- Mark Parker is a community organiser in the London Borough of Southwark. I am just setting out on the journey toward becoming an effective organiser and this is a place for me to reflect on the experience and what I am learning. I hope you will join in and offer your thoughts, so that we can turn my comments and ideas into a conversation.
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Lies, Lies and Damned Narratives
In this series on the nature and value of public narrative to community organisers, we have reached a stage where we can move on to look at the wider implications of storytelling. In the early parts of this overview, we … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, austerity, benefit fraud, dementia, dependence, hero, neoliberalism, oppression, poverty, scroungers, skivers, Story Wars, strivers
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Being the Hero of your own Myth
I read a couple of weeks ago that folk tales evolve in the same way as species do in biology. That is they follow a pattern of replication with variation that allows social scientists to use the same tools as … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, biology, Campbell, collective unconscious, evolution, hero, heroine, Jung, monomyth, Red Riding Hood, social scientist
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