Reframing – The Art of Thinking Differently
Reframing is a simple but powerful technique to think differently: an easy, four-step process that generates creative approaches for your own life and work. Reframing helps us to innovate, to approach the world from a fresh perspective and to overcome engrained patterns. Reframing allows us to develop strategies for dealing with our current challenges instead trying to solve problems which no longer exist.
‘Reframing offers me the opportunity in my work to pole vault over obstacles that have become hardened and tough over time and seek solutions from a new vision of possibility and abundance. It is the only tool I know that shifts an individual from acting as problem solver to enabling visionary change.’ (Sonali Ojha, Founder & Director, Dreamcatchers Foundation)
Reframing can be purchased at the publisher Boom and on all Amazon sites (the Kindle edition is cheaper).
You can also try the free online courses on Reframing your life and Innovation Mindset.
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Abundance
Each chapter describes a condition of scarcity existing in the world today: scarcity of natural resources, of the material goods we have, in our economical systems, and in the choices we make in our lives. I show that each of these situations of scarcity is actually created: we have painted ourselves in a corner, and we now realize that we are stuck. In fact, we live in a world of overflowing energy, of abundant and renewable natural resources, and of human ingenuity. The result of actions based on a belief in scarcity is shown by the absurdity of many of our current lifestyles and economic choices. The main problem of humanity is the overflow of energy and the abundance of resources. Looking at the situation from this perspective allows us to reframe the situation so that scarcity dissolves.
This reframing from scarcity to abundance is first described for the economic problems of scarcity found in the capitalist system where we produce in order to consume and consume in order to produce. Then I show how to reframe the scarcity found in the natural world, in the lack of natural resources and in agriculture. I also show how we reframe the psychological scarcity which comes from seeing ourselves as having infinite desires.
Abundance can be purchased as a paperback and e-book on Amazon.
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…Thinking about money and value
How is value – both that which is valuable for human beings and that which has financial value – created by means of resources, work, and ideas? Human beings can decide to spend their energetic surplus according to their own choices. A human being is a homo creator who gives shape to his or her life by making conscious choices for themselves and for their community.
Thinking about Money and Value (published in Dutch; English introduction) I have selected 23 key texts of economists, philosophers, bankers and sociologists that give us insight into this question.
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Dawn Changes Everything
“I am the sound of children’s babble, the lullabies of mothers and the naked whispers of men.“
Dawn Changes Everything is a collection of miniature mediations on the magic that everyday situations evoke in us. In turn ecstatic, playful, nostalgic, and erotic, these pieces of poetic prose explore time, memory, and our sensory experience of the world.
Dawn Changes Everything is available as paperback and e-book on Amazon
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Cornucopia
A series of podcasts on cornucopia.buzzsprout.com
How do we live abundantly? Philosopher Karim Benammar explores the shift from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance. From a world of lack to a world of plenty, from surviving to living, and from struggle to possibility and freedom. Each episode, recorded on a walk, explores a concept in economics, ecology, psychology or philosophy.
Free online courses
www.udemy.com/user/karimbenammar
All of my courses are available for free. Online courses allow you to learn in bite-sized chunks, through short video clips, texts and exercises. Choose your own learning path and apply ideas directly to your own life, as more than 50.000 participants have done before you. See the trailers below.
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Why are you alive?
Key concepts and practices to turn your life into a work of art
Why are you alive? How should you live? How can you turn your life into a work of art? How can you live an authentic life – that is, live the life that you were meant to live? You will learn to examine your life and the choices you make from the standpoint of freedom, meaning, and community – and how to design projects that give meaning to your life.
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Scarcity to Abundance
Shifting your thinking about consuming, ecology, economics and choices
Life is abundant, but we are stuck in a scarcity frame. When we think and act from this frame of scarcity, we use the wrong strategies to deal with global challenges such as our ecological and economic crises. We will explore how to approach these challenges from an abundance frame, and what an economics of abundance would look like. In our private lives, we are also confronted with an abundance of choices and possibilities. I outline two strategies to help us enjoy this abundance instead of being overwhelmed by it. What would it be like to experience our lives as giving rather than taking? What does it take to feel truly rich?
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Reframing your life
Change your behaviour by changing your thinking
Reframing is a technique to change the way you look at the world, and to change the way you act in the world. A five-step technique to turn the things that irritate you, that frustrate you, or that cause you pain, into new situations where you are in control, and which you can enjoy. I use real-life examples from my workshops of people who have use Reframing to change the way they look at themselves, to get a new perspective on their environment, or to become less fearful. They have used these new perspectives to make lasting changes in their lives.
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