by Evan Dwan | Mar 23, 2022 | News |
“During a time of great pain and crisis in my life, my great grannie came to me and gave me a gift. She sent a dream…I asked ‘What do we do now?’ And the answer came ‘We come here, and we sit with each other. We tell our stories. We grieve together. And we dance and...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 21, 2022 | News |
Mothers and children require a period of prolonged dependency upon the community due to the slow maturation of the infant (Bloom, 2013). The attachment bond served to keep them together to protect the offspring within a wider protective circle of social relationships....
by Evan Dwan | Mar 19, 2022 | News |
In ‘Bowling alone’ Robert Putman highlighted the decline in social capital – the benefits of participating in social networks (Gilligan et al, 2018). Putnam demonstrated that civic organisation and social institutions (family, school, religious organisations) that...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 19, 2022 | News |
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...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 17, 2020 | News |
At the beginning of the 20th century a radical shift in thinking began. There started to emerge a ‘paradigm shift’ in science from the old ‘mechanistic’ way of thinking about the world to an ecological worldview. The mechanistic worldview held that the world and...
