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AllanSchore: Attachment .PDF 219KB
Schore’s perspective on mind seeks to root the unfolding of human development, especially early development, in the biology of the body and in particular in the process of ‘attachment’.
Becoming a Person .PDF 1,052KB
The notion that we learn to be who and how we are, and by implication can unlearn problematic patterns of belief and behaviour, provides a cross-disciplinary way of linking the personal with the political and eventually the transpersonal aspects of life.
Bringing About Change .PDF 2,465KB
A lengthy section about the spectrum of creative styles that we employ when bringing about, or responding to change.
Communication Styles .PDF 504KB
Based on a very practical analysis of interpersonal behaviour - this take on how we relate to each other identifies six basic ways of responding or intervening in situations with other people.
Conflict .PDF 3,183KB
A pictorial map of how conflicts often unfold and some of the options for navigating through them
Cultures of Cooperation .PDF 644KB
The recipe for cooperative inquiry outlined in these screens is very adaptable—in lighter, deeper, longer, or shorter forms it can be used to inquire into any topic, or task for which people have need and energy
Antonio Damasio: the biology of consciousness .PDF 271KB
Antonio Damasio gathers recent research in neuroscience into a scheme that shows how consciousness arises from, and is conditioned by, the ‘landscape of the body’.
Emotional Competence .PDF 1,305KB
More grounded in experience and capability than emotional intelligence or emotional literacy - emotional competence offers an extremely practical yardstick for personal and professional development.
Facilitation .PDF 393KB
Facilitation marks the shift from a domination-driven approach to leadership to one where a range of styles that honour participation, co-operation and necessary hierarchy become an everyday culture.
Living Together .PDF 928KB
Recipes and notions about coupledom that will help your partnership flourish.
Heron: Psyche and Personhood .PDF 1,013KB
Heron sees mind, or psyche, as a property of persons grounded in feeling. In his formulation this is not a description of the components of mind but rather a catalogue of recipes through which we may, if we choose, bake ourselves afresh.
Lakoff and Johnson: Embodied Metaphor .PDF 486KB
Lakoff and Johnson convincingly show that the mind is inherently embodied, that
most thought is unconscious, and that the abstract notions that we use in daily life are usually metaphorical—that metaphor is a fundamental quality of the mind.
Shared Assessment .PDF 605KB
Assessment typically re-iterates and reinforces hierarchical dominance. But how else to do it? This new paradigm approach to assessment sees the other people with whom we learn and work as responsible, with a capacity for self-direction and self-appraisal.
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