Lesson 1 of 4 · 15 minutes
Two columns
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By the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
- Sort preparing an appeal, the decision and a duty of care, then select a justified action.
- Explain the reasons for a response and recognise what cannot be inferred from this exercise.
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Watch this before you begin
Before you work on control, hear how another person separates what can be acted on from what cannot. The point is not to copy their answer. It is to notice where attention, energy and responsibility are being spent before you build your own two-column practice.
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Research
Distinguish direct actions from outcomes involving other people and circumstances. You can add influence/shared responsibility as a modern teaching aid rather than force every item into two bins. Preparing an appeal is an action; the decision is not yours alone; a duty of care may still require reasonable action. Bodily states are not under immediate command.
Evidence and limits
Philosophy supplies an ethical perspective; this is not evidence that Stoic exercises are treatment or superior to alternatives.
These additional written practice steps and the teaching example extend the core lesson. Examples are constructed for learning; they are not participant records or evidence of an outcome. The AURIS exercise is an educational application, not independent validation of the framework.
A worked example
Constructed teaching example: Prepare accurate evidence and use the legitimate appeal route while recognising that you cannot guarantee its decision. Lack of outcome control does not cancel a responsibility to act proportionately.
Now put it into practice
Use an ordinary or fictional situation; do not include identifying details. Sort preparing an appeal, the decision and a duty of care, then select a justified action. You may adapt the example or explain why a proposed practice does not fit.
Compare your reasoning with the worked explanation
Prepare accurate evidence and use the legitimate appeal route while recognising that you cannot guarantee its decision. Lack of outcome control does not cancel a responsibility to act proportionately.
Consider the reasons and what remains uncertain. This practice is not a competence or safety assessment.
Reflection
What fits your circumstances, what would you adapt, and what remains uncertain? You can use a fictional example.
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Your next small step
Sort preparing an appeal, the decision and a duty of care, then select a justified action.
Prepare accurate evidence and use the legitimate appeal route while recognising that you cannot guarantee its decision. Lack of outcome control does not cancel a responsibility to act proportionately.
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