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Have you ever wondered why feeling as if we don’t belong is one of the most painful things we experience as humans?
Thanks to the functional MRI, we now know that feeling left out actually stimulates the very same parts of our brain that physical pain does, like when we burn our hand on a hot stove.
Researchers have also discovered some of the neurobiological underpinnings of what creates safety, belonging, and mattering for us. They use the acronym SCARF to capture these key elements that are so important to our left hemispheres: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness. When we experience these things, we experience reward and pleasure; when these things are absent, we experience threat and pain.
All of this has enormous implications for what happens in our brains when we’re in groups, especially when we and others form, dissolve, and reform relationships and alliances that sometimes do and sometimes don’t include us.
Join Sarah to explore the interpersonal neurobiology of mattering, belonging, groups, and power, and discover how we can create groups that foster mutual empathy, connection, and understanding.
Click the lesson links below for visuals and recordings
I have questions about this course:
How can I imagine those visuals – are they a pdf, how many pages… and that recording – is it a movie, a presentation, a sound file – and how long is it?
It says recordingS further up, like more than one recording, too.
Thank you!
Hi, Karin!
This recording was done on zoom, so you’ll get a video that is 2 hours and 14 minutes long including Sarah sharing her screen with her slides. In addition, you get a copy of the slide deck in PDF form – it is 136 slides long (and we have 3 versions, including one with more slides per page and one with links to research if you’d like to dive in deeper). There is also an audio-only file if you prefer no video. I wonder if this is supportive?
Please let us know.
Warmly,
Jaya