Download your free copy of Everyday Social Resilience Being In Risk Download the whole article here: Everyday Social Resilience Wave Introduction If we remember that Everyday Social Resilience is a process, disposition and orientation then, this chapter will provide skills, models and methods to … [Read more...] about Everyday Social Resilience, The Semiotic Wave
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Book Launch – Everyday Social Resilience, Being in Risk
Dr Long is proud to launch his 14th book in the series on risk. For free download here: Everyday Social Resilience Being In Risk This from the back cover: ‘Wherever there is risk there is an equal and complementary need for resilience. Whilst Risk Makes Sense, things don’t always go as … [Read more...] about Book Launch – Everyday Social Resilience, Being in Risk
Fluff or Substance, Safety Hype and Everyday Social Resilience
One of the traps and seductions of the social media world is the idea that everyone else leads an extraordinary life and you don’t. The parade of extraordinary experiences is so often a narcissistic quest for ‘look at me’, ‘I was there’. And whilst I’m happy for the escape of a Taylor Swift concert … [Read more...] about Fluff or Substance, Safety Hype and Everyday Social Resilience
Stress Research, Resilience and Radical Wholeness
It should be no surprise to anyone that there is a direct link between poor biological health and psychosocial health (https://neurosciencenews.com/financial-stress-health-25511/). The research also shows that brain-centrism is a distraction from the need to focus holistically on health. So much of … [Read more...] about Stress Research, Resilience and Radical Wholeness
The Risk, Learning and Resilience Continuum
One of the reasons why risk is a ‘wicked problem’ is because of the ambiguities and paradox embedded in every aspect of risk-taking, indeed, in living. For example, if risk is required for learning how can one learn by extinguishing it? If risk is eliminated, how can there be learning? The paradox … [Read more...] about The Risk, Learning and Resilience Continuum
Presilience – There is no Going ‘Beyond’ Resilience
So often the language and Discourse of risk and safety give away its ideological view hidden in marketing and spin. The best way to understand ideology is through Critical Discourse Analysis. Just dig a bit deeper than a headline and ask just a few critical questions. Just when you thought … [Read more...] about Presilience – There is no Going ‘Beyond’ Resilience
Deficit-Surfeit Thinking in Safety
There is no such thing as objectivity in safety. We all come from a worldview and bias that is especially evident in the language and semiotics we use. For example, the language of ‘performance’ is the language of measurement outcomes. An interest in how people ‘perform’ in tackling risk is of no … [Read more...] about Deficit-Surfeit Thinking in Safety
Questioning for Resilience
When one frames the safety world through the delusions of zero ideology (see Zero, The Great Safety Delusion) the last word one hears is ‘resilience’. Zero is the denial of resilience. Why does one need resilience unless one admits that the world is not perfect, humans are fallible, systems are … [Read more...] about Questioning for Resilience
Fragility, Resilience and AntiFragility in Risk
One of the realities of risk and fallibility is understanding that the less exposure to risk, the less one learns, the less one experiences and the more fragile one becomes. Indeed, excessive fear of risk leads to even greater fragility, till eventually the outcome becomes much more dangerous … [Read more...] about Fragility, Resilience and AntiFragility in Risk
FEAR AND CONTROL – Dialogue in a technological society
I have a teenage son who is showing signs of a typical teenage boy of grunts and ‘dunno’ replies to everything. It’s challenging as a parent and even more so for someone who tackles the art of listening and conversation in training almost everyday! I sit down and despair just as other parents do … [Read more...] about FEAR AND CONTROL – Dialogue in a technological society