Learning From Crisis

Learning in times of crisis includes taking the right set of circumstances for deliberation, which include generating spaces for thought, moving slowly, being conscious and paying enough attention, introducing new thought patterns, getting hold of alternate perceptions, and creating new concepts of actions.

The word crisis claims to belong to the Greek origin viz., Krisis, and its modern plural form being crises, which is an event that leads or is presumed to lead to an unstable and important situation affecting an individual, group, culture or an entire social circle. The onus is to prepare in advance to avoid a future crisis. It can only be effective when one can learn from crises.

A host of viewpoints contribute to the word crisis. The depiction of this term illustrates some of the fairly basic points outlined in the various claims about what constitutes an element of crisis.