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<span style="color:#ffffff">...</span>[[File:ScenarioVillage.Ross1.jpg|alt=Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor.|thumb|''Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor. Are you smarter than Bob Ross? Because I ain't.'']] | <span style="color:#ffffff">...</span>[[File:ScenarioVillage.Ross1.jpg|alt=Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor.|thumb|''Bob Ross would have made an excellent Scenario Village proctor. Are you smarter than Bob Ross? Because I ain't.'']] | ||
===== Preparing Yourself Mentally ===== | ===== Preparing Yourself Mentally ===== | ||
*'''Prepare for some stress.''' For the exercise to be a meaningful training experience, the exercise designer is going to introduce some level of stress. If you find the exercise easy, the exercise designer did their job poorly. If you find an exercise ''too'' stressful, ask your Incident Team Leader or the exercise proctors to turn it down, and/or check out with your Team Leader and take a break on the observation deck. | *'''Prepare for some stress.''' Scenario Village training is intended to be ''tolerably'' stressful so that participants can experience, and practice managing, stress induced impairment of the brain functions that are most sensitive to stress: executive function, sensory awareness, attention, and memory.<ref>Quoting this from a paper written 2023.11.07 by Nick McCullar, NW District NET, based on the work found in: | ||
Hristić, Ana. 2023. “Foundations of TIC.” Presented at the EMCR 587 Fall 2023, Class Session 5, Portland State University, October 24.</ref> For the exercise to be a meaningful training experience, the exercise designer is going to introduce some level of stress. If you find the exercise easy, the exercise designer did their job poorly. If you find an exercise ''too'' stressful, ask your Incident Team Leader or the exercise proctors to turn it down, and/or check out with your Team Leader and take a break on the observation deck. | |||
*'''The exercise is not a competition''' between volunteers on a shift. On the contrary, as they would in the real world, PBEM encourages Players to work collaboratively. | *'''The exercise is not a competition''' between volunteers on a shift. On the contrary, as they would in the real world, PBEM encourages Players to work collaboratively. | ||
*'''Don't fret about "failure" or "making mistakes".''' As long as everyone walks away from the exercise uninjured (in the real-world) the only way you can "fail" is by not learning anything. Use the Scenario Village space and time to make mistakes and experiment; that's exactly why we exercise. It is strange the number of volunteers who walk away from Scenario Village feeling unsettled, even dispirited, like they "didn't do a good job". As long as you learn from the exercise, you did a good job. Go get some (locally made) ice cream when it's over, OK? You earned it. | *'''Don't fret about "failure" or "making mistakes".''' As long as everyone walks away from the exercise uninjured (in the real-world) the only way you can "fail" is by not learning anything. Use the Scenario Village space and time to make mistakes and experiment; that's exactly why we exercise. It is strange the number of volunteers who walk away from Scenario Village feeling unsettled, even dispirited, like they "didn't do a good job". As long as you learn from the exercise, you did a good job. Go get some (locally made) ice cream when it's over, OK? You earned it. | ||