Reflections 24th April

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On my Mind

Tension

This has felt like a tense week. Our Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness have all been assailed

(When considering tension, I find David Rock's SCARF model, which seeks to cast light on the affect of on our perceptions, a useful framework.)

This week has seen all of those elements under attack. Our individual and collective status as our politicians flounder whilst they balance moral imperative with commercial reality and come down on the side of the commercial. An important election in France today looks like like being settled by the "nosepeg" brigade; holding their noses as they vote for their least worst option.

A huge lack of certainty as all the assumptions we made about how our world works seem to be dissolving along with our supply chains. Our autonomy under question as we struggle to make our voices heard on the issues that matter to us, and our relatedness with each other fragmenting under the pressure. Perhaps mo…