Category Archives: violence

What if we could learn to listen, really listen, to feel and to hold each other’s pain…?

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

Hearing voices is in our society typically regarded as unusual and only experienced when a person is said to have a “mental illness” when it is in fact very common human experience, and one that is both infinitely varied and … Continue reading →

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Baboons in suits

Posted on September 12, 2017 by

Robert Sapolsky on how hierarchy has a destructive force in body and psyche in individuals and community. He is talking about baboons, the ones he’s observed for decades along with the effects of stress upon health and behaviour. His observation … Continue reading →

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revealing the trauma of war

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

Excellent article in National Geographic about application of very simple, powerful approach of encouraging vets to make and paint masks as a way to express their pain, their woundedness. As one says… “I THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE, I wanted … Continue reading →

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