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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD

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Complex trauma-informed & human rights-based outdoor therapy researcher and practitioner, ISSTD, Outdoors Qld, Youth Flourish Outdoors. Yuggera country, Australia Orchid: 0000-0003-2295-9573

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · Mar 18

Coercion in adventure therapy - Conference workshop

My accepted abstract for the 10th International Adventure Therapy conference in Taiwan

We will discuss the slippery slope of coercive practice and question whether academics who accept/enable human rights violations should present at conferences

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 11h

Oh. Thanks!

He just wants an outpouring of sycophancy I expect. Didn't get a prize over the weekend, yet stopped war #15. Unfair

Puerile dipstick

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 13h

Huh? What did he do this time while I was asleep? Australians sometimes wake up half way through a news cycle

He went to Israel to check out some development potential last I heard

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 16h

Something something the mountain of education

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21h

The US Dept. of Education announced that a new coalition of conservative groups, including Turning Point USA and the Heritage Foundation, will arrange for more "patriotic" civics education, which is more on the order of political indoctrination for MAGA.

Trump undertakes a MAGA-centric makeover of US civics education • Minnesota Reformer

The vast majority of the groups in the coalition promote a vision of U.S. identity that downplays historical wrongs associated with race and gender and projects the country as an exceptional force for...

minnesotareformer.com

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 15h

The school could specialise in active shooter drills!

He might have liked that. Some deaths are an acceptable price he argued, but less at 'his' school would be a lovely legacy

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 16h

It would, but won't, so plan B is ....?

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 18h

She is doing her job. We need to stop expecting normal. It is gone.

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 1d

1 "I" decide for the president
2 I use his "plenary authority"
3 I place troops to provoke "riots"

This seems important. Has it been verified by other news sources?

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 2d

This is a great idea. Abbot was hated about as much as Spud is. Bringing him back could totally sink them for ever

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 2d

Holy smokes! He has totally lost all connection with reality

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 2d

From across the Pacific, it looks to me that Trump is propped up by wealthy men, Christo dominionists, & political far right ideologues

Destroying the rules based system is their aim

Will they agree with what happens after?

While the rules are ignored they still exist for now; still a chance

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that's the social app portion of the mountain of media. Just six more mountains to go

theconversation.com/what-is-the-...

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US?

The Seven Mountains Mandate calls on Christians to gain influence, or ‘take dominion,’ over seven key areas of culture: religion, family, education, government, media, business and the arts.

theconversation.com

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 2d

That last line, on some issues, we have been saying for decades

When this is over, if your nation survives, you could rebuild to solve some complex social problems

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 3d

She's not doing this for us

She only sees their base, which has zero critical reasoning ability

This rubbish is effective for her audience. They suck it up

This is frightening

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 3d

I am an ocean away but have been digging into far right & Christo Dom beliefs aside to my academic research

This stuff confirms their anger and fear. There is an absence of critical thinking to help them question when their beliefs are on a loop

This is their normal

Base fear/anger up is the aim

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

I think the military, particularly the Army in that parade, have made their loyalty quite clear

He is not their idol

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

What are they expecting to happen?

They must have a plan to not return,

or to return under entirely different conditions; martial law v Trump deposed.

Are those their choices??

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

Nobel, no

Interpol, yes

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

Watch Netflix's Shiny Happy People, The Program, & The Wilderness to see this in USA youth programs

Happens elsewhere, but nowhere as commonly

Was talking with wonderful US trauma therapists today who were surprised human rights are fundamental in Australian youth services

Human Rights stop this

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

Seven mountains

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

The USA has put into law 4 of 9 core human rights conventions

I think that is less than the majority of members nations

It shows, in this footage

Leaders of the free world? Not really

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

Commit as in to a forensic psychiatric facility. He is in their own reality, and dangerous

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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

The Antifa leader is easily identified

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

Antifa are not human

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 4d

Fox and Murdoch

Perhaps some rules around disinformation might be useful when this mess is getting cleaned up

Free (accurate, and not hate) speech

Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD @grahampringle.bsky.social · 5d

Totally. No sympathy for Trump.

I am more scared of those behind him, and wonder what will happen if he is removed soon.

Will they collapse in on themselves?

Will someone replace him?

Will outside actors enter the stage overtly?

Not to avoid, but to prepare. Hoping for option #1

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