I’m preparing my presentation for the April 2010 American Association of Suicidology annual conference, which will be held in Orlando, Florida. My presentation is titled “Evaluation of Commitment to Living: a brief training to address suicide risk assessment and management.” I’m enjoying the preparations because I’m planning to present entirely using mindmaps on my curriculum which [...]
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Newsmap illustrates power of mapping/visualization
November 19, 2007
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This is a bit far afield from suicide, but I think worth mentioning here because it illustrates how maps and visualization can present a different, more contextually-sensitive view of a phenomenon, as compared to that which lists and other linear formats can achieve. I recently became aware of a project called Newsmap, which takes a [...]
Read moreMindmanager Customer Vignette
November 9, 2007
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Mindjet included a vignette about my work [link updated 1/28/09] with mindmaps in a new customer vignette section of their website. There are many other vignettes on the site that are interesting and worth reading for anyone interested in using mindmaps for thinking, planning, and presenting.
Read moreI’m an intellectual stalker!
September 20, 2007
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One of the URMC colleagues with whom I previously talked about blogging, asked me about mindmapping today (see my mapping posts). Because she has sequentially hit upon a couple of my key interests, she questioned whether she’s an “intellectual stalker”–a phrase I thought was just hilarious. Part of what tickles me about the phrase and [...]
Read moreCTL to Healthcare Professional Mindmappers: Delurk!
August 28, 2007
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Gaelen O’Connell over at Mindjet contacted me to ask if I knew of other healthcare professionals who are use or write about mindmapping. I thought it was a good question. I couldn’t think of anyone, but realized that if there were others out there, I would love to connect. So..if there are any [...]
Read morePossible implications of findings re: visual memory
August 27, 2007
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Readers of this blog know that I am interested in mindmapping and other visual presentation strategies as tools for training clinicians in suicide risk assessment (see related posts listed below). In a previous post marked “needs development” I noted: Really, there is a “basic science” set of questions about learning and the clinician mind that [...]
Read moreConversation with Paul Quinnett, Founder/CEO of QPR
August 1, 2007
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I talked yesterday with Paul Quinnett, Ph.D. Founder and CEO of the QPR Institute. He has been working in the field of suicide prevention for decades and has developed an excellent set of tools for clinicians. I enjoyed the conversation because Dr. Quinnett is bright, experienced, and passionate about his work, and also because of [...]
Read moreCTL listed on Mindjet Recommended Blogs
May 18, 2007
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Commitment to Living, has been listed on Mindjet’s Recommended Blogs map. I’m pleased to have this site listed along with some really top quality blogs. You can check out the map of recommended blogs here.
Read moreVisual maps and guides in high stress situations
May 8, 2007
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I had a stimulating conversation about the directions my work is heading with two of my mentors last week. One part of the conversation was about further examining the potential of visual mapping in clinical teaching, especially in the area of suicide risk assessment. I need to understand the cognitive science of mapping more. One [...]
Read moreMindmapping coping strategies
May 8, 2007
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Blogger Juan Makabayan posted a mindmap of coping strategies in the wake of the VA Tech shootings. I’ve posted before about the potential for mapping in clinical work, so I was pleased to see this interesting example. You can read his post here. Click here to go straight to the mindmap.
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