Truth & Spectacle

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  • Conversations about truth and spectacle in industry and culture.
    © Truth & Spectacle. All rights reserved. Truth & Spectacle, Embedded Creativity and Creative Truth are registered trademarks.
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Episodes
  • The Big Leap

    The Big Leap
    Oct 18 2024
    Alex and Ivan talk about the inspiration, neuroscience, personal experience and methodology behind their new workshop, The Big Leap. It’s a method that is designed to help organisations understand a new strategy and quickly bring it to life through actions and initiatives. They look at the power of good questions, inspired by Warren Berger's book, The More Beautiful Question. About how long distance connections and mix and match thinking build better stories. How good questions lead to deeper understanding and better critical thinking. They talk about the importance of collective storytelling and inclusive creativity. They also discuss how The Big Leap methodology focuses on what humans do best within a rapidly expanding AI landscape.
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    19 mins
  • Brand Story Coaching

    Brand Story Coaching
    Sep 16 2021
    In this conversation about truth and spectacle, Alex and Ivan look at how and why they apply coaching to brands, and get really excited about the power of a good core story. What is brand story coaching and why we think it's pretty cool.
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    19 mins
  • A Gentle and Awesome Creativity

    A Gentle and Awesome Creativity
    Jul 26 2020

    When we started Truth & Spectacle, it was done with the belief that people are more creative than they imagine.

    We assumed that being ‘creative’ was something that teams and organisations wanted to be - but we learned quickly that it wasn’t that straightforward. To many people creativity is a ‘gift you’re born with’, for others creativity evokes stories of ego, genius, loudness or elitism.

    We'd like people to experience creativity as an inclusive, more gentle force.

    In this podcast Alex and Ivan talk about the definitions of creativity, the associations of the “creative” label and some simple, useful principles to work with.

    We discuss how about how we design creative processes that balance idea ownership and craft, the delight of making new connections in teams, and being surprised by your colleagues.

    Creativity is a journey that has lots of paths, many are correct. We’ve even transformed our own way of being creative.

    It’s a skill you can learn. Teams can get better at questioning, connecting, imagining and making.

    If you’re interested in this topic for your organisation we’ve designed a new, more inclusive workshop. [create space] is a workshop game that’s designed to help every member of your team develop their ability to think creatively about big questions and turn their ideas into actions. It’s surprising and fun and you can see more here.

    Look after yourselves wherever you are and keep creating. We hope you enjoy the episode.

    Alex Mecklenburg is a creative business and leadership coach at Consequential CIC, a fellow of the RSA, and storyteller in residence at SIX, the Global Social Innovation Exchange. Ivan Pols is the creative director of what3words. Together they are the co-founders of Truth & Spectacle, a creative consultancy.

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    Find us on LinkedIn: Alex or Ivan / Twitter: Alex or Ivan

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    Stuff we mentioned in the show:

    [create space] - a workshop game

    Slack - business messaging

    Figma - UX design tool

    Truth & Spectacle - creative business consultants

    Monday - project management

    Frame.io - video management platform
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    24 mins

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