What is trauma?

What is trauma?

According to Gabor Mate, trauma can be understood as a wound that hardens a person psychologically and interferes with the ability to grow and develop. It creates pain and out of that pain a person acts out. Trauma is not what happens to you but it is about what...
Attachment and education: The tribal classroom

Attachment and education: The tribal classroom

The last fifty years have seen a huge amount of research that supports the view that the emotional quality of our earliest attachment experiences is the single most important influence on human development (Siegel and Sroufe, 2011). The work of John Bowlby lead to a...
Sociality part 2: The source of security

Sociality part 2: The source of security

Herds, packs, flocks and schools evolved because life was safer in larger numbers (Bloom, 2013). Security is the primary reason for social life. Many behaviours like walking or dancing are pleasurable because they synchronise our rhythms with others. One theory for...