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Lianne Mellor's avatar

Thanks for the special mention! I'd love to see more woo in the workplace, not just because I love the opportunity to get my tarot deck out, but because (like you say) it creates a welcome opportunity to better understand and be better understood.

Humans love stories and play, and in my experience I've never encountered a woo-sceptic that wasn't curious enough to at least give it a go (too many double negatives?) I actually found my internalised fear of woo rejection was greater than any actual rejection I experienced.

I'll never forget doing one of those professional personality type quizzes with a team I was in. I had experienced repeated difficulties understanding and being understood by one particular person in the team, but after our facilitated 'here are your types' session, the penny dropped and we could laugh about it. I was a 'yellow', them a 'blue' - opposites on this model. We could joke about the stereotypes of each colour with distance held from 'us'. Do I believe the model is perfect? Not really, it would likely change depending on my state of mind. But it was incredibly useful in that moment. It definitely felt like a professionalised, sterilised horoscope type tool. Woo in a suit maybe haha

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Joe Blogs's avatar

I would like to see the conversation continued thank you

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