Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
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
A reflection on Introduction to Criminology: A Canadian Open Education Resource by Shereen Hassan and Dan Lett Introduction Introduction to Criminology: A Canadian Open Education Resource provides more than an explanation of crime, criminal behaviour, and the Canadian justice system. It examines how societies decide what is right or wrong, how conduct becomes criminalized, who … Continue reading Learning Journal: Introduction to Criminology
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
Émile Durkheim’s Suicide through organizational behaviour, conflict management, and the Standing on the Ledge framework Introduction Émile Durkheim’s Suicide: A Study in Sociology, first published in 1897, was a major attempt to demonstrate that even an intensely personal act could be studied partly as a social fact. Durkheim examined differences in suicide rates among groups … Continue reading Integration, Regulation, Communication, and Social Rupture
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
This learning journal examines the full scope of Chapter 7 by treating decision-making as both a logical process and a human process. It begins with rational choice, then questions the assumptions underneath that model: whether the problem has been defined honestly, whether information is accurate and supplied above board, whether goals conflict, whether important alternatives … Continue reading Week 6 Learning Journal
Reader's Moment There is pressure to make recovery look good. To have the lesson ready. To sound wise. To explain the transformation. To be grateful for the wound because it made you stronger. To turn the collapse into a clean story with a satisfying arc. Sometimes that arc exists. Often it does not exist yet. … Continue reading You Do Not Have to Perform Recovery to Be Rebuilding
Reader's Moment There is a moment after pressure hits when life becomes all reaction. Answer the message. Check the account. Explain yourself. Defend yourself. Put out the fire. Apologize. Recalculate. Replay. Brace. You are moving, but not always choosing. That is the difference between reaction and agency. Standing on the Ledge lives in that difference. … Continue reading From Reaction to Agency
Reader's Moment Collapse often looks sudden from the outside. The contract ended. The relationship broke. The body quit cooperating. The job became impossible. The money ran out. The message arrived. The door closed. But many collapses have a Phase 0. The warning-light zone. Nothing has fully collapsed yet, but the dashboard is already flashing. What … Continue reading The Warning Lights Before Collapse
Standing on the Ledge 