This year, we’ll be adding more Mindfulness Training to our courses.

Current research about the brain is showing that the better we learn to regulate our bodies before making important decisions, the better our decisions will be.  Although we’ve known for many years that human factors contribute to avalanche accidents, we’ve been scratching our heads how to teach human factors so that avalanche students will be less prone to making mistakes.  Perhaps this new knowledge about the psychology of the brain will help us when playing the avalanche game.