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Graham Pringle 'Emu' PhD
@grahampringle.bsky.social
Complex trauma-informed & human rights-based outdoor therapy researcher and practitioner, ISSTD, Outdoors Qld, Youth Flourish Outdoors. Yuggera country, Australia
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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
The steaks!

Endless pun fun

Auspol
November 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Barnlene no. 1

sorry not sorry
November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The links between childhood adversities and 'significant and lasting' distress seem obvious

Not just suicide, but homelessness, substance misuse, addictions, and virtually all mental diagnoses

Let's stop discovering this already

Budget for prevention

Big budget

Big savings downstream
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This man was featured on an Atlas Network partner’s side project podcast. Why are Atlas Network “policy” people, academics, including Mont Pelerin Society members appearing on a platform with him & more? Why does NSW register them as a hunting organisation? #Auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Australia’s emissions down 2.2% last financial year.

Govt says it is the biggest annual drop in gross emissions recorded (ie not counting land/forests).

This has been put out ahead of a dump of climate documents and Chris Bowen making his annual climate statement.
Australia’s emissions from fossil fuels down as electricity from renewables passes 40%
While greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.2% or 9.9m tonnes last financial year, new policies are needed to meet the 2035 target
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I can see this happening elsewhere

A satisfying moment for her and us all
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is progress
Rush hour traffic in Utrecht.

Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The 62 richest people on earth have more wealth than the bottom half of the world's population (economist Richard Wolff).

This is beyond obscene.

A wealth tax is the least we can do.

#nobillionaires
#wealthtax
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
How beliefs lead to harmful outdoor practice

This just topped 1000 reads. Yay!

How did tough love kill a child in an outdoor program?

Why was the program accredited?

How does this relate to far-right ideas?

Open access, easy to read, challenging content.

doi.org/10.1007/s423...
A tale of two systems; How beliefs lead to harmful outdoor practice - Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education
In the experiential outdoor sector, differing beliefs about complex trauma and causes of harm can result in markedly different approaches to outdoor leadership practices. This paper examines the confl...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Gina's Coalition

One person, who can only amass votes for her political stooges through disinformation....which is why the Senate is investigating disinformation in renewables lobbying

She has lots of money. Why is she doing this? Over-extended?

Follow the money
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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FFS @albomp.bsky.social just ban gambling advertising like we did for tobacco. Sports and media organisations all survived that.

You have the support of an overwhelming number of Australians. Or is that not who you represent? 🤔

#AusPol
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
There is zero doubt that racism is a key tool of the far right of Australian politics

If we will not prohibit this in the Senate, how will it be eliminated in our suburbs, schools and workplaces?

We should move now, to eliminate hate acts and (while at it) disinformation

The line is crossed
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Anything is justified to achieve the Christian dominion of American States
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Quite a list of Australian far right people and organisations

They should be monitored and shut down if they stray into hate speech or disinformation
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is how you do it

Financially strangling neo nazi's
While federal and state governments, police and national security agencies grapple with how to respond to the National Socialist Network, several financial institutions and service providers have acted independently to restrict the flow of funds to the white supremacy group.
Neo-Nazi groups' political fundraising frustrated as banks freeze accounts
While federal and state governments, police and national security agencies grapple with how to respond to the National Socialist Network, several financial institutions and service providers have acted independently to restrict the flow of funds to the white supremacy group.
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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One of the problematic things about putting kids/teens in the mental health system is that they likely internalize the coercive elements of that system. They start to think “I have to obey these people on many levels or else I could get locked up.”
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In academia, misinfo, once exposed as untrue, becomes disinfo if not retracted

Flat earth, white swans, bad humours, thalidomide

... coercion and abuse as psychological treatment

All exposed as wrong

The last not retracted by my US wilderness therapy colleagues
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nature's rights are not a new idea, and thoroughly deserve legislation
Read this @naturerecovery.bsky.social article on why the rights of nature matters in the broader green transition – one tool of many helping us reimagine economies, policies and daily choices that can align with the living world. naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/reflect...
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Don't miss out on our next webinar, "Living Legends Webinar: Professional Practice Guidelines for Working with Adults with Complex Trauma Histories," with Paul Frewen and Christine Courtois! Learn more: cfas.isst-d.org/content/livi...

Purchase of the webinar includes access to the recording!
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Deporting Nazi's is a good idea

Banning far right extremist organisations and their social media would also be a good idea
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM