Facilitating Debriefs Skills Clinic

AIDR is pleased to announce that we are taking expressions of interest for our now publicly available online Facilitating Debriefs Skills Clinic.

Debriefing offers a valuable opportunity to review activities undertaken.

We can all improve our debriefing skills. This skills clinic will give participants resources to develop their capability for effective debriefing.

Price

$350

Proposed dates

The program will run over 2 days:

Thursday 26 August: 10.00am-1.00pm AEST

Friday 27 August: 10.00am-1.00pm AEST

Who should attend?

This clinic is designed for those with responsibility for facilitating debriefs, those with an interest in facilitating debriefs, and those involved in organisational learning and development, especially:

instructors and simulation designers
operational personnel, including incident management teams and functional unit leaders
emergency centre coordinators and managers
those responsible for near-miss investigation reporting and after-accident reviews
those responsible for after-action reviews (operational and non-operational)
personnel involved in lessons management.

Participants will learn about:

The steps to prepare, build, and conduct a debrief
strategies to ensure a debrief actively engages participants
how to make debriefs challenging and safe learning environments
using effective techniques (and avoiding some common, ineffective ones)
acquiring skills to overcome potential barriers that inhibit learning
strategies to facilitate discussions of different perspectives to support lessons management characterised by mutual understanding
linking debriefs to organisational learning.

Expression of interest process

To express your interest in attending this skills clinic, please email events@aidr.org.au.

Our facilitators

Christine Owen and Cameron Scott bring their extensive evidence/practice-based expertise to deliver a highly interactive, engaging and valued skills clinic.

Christine Owen

Christine is an organisational behaviour and learning researcher with over 25 years’ experience in investigating decision-making, teamwork, coordination organisational culture and change in safety-critical environments. She has been engaged by industry in a number of practitioner reviews and evaluations of major emergency events. Christine conducts research into high consequence decision-making, leadership, teamwork, and collaboration in domains including aviation, medicine, emergency management, and public safety. She is passionate about transforming research evidence into practice to improve working lives.

Cameron Scott

Cameron has considerable experience in a number of emergency management roles in state and federal government, including the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources in Victoria and the Australian Emergency Management Institute within Emergency Management Australia. Cameron is the National Network Emergency Manager at the National Broadband Network (nbn), where he is responsible for controlling and coordinating the response to emergencies. He is also responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with emergency management agencies across the country as well as the development of emergency management capability including planning, training and exercising. Cameron represents nbn on the national Communications Sector Trusted Information Sharing Network (TISN).