MGT2382 Week 9 Learning Journal: Conflict, Boundaries, and the Cost of False Peace

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Date: Calendar week: July 7-July 13, 2026 Category: Field Lab Learning Journals > MGT2382 Learning Journal Course link: MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour – Week 9: Conflict; McShane Chapter 11. Lens: Critical lens: conflict is not automatically failure; sometimes it is the first honest signal that something in the system needs attention. Opening reflection This week’s material … Continue reading MGT2382 Week 9 Learning Journal: Conflict, Boundaries, and the Cost of False Peace →

The System Behind the Ledge

Man in suit sitting on ledge of tall building looking down thoughtfully

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 →

The Witness Problem: What If Nobody Safe Is Watching?

Vulnerable person choosing between safe unsafe witnesses

Reader's Moment Sometimes the hardest part of collapse is not the event itself. It is carrying it unseen. You want someone to understand what happened without taking over, judging, rescuing, minimizing, gossiping, or turning your pain into their platform. You want a witness. Not an audience. Not a judge. Not a saviour. Not a person … Continue reading The Witness Problem: What If Nobody Safe Is Watching? →

From Inner Courtroom to Clipboard

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Reader's Moment Some people do not just think under pressure. They hold court. The prosecutor stands up first. You should have known. You always do this. You trusted too easily. You were weak. You are guilty. Then the defense rushes in. But I tried. But they changed the terms. But I had no choice. But … Continue reading From Inner Courtroom to Clipboard →

Help Without Collapse: How to Ask Without Handing Over the Wheel

A woman sitting on a couch looking distressed during a counseling session with words emotional support, professional care, community, self-care, and stability around her

Reader's Moment There are two bad exits when you are under pressure. The first is refusing help because needing help feels like failure. The second is accepting help in a way that hands over the wheel of your life. One leaves you isolated. The other leaves you managed. Neither is agency. Help Without Collapse is … Continue reading Help Without Collapse: How to Ask Without Handing Over the Wheel →

Life in Cycles: Growth, Change, and Identity

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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 →

What Communication & Conflict Management Taught Me About Collapse, Systems, and Boundaries

Two people sitting across from each other discussing constructive conflict communication with speech bubbles showing respectful listening, focus on issues, collaboration, and solutions

This post is adapted from my final learning journal for Communication & Conflict Management. I am sharing it here because the course did not stay inside the classroom for me. It connected directly to Standing on the Ledge: collapse recovery, crisis management, boundaries, communication under pressure, and the systems that shape conflict before anyone says … Continue reading What Communication & Conflict Management Taught Me About Collapse, Systems, and Boundaries →

Why I’m Publishing My Learning Journal in Public

Handwritten notes in a journal about organizational behavior and rebuilding with key concepts and a dated entry

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 →

The Dream Does Not Become Real Until You Give It Conditions

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Reader’s Moment: Maybe you have a dream you keep circling. Not because it is foolish. Not because it is impossible. Not because you are lazy, broken, or incapable. Maybe you keep circling it because the dream still feels safer than the first real step. You can imagine the book. You can imagine the business. You … Continue reading The Dream Does Not Become Real Until You Give It Conditions →

I Lost the Vent in the Work

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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 →