by Susanne | Apr 21, 2023 | Board Game, Hazards, News, Training, Wildfire
With great success (but little fanfare), we unveiled our new wildfire game last week. Thanks to Napa Valley Grapegrowers, we play-tested our design at the Napa Fire Resources Fair on April 11. Our goal for the event was to give people a taste of how we use games and...
by Susanne | Mar 8, 2023 | Leaders, News, Training
In this message of support for Mesut Bilgili and his collaborators in Life After Disaster, we offer a few recommendations for managing misunderstandings, mistakes and grief: Assume misunderstandings Trust in mistakes Be kind whenever possible. It is always...
by Susanne | Feb 27, 2023 | Leaders, News, Organization, Recovery
Did you know that we have a secondary mission to support spontaneous leaders who are stepping up in a crisis? At this time, we don’t have the resources to look for people who might benefit from our support, but a few people have found their way to us. One...
by Garett Dworman | Feb 2, 2023 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, Disaster Management, News, Recovery, Research
On the ninth day of Thanks and Giving, we give to you … nine measures of disaster recovery. Well, … there are many more than nine, but we’re not going to bore you with them all. Imagine a man, Joe, who has lost a leg in an accident. Because of the injury, Joe...
by Susanne | Dec 29, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, News
On the eighth day of Thanks and Giving, we give to you … eight wishes for 2023! We wish for no disasters to happen so no one has to suffer pain and loss. We wish for all communities to be socially resilient so they recover faster and better from disaster. We...
by Susanne | Dec 28, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, Disaster Management, News, Organization
On the seventh day of Thanks and Giving, we give to you … seven questions of disaster management, and trace the evolution of disaster management philosophy in the US. In our last post, we described how Federal disaster relief is activated in the US. Today, we...