The fictional hero Tom Sawyer was highly skilled at reframing a situation. When Sawyer was forced to spend a holiday whitewashing a fence, his friends teased him, because he had to work while they ...

Almost by definition, the frame of a picture is something that you are not supposed to notice. But if you go to the art galleries to look at paintings now, you might get a very different sense of what ...

Organizational framing is a theory in which the management of a business assesses its operation via multiple outlooks. The four commonly accepted business frames are structural, human resources, ...

Reframing is about looking at a problem or situation from a different and more positive perspective. It's a technique or method often used in family counseling. This technique is also used in the ...

Debra Stevens has been framing for 28 years. “The thing I enjoy the most is taking something that’s been framed previously and making it an entirely different piece of art,” she says. Visit her ...

The en vogue way to play Marco Polo among baseball nerds is to yell “pitch framing!” and listen for “no longer offers a significant edge!” There isn’t anything wrong with that statement. As a denizen ...

Language in Society, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jun., 2008), pp. 319-349 (31 pages) This study extends Goffman's idea that frames are laminated in various ways in interaction by demonstrating how work and play ...

Have you ever stopped to think about how powerful your mind really is? In the world of witchcraft, reframing isn’t just a fancy psychological term—it’s a fundamental tool that can transform the energy ...

Reframing is shifting the perspective within which we experience a situation. As this example shows, the same “facts” can be viewed in a different frame in such a way that the facts themselves seem to ...