{"id":9276,"date":"2013-10-05T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:54:49","slug":"rituals-role-in-social-innovation-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/2013\/10\/05\/rituals-role-in-social-innovation-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritual&#8217;s Role in Social Innovation and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>DO WE NEED RITUAL?<\/h2>\n<p>No matter what we do &#8211; from guiding our child&#8217;s evening prayer, to the way we prepare our food, to how we hire and fire people at work, to how we say hello on our iphone, to celebrating our nations leaders, to ringing the bell on wall street, to starting an act of war. It&#8217;s all loaded with ritual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/ritual-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9278\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/ritual-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ritual\" width=\"254\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>Ritual is what defines our lives. The blending of these rituals becomes the tight weave that make up a society&#8217;s mythology. Myth, a cloth made of ritual threads, drives all of our actions and decisions, done mostly without knowing it. So for me, it&#8217;s less about bringing ritual into our technical lives, as much as becoming more conscious of them.<\/p>\n<p>We have forgotten rituals&#8217; place, their vital power in manifesting our world, thus making their practices irreverent. Bringing back the Sacred into our daily walk and talk, becoming observers of how we ritualize, and transforming the ones that no longer serve us. This I believe, is the most important thing we humans can do to transform our world.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-9276\" data-postid=\"9276\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-9276 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DO WE NEED RITUAL? No matter what we do &#8211; from guiding our child&#8217;s evening prayer, to the way we prepare our food, to how we hire and fire people at work, to how we say hello on our iphone, to celebrating our nations leaders, to ringing the bell on wall street, to starting an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1822,1826],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/ritual.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WmHn-2pC","builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9959,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions\/9959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/discoverycolabs.com\/vicsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}