by Evan Dwan | Sep 18, 2022 | News |
Emotions can be understood as being healthy (adaptive), or unhealthy (maladaptive), according to Les Greenberg. Primary emotions are the first emotions people have in response to external or internal stimuli – gut feelings. Secondary emotions arise as reactions to...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 18, 2022 | News |
Core emotions refer to emotional responses when we do not try to block, mask, mute or distort them. Hilary Jacobs Hendel describes core emotions as physical sensations that we recognise and name an as emotion. They give us information about our environment such as...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 3, 2022 | News |
Traditional healing practices are marked by the use of rhythm which supports regulation; they are also characterised by intense relationality. But what exactly is relationality? What is healing about connection? At the core of these experiences are synchrony and...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 2, 2022 | News |
Given the traumatic nature of human history, how have we managed to survive and thrive? The answer lies in attachment – connection to each other and the social group from cradle to grave (Bloom, 2013). Perry (2013) argues that our ancestors developed rhythmic...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 2, 2022 | News |
Trauma is pervasive throughout the world and has negative impact on individuals, communities and society (Magrueder et al, 2016). Post-traumatic stress disorder is a social disease that ripples down through generations (Bloom, 2013). The realisation that humans tend...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 20, 2022 | News |
In the Efé tribe in Zambia, babies are born into an ‘intensely social’ world that is comprised of co-operative relationships (Morelli et al., 2014). Efé infants experience rapid change in partners as they enter relationship with kin and others. Efé babies seemed to...
