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Part consultancy, part thinktank, part social enterprise, Halcyon helps you prepare for and respond to personal, organisational and societal change.

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What's Changing? - Compassion

Submitted by Halcyon Imagines on 30 November 2019
Compassion

 

Please see below key recent compassion-related change.

 

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November 2019

  • When many people grow up they realise a horrific reality: we exist in a world of seeming indifference to almost everything we are, think, say or do. We might be in late adolescence when the point really hits home. We might be in a bedsit at university or wandering the streets of the city at night on our own - when it occurs to us, with full force, how negligible a thing we are in the wider scheme. No one in the crowds we pass knows anything about us. Our welfare is of no concern to them. 

 

April 2019

What's Changing? - Love
Love
Halcyon Imagines 30 September 2019

 

Please see below selected recent love-related change.

 

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September 2019

Of Mice and Men - Redux?
Kiev
Halcyon Imagines 1 September 2019

 

10 years on from chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession is having - right now. The Great Depression Revisited? The clothes and the cars and the laptops suggest "not yet", but over the coming months, who knows?

Still, the blooming sunflower in the last shot is a touching piece of photojournalism, suggesting that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper put it, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

What's Changing? - Society
Society
Halcyon Imagines 31 December 2018

 

Please see below selected recent society-related change.

 

See also: Halcyon Society Headlines

 

December 2018

 

November 2018

Imagining values-driven businesses Halcyon Imagines 24 July 2013

A professor and former dean at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University argued in a 2013 book that corporations should restructure around three key principles:

  • First, articulate clear values: why does the company exist, and what does it believe in?
  • Second, appoint “trustees” to protect the interests of stakeholders and uphold the values of the corporation.
  • Third, restrict voting shares to long-term investors - and he also believes that governments should use the corporate tax system to encourage “public values by private corporations”.

Imagining a "circular economy"

Submitted by Halcyon Imagines on 3 June 2012

"Cradle-to-cradle" organisations claim to be able to dramatically lower their environmental impact and increase their "eco-effectiveness".  This forms part of a wider drive towards a "circular economy", which imagines ways to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff and re-design the way our economy works - designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powered by renewable energy.