#Decision Making

[hellyeahscarleteen]

“Some Principles of Harm Reduction

Meet People Where They Are is one of the mottos of harm reduction. It means not only physically showing up to people where they are at and offering education and tools, but the phrase can also be applied metaphorically - it means meeting someone at the mindset they are operating from, meeting them at where they are operating. It means working from an open perspective and showing up for folks without judgement.

Any Possible Positive Change means just that. If a person is engaging with activities that may be risky, like having unprotected sex, as a harm reductionist I will offer them education and supplies that may help them to make a different choice. I am not going to tell them what that choice needs to be; I am just going to offer the education about risks and about options to reduce risk, and leave it up to the person to make their own choices about what changes they may make. For example, using a condom⁠ some of the time, or with some people, is less risky than never using a condom.

Nothing About Us Without Us - Peer Leadership This phrase is held true and dear by many communities including disability rights, sex worker rights, and the Harm Reduction movement. What these communities have in common is that they hold peer leadership as a central value. What this means is that people with lived experience of drug use, sex work, and often unhoused life, for instance, are central to the movement. Legislation and organizational structure and movement values all inform the input and vantage points of folks with lived experience.”

LaSara Firefox Allen, What's Harm Reduction?

[motivatedaily]

[haleyincarnate]

[elumish]

Unironically if you want to write a character who is a good decision maker (by which I mean a character whose character trait is Good Decision Maker, not just a character who happens to make good decisions) you should check out page 14 of the FEMA Decision-Making and Problem-Solving course.

It lays out the key elements of effective decision making, which are:

Clarity of Values

Quality of Information

Analytical Approach

People can't actually make effective decisions based just on intuition or vibes, and characters shouldn't be able to either.

[augmentedpolls]

another psychology poll!

[michimonie]

Me making a minor decision.

(Count Duckula, "Around the World in a Total Daze")

[coachfortner1]

[pratchettquotes]

A thought in her head said No. It was overruled. She'd made up her mind.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

[savagechickens]

Decisive.

And more leadership.

[dress-this-way]

~ Eight Biblical Tests for Decision Making ~

[achlyx]

Decisions made through anger don't usually lead to good results.

[howifeltabouthim]

With every choice you made, you took responsibility. That it was irreversible, irretrievable, that it would screw tight the lid, prohibit the path to more choices. That out of all those liberating, mesmerizing options you could choose something bony, fetid, barren. And with that decision, you would have inflicted unhappiness (tragedy, even!) with your very own hand.

Irina Reyn, from What Happened to Anna K.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

In a healthy sexual relationship, BOTH partners should be the active partners and the partners with the power, in initiation, in decision-making, and when it comes down to actual sexual activity. Even if you're role-playing during sex, and there literally is a top and a bottom, both partners should still be active partners, with equal say, value and weight. In a healthy sexual relationship, everyone having sex is in charge, not just one person.

If you’re worried about asserting yourself, about stepping up and talking about what you really want and need, about being in charge just as much as your partner is -- or about threatening your relationship by doing so; if you feel threatened or usurped by a partner doing those things, step back and evaluate the situation. Are you really ready to be in an intimate relationship with someone else or not? Is your partner? Are you involved with someone who’s really not right or appropriate for you? Are you ready to make full allowances for someone else’s needs and wants and learn to work with theirs, even when it’s hard or disappointing? Do you feel confident enough in yourself to both assert your own needs and desires AND to make some compromises with them sometimes? Do you feel secure and safe enough with the person you’re with to screw up sometimes and deal with that? All of those things are worth looking at to be sure that you’re both able to share the wheel.

From Reciprocity, Reloaded by Heather Corinna

[praxis-app]

Praxis is now contained within a single GitHub repository. The project was previously split between client and server, which didn't bring many benefits and mainly served to increase the barrier to entry for new contributors. Now it's as simple as cloning the project and following the steps in the readme file.

[realm-of-tas]

Learn to be mindful with your emotions, don't let ur emotions determine your decisions.