The strategy of triumphalism or learning from the suffering of others doesn’t work in helping people with mental health issues. Yet, this populist strategy is what Safety does most often (https://safetyrisk.net/playing-with-mental-health-in-safety-is-dangerous/). Yes, let’s parade out someone who … [Read more...] about Effective Strategies in Mental Health at Work
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Letting Go and Playing Safe
The only way to engage in learning is to risk and because all risk is a step into the unknown, it is also a leap of faith. Even the act of imagining, dreaming or envisioning requires the ability to suspend what one knows and leap towards what is unknown. If you stay safe with what you know, … [Read more...] about Letting Go and Playing Safe
Kicking the Behaviourism Habit
A habit is something we do without thinking, if we know we are thinking of a behaviour as we do it, then it’s not a habit. The nature of habits and the human unconscious remains a mystery to the Discipline of Neuroscience. Indeed, simplistic pop psych books like Duhigg’s The Power of Habit and … [Read more...] about Kicking the Behaviourism Habit