We have had many requests for access to the SPoR Convention 2025 resources. The SPoR 2025 Convention that was held in Canberra over 5 days was professionally recorded for this purpose.
The recordings include 4 days of presentations and workshops from: Dr Craig Ashhurst, Dr Robert Long, Andrew Larsen, David Whitefield, John Sherban (Canada), Paolo Foranasi (Italy), Jason Buxton, Matt Thorne, George Stavrou and James Sullivan. Yes, there were females in the group but none decided to present.
In all there are 22 videos in the collection as well as two recordings from the semiotics day. There are also notes, slides and others resources from the week in the Dropbox folder. The picture you see attached to this blog is from the session where Rob conducted a ‘Language Audit Bingo’.
The bingo game was a fun way of learning about shared language, meaning and creative intelligence in critical thinking.
Topics Include:
- Critical Thinking Introduction
- The Spectrum of Critical Thinking
- Critical Intelligence and the iThink Method
- Metaphors for Critical thinking
- A Case Study for Critical Thinking, Climate Change
- Hermeneutics and Critical thinking
- Risk Intelligence and 10,000 Hours
- How Do You See the World?
- Critical Thinking as Reflection
- Critical Thinking Models 1 & 2
- Embodied Intelligence and Critical thinking
- What is Learning? And How to Think Critically
- Learning, Dissonance and the Zone of Proximal Development
- Group Discussion on Gestalt
- Creativity and Thinking Critically
- Language Audit Bingo
- Practical Methods for Critical thinking
If you want access to these recordings and accompanied files, you can email: admin@spor.com and request to be invoiced $250 for these valuable resources. Once paid, you will be given access to the Dropbox file where you can easily surf through all that is available, watch what you want and download if you desire. In this way you will be contributing to the costs of the professional recording that was undertaken at the Convention.
The files are large in size (1-3 gigs) and are of high quality.
If you want to learn about critical thinking and risk then this maybe just the resource you have been looking for. You will be able to tell from topic list above that this approach to critical thinking was quite different than traditional and conventional models in the risk and safety industry. Several of the presenters also discuss how they apply SPoR Methods and Methodology in their workplace.
Attendees and presenters from the Convention are also in the Dropbox group where you can connect and engage with them about their experience and what they do in SPoR.
Prof. Robert Long
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- AI Looks Back, as Does Safety so, Where Will Innovation Come From? - November 9, 2025
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