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Consciousness in Firefighting
Judith L. Glick-Smith, Ph.D.
770-633-5582
www.mentorfactorinc.com
Twitter: @jglicksmith
© 2015
Spirituality
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“The sense of connectedness with
something that transcends the
individual self” ~Larry Dossey
How I Got Here
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Flow
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O Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
O Flow promotes
O Happiness
O Productivity
O Connectedness
O Well-being
O Love
Think of an Activity…
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O Clear goals and feedback
O Opportunities for acting decisively
O Awareness and action merge
O Concentration on the task at hand
O Confidence: The sense of control
O Loss of self-consciousness
O Temporal distortion
O Autotelic experience
Csikszentmihalyi’s Transformation into Flow
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O Unselfconscious self-
assurance
O Focusing attention on the
world
O The discovery of new
solutions while focusing
attention on obstacles to
reaching goals
Traditional vs. Recognition-Primed Decision Making
O Traditional DM model
O Boyd’s OODA Loop
O “Thin-slicing” (Gladwell, 2005)
O Depends on recognizing familiar
situations and patterns (Klein, 1999)
O Action is based on experience and
training
O Intuition grows out of experience
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Observe
Orient
Decide
Act
Flow-based Decision Making
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O Awareness
O Of self
O Of others
O Of the situation
O Presence
O Living in the moment
O Attending to goals
O Confidence as facilitated by
O Training
O Experience
Georgia Smoke Diver
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Flat Organizational Structure
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“Fractal” Construction of Training
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Smoke Daddy Designation
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Continuous Transformation
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Ritual and Meaning-Making:“What’s Your Number?”
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Honoring Those Who Came Before
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Mission, Creed, and “Nuts and Bolts”
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To prevent death and injury by training firefighters to be adaptable and to
develop critical decision making skills in high stress environments.
Nuts and Bolts: Smoke Diver Core Values
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O Competence
O Honor
O Integrity
O Excellence
O Mental Toughness
O Passion
O Commitment
The Mo Squad
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Building Cathedrals
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Commitment to Infrastructure
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Servant Leader Orientation
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Outward Focus
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These are happy people
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They work hard and have fun 24
They are prepared. They practice their
craft. They take care of themselves, so they can take care of you.
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They rest when they get tired
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They take time to meditate
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They teach and mentor others
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They foster community and connectedness
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They celebrate success!
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They love one another and the work they do
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Georgia Smoke Divers
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O Conscious leadership
by example
O Mindful management
O Using history and ritual
to bind the group
O Facilitating individual
and team success
References
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O Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2003). Good business: Leadership, flow, and the making of meaning. New York, NY: Penguin Group.
O Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1997). Finding flow: The psychology of engagement with everyday life. New York, NY: Basic Books.
O Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
O Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1988). Introduction. In M. Csikszentmihalyi, & I. S. Csikszentmihalyi (Eds.), Optimal experience: Psychological studies of flow in consciousness.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
O Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1993). The evolving self: A psychology for the third millennium. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.
ReferencesO Gladwell, M. (2005). Blink: The power of thinking
without thinking. New York, NY: Back Bay Books.
O Klein, G. (1999). Sources of power: How people make decisions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
O Klein, G. (2009). Streetlights and shadows: Searching for the keys to adaptive decision making. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
O Weick, K. E., & Sutcliffe, K. M. (2007). Managing the unexpected: Resilient performance in an age of uncertainty. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley.
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Questions?