IGNITE: Questions vs. Answers

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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. - Euripides

I Can't Fix It

Those of you who know me, know my heart is breaking right now. My empathetic soul feels crushed under the weight of division in the wildland fire service and beyond. I am known as a "fix-it" girl. Well, there are some things I just cannot fix, but I can influence what is within my sphere. There have been some horrible truths about abuse and harassment we have had to face about our culture. Truths that shatter the very values and principles that provide the foundation of the Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program. There is no place for abuse or harassment from anyone, any time, or anywhere!

IGNITE: Positive Relationships

Positive relationships are the foundation for successful tough conversations.

Dan Rockwell

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IGNITE: To What End?

Leadership is not by itself good or desirable. Leadership is a means. Leadership to what end is the crucial question. - Peter Drucker

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Staff Ride for Experiential Learning and So Much More

Many in the wildland community are familiar with the use of a staff ride in the learning process. The value of a staff ride goes well beyond training and education; it can be a very therapeutic and healing event as well.

IGNITE: Be The Change

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“We must become that which we wish to change in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi

IGNITE: Relationships are at the Core

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None of us exists independent of our relationships with others. - Margaret Wheatley

Shiloh: The Real Deal

Shiloh: The Real Deal
February 26, 2018 by studentoffire

“It’s gonna be a pissa’ out there.” As in rain, Mississippi grab-the-sandbags, rain. Thanks to the challenge thrown out at the Introductory dinner last night, we were all invited to attend a 5am run. Not required, nope, but “a leader is always being watched” we’re told. Well with those semantics you either get pissed on and catch pneumonia or you feel like a slouch. And my over-engineered alarm clock, a throwback from the 90’s, failed. First impressions, anybody?

Shiloh Church

IGNITE: Show You Care

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No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. - Theodore Roosevelt

IGNITE: The Space In the Middle

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For most of our decisions, there will be a lot of space between unequivocal “right” or “wrong.”  - Annie Duke

IGNITE: One good question...

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One good question can give rise to several layers of answers, can inspire decades-long searches for solutions, can generate whole new fields of inquiry, and can prompt changes in entrenched thinking. Answers, on the other hand, often end the process. - Stuart Firestein

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Stay Fascinated, My Friends!

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This is of course, a take off on the popular commercial in which “the most interesting man in the world” advises us to “Stay thirsty, my friends!” which associates drinking Dos Equis beer with a life of romance and adventure.

IGNITE: Light Some Fires

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Education is not filling buckets, it is lighting fires. - W. B. Yeats