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Storytelling and Listening: Co-creating Understandings

In English

Författare

  • Peter Bednar
  • Christine Welch

Summary, in English

As sentient and social beings, we live in hope that we can be understood when we try to communicate with each other but we also know that we might be wrong. We strive for better understandings, engaging in an on-going ‘dance’ of collective sense-making. This paper considers how communication among individuals involves co-creation of meaning by exploring narratives – those expressed by a speaker and those created internally by listeners in efforts to achieve understanding. We note that the extent of these efforts varies from reliance on prejudice at one extreme to deep listening at the other, and that organizational barriers may exist which inhibit co-creation of meaning. We suggest that an open systems approach, which enables individuals to explore and share their contextually dependent understandings, will be helpful. We propose a framework that supports and guides participants in endeavors to co-create understandings of problem spaces through storytelling and listening.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

13-21

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Cybernetics & Human Knowing

Volym

20

Issue

1-2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Imprint Academic

Ämne

  • Information Systems, Social aspects

Nyckelord

  • listening
  • narratives
  • communication
  • sense-making
  • knowledge creation
  • open systems.

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0907-0877