Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
Hello there, Ledgewalkers. How are you doing today? Welcome to Day Seven of using the tools. As I progress through life, I am finding that some of the most valuable things I have learned recently have come from studying communication, conflict management, and organizational behaviour. That is not to say psychology and sociology have not … Continue reading Day Seven of Using the Tools: The Client Is Not Your Confidant
Hey there, Ledgewalkers. This is Day Six of using the tools in real life. Not discussing them as abstract ideas. Not pretending they are magical solutions. Actually taking them out of the toolbox, applying them to the day in front of me, and seeing what happens. Over the last few days, I have been dealing … Continue reading Day Six: The Practice of Trying Again
Hey there, everybody at Standing on the Ledge. How are you today? If you are looking for Day Four of using the tools, guess what? So am I. Seriously, though, my day got away from me, and I did not get the post made. Day Four was pretty much a complete, one-hundred-percent wash. That happens. … Continue reading Day Four and a half of using the tools
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
There comes a point where the tools have to become more than words on a page. I have to be willing to use them on myself. I am tired. Not the satisfying kind of tired that comes after finishing something. This is the sore, restless, frustrated kind of tired where I know I need sleep, … Continue reading When the Rebuild Slips Out of Rhythm: Using Low Capacity Mode
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
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