I've spent a year travelling to workshops and lectures of incredibly respected experts who taught about all the systems employed in crises, including AI. People who work in rescue, crime prevention, and victims’ support all showed how they use AI. The integration of tools for survival is profound in high-stakes situations. I’ll clarify: I call “high-stakes” any environment that involves children. These areas today require “Black-Swan” thinking, aka working with the “unknown u

In order to overcome life’s challenges, one must learn to think in systems. The first step is the DTIP (Don’t Take It Personally) principle. The second step is seeing territories rather than individuals. The text below will be exceptionally unclear for someone who is not trained to operate in high-stakes environments after initiation – this is normally provided in the army. This is where the terrain communicates that you belong, where your observations are safety material rat

Human progress becomes possible when there is the understanding that adults are meant to be met and not held by each other. Children, especially the neurodivergent, carry this one message: "Meet me where I am". Evolution, or God, has literally embodied this idea in challenging neurotypes and behaviours. Once I, as a teacher, lift my eyes from the textbook given by a system that has not included initiation as an essential human maturity process, and meet my students where th

An individual art workshop designed for people who are grieving and seeking a way to integrate their loss, rather than bypass or suppress the pain.

Hamnet (2025) “To be or not to be” is not a question of death. It is the question of who decides how we exist. A reflection on grief, Christmas, and conditioned being.

This post is not only for the parents and educators facing students' lack of motivation, but for everyone dealing with people who refuse...

Particularly this one SEN class with M. (and his friend M. who used to skip his lessons and join ours), A. and A., J. – the sweetheart –...