Tag Archives: Identity

Why Should We Care About Identity?

Posted on September 7, 2022 by julianstodd

I’m excited that next week i will be sharing the Identity Project work for the very first time in a conference session. This is very early stage work, but i feel it can already provide some useful challenges and insight. … Continue reading →

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#WorkingOutLoud on Identity

Posted on August 25, 2022 by julianstodd

Tomorrow i will publish the latest Identity Story over on the Identity Project site: this will be the seventh story published, and i have conducted a further nine interviews, which i am writing up. So far i’ve spent around 55 … Continue reading →

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Identity: Turning Points

Posted on July 26, 2022 by julianstodd

I’ve published the first five Identity Stories so far, and completed ten interviews in total. These are extraordinary stories from everyday people. Possibly because so many people are extraordinary if you find the space to listen. It’s early days with … Continue reading →

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Launching ’These Are Me: The Identity Project’

Posted on July 20, 2022 by julianstodd

Today is a soft launch for ‘These Are Me – The Identity Project’. This small scale qualitative research project explores our identity (or rather, our identities!), through interviews. The aim of this work is simply to collect these Identity Stories, … Continue reading →

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These Are Me: Identity Stories

Posted on July 19, 2022 by julianstodd

I’ve finished writing up the first two Identity Stories from the new research project. Both are quite different, and already fascinating. In this work i ask people to describe the three identities that are most central to their ‘self’ (all … Continue reading →

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Identity

Posted on June 30, 2022 by julianstodd

What is your identity? Do you have one, or many? Are all of your identities public, or are some hidden? Do some require you to be badged or accepted by other people, or can you self determine it? How well … Continue reading →

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Types of Story: Reputation and Identity

Posted on March 14, 2022 by julianstodd

This week i am building out ideas around Reputation and Identity as part of my current writing around ‘The Roots of Story’. Reputation can be viewed as a story, taking varied forms: partly we may seek to write that story … 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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#WorkingOutLoud on ’The Roots of Storytelling’

Posted on February 3, 2022 by julianstodd

As ‘Quiet Leadership’ and ‘Power and Potential’ take flight, i’m left with time to make a start on the next project: ‘The Roots of Storytelling’. Whilst there is a chapter in ‘The Social Leadership Handbook’ about Storytelling, i have really … Continue reading →

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The Culture Game

Posted on September 19, 2019 by julianstodd

I’m running a multi day event next week, centred around a Culture Game: the premise is that i’l create a scaffolding for people to use to ‘invent’ a culture, and we will then explore how the different cultures interact. The … Continue reading →

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