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SSI Thought Letter: Vol. 1 Issue 3
Sociological Safety®: Retuning “The Why” with 6-IQ Nonlinearity
In the last SSI issue about “retuning,” I mentioned: “walking the sociological grid” as if one were processing a crime scene during an investigation. In that forensic kind of detective work, there are six basic patterns typically used, all geometrical shapes traversed by a skilled investigator collecting manifest, i.e., tangible, clues at the crime scene. Different grid shapes serve different functions, and their importance can vary, depending on the situations and contexts. (Methods: Wheel, Spiral, Zone, Grid, Line, Strip).
There’s no guesswork at that point, no inferences or imagination, and no grand schemes surmised. Everything that can be found or detected inside the scene’s physical area along the investigator’s geometric path is carefully noted, captured, documented, and cataloged. The observations are limited only by the skill and experience of the investigator. It isn’t until all the potential evidence is collected that the next step begins. What’s that step?
Questioning everything.
“Ain’t nobody in here but us chickens!” was a desperate response to a shotgun-wielding chicken farmer standing outside the coop in the middle of the night. The farmer shouted an opening question that began with “Who.”…
