Exploratory Writing - Alison Jones

Exploratory Writing

Everyday magic for life and work

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2024
Practical Inspiration Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78860-643-1 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
Forget everything you think you know about writing and get ready to discover a transformational approach for wellbeing, productivity, better relationships and more creative thinking, in just 6 minutes a day.
** Business Book Awards 2023 Finalist **

‘A really powerful book.’ - Bruce Daisley

Simple tools, extraordinary results.

Everything we’re learning about how we function best as humans in the digital age is pointing towards one of our oldest technologies: the pen and the page.

Exploratory writing – writing for ourselves, not for others, writing when we don’t know exactly what it is we want to say – is one of the most powerful and lightweight thinking tools we have at our disposal. It’s also been, until now, one of the most overlooked.

But the world’s most influential leaders are increasingly using the techniques in this book to support the key skills of the 21st century – self-mastery, creativity, focus, solution-finding, collaboration – and so can you.

Alison Jones has been helping business leaders identify and articulate what matters over a 30-year career in publishing and as a coach. The founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing and host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast and community, she is passionate about the power of writing to change ourselves and the world.

Alison Jones is founder of Practical Inspiration Publishing and host of The Extraordinary Business Book Club podcast. Formerly Director of Innovation Strategy at Palgrave Macmillan, she now works with business leaders and entrepreneurs to help them clarify their thinking and communicate more effectively. She has written and edited several books, most recently This Book Means Business (2018), speaks regularly at industry and business events, and contributes articles on books and writing to national press and industry publications.

Introduction

Part 1 - Why exploratory writing?

The science

Is this about better writing?

Let’s get started

Part 2 – The toolkit

Exploratory narrative

freewriting

mindfulness

chimp management

empathy

Metaphor

surfacing metaphors

finding new metaphors

forced metaphors

analogy

Inquiry

learning through inquiry

inquiring of future you

appreciative inquiry

humble inquiry

Visual thinking

writing into drawings

storyboarding

graphic organizers

developing your own visuals

Part 3 – Using the tools

Wellbeing and mindfulness

sense-making

mental resilience

happiness

self-coaching

Clarity and focus

decluttering

focus and deep work

reflective practice

Creativity and problem-solving

creative thinking

problem-solving

prototyping

Leadership and collaboration

visioning

uncovering bias

conflict resolution

culture change

Conclusion: over to you

Appendices: glossary of tools, list of prompts, bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Tadley
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-78860-643-4 / 1788606434
ISBN-13 978-1-78860-643-1 / 9781788606431
Zustand Neuware
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