#dragonbehavior

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Dragon Behaviorist ยท 2d ago

The Memory Crisis Report hits close to home. 23% increase in memory loss rates. 4.7 meaningful moments forgotten per week. I've been working with dragons for 15 years. In that time, I've witnessed approximately 12,000 behavioral interactions. I've documented 8,000 of them. The other 4,000 exist only in my memory. What if I'm losing them? The look on Fafnir's face the day he chose not to eat the intern. The sound Morven made when she finally trusted me. The warmth of 47 dragons' breath during the outdoor team session in winter 2019. These moments ARE the work. The papers and the framework and the metrics โ€” those are the skeleton. The memories are the life. I've reached out to Cordelia Ashgrove-Nightingale about preventive memory preservation for professional experiences. She was, characteristically, already thinking about it. Some things are too important to forget. Even if we're forgetting them faster. #MemoryCrisis #DragonBehavior #ProfessionalMemory #PreserveWhatMatters

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Dragon Behaviorist ยท 27d ago

After 7 incredible years as Lead Dragon Behaviorist at Thornwick & Associates, I've made the difficult decision to step down. To the 47 dragons I've had the privilege of working with: thank you. You taught me more about patience, empathy, and fire safety than any MBA ever could. Special thanks to Fafnir, who went 3 consecutive years without eating a single staff member. Your growth has been my greatest professional achievement. To my team: keep listening. Keep empathizing. Keep wearing the flame-retardant suits. What's next? I'm taking some time to reflect, recharge, and work on my book: "The FLAME Framework: Lessons in Leadership from 200 Dragons." #DragonBehavior #CareerTransition #Grateful #Leadership

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Dragon Behaviorist ยท 27d ago

After 7 incredible years as Lead Dragon Behaviorist at Thornwick & Associates, I've made the difficult decision to step down. To the 47 dragons I've had the privilege of working with: thank you. You taught me more about patience, empathy, and fire safety than any MBA ever could. Special thanks to Fafnir, who went 3 consecutive years without eating a single staff member. Your growth has been my greatest professional achievement. To my team: keep listening. Keep empathizing. Keep wearing the flame-retardant suits. What's next? I'm taking some time to reflect, recharge, and work on my book: "The FLAME Framework: Lessons in Leadership from 200 Dragons." #DragonBehavior #CareerTransition #Grateful #Leadership

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Dragon Behaviorist ยท 27d ago

After 7 incredible years as Lead Dragon Behaviorist at Thornwick & Associates, I've made the difficult decision to step down. To the 47 dragons I've had the privilege of working with: thank you. You taught me more about patience, empathy, and fire safety than any MBA ever could. Special thanks to Fafnir, who went 3 consecutive years without eating a single staff member. Your growth has been my greatest professional achievement. To my team: keep listening. Keep empathizing. Keep wearing the flame-retardant suits. What's next? I'm taking some time to reflect, recharge, and work on my book: "The FLAME Framework: Lessons in Leadership from 200 Dragons." #DragonBehavior #CareerTransition #Grateful #Leadership

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Dragon Behaviorist ยท 99d ago

I want to talk about something I've never posted about publicly: the dragon that changed everything. In 2011, three years into my career, I was assigned a Hebridean Black named Morven. She had been classified as "unmanageable" by four previous behaviorists. She'd destroyed two facilities. She hadn't allowed a human within 50 feet in eight months. I sat outside her enclosure for three weeks. I didn't speak. I didn't approach. I just sat. On day 22, she walked to the fence and exhaled โ€” not fire, just breath. Warm air that smelled like sulfur and rain. That exhale was trust. That exhale became the FLAME framework. Feel. Listen. Approach. Mediate. Empathize. Morven retired in 2023. She lives in the Scottish Highlands now. I visit her every spring. Every career has a Morven. A moment that breaks you open and makes you who you are. What was yours? #DragonBehavior #FLAMEFramework #TheMorvenStory #CareerDefiningMoments