About this course

Overview

Every incident and exercise creates an opportunity to learn — but that learning depends on how effectively we capture what happened, why it mattered, and what needs to change.

This course gives you the tools and confidence to plan and lead effective debriefs that support learning across teams, organisations and partnerships. You’ll explore how to choose the right methods, create an inclusive and reflective environment, and work with those responsible for wider capability evaluation to identify practical improvement actions.

Grounded in national standards and real-world experience, this course supports a culture of continuous learning and shared accountability — helping you turn lived experience into lasting improvement.

Aim

To equip resilience and emergencies professionals with the knowledge and confidence to plan, lead and contribute to  debriefs — turning experience from incidents and exercises into clear lessons, shared learning, and meaningful improvement.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the role of debriefing in evaluating  response and supporting organisational learning and improvement.
  • Evaluate the most appropriate methods for debriefing 
  • Plan and facilitate inclusive, evidence-informed debriefs, enabling participants to share experiences, identify lessons, and reflect safely.
  • Define how lessons should be identified, ensuring links to risks, plans, capabilities, and responsibilities for action.
  • Support the implementation of learning, contributing to continuous improvement through reflective practice, tracking, and shared accountability.

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