What are the basic requirements of healthy development?

What are the basic requirements of healthy development?

There has not been enough effort made to identify what the basic requirements are of healthy development in childhood (Greenspan and Brazelton, 2009). When these needs are recognised, plans to fulfil these requirements can more easily be designed and evaluated. Under...
Rhythm, flow and health

Rhythm, flow and health

Psychobiological attunement and interactive entrainment of physiological rhythms mediate attachment which regulates biological synchronicity between and within organisms (Schore, 2012). Polyrhythmic body movements carry emotional messages that make it possible for...
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 role of community and connection in health and illness

The role of community and connection in health and illness

McGilChrist (2009) describes the world of the left hemisphere which is becoming increasingly dominant in the western world. There is a preference for the impersonal over the personal. Social cohesion and bonds between people as well as the bonds between people and...