‘It's All True - The Gifts of Light and Shade in the Power of Paradox’ with Ralph Kerle | Monday November 10, 2014

Decision making is full of contradictions and mystery, yet underlying every decision making process we enter lies the need for certainty and control. We want to know who we are, where we stand and what we stand for. The definition of true genius is often described as the ability to hold two opposing views simultaneously without going crazy. This conceptual state is called a paradox and it is where our creativity is born and lives; where stillness meets movement, where truth meets mystery, where masculine meets feminine. Ultimately if we can become aware of the power and influence of paradox in our decision making, we can begin to develop an increased capacity for uncertainty, and ambiguity in ourselves, others and the world around us. By developing this capacity for paradox, we can learn to hold opposing thoughts simultaneously that might otherwise be suppressed enabling deeper insights - the essence of creativity itself.. In this session, using a simple dialogue technique designed around a series of fundamental paradoxical questions, we will focus on recognising the paradoxes in our thinking, we will experience how to hold and live with them and observe the way they merge to provide meaningful insight and a way forward. About Ralph Kerle Dr. Ralph Kerle, MCI, DADA, h.c. is an internationally respected thought leader, creative facilitator and writer on organizational innovation, creative leadership and behaviours. He has a specific interest in designing creative leadership and creativity workshops framed around arts based processes as a way of recognising and developing creative practices at work. His belief is organizational innovation is the outcomes of creative behaviours that occur in practice in a work context. If we can understand how we behave creatively in a work context then we can begin to improve, develop and be creative around our work practices regardless of our profession or position.