Ribena Beetroot

“Change and transformation...requires learning to hear and use the different perceptions and interpretations of people who are not (like) 'us', who have a different way of making sense of the world, and who are telling different stories about what is happening, and what needs to happen next. One of the best pieces of advice ever offered to leaders is Shapiro's (2001) admonition always to ask ourselves 'how are they right?", even - or especially - when they are most obviously 'wrong'...We also need to listen differently to ourselves, to let stifled inner voices emerge, so as to be less prey to joining in with dominant and dominating (but inevitably partial) stories around us. And to recognise that the stories are interconnected: the more 'we' decry 'their' version of events, the more self-perpetuating 'our' stories become...the key issue is not so much about liking or not liking the story we are in, but about finding a way to be more present in the current story, in the reality of the here-and-now, rather than editing a story that shields us from facing our part in creating it, or losing ourselves in longing for a different one.”
― Anton Obholzer, The Unconscious at Work: A Tavistock Approach to Making Sense of Organizational Life