Tool 5 Frontline Example

Tool 5 - Trigger, Experience, Reaction

Step 1: Something in your environment triggers your emotions (one of your patrol leaders, say, rings you to ask what to do, if they rock up to a house to find a maniac cutting a mother and her daughter into pieces).

Step 2: You experience a feeling / feelings with a certain (set of) qualities: anger, fear, disgust, sadness, or enjoyment (you feel anger that your supervisee is second-guessing your orders.)

Step 3: You react in a particular way, either reflexively (automatically) or carefully, to that feeling.

Source: Disinfolklore

TER grounded in frontline reality. Not an abstract model but a survival tool for a diplomat operating in Russia-occupied Ukraine. The example — a patrol leader encountering atrocity — strips away theory and reveals TER as life-or-death emotional management.

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