Risk is universal in all engagements with life. It is impossible to act or even to stay passive in any prompt to action without incurring risk, for even disengaging from activity has risks involved, increasingly serious as the degree of disengagement increases. To harbour the wish to take a risk is merely a denial of … More If once you haven’t been able to take that risk, let’s face it is not because you could not (or ‘were not able to’) but because you are risk averse and don’t wish to admit it. Naming that risk without taking it is just a way of dealing with your risk-aversion by indulging in a projected and insubstantial self-image.

Would this man have jumped if you knew the sea contained underground rocks and dangerous currents, or if he did not know there were emergency services to redeem what to him was personal failure? When I worked in mental health roles in both or either NHS and social work roles the concept of positive risk-taking … More Supporting the negative risks in positive risk-taking is working collaboratively and in the interest of all.