10 October 2005

Critical incident reports and blogging

I've just been writing up a report for a bit of training I am doing. The report is to be written in a critical incident report format. As I have been writing it has occured to me that the format or pattern is actually rather like that which a number of blog entries fall into, at least in part. Here's how one college describes it.
1. Describe the incident, including the most important verbal and non-verbal communication that took place, and your responses.
2. Describe any emotions you perceived in others.
3. Describe your own feelings about the situation.
4. If this experience was a "low point", state the problem as you see it. If it was a "high point", state why this was so.
5. If it was a "low point", indicate some ways in which you might have responded to or handled the situation. If it was a "high point", share any new insights or growth you have perceived.
6. Deal with the question: How do I understand or make sense of this incident theologically?

Often [1] is dealt with by a link to another document and a few words of orientation. [2] may or may not be relevant. However blogging is a lot about [3] - [5] given a translation for things that are not strictly 'incidents' as such. And Christian blogging is best when there is at least a nugget of [6]. I recognise that this is a pattern that I have unconsciously been writing to even if not always or fully. I'm wondering now if it would improve my blogging to use it more consciously or whether it would actually destroy something else ....
hmmmm
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