Parables as meaning making
Plan is to present a parable each month and gain responses this intro needs expanding to explain the overall purpose and nature of sense-making
The list of potential parables is also available for editing
Signifier Design
What are the core concepts/abstractions appropriate to the field?
This is the equivalent of a literature search, concepts and ideas are then clustered and different asepcts become triad labels. It is critical that the level of abstraction is maintained and these may become symbols in some projects
Concept/idea list
- types of soil
- pathways
- receptivity & response
- seeds develop into plants
- paradox
- changes / resilience / sustainability
- revelation
- control that you don't have
- agency of the sower
- Not a drill, but a cast, not looking
- Enchantment
- readiness
- distil key features of parables from Huffman, Norman A. “Atypical Features in the Parables of Jesus.” Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 97, no. 2, 1978, pp. 207–220. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3265619. Accessed 13 Apr. 2021.
Working Triads
I am title
What are the common hypotheses and other explicit aspects of understanding in the the field
These will become dyads or conventional scales
Dyad: In my example my interpretation is mainly about
Left: Purely Spiritual Right: Purely Physical
Where do we need to understand specific qualities or perspectives
These will become stones
Dimensions (the stones canvas)
Perspectives (the stones)
What questions have discrete answers?
This is where we get multi-choice questions
ones which relate to qualitative judgement
demographics and the like
Opening questions
Promoting question - if journaling will be minimal
Legal notice and GDPR stuff
will include permissions to share
Project explanatory text
This SenseMaker® project aims to collect stories about xxx. In this time of dramatic change, our lives are filled with daily moments and shifts that can have unexpected impacts. In light of the current pandemic and its disruptions to the practices of gathering that have previously defined religious and spiritual community life, this project aims to collect stories and insights about xxx
In this short questionnaire, we will prompt you to share a story about xxx and then answer a few questions about it. Your responses will contribute to a collection of stories, ideas, and experiences that will help shed light on how religious and spiritual communities around the globe may be xxx