All Outputs (12)

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
Book Chapter

Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

Curating salutogenic spaces in post-pandemic hybrid work environments: A photo-elicitation qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article

This article investigates the lived experience of hybrid working and the impact this has on knowledge workers’ psychosocial health and wellbeing. Specifically, we focus on how the workplace can promote or hinder wellbeing and how hybrid working is ex... Read More about Curating salutogenic spaces in post-pandemic hybrid work environments: A photo-elicitation qualitative study.

Forskning i egen praksis – in indføring for praktikere (2024)
Book

Aimed at practicing psychotherapists, psychotherapy students, and other relevant professional groups in psychosocial fields, this book serves as a guide into research within one's own practice and explores the importance and methods involved. It intr... Read More about Forskning i egen praksis – in indføring for praktikere.

Stoicism, philosophy as a way of life, and Negative Capability. Developing a capacity for working in radical uncertainty (2023)
Journal Article

Philosophy and leadership are not generally held in close association. By contrast, this paper is a call to action for the academy and organisational practitioners to reflect on the potential contribution to leadership of a practice of philosophy as... Read More about Stoicism, philosophy as a way of life, and Negative Capability. Developing a capacity for working in radical uncertainty.

Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty (2022)
Book

Working in uncertainty has become the new normal, but what do leaders have to draw upon when lacking the requisite knowledge? In this book, the authors make a case for Negative Capability, which enables leaders to work in a state of not knowing witho... Read More about Negative Capability in Leadership Practice. Implications for Working in Uncertainty.

Narratives of wellbeing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about Narratives of wellbeing.

It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England.

The deep education conversation in a climate of change and complexity (2021)
Book Chapter

Negative capability and care of the self (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter considers caring leadership through the twin prisms of Negative Capability and Care of the Self, arguing that an aspiration to practise caring leadership involves a commitment to the development of self-knowledge and the capacity to be w... Read More about Negative capability and care of the self.

The practice of attention in the workplace - Phenomenological accounts of lived experience (2020)
Thesis

In this very moment, our attention is being captured, tracked and traded as a commodity in the commercial market. As a global community, we are facing one of the most serious cultural crises of our time yet we are too distracted to be aware of it a... Read More about The practice of attention in the workplace - Phenomenological accounts of lived experience.

Negative Capability and conflicting narratives in leadership development (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we reflect on a very specific aspect of some recent organisational research. In particular, we will look at the phenomenon of ‘caring leadership’ through a reflection on some ‘conflicting narratives’ of leadership and care within a char... Read More about Negative Capability and conflicting narratives in leadership development.

Envisioning a future by paying attention to the past: Rediscovering the work-of-leisure. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Populist movements are inherently reactionary, motivated by dissatisfaction with the status quo (Albertazzi & McDonnell, 2008). One source of dissatisfaction in the West over the last decade has been a decline in prosperity alongside an increase in d... Read More about Envisioning a future by paying attention to the past: Rediscovering the work-of-leisure..