Description: Are you sometimes dumbfounded why an adolescent did something that seemed so obviously risky? Well, it may have been out of their control. In
Every day, every one of us make choices and decisions in the face of uncertainty. Guided by a blend of intuition and logic, we spend
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by Dr. Angie Moline Last year I surveyed university faculty who teach field-based academic courses (i.e. geology, archeology, ecology) and learned that 64% of them
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Catch a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse of staff development at NOLS. Tod Schimelpfenig and Liz Tuohy discuss the intricacies of teaching judgment and decision-making with a
Lecture from the 2014 Wilderness Risk Management Conference
Risk management expert Deb Ajango talks about the how the brain reacts under pressure and the implications of this in staff training. One of the core presentations
Some assume the merits of risk to be self-evident (no A’s without F’s). Yet, this isn’t a commonly shared value among students, parents, or even
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