How do we create group experiences where people feel at home? How can we come out of separation back into healthy groups so we can co-create and learn together? In conversation with Bruce Nayowith, we explore the contexts that bring out the best in people. We weave insights from trauma-informed research and practice, neuroscience, and many sources, including Thomas Hubl, The Pocket Project, The Art of Hosting, Riane Eisler, Dan Siegel, Sarah Peyton, and the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving address. These stories offer practical ideas on how to strengthen relational connections and trust.   

Resources and links: 

Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here.

Still face experiments - This video shows an example of an experiment where a mother attuned and interacted with her baby. Then she showed up with a still expression and you see how much it affects the baby to lose this responsive connection.

Alarmed Aloneness - This video course from Sarah Peyton shares the about the neuroscience of this type of loneliness, which is common in Western cultures that “prize self-sufficiency and hyper-individualism.

Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline (book)

Thomas Huebl - website and Healing Collective Trauma (book)

The Pocket Project

Carl Jung, The Psychology of the Transference (book)

Riane Eisler - Researcher, author, and speaker  exploring the history of domination and partnership oriented societies.

Ernest Becker's Escape From Evil (book)

Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia (Book)

Dan Siegel's Neurobiological Trauma (Book)

Tom Atlee, The Co-intelligence Institute

Honoring the Four Directions - Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving address - "the words spoken before all other words"

Orthodox Jewish tradition of Berakhah

The Art of Hosting

For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship web site

Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives