Dos and Don’ts Archive

  • Silence

    Silence

    Helping teach basic CISM last week, I was struck by the relationship between allowing silence and giving up control during a debriefing.  One of our team’s informal slogans is “When in doubt, stick a sock in it,” to remind us to allow times of silence. ...

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  • I shouldn’t feel this way because…

    I shouldn’t feel this way because…

    We avoid debriefings by completing the sentence "I shouldn't feel this way because..." with things that are true, but incomplete.

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