A Summer of Disruption
We are living through something extraordinary. This has been the summer of disruption.
Leadership in the federal budget
How can we most usefully engage in the coming debates – in a way that supports our goals, values and vision over the long-term?
Like most people, I find the mere thought of surviving a global pandemic only to enter into a global war too horrid to deeply contemplate. But a war involving nuclear-armed superpowers would certainly impact us all, whether we feel inclined to contemplate it or not….