Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety The article is a bit longer than usual and if you would prefer to download a copy for future reference then you can DOWNLOAD HERE: … [Read more...] about Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And Safety
Resilience
Social Resilience
Social Resilience Today’s drop with Matt Thorne from RiskDiversity, Dave Whitefield from Semiosphere and Andrew Thornhill from Clarity Enabled, Episode 5 “Social Resilience” with Gabrielle … [Read more...] about Social Resilience
Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety
Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety Wise sayings are all about living and being (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/wise-sayings) and mostly don’t provide answers. If you are stressed out, lonely, … [Read more...] about Resiliencing Wisdom for Covid Safety
Ecological Resiliencing
Resilience is not something one has or achieves as if it can be ‘engineered’. The idea that resilience can be ‘engineered’ is a nonsense. Resiliencing is an ongoing ecological state of social meaning, … [Read more...] about Ecological Resiliencing
Social ‘Resiliencing’
Australia is currently facing unprecedented devastation through both bushfires and drought. It’s hard to escape the images, where in some regions frightening fires are raging through towns at a pace … [Read more...] about Social ‘Resiliencing’
When Safety is Beyond Your Control
For over a month we have been breathing carcinogenic smoke from bushfires in my home city of Canberra. Many other cities and towns are in a similar situation but Canberra (because of its geographical … [Read more...] about When Safety is Beyond Your Control
Resiliencing….. (and other such ‘ings’…)
Two experiences over the Christmas/New Year break have been the cause of much reflection and contemplation. Firstly, I was privileged to be presented with a manuscript for Kerrie Atherton’s latest … [Read more...] about Resiliencing….. (and other such ‘ings’…)
Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered
‘A social and community psychology of resilience is needed if we are to understand why many of us are not always able to preserve well-being and sustain our progress toward the goals we have … [Read more...] about Why Resilience Cannot be Engineered
The Mystery of the Emotions
The Mystery of the Emotions One of the puzzles of human ‘being’ is the uncontrollability of the emotions. The idea that the brain can just ‘will’ or ‘turn on or off’ the emotions is one of the … [Read more...] about The Mystery of the Emotions
Zero, A Framework for Psychological Bullying
Zero, A Framework for Psychological Bullying There can never be an Ethic of Risk as long as the safety industry is wedded to the ideology and discourse of zero. How can one be moral to another person … [Read more...] about Zero, A Framework for Psychological Bullying