The emotional brain and early learning

The emotional brain and early learning

Bruce Ecker writes that the emotional brain makes meaning in ways that are implicit and nonverbal. This ability to make models of the world is innate and present in 3-month-old infants who have expectations of their environment and respond accordingly. Psychotherapy...
Emergence(y): Opportunity

Emergence(y): Opportunity

An emergency is a serious, unexpected and often dangerous situation that requires immediate action. We live now at a time when a number of emergencies are emerging in the world. Thinking time: What are some of the emergencies that we are facing? (Loss of species and...
The challenge of crises: What to change

The challenge of crises: What to change

Crises confront us at every level in life – as individuals, groups, teams, organisations, nations, even the earth itself. In his book, upheaval, Jared Diamond notes that crisis, whether for individuals or collectives, arise either out of internal or external...
Change and impermanence

Change and impermanence

“Don’t let the true nature of anything elude you. Before long, all existing things will be transformed, to rise like smoke (assuming all things become one), or be dispersed in fragments…when jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to...