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THE CHANGE MAKER’S GUIDE TO NEW HORIZONS
The Observatory
“Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s
uniqueness.” Ola Joseph
Humans are truly amazing creatures. We can reason and deduce. We can intuit and feel. We
have an innate desire to expand ourselves to understand more complexity, assume more
responsibility, make bigger contributions, and develop into an ideal version of ourselves. Our
organisations need to be built to harness the full potential of our selves. They should be built
with an understanding that each of us is sometimes a visionary, sometimes an accountant,
sometimes a writer, and sometimes something that can’t even be described.
Organisations should be built with an understanding that we each hold multiple intersectional
identities that give us powerful and unique insights that we can express and operationalise in
any variety of ways. We need to create organisations like this in order to unleash the greatest
potential for collective action in service of social change. And we need to build them to make
sure that those of us that work in these organisations can live the lives we desire while we do
it.
The leading edge of this fundamentally new view of humanity is provided by neuroscience.
Since the 1990s imaging technology, such as fMRI scans, have allowed us to look at live human
brains in action for the first time. Psychology, whilst flourishing in the twentieth century, had
to rely on understanding based primarily on theoretical models and behaviour observation.
Now we are increasingly able to underpin or overturn such theories by examining activity in
the brain itself.
Our neuroscience Advisor, Clive Hyland (2013; 2017), in association with Haygrove Ltd.,
created the Human Horizons model for Caplor Horizons. This model clearly and coherently
represents the four regions of the brain which most directly impact our behaviour:
• The basal system
• The limbic system
• The cortex
• The pre-frontal cortex
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