Coaching and Facilitation Development
Strategic Narrative Embodiment (SNE) is an applied theatre methodology that has been developed for application in leadership and organisation development contexts. SNE translates the transformational effect, story shaping and ensemble skills of stage performance into the language of work performance. It functions particularly well as a methodology for mindfulness training, change agility, team development, innovation, …
Everybody wants something. It is what motivates them. Tapping into this motivation is important for every coach-facilitator. It is the key to engaging people in the work of sustainable change that is for the better (change for good).
Research has shown that processes that incorporate stories and embodiment work in a focused strategic manner, as is the case with SNE, are particularly effective when working with millennials
September Muse Letter There is a war going on – a war for your heart and your soul, for mine. A bit melodramatic? I wake up in the morning with an unreasonable fear lodged in my chest. What if I lose? Lose what, I ask myself? The battle against boredom and overwork. The fight to …
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What SNE did, and did not, deliver Background During our planning for the 2016 Southern African Knowledge Management Summit (2016SAKMS) we pondered the current state and needs of the KM network in South Africa. Based on Etienne Wenger’s stages of community development it seemed to us that the current KM network in South Africa represented …
Playing Mantis wants to help thought leaders like you to change the world for good using Strategic Narrative Embodiment.. To find out more, start by reading the following articles: What is Strategic Narrative Embodiment? Theoretical Foundations of Strategic Narrative Embodiment How Does Strategic Narrative Embodiment differ from other methods? Using SNE to break through …
What do you want for your clients and your coaching practice? What obstacles block the realization of this desire and how do you overcome them? These are the questions we explore in the Strategic Narrative Embodiment methodology. We also explore how we typically respond to the obstacles and ask: “How can we change our response …
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The Playing Mantis Strategic Narrative Embodiment Techniques are derived from a model for facilitation and coaching that we call the Strategic Narrative Embodiment Model: SNE Model. A man is always a teller of tales; he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others; he sees everything that happens to him through them, and …
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ATKV Jeugleiersimposium Dit was my voorreg om hierdie week, Maandag en Dinsdag, as spreker op te tree by die ATKV se Jeugleiersimposiums by die Goudini Spa naby Worcester en Buffelspoort naby Hartebeespoortdam. My onderwerp: Vyf soorte weerstand teen leierskap en hoe om dit te hefboom. As jy daar was kan jy die opsomming hier aflaai …
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When we (Petro and Burgert) started Playing Mantis 6 years ago, we thought that, because our work comes from Applied Theatre its power to bring about transformation and learning is implicit. Stories move people more easily than pie charts, we reasoned, and if people get to try out solutions before they have to implement them, …
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