In this video Jonathan Haidt discusses the problem of too much safety for kids: https://youtube.com/shorts/RiSXCt0gQdQ?si=ClwaCsjY8t9QjcC8 We also know from… The post How Safe is Too Safe? appeared first on SafetyRisk.net. brhttps://safetyrisk.net/how-safe-is-too-safe/ Prompt

The dominant metaphor and semiotic used in safety for understanding cognition is the brain. The image of the brain and the language of the brain-as-computer dominates the discourse of safety so that the industry believes this is how decisions are made. 95% of all decisions are not made with the brain and, placing this frame… Read More Brain-Framing Safety, Free Workshops September

Funkita is a swimwear brand in Australia (https://www.funkita.com/). They also sell an extensive range of apparel. Funkita was started in 2004 as a companion brand to Funky Trunks. Funkita know all about the nonsense excesses of safety and this is apparent when you purchase a product and you look at the tag. See below: I… Read More The Satire of Safety Extremism

Last evening, I went to the Australian premier of the film Our Colours Never Fade (https://www.ourcolorsneverfade.com/). The Director of the film is Jim McSherry and Producer Karl Hillbrick. I was invited to the film because Karl was a student of mine 37 years ago in High School. We have kept tabs on facebook for many… Read More Our Colours Never Fade – SafetyRisk.net

There is perhaps no paper more important for people in safety to read than this: Fuchs, T., (2016) Interorporeality and Interaffectivity. University of Heidelberg. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7256/7236 Unless safety learns to move away from the cartesian myth of brain-centrism and the dis-embodied understanding of learning, it will never understand why people do as they do. Everywhere we… Read More Embodied Being in Risk, Time to Change a Safety Belief – Free Workshops September