Tag Archives: Exclusion

#WorkingOutLoud on ‘Togetherness – Otherness’

Posted on January 24, 2023 by julianstodd

One of my writing projects this year concerns ‘togetherness and otherness’. In the spirit of ‘The Humble Leader’, this will be a guided reflection, but different from that previous work in that i intend to bring in different voices: people … Continue reading →

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Stories of Exclusivity and Exclusion

Posted on March 2, 2022 by julianstodd

As part of a series of pieces developing the new Storytelling work, today i am considering how stories create exclusivity and can form part of exclusion. I was given an award a couple of years ago: at the induction they … Continue reading →

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The Self You Choose

Posted on January 14, 2021 by julianstodd

Our radical connectivity leaves us carrying a ‘self’ in many different spaces, but not necessarily the same ‘self’ into each. There are many views on how this works: some would claim that there is a ‘you’, a pilot that sits … Continue reading →

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The Walls of Community

Posted on May 5, 2020 by julianstodd

As a Community forms, it grows to be coherent, building out shared language, rituals, artefacts of power, identity, sometimes purpose and values. And as it does so, it can become increasingly exclusive, identity led, silencing, and monocultural. There is no … Continue reading →

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The Social Consequence of Exclusion #2

Posted on March 14, 2018 by julianstodd

Excuse first: some days it’s hard to write, it’s just too busy. I’ve delivered a full day workshop, then travelled into the evening to prepare for another full day tomorrow. But #WorkingOutLoud is not about sharing excuses, it’s about sharing … Continue reading →

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A Civil Society?

Posted on October 31, 2017 by julianstodd

From the macro, to the micro: i was in Oxford yesterday, on a cold night, walking through the city. I ended my journey walking past half a dozen rough sleepers, bedded down for the night, sheltered under cardboard boxes and … Continue reading →

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Engagement and Silence

Posted on July 6, 2015 by julianstodd

Often in Social Learning we are aiming to generate engagement within our communities, but it’s easy to get caught up in the ride and think we are successful when people start to speak. Engagement isn’t just about hearing from a … Continue reading →

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