Welcome to the
cafe disruptif
Home of the
Creative Disruptors' Collective
: for people who don't think (in) straight (lines)
"creative disruptors":
:people who deliberately
disrupt their own thinking habits
to create space for imagining
positive change
"creative disruption": the art of making (good) trouble
If you're trying to change things for the better against the odds: welcome home.
:people who deliberately
disrupt their own thinking habits
to create space for imagining
positive change
"creative disruption": the art of making (good) trouble
If you're trying to change things for the better against the odds: welcome home.
Up coming events what we do
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What Cafe Disruptif does: 1 connects all flavours of creative disruptors in a deliberately effort to mix up our skills, perspectives, ideas and disciplines to squeeze every last drop of shared learning from all our efforts to create change for good 2 spotlights ways to stay healthy and strong to ensure we don't crash through exhaustion, loneliness or frustration 3 curates an interdiciplinary treasure trove of tools, techniques and insights from all sectors, especially arts and social science, to help us catalyse the monumental transformation we need across our social, environmental and economic structures |
Our emphasis at the moment is on understanding the psychology of change: what makes some people hurl themselves at it with abandon and joy, and what makes some people hide behind the sofa and throw the cushions at anything that seems in any way different, new or "other". If we don't understand what makes our messages of change and renewal so horrifying to some, we are never (Big word. We mean it. ) going to find a way of connecting. And connect we must: across all our sectors of environmental, social and economic change because we *really* need to get better at working together; and with all those who think we must be actually unhinged to want it.
I had a conversation with someone recently where I casually mentioned we are facing so many complex, difficult problems, what we probably need is revolution. She is a lawyer for a local municipality in the US. She almost choked on her fruit cake and fell off her chair. She turned grey, look at me aghast and asked, mouth still full, why would I want something "so destructive, that would lose all the structures we had put in place to fend off the barbarians"?
Wow. Now, *that* made me think. We are actually speaking different languages. She sees "revolution" as an INCREDIBLY BAD THING that will TEAR DOWN THE WALLS OF CIVILISATION AND LET ALL THE VERY VERY BAD AND LAWLESS PEOPLE GET EVERYWHERE. Whereas I see it as an amazing thing of renewal and change and improvement and can only feel happy when I feel the word coming out of my mouth.
It made me think a *lot*.
No wonder we're all getting nowhere....
Come and join us at our gathering ... all are welcome!
I had a conversation with someone recently where I casually mentioned we are facing so many complex, difficult problems, what we probably need is revolution. She is a lawyer for a local municipality in the US. She almost choked on her fruit cake and fell off her chair. She turned grey, look at me aghast and asked, mouth still full, why would I want something "so destructive, that would lose all the structures we had put in place to fend off the barbarians"?
Wow. Now, *that* made me think. We are actually speaking different languages. She sees "revolution" as an INCREDIBLY BAD THING that will TEAR DOWN THE WALLS OF CIVILISATION AND LET ALL THE VERY VERY BAD AND LAWLESS PEOPLE GET EVERYWHERE. Whereas I see it as an amazing thing of renewal and change and improvement and can only feel happy when I feel the word coming out of my mouth.
It made me think a *lot*.
No wonder we're all getting nowhere....
Come and join us at our gathering ... all are welcome!
hello.
We're some of the people thinking differently. You'll see this list changing as more people pitch in....
We believe in shaking up our collective presumptions. Just to check they're not nailing our feet to the ground, or locking our minds into boxes. Without us even realising. It can 'appen. Intrigued? Read on. Want to be included? Click here. Want to add your thoughts to our wee survey? Click here. |
We're from all sectors, all parts of Cornwall and the SW, and we're all sort of people. Diversity is the mother of everything brilliant.
This is some of us, and some of the things we're coming at from a very different angle...and each of us are collecting, and sharing, some of our gear-changing disruptive favourites on this very website. We're compiling a hoard of fireworks for the mind: have a look here at what we've found so far. Welcome. Grab a coffee. Offer an opinion. You know how cafes work. |
imagining the best
Loads of people are simply, honestly, deciding we can do better when it comes to making healthy, resilient communities. It's nice to know you're not alone. We're really, really not...
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assuming we can
All that allegedly impossibly complicated number stuff that is too tricky for mere mortals to understand...is in fact entirely understandable. This page will prove it.
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systems thinking
Imagine concentrating not just on reducing the amount of damage we're doing to our planet and the natural systems we rely on...but actually deliberately and on purpose *making them better*...radical? Or blinding common sense?
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