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The Unspoken Language of Insight: How Totemics’ Exercises Unveil Profound Understanding
Totemics, our distinctive methodology, utilizes unique visual exercises to move beyond the limitations of verbal communication, enabling groups to articulate tacit knowledge, challenge ingrained mindsets, and foster a truly shared understanding for deep, human-centric innovation.
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Learning from Lévi-Strauss, Categorisation and Totemics
The name Totemics was far from mere caprice, and was to pay homage to Claude Lévi-Strauss and his work and influence. Totemics was about how to enable good, open ended but purposeful conversations, ones more likely to see curiosities and small nuggets of knowledge as potentially priceless. Where similarities and differences between people felt good,…
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Neat and Orderly, It Ain’t Necessarily So
The structures that govern much of our work lives do not readily have categories for emotions, nor for hunches and feelings. Consequently, as new initiatives start out, aspects are categorised in a more prosaic and tangible form, which creates a category mistake right at the outset. Better to consider a new initiative as a fragile…
When the challenge is innovation and change – which requires minds and diverse perspectives to meet.
When there must be inter-disciplinary collaborations and co-operation across differing interests and cultures
Give serious consideration to…
Totemics
By using visual metaphor and analogy in orchestrated conversations, individual assumptions surface, an increase in trust is the result.
Insights and a broad route to clarity of purpose can follow.
But Why Totemics?
Collaboration is inevitably challenging and success often appears elusive, even more so when the goal is innovation and change.
When any collaboration begins, an aspect vital to success is to ensure that each individual knows they have
“a rightful place around the table” .
During the totemic conversations as mindsets and assumptions become readily shared, then explored and perhaps annotated in some form, unspoken understandings are reached. These are on the whereabouts of everyone around the table, with much still being intuitive – they nevertheless serve to provide a powerful direction of travel.
What is It?
How do we define Totemics. Find out more about the essence of what Totemics is all about.
Why Use It?
How can Totemics be put to use in the real world. Can Totemics help your organisation. Why is it useful?
How Does It Work?
How is Totemics different from other methods you may have tried. What makes it special and how does it help.
ABOUT TOTEMICS
TOTEMICS IS ABOUT WAYS TO THINK, ACKNOWLEDGE AND EXPLORE …
… all the real wealth to be found from different assumptions, different perspectives and even from misunderstandings. Not with the idea that this is a difficulty to be managed but a resource essential to newness and innovation.
FOR THE EMERGENCE OF NEW SYSTEMS, NEW PRODUCTS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES – THERE IS A NEED FOR SKILLS THAT DO THE REVERSE OF CURTAILING VARIATION.
Angela Dumas
Creator
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