by Evan Dwan | Jun 25, 2021 | News |
How do we go about creating changes in human societies that will support human flourishing and the health of the other-than-human world? We are currently a sick species and that sickness is reflected (or projected) into the natural world around us. It is hard really...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 24, 2021 | News |
For an infant, skin-to-skin warmth, the smell and sight of the caregiver, and their attentive and responsive actions is experienced as love. Thousands of loving interactions shape the developing brain – they build the foundation of the organising brain. When the...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 24, 2021 | News |
Bruce Perry notes that belonging and being loved are a central part of being human. We are a social species that are meant to live together in community, connected to others emotionally and physically. Much of the functioning of the brain and body is designed to help...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 24, 2021 | News |
Bruce Perry writes that even when there are no major traumatic events, unpredictable stress and the lack of control that goes with this are enough to sensitise our stress response systems. This means that they are over-active and over-reactive. When a parent is...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 18, 2021 | News |
Bruce Perry writes that when we are pushed out of balance, the stress response system becomes activated to help us. The fight or flight response is not the only way we respond to threat. If we perceive ourselves as being too small to fight and unable to flee, the...
