Debriefing

So, this happened yesterday. After 18 weeks of training, I managed to improve around 2 minutes on my half marathon time from Lausanne in October 2022 (1:13:24) and my personal best by 78 seconds. Also, given my 1st half marathon was in 2:23:43 back in 2012, I have more than…

NOTE: This was originally sent to my email newsletter subscribers in January 2023. Interested in subscribing? Click this link! Understandably, many teachers are always on the hunt for activities they can use in their classroom that will “wow” students and engage them in learning. Today’s students live in an era…

Field notes from what we’ve been up to, what we’ve been taking in, and what we are thinking about at The Emergency Mind Project. If you have ideas or things you’d like to see — or if you want to help and get more involved — I’d love to hear…

The Debriefing Button hurried through the forest, all the while Rose was raging in her head — another reason Button hated Rose being in there. How dare he? How fucking dare he? He has no right! I will make him pay! I’ll tear him limb from limb! “Ma’am, please calm…

It shocked me to the core — I recently resigned from the Council of Governors for my local ambulance service. When I say local, it covers a huge area the population of which triples in summer. Recently, it has been in a critical incident due to Covid-19 and the stupidity of holiday makers taking unnecessary risks. My…

Guess what the biggest complaint is that I’m hearing from my clients about the virtual training classes they are attending? If you guessed boring PowerPoints or messed-up technology, you’d be WRONG! The #1 complaint I hear is STUPID SILLY GAMES pretending to provide interaction and engagement among class participants! I’ll be the first to admit I am a strong advocate for engaging your folks in every training class or team building session. I’m passionate about it—and my clients depend on my…

A reflection on self-care for the common ethnographer — In a recent office hour with a startup team, I found myself initiating a rather emotional discussion about rejection. You see, the team’s pitch to the executives for funding was just rejected and they had to revisit their prototype and business model. For context, the team is part of an…

A debrief among the girls from a week of chaos with the aid of wine and…