Recently I had an experience, triggered by an email reply, that brought up intense anger. The person had replied to
You don’t owe anyone anything
Honour your boundaries and let them be annoyed
Quitting burnout
When we say enough
Post Pandemic Crowd Behaviour (Taylor’s Version)
Over the past few years we have been inundated with news stories, articles and conversations about the post-pandemic crowd, who
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When we sabotage ourselves
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We are our own worst enemy
Mind
#2. Janthea Bridgen - child care at events, regulatory compliance, lost child procedures, risk assessing events for child care, how safeguarding can be improved.
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Janthea Bridgen is CEO of Nipperbout, providing child care and children’s activities for the events industry. We talk about
7. The importance of play, listening to our body and being all of me
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Often negative experiences can be as beneficial as positive ones as they allow us to see what it’s like
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Threads is not the anthesis to Twitter
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As the saying goes; if an app is free then we are the product
Digital Minimalism
6. Trusting in our own rhythm
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What is our inner rhythm and why is it important? I discuss my experience of becoming aware of my own
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On drifting and the search for meaning
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When you feel the need to completely change tack
Mind
#1. KT Sonnen - event security, studying a PhD, training security, working a pit, crowd dynamics, staff welfare, post pandemic behaviour, improving the industry
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Welcome to our first episode of Safety Sistas! The podcast about the people who keep you safe. I interview people
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5. Feeling safe and the sacrum, sexism and equality
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I encounter another lesson in the healing of the sacrum, changing a life long pattern of feeling anxious to one
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Breaking down stigmas: Women in the workplace // CHS Leeds 2023
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Earlier this year, Nyomi Rose and I spoke at CHS Leeds on the topic of "Breaking down stigmas: women
Speaking
4. Anxiety, imposter syndrome (again), the sacrum
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Although only month later I discovered the work of Suzanne Imes and Pauline Clance, who wrote the first article on
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What is Zone Ex and why is it important?
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In the wake of the Manchester Arena Attack in 2017 and the Wembley Euro Final in 2021, the subject of
Zone Ex
3. Money, imposter syndrome, the fear of being ourselves, Human Design Projector
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What does money, imposter syndrome and fear of survival all got to do with being ourselves? I unpack my relationship
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Can the word ‘stampede’ undermine crowd safety?
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The Oxford Dictionary of English defines Stampede as:
* a sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle, or other
Crowd Safety
2. Creativity, accepting messy mistakes, the book of life
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Have you ever wondered what is driving you to achieve what you think you want to achieve? I call it
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Dissertation #5. Recommendations to Government and Industry to improve Crowd Safety at outdoor events
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This final chapter revisits each of the research objectives, summarises the findings, critically appraises the research process and concludes with
Dissertation
Cutting out what’s not working
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We need to cut out what is draining our energy, to make space for something new.
Mind
Dissertation #4. The perceptions of licensing authorities and event safety professionals on crowd safety and legislation at outdoor events.
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This chapter, slightly deviating from the structure of other articles, discusses the analysis of data obtained from the survey, relating
Dissertation
1. Stepping into self authority, my Jesus Year
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Welcome to my first ever recording. I introduce myself, run out of battery on my microphone, lose half the episode,