The crisis of connection and the root of social dis-ease

The crisis of connection and the root of social dis-ease

It has been claimed that we are in a ‘crisis of connection’ (Gilligan et al, 2018). People are more disconnected from each other with “a state of alienation, isolation and fragmentation characterising much of the modern world” (p.1). The ‘we’ that symbolises community...
The need for a right-brain revolution

The need for a right-brain revolution

Schore (2012) writes that radical expansion of knowledge in social and affective neuroscience and the paradigm shift (from a focus on cognition to emotion) has implication for the political and cultural organisation of society. McGilChrist (2009) notes how the right...
Public health, prevention and violence

Public health, prevention and violence

A major obstacle to creating a more peaceful society is failing to recognise that all of our human systems are ‘trauma-organised’ (Bloom, 2018). In this dynamic there is the victim, the perpetrator and the absence of a protector. In the trauma-organised system it is a...
Prevention and cultural transformation

Prevention and cultural transformation

There is now evidence for the idea that ‘the baby is the father of the man’ (Karr-Morse and Wiley, 1997). This understanding is part of a ‘quiet revolution’ in our own species understanding of itself. Our earliest experiences become ‘biologically rooted’ in the brain...