The throughline, unpacked: how events become feelings, feelings become behaviour, and behaviour becomes the climate an organisation lives in.
The line on the front page of this site — we don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are — is the lens behind everything here. This series unpacks it: where the “as we are” actually comes from, how it turns events into feelings, and how those feelings become behaviour, patterns, and eventually the climate an organisation lives in. Five parts, best read in order.
One announcement, four receptions. The ninety-second wave and the thirty-year story — emotions and feelings are not synonyms, and the difference is the mechanism behind the throughline.
Read part 01 →Feelings dress as facts — and the costumes have sources. The one the profession issues, the one that’s handed down, and the belonging weathers: alone as an event; lonely, rejected and abandoned as what we build on it.
Read part 02 →Feeling = emotion + context — and context decomposes into four dials: target, stakes, history, identity. One wave run through seven weathers, a field guide to all six families, and the diagnostic that comes from running the equation backwards.
Read part 03 →The mirror, the Weather Check, three questions in order, the language swaps — and the two conversations where the frame is worth money: coaching, and performance management.
Read part 04 →Feelings drive behaviour; behaviour becomes patterns; patterns become culture; and culture writes the dials of people who weren’t there. Why you can’t memo a climate, where the chain gives you leverage — and how this joins the alignment work.
Read part 05 →This series began as a print-edition discussion paper and grew part by part. Workplace examples are set at Ironbark, a fictional composite organisation; details are de-identified and blended across sectors, and any resemblance to actual organisations is coincidental. The print edition is available on request.
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