How easy to let that word ‘professional’ roll off your tongue, when you are not in a profession! How easy to brand something that it is not and then wonder why people walk away in droves (icare-workers-compensation-insider-speaks-out). How easy to spruik zero harm when it’s the opposite … [Read more...] about Not a Profession’s Bootlace
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Face to Face SPoR Workshops 2022
Face to Face SPoR Workshops – Canberra 8-16 August This is the first time we have been able to offer SPoR learning face to face in 2 years. Here is your opportunity to gather with some old and new friends and progress your education, learning and practice in SPoR. We already have good numbers for … [Read more...] about Face to Face SPoR Workshops 2022
The Benefits of SPOR
The Benefits of SPOR First published Here: https://www.clarityenabled.com/blog-2/the-benefits-of-spor Written By Andrew Thornhill In our last post we introduced our Clarity Enabled, and our approach to risk and safety (https://www.clarityenabled.com). Over the next week or so, we interview people … [Read more...] about The Benefits of SPOR
Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference? I have been asked on numerous occasions what is the difference between Psycho-Social approaches to risk and Socio-Psychological approaches to risk. Similarly, there is also some confusion about Organisational Psychology and Social … [Read more...] about Psycho-Social and Socio-Psychological, What’s the Difference?
The Shaping of SPoR Intelligence, Skills and Competence in Risk
The Shaping of SPoR Intelligence, Skills and Competence in Risk The next free module in SPoR will be run in September, you can register your interest here: https://safetyrisk.net/free-online-module-introduction-to-the-social-psychology-of-risk/ You can’t access knowledge you don’t have and neither … [Read more...] about The Shaping of SPoR Intelligence, Skills and Competence in Risk
CLLR NEWSLETTER–June 2021
Theme - Gesture The theme for this newsletter is gesture, the unconscious giving and receiving of semiotic communication. You can find all past newsletters free to download here: https://spor.com.au/downloads/newsletter-archive/ Gesture as Embodied Semiotic Gesture is one of those things we … [Read more...] about CLLR NEWSLETTER–June 2021
Free Online Module: Introduction to The Social Psychology of Risk
Free Online Module Introduction to The Social Psychology of Risk The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR - https://cllr.com.au/) and Dr Long are pleased to make Module One An Introduction to The Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) Free and available to those who want to commit to the … [Read more...] about Free Online Module: Introduction to The Social Psychology of Risk
It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety
It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety Global Book Launch We are proud to announce the publication of the 10th book in the series on the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). The book is entitled It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety. You can purchase the book HERE This is the fourth … [Read more...] about It Works! A New Approach to Risk and Safety
The Visionary Imagination and Marion Mahoney Griffin
The Visionary Imagination and Marion Mahoney Griffin In Chapter 3 of book 9 in the series on risk (Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk) I present a review of select visionaries, people who envision, know all about risk. The last thing visionaries want is stasis and zero. One such … [Read more...] about The Visionary Imagination and Marion Mahoney Griffin
How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk?
How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk? One of the reasons why Safety is so obsessed with: paperwork, systems and audits, is that it is so poor at conversation. In the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) we have conducted thousands of workshops on conversation skills and not one risk and … [Read more...] about How Effective Are Your Conversations About Risk?