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systems, symptoms and acknowledging our pain
Freud called it repetition compulsion. Psychotherapists call it ‘trauma retention’. It’s a tendency we have as humans to ‘re-enact’ a situation from our past – something that is unresolved within us, like a puzzle. We re-enact it…

Updates for 2021 – Intergenerational transmissions, collective intelligence and more!
“You can’t navigate well in an interconnected, feedback-dominated world unless you take your eyes off short-term events and look for long-term behavior and structure” – Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems Systems change, bounded rationality, burden-shifting, systems traps, intergenerational transmission and…

super-organism intelligence & (re) claiming your purpose
What seems to be emerging in our understanding of the nature of intelligence is that it is related to collective networks of ‘nodes’ that share information, more than a single cell or node. Here’s a perspective I also see…

The P.E.A.C.E. Curriculum and taking a break to self-regulate 🙂
Hello! Just wanted to update you that season 2 of the podcast will continue in 2021. I hope you’ve had a chance to enjoy Episodes 1-4! I’ll be doing some webcasts with the Institute for Organizational Mindfulness in 2021 (where…

Season 2 Episode 4 – Tech Addiction and the Social Dilemna
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The human species has some pretty spectacular systems built into us to achieve mental, emotional and physiological states that most of us are not even really aware of.
We also have systems and features within us that make us very vulnerable to being influenced and ‘programmed’ into behavior that is not reflective of our most evolved neural circuitry.
Technology is interfering with and manipulating those systems.
And the more we get to know how technology is interfering with those systems, the more we can get control over our internal state rather than let the tech companies (who do not have the best interests of the human brain and nervous system in mind) hack into our vulnerabilities.