Why That’s the Most Philosophical Thing You Can Say—Bless Your Heart

This article takes aim at a familiar line often heard in moments of stress or complexity: “I don’t want the philosophical response.” With a blend of wit, irony, and sharp insight, it argues that this phrase is not a refusal of philosophy but a performance of it. The very act of rejecting philosophy is itself a philosophical stance, usually an unconscious and poorly constructed one.

Through satire and structured ...

I Don’t Want the Philosophical Answer!

How Coaches, Thinkers and Catalysts Perform Integrity While Quietly Longing to Be Real

The Inauthenticities of the Authentic is a playful yet piercing reckoning for coaches, thinkers, facilitators, and anyone committed to living—and leading—with integrity. It explores the ironic ways authenticity itself becomes a performance, especially for those who build frameworks, hold space for others, or carry the quiet burden of rare insight.

Through five subtly revealing masks—Hyper-Coherence...

The Subtle Masks of the Sincere: The Inauthenticities of the Authentic

Why Refusing to Fit In Isn’t a Branding Strategy—It’s a Stand for Authentic Identity and Ontological Integrity

In a world obsessed with clarity, branding, and instant categorisation, those who refuse to fit neatly into a label often find themselves misunderstood, misread, or ignored. This article explores the rare and rebellious virtue of being dangerously hard to label, not as a strategy, but as a natural consequence of living with integrity, depth, and ontological coherence.

It unp...

The Virtue of Being Dangerously Hard to Label

How the Boldness of Bad Faith Distorts Reality, Manufactures Credibility and Performs Sympathy for the Suffering It Created—Disguised as a Commitment to Sustainability

This article exposes the anatomy of audacity not as charisma or courage, but as a structural weapon and gall systematised into theatre. When dominant powers manufacture crises, impose sanctions, destabilise nations, and then perform moral superiority or staged sympathy, what we are witnessing is not hypocrisy. It is ontologic...

The Ontology of Audacity When Gall Becomes the Language of Control

When Good Intentions Turn Sour: Unpacking the Ontological Cost of Entitlement, Regret, Misplaced ‘Kindness’ and the Existential Spiral of Victimhood, Misaligned Reciprocity and Self-Sabotage

This in-depth article explores the paradoxical reality that humility, generosity, and magnanimity—qualities often revered as moral ideals—can backfire when projected without discernment, clarity, or ontological maturity. Using the Being Framework and the Nested Theory of Sense-Making, it exposes h...

When Humility, Generosity and Magnanimity Backfire: The Paradox of Giving and the Emergence of Entitlement

Unveiling the Metacontent Discourse, the Nested Theory of Sense-Making, and the Being Framework—together forming the CCC Model (Content, Clarity, Conduct)—for Leadership, Performance and Ontological Mastery

In a world flooded with content—things, beings, strategies, ideas, tools, text, speech, and solutions—why do so many leaders, professionals, and well-intentioned individuals still feel stuck, misunderstood, or ineffective?

This article exposes the root cause: it's not a lack of ...

From Content to Clarity to Conduct: Leveraging The Hidden Architecture Of Sense-making Toward Effectiveness

How Modern Minds Collapse Meaning, Weaponise Syntax, and Lose the Plot Entirely

In a culture obsessed with soundbites and allergic to nuance, we’ve mastered the art of misinterpretation. This provocative essay exposes the ontological roots of prejudice, not as a moral flaw but as a systemic failure of human sense-making and meaning-making. Through the lens of the Metacontent Discourse and the Nested Theory of Sense-Making, Ashkan Tashvir dismantles how we judge entire beings based on fragme...

Prejudice of Perception, You Heard a Word, Not the World: The Ontology of Prejudice in an Age of Outrage

Why We Mistake Charisma for Character and Optics for Integrity in the Age of Engineered Influence

This article contrasts the Celebrity Archetype and the Leader Archetype using the Being Framework Ontological Model, revealing how each embodies radically different ways of Being. While the Celebrity engineers admiration through optics, emotional performance, and curated narratives, the True Leader carries the often invisible weight of responsibility, aligning with truth and transformation, even ...

Pretence or Presence: The Celebrity Archetype vs the Leader

Unmasking the Hidden Frameworks Behind Modern Rationalism. Belief Isn’t Optional, But How You Shape It Matters.

A Metacognitive Inquiry into Authenticity, Meaning, and Human Coherence

In a world obsessed with facts, logic, and performative rationality, many proudly declare themselves “belief-free” as if belief were a primitive flaw cured by science or scepticism. This article challenges that illusion with sharp clarity. 

Belief is not a weakness to overcome; it is the essential fo...

“I Don’t Have Beliefs”: The Most Dogmatic Belief of All

Where fear, fantasy, power, and fluid desire create the illusion of consent. Introducing the Sovereign Consent Framework (SCF) and the coined concept of Regenerative Consent — a groundbreaking model for navigating consent through sovereignty, trust, and layered coherence

This article radically reimagines the consent conversation by moving beyond behavioural signals and legal checklists into the ontological heart of human experience. Through the lenses of the Being Framework, Metacontent Dis...

Consent with Integrity: Yes, No, Maybe in a World Addicted to Performance

How We Modulate Between Communicating, Manipulating, Dominating, and Demonstrating—And Why Our Being Matters More Than Our Words

Influence isn’t merely about what we say—it’s a reflection of how we are.

This article introduces four core modes of influence—Communicate, Manipulate, Dominate, and Demonstrate—not as behavioural styles, but as ontological expressions of our internal state, intention, and presence.

Rooted in the Being Framework, Metacontent Discourse, and the Nest...

The Four Modes of Influence

How We Swing Between Openness and Armour: What It Takes to Lead with Vulnerability, Ontological Responsiveness, and Higher Purpose

The Vulnerability Pendulum examines the deeply human, often unspoken phenomenon of swinging between openness and guardedness—not as a psychological quirk but as an ontological pattern that shapes how we live, lead, relate, and build systems. Drawing from Ashkan Tashvir’s Being Framework, Metacontent Discourse, and the Nested Theory of Sense-Making and Authenti...

The Vulnerability Pendulum

As an emerging leader with aspirations to climb the corporate ladder or transition to a more fulfilling career, do you believe you have to pretend to be someone you’re not to be accepted? Do you sometimes doubt yourself or feel unheard, unseen and undervalued? If so, you’re not alone. Putting on a fake persona in the workplace is more common than many people realise. However, there are significant costs in doing so. In this article, Jeanette Mundy explains why the adage that you have to ‘f...

Sick of changing who you are to fit in?

As a sales leader, be it an individual sales director, account manager, business development professional or sales manager, you are constantly interacting with and leading people, whether they are reporting to you or indirectly supporting you to win your next deal for the company. Empowering clients and supporting them with solutions to their problems always comes back to interpersonal relationships. And we all know what every relationship needs: trust. The question is, how can you build trust r...

Building trust in the sales relationship

Stepping into an account management or sales leadership role can be challenging, especially if your sales deals can take 12–24 months or longer to secure. Complexities show up throughout the purchasing cycle, from qualifying a new opportunity, engaging clients with presentations and sharing your solution’s capabilities to producing, presenting and negotiating a project contract to implement the solution. As a sales leader, how can you remain effective throughout such a lengthy process, espec...

4 factors that contributed to winning large & complex sales deals

You need to work on your business, not in your business. As a business owner, you’ve probably heard this line multiple times, be it from business advisors or well-meaning people trying to help. But does the thought of delegating some of the operational tasks you currently do yourself to make your business a success seem too far from your reach? In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic reveals seven steps to gradually remove yourself from your business' operational functions and e...

Get yourself out of your business' operations: The 7 steps

It's easy to feel isolated, different, alone and excluded when dealing with a disbaility that impacts you 24/7. While some disabilities are visible because they are obvious, there are a vast number of hidden or invisible conditions that affect people's daily lives just as significantly. Many people choose to keep their hidden disability a secret, often not realising the toll that decision can take until things start spiralling out of control. In this article, Wayne Stickel, a wellbeing and effec...

The role of a community in supporting people with hidden disabilities to flourish

When we are at the receiving end of obstacles and unexpected detours, it’s easy to get stuck in the trap of victimhood. If you manage a team with members who are constantly locked in complaint mode and find it difficult to turn the situation around, team morale can be impacted, slowing productivity. In this article, Jacqueline Hofste, an ontological leadership coach with a background in senior leadership roles in the corporate environment and archetypal consulting, explains how and what we can...

Is your team stuck in Victimhood mentality

Many people like the idea of becoming a coach and dive in without considering why they want to pursue professional coaching and what it takes to create a successful coaching business. Many also don’t have an authentic understanding of what it means to be a professional coach. As General Manager of the Being Profile®, Lucy Faulconer leads a global community of coaches and has the opportunity to hear the stories behind why they chose to become a coach. In this article, she shares some of those ...

Are you thinking of becoming a coach?

It is natural to want to understand why you are the way you are. But once you have that insight, what can you do about it if you discover areas that aren’t serving you? Traditional theories and approaches suggest that you learn how to manage your fixed traits or set short-term action plans to change certain habits or behaviours. In this article, Lucy Faulconer, General Manager – Being Profile®, a leadership coach and an organisational psychologist, reveals how she and many other coaches, le...

How the Being Profile facilitates our ability to transform

Modern society has provided an opportunity to redefine the traditional male and female roles that have been passed down from father to son and mother to daughter for millennia. However, rather than treat each other as humans and appoint the best person for the job, we seem to be caught up in the need to balance the power between the sexes, for example, by electing women just because there are too many men at the top. In this article, John Williams discusses why healthy masculinity is no threat t...

Why healthy masculinity is no threat to feminine empowerment, and “real men” are not afraid of women having power

Are you a business owner who feels overwhelmed and frustrated because you are constantly putting out fires? Is addressing whatever issue pops up on any given day preventing you from being the proactive, strategic and productive leader you want to be who is working towards achieving a clearly defined set of goals? If so, you are not alone. Anthea Stevanovic explains why this issue is so common and the steps she uses to successfully support her clients to elevate themselves from firefighters to fu...

Are you a firefighter or a business owner?

Being part of a sales organisation as a key account, customer engagement, or customer success manager can be challenging. It requires you to balance organisational, client and partner interests while constantly looking out for opportunities to solve problems for clients and secure the next deal to grow company revenue. One key challenge is identifying where to spend the most time and effort. Another is to determine for which of your customer’s problems your organisation’s solution is a match...

How to deal with running out of time as a sales leader

Most of us know somebody who is transactional in their relationships with others, whether it be someone at work, at home or in our social circle. It might even be you. Some might argue that being transactional is the only way to meet targets at work or protect yourself from being taken advantage of. In this article, leadership and confidence coach Helen Robinett explains why any relationship that focuses on getting rather than giving is toxic and how to build authentic, transformative relationsh...

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