 at a cross walk. And keep your temper and to be patient. (link has very short video) 2. Yield in stop and go traffic. 3. Find ways to keep calm in traffic.
A reminder that F.U.N. = frequent unbridled nonsense… To wit, from my May 20 twitter feed: H/T @mattswaim and @dansealana for the sillies. Ok, one more.
Yes, this video is in German, but its pretty amazing none the less! These folks seem eggs-tatic over them! It does beg the question regarding the rain-proofing of these eggs!
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approaches:
  - Interpersonal
authors:
  - SAFETAG
skills_trained: []
remote_options:
  - with-support
time_required_minutes: 120
organization_size_under: 25
summary: >
  
  The pre-mortem strategy was devised to take participants out of a perspective of defending their plans and strategies and shielding themselves from flaws. They are given "a perspective where they [are] actively searching for flaws in their own plan." [^pre-mortum]. 
materials_needed: |
  
  * Stickies (in multiple colors)
  * Whiteboard or flip-chart
  * Markers
  * Camera to digitally capture the data
walk_through: >
  

  Prepare a flipchart / space on the white-board to keep track of process', threats, impacts, and adversaries that are identified during other activities. Participants can easily get ahead of the process as they explore individual ideas. Keeping a space for these "upcoming" activities will help re-center them on the activity at hand.


  **Pre-Mortem Strategy: (30 Minutes)** The pre-mortem strategy was devised to take participants out of a perspective of defending their plans and strategies and shielding themselves from flaws. They are given "a perspective where they [are] actively searching for flaws in their own plan." [^pre-mortum]

    * Explain the pre-mortem activity. The participants are to imagine that it is months into the future and they have continued doing their work as normal. And something happened that left them entirely unable to function or functioning at a very poor level. "That is all they know; they have to explain what has happened." [^pre-mortum]
    * Create a broad list of possible explanations for what has happened.
    * Identify the most likely explanations.
    * List the process' that would have to fail for those causes to take effect.
    * Identify two to three process' that are central to the failures and write them on a list of *critical process'.*

  **Process/Interaction Mapping (30 minutes per process):**

    * Pick a process from the list of *critical processes* identified above.
    * Clearly identify the process name on the whiteboard or flipchart.
    * Create a list of individuals who take part in the process.
    * Draw a symbol of the person.
    * Write a label describing their role or title.
    * Draw lines with arrows connecting individuals who interact with each other in this process.
    * Label the lines with words describing the interaction.
    * Write numbers on the interactions to show the order they occur in.
    * Continue this activity with the next *critical process.*

  **NOTES:**
    * You can add follow-on processes to examine if they are identified as critical by the participants during this activity. Specifically, the exercises in the Threat Assessment section pair well.
  	* Put people on post-its to make them able to be moved around.
    * Verbally walk the participants through the completed process so you ensure you didn't miss anything.
    * Take quick notes to remind yourself of any key points not clearly marked on the map before they move on to the next activity.
    * After completing all the key events take a photo of the whiteboard / store the chart-paper for later documentation.
considerations: >2
  
    * Treat risk modeling data with the utmost security
    * Ensure that any physical notes/drawings are erased and destroyed once digitally recorded.
    * Ensure that any digital recordings of this process are kept secure and encrypted. 
title: Risk Modeling Using the Pre-Mortem Strategy
skills_required:
  - Group Facilitation
  - Psycho-social care
  - Risk Assessment
overview: >
  
  * "Pre-Mortem" Activity

  * Identification of critical processes

  * Selected critical process mapping

  * Threat Identification (Control/Confidentialy/Idenity/Integrity/Authentication/Access)

  * Impact Identification

  * Adversary Exploration (Likelyhood)

  * Impact Ranking
recommendations: >-
  
  This activity can lead to feelings of hopelessness as well as stir up direct fears or challenges that the staff face. It is important to remind the staff that any risk can be mitigated, and indeed it is the goal of an audit to identify the highest priority ones based on actual likelihood and provide guidance on mitigation.
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The Symposium (c. 385-370 BCE) is widely regarded as one of Plato’s greatest philosophical and stylistic triumphs. The dialogue recounts a drinking party in the house of Agathon at which Socrates and a number of other prominent Athenian citizens deliver speeches in praise of Eros (Love). Our assigned section begins just after the end of Agathon’s speech, in which the young Sophist heaped lavish praise on Love for his youth and beauty. Socrates addresses the gathering and disputes Agathon’s account, laying out his own vision of Love as the desire for the eternal possession of the good, a bridge between man and the divine.
Socrates begins by cross-examining Agathon and drawing out the faults in his speech. Love, Socrates forces Agathon to admit, is always love of something, in the same way that a father is always the father of someone. Love desires what is beautiful and good, and we always desire that which we do not possess. Love, therefore, must be neither good nor beautiful in itself. After forcing this series of admissions, Socrates recounts a dialogue he had with the Mantinean priestess Diotima, his teacher in love.
Diotima provided a mythology of Love’s birth as a way of introduction. Love is not himself a god, as the previous speakers assumed, but a spirit that serves as an emissary between human beings and the divine. He is the child of Poverty and Plenty and partakes in characteristics of both, always bountiful in his energies but wanting in substance. The figure of the god is not dainty or beautiful, but rough. He desires what is beautiful and very much unlike himself. These rich metaphors lay the groundwork for Plato’s philosophical project in the next few pages.
They help to make sense of the fact that the erotic drive, which seems rough, messy and exceedingly human, can at the same time touch upon the divine. Love is a desire that, when properly focused, can act as a bridge between human beings and the gods. Once Diotima has established that Love is the desire for something that the lover does not possess, she begins her inquiry into what this something is. At first Socrates ventures that love desires beauty. She corrects him by pointing out that what a man really desires in the possession of beauty is possession of the good.
She briefly considers the old adage that a lover searches for “his other half,” but dismisses this piece of folk wisdom because it fails to consider that men love the parts of themselves only insofar as they are good (and will amputate a limb when it becomes diseased). Love is not the desire for any temporary object (fleeting youth and vitality) but the desire for everlasting good. Because Love is the desire for everlasting good, and the lifespan of human beings is finite, human love is inextricably linked to procreation.
As human beings we undergo a “perpetual process of loss and reparation” – losing skin, hair, and nails, turning over flesh, bones, and blood, shedding old habits and opinions and adopting new ones – that always ends in the death of our physical form. Given the impermanence that marks human life, it is impossible for one person to maintain the beauty of his knowledge or physical accomplishment forever. Nature desires the perpetuation of beautiful and harmonious forms. So men and women are drawn together in union by Love, which is the “love of generation and of birth in beauty.
That is why goddess of birth is generous with her conceiving power when she approaches the beautiful but “frowns and contracts” at the sight of ugliness. Through procreation the beauty and goodness in man achieves immortality while the ugly and the bad perishes. As Shakespeare, inspired by the Neoplatonism of the 16th century, put so eloquently in the introduction to his sonnets: “From fairest creatures we desire increase/That thereby beauty’s rose might never die. ” Of course, physical procreation is only one way that human beings pass on the beautiful parts of themselves.
To begin with, the quest for kleos (glory), for which so many great heroes like Achilles relinquished their lives, is at bottom a quest for immortality. Moreover, while some men are only “pregnant” in body, wishing to pass on their physical form through love and procreation, others are pregnant in mind or spirit. Their love is superior to bodily love because the beauty of