The Jungian view of the world can offer a great deal to the world of risk and safety. However, to embrace what Jung can offer, requires considerable unlearning of the dominant worldview of Safety. What Jung can offer Safety is: alternate views of personhood, the nature of energies that drive … [Read more...] about Podcast – What Jung Can Contribute to Safety – Part One
Relationships as Therapy for Mental Health, A Note for Safety
We know that most mental health needs are not met with professional services but with Everyday Social Resilience. We also know that factors contributing to poor mental health are highly complex and not just the result of trauma. The recent release of the Royal Commission report into Defence and … [Read more...] about Relationships as Therapy for Mental Health, A Note for Safety
Culture Cloud part 7: Ethics, Personhood, Moral Philosophy and Politics
These are a big group of four when it comes to understanding Culture. It tis important to understand what it means to be a person. Just a person. It is not their mind body, it is embodiment, we cannot have parts of them, it needs to exist as whole to be an Embodied Person. And once we wrap our … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud part 7: Ethics, Personhood, Moral Philosophy and Politics
Culture Cloud part 6: Embodied Learning
Embodied Learning and Somatics: When we understand the somatic and kinaesthetic nature of human embodied action we know that the whole body participates in decision making and that the brain is NOT a computer. The use of this computer metaphor is as silly as thinking of the human eye as a camera. … [Read more...] about Culture Cloud part 6: Embodied Learning
Comply Or Be Human
I have been involved with safety in Australia for the past 15 years. In that period I would like to think I have grown and learned or would it be better to say try to understand what drives and motivates people to do certain things. I hear on several different job sites I have been on we have to … [Read more...] about Comply Or Be Human
Cultivating Resilience
Cultivating Resilience When I think of resilience one of the metaphors I would never associate with it would be engineering. Resilience is a human (social psychological), evolutionary and organic ‘way of being’. The idea of imposing a mechanistic mindset on resilience just doesn’t make sense. … [Read more...] about Cultivating Resilience
The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership
Reflection from the late GEORGE ROBOTHAM - See his other articles HERE This is probably one of the most significant pieces of work that I have published for sometime. I have been involved with its evolution for quite a while now and it has been peer reviewed of over 50 professionals and modified … [Read more...] about The Things You Need To Know About Health and Safety Leadership
Embracing the deluge: Rethinking Risk and Safety through art and myth
by Billy Snead Joseph Désiré Court’s painting, Scene of Deluge, 1826 You see a person trying to save his father and completely ignoring his wife and kid (son) who are closer to him. The wife represents the present life, the son the future and the grandfather on the other hand represents the … [Read more...] about Embracing the deluge: Rethinking Risk and Safety through art and myth
Inattentional blindness
Just because you look at something doesn't mean you see it. By Decebal Leonard Marin Your wife asks you to take the packet of butter out of the fridge, and although it's right in front of you, you can't see it. You watched the news last night, but you don't remember the weather information because … [Read more...] about Inattentional blindness
No Place for Military Metaphors in Safety
One day Safety may discover that language, metaphor and semiotics are critical for communication and messaging. The latest nonsense from Safety confirms that it has no idea what safety is about. We’ve seen this before from other traditional safety sources such as so called ‘safety … [Read more...] about No Place for Military Metaphors in Safety
