Making Risk Management Tangible for Trip Leaders Using Cross-Industry Adaptations - Online Classroom

6:00-8:00pm PST via Zoom Meeting
Meeting link will be sent to registered attendees the day of the session.

The ability to manage risk is a hallmark of excellent leaders. What does this actually look like beyond “Follow your Policies & Procedures” and “Stay within your Scope of Practice”? Whether it is to enhance your own risk management practices or learn a new way to train risk management, you will walk away with both.

With recognition of cross industry research as an invaluable resource, this session presents a Trip Leader Centered Risk Management Framework created from research from the fields of Aviation, Paramedicine, and Military. The goal is to move beyond risk theories and towards tangible actions that make the management of risk in the field concrete. When actions become understood of where it fits within the bigger picture, actions become intentional and managing risk becomes conscious.

With an understanding of the framework, we will start getting you acquainted with your own level of Risk Self-Awareness and habits. We will then build on how to stay vigilant by learning how to incorporate specific flexibility focused “Learnacy Skills” in order to be able to continue your self-growth in managing risks into the future. Finally we will address Stress Injury Mitigation as a core component of a well-rounded risk management strategy. 

Come with questions, or better yet, email them in advance so we can make this session as relevant to what you need as possible. Please email rumi.kodama@gmail.com

Seminar Notes 

This presentation will encourage attendees to speak up throughout the presentation and be interactive with prompting discussion questions interspersed within lecture segments. Breakout rooms will be used to start the process of self-reflecting with peers about your Risk Self-Awareness and habits and give you a chance to practice flexibility focused “Learnacy Skills.”

Resources

Please find here the LINK to resources from my session. You will find:

• Summary of Key Concepts for both presentations I have run (use the summary for the presentation you attended:

“Making Risk Management Tangible for Trip Leaders Using Cross Industry Adaptations-Key Concepts-Aug2024”

“Managing Risk Through Stress Injury Mitigation-Key Concepts-Aug2024”

• Folder titled “Supporting docs: Tools and Videos” includes:

Folder: “Stress Continuums for the Outdoor Industry” which has several versions of the Stress Continuum. For the basic one used in the presentation, see “Primary Stress Continuum”

“5 Tools for Support FULL-2024” (has an extra column for organizational support)

“5 Tools for Support-2024”

“Acute Stress Reaction Signals”

“Planning for Orange”

Two short (amateur) videos on neuroscience that may help with creating your own training: “Video-JustStartTalking” and “Video-Stress&theBrain”

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions: rumi.kodama@gmail.com

Presenter

Rumi Kodama is a paramedic in Vancouver, BC with roots in the outdoor/wilderness therapy industry in numerous roles for over 20 years from YMCA to BC Conservation Corps to NOLS, Outward Bound Canada and Alaska Crossings. Risk is inherent in everything we do and the power of bringing practices from across industry lines is something that just makes sense. Her passion extends to thinking about how we manage risk to reduce occurrences of stress injuries and teaching these topics with a tendency towards focusing on making things tangible and spreading practical ideas.