L&D TV VIDEOS

It was back in 2021 when I first entertained the idea of using the Gogglebox format in an L&D setting.

When things change, our world shifts, and we must adapt. Grieving illustrates this process vividly, shaking our emotional landscape and prompting us to reshape our understanding of events. The classic stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – describe the emotional journey we undergo when facing significant change.

Our brains perceive a challenge to our belief system in the same way as a physical threat. This is why marketers tend to avoid direct challenges when they want you to change your behaviour.

Like the character in Talking Heads’ Once in a Lifetime, recently, I’ve been asking myself, “How did I get here?” As we roll out Drama for Change projects, they’re landing really well and having an impact. Our approach is quite novel, so I’m finally close to where I’ve been trying to get to. Of course, I never set out with this destination in mind, so today, I will share a hasty post-rationalisation of my life so far…

After months of reading and writing about the research and theory that Drama for Change is built upon, it’s time to sum it all up. This is Drama for Change!

In a recent post, I reviewed a podcast interview with Professor Frances Frei in which, among other things, she expounded her take on DEI, suggesting we should rename it ‘IED’ because if you get inclusion right, the rest will follow. I vowed to read the book she wrote with Anne Morriss, Move Fast and Fix Things, which details the approach, and to report back with more detail. The result is below. I hope Frances and Anne will forgive me for presenting a mash-up of their text, not always with inverted commas, to help represent their vibe and ideas…

Christmas is a time for stories. It’s about coming together with family, looking back, looking forward and creating meaning.

The idea of the educative element of storytelling is as old as storytelling itself. We are all likely familiar with Second World War propaganda movies and, in the UK, the longest-running radio soap opera, The Archers, founded to spread information to farmers. Looking right back to the Iliad, a foundation story for a civilisation, had a propagandising and culturally-bonding function. And each of Aesop’s Fables has a moral message. Entertainment-Education, as we know it today, was born in the 1970s, and its founder is the Mexican producer, writer, researcher, and theorist Miguel Sabido.

My 7-year-old son is neurodiverse. He hates talking about school. When I gently ask him what he’s been up to in class, his usual response is, “Go away!” I get it. School is quite stressful for him. Yet it’s a part of his world that remains his domain and not ours. How can we ever understand?

As I’ve repeatedly reported [https://lnkd.in/evvR2DEj], diversity training has generally done worse than failed; it has had a negative effect. The evidence is there. I’m currently working on anti-racism content, so I was brought back to the challenge of what can be done effectively in the sphere. Interestingly, the answer is the same as all other use cases…