Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
Welcome back, my dear Ledgewalkers. This is day two of deliberately using the tools from Walking the Ledge and showing you how they work in real life. Not in a perfect life. Not in a quiet life. Not after everything has already been fixed. I am using them while I am tired, working, dealing with … Continue reading Day Two of Using the Tools: Put It on Paper, Then Put It down
Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest places. Today, I was watching an interview with Anson Mount, the actor who plays Christopher Pike in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. He was talking about how he approached the character and what he understood about Pike as a leader. One of the ideas he expressed stayed with me. … Continue reading Give People What They Need, Then Let Them Do the Work
A reflection on Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos There are some books that teach you something new, and there are others that give a name to something you have already lived through. Individual and Community Responses to Trauma and Disaster: The Structure of Human Chaos, edited by … Continue reading Giving Chaos a Shape
Standing on the Ledge — A Reflection on the Entire Body of Work A reflection on collapse, recovery, agency, systems, communication, power, and what remains after the entire archive is viewed as one developing body of work. When I began Standing on the Ledge, I did not have a framework. I had a collapse. I … Continue reading What the Ledge Became
What the Learning Journals Are Teaching Me About Standing on the Ledge When I first started Standing on the Ledge, I thought I was writing about collapse. Honestly, that made sense at the time. Collapse was the thing sitting right in front of me. It was the thing I could feel, the thing I was … Continue reading Learning Why the Ledge Was There
When I first began writing Standing on the Ledge, I was not thinking about organizational behaviour, workplace psychology, or management theory. I was trying to understand what had happened. I was trying to make sense of how a person could work, sacrifice, adapt, carry responsibility, and continue showing up, only to find themselves standing at … Continue reading The System Behind the Ledge
Ledgewalkers, There comes a point in rebuilding when you have to stop asking what else needs to be added and start asking whether what you have already built can stand on its own. I think Standing on the Ledge has reached that point. When this project began, I was not trying to create a framework, … Continue reading When the Framework Begins to Hold
Life seems to move in cycles. At least, mine does. I do not know if that is a universal truth, a psychological pattern, a sociological pattern, or just the way I have learned to read the map of my own life. But when I look back, I can see it. Careers change. Relationships change. Communities … Continue reading Life in Cycles: Growth, Change, and Identity
Some people may wonder why I am posting my learning journal publicly for my organizational behaviour course. Fair question. Honestly, it is something I probably should have done with my Communication and Conflict Management course as well. I did keep a learning journal for that course, but I never really posted it publicly. Right now, … Continue reading Why I’m Publishing My Learning Journal in Public
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge. How are you today? I am feeling kind of blah. Not destroyed. Not in crisis. Not even angry in any clean or useful way. Just blah. Life has taken on that flat, grey, eh quality lately, and I have been trying to figure out why. Part of it may … Continue reading I Lost the Vent in the Work
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