About the Event How does news grab our attention, and what do newsmakers do to keep and direct our attention? What are the techniques of audience-building, and how do we become aware of the ways that our brains are being held and encouraged to do things we don’t...
About the Event What happens to us and to our brains when we experience early, repeated loss, alarmed aloneness and harm? Especially in relationship with our closest people? How is this different from Complex PTSD? These kinds of difficult life events result in what...
About the Event What do people mean when they talk about control? How does control (both having it and the experience of being controlled) impact us? What does it do to our brains? Why do we so often experience being out of control, and what are the different ways...
About the Event Have you ever noticed that your whole body relaxes when things seem fair? And that tension arises with the thought that things are not fair? When two chimps receive carrots, they’re both fine, but give chimp #2 a grape, and chimp #1 throws his carrots...
About the Event The word “Borderline” gets thrown around a lot as a way for people to blame each other for getting hurt and angry. What does Borderline Personality actually point to in the brain? What things happen that make it more likely for people to be hooked and...
