Breaking the Cycle illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human history: a healthy, peaceful Cycle of Cooperative Companionship. Breaking the Cycle is based on the multi-award-winning book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, by Darcia Narvaez, PhD.
We at PACEs Connection are particularly interested in the interplay between positive and adverse childhood experiences. Here’s some of the relevant research:
By Loren McCullough, 5/19/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Last month, Jane Stevens, founder and publisher of PACES Connection introduced us to the Hope Research Center at The University of Oklahoma. We had a fascinating hour-long call with director Chan Hellman and his team. It turns out that hope itself promotes resilience and well-being, and that their work on the cognitive process of hope aligns so well with our work on HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences. In order to share...
BREATHE WITH ME AT GUNN HIGH SCHOOL On April 22-24, the global art project Breathe with Me came to Gunn! Over 500 Gunn students, staff, parents, and Barron Park community members came together to “paint their breath” on a 350-foot long canvas behind the Gunn soccer field. The project was a celebration of life, wellness, community, and the thing that unites us all -- breathing. A short film was made about the Gunn installation, photos were taken, and student journalists Melody Xu , Akhil...
Cancer Connections is a brand new podcast hosted by Hillary Theakston who is the Executive Director of the Clearity Foundation . She, and her first guest, Dr. Gabor Maté discuss stress, cancer, and healing. I promised to share all I am learning about ACEs, trauma, cancer, and healing. Here are a few quotes from this important conversation:
There are 26 fascinating research articles to peruse, including mitigating disparities in African-American youth, differences in childhood adversity and suicide in veterans and nonveterans, and ACEs in youth from high-achieving high schools.
(l-r) Judge Andrew Heath, Chief Justice Paul Newby, District Attorney Ben David Plans to integrate practices and policies based on the science of adverse childhood experiences in North Carolina’s 6,500-person,100-county statewide judiciary were announced today by Chief Justice Paul Newby. The announcement featured a presentation by Ben David, district attorney for North Carolina’s 13th District, that focused on building community health, the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs),...
It’s shocking: Preschoolers are three times more likely to be expelled than children in elementary, middle and high school, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Boys are four times more likely than girls to be kicked out, and African American children are twice as likely as Latinx and White children. One organization with childcare centers and mental health providers in Kentucky and Ohio began a long journey 15 years ago, when they began hearing about...
CBT – Narrative Exposure Therapy The Heart and Soul of Trauma Memory Processing This course teaches licensed clinicians the knowledge and skills they need to integrate the safe and effective use of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy technique of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) into their practice immediately following the completion of this course. This course thoroughly teaches the skills for utilizing NET to address symptoms of PTSD—specifically focusing upon ameliorating Criterion B:...
Reflection and continuous quality improvement are essential processes for both effective movement building and trauma-informed practice. That’s why the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) is excited to share our latest Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) resources focused on network evaluation. The toolkit, briefs, and journal article featured below were developed in close partnership with our colleagues Debra Rog , Tamara Daley , and Nanmathi Manian at Westat and informed...
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By Haneih Khosroshahi, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 10, 2021 I have spent more than six years working in the technology space as a user-experience researcher and designer. As an immigrant, Muslim-identifying, Iranian-Canadian woman, it didn’t take long to notice that the workplace environments I found myself in were not designed for me, and therefore did not support my career growth and ambition, or accommodate for my unique needs as a woman of color. For years, companies have...
By Breanna Gentile, Psychology Today, May 16, 2021 Maybe it was your lived experience, or maybe it was something you saw in the movies: sitting in the barber shop getting your haircut and talking about all sorts of things from funny to serious to ridiculous. For Lorenzo Lewis , founder of The Confess Project, it was his lived experience and his muse for creating “America's First Mental Health Barbershop Movement.” I had the pleasure to chat with Lorenzo and understand how The Confess Project...
By Edward L. Machtinger, Alicia Lieberman, and Marguerita Lightfoot, JAMA Pediatrics, May 10, 2021 To the Editor We read with great interest the article by Baldwin et al, which contributes to a substantial body of research describing the staggering population-level effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on many of the most common causes of adult illness, death, and health disparities. The principal conclusion the authors derive from their elegantly designed study is that a...
By Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News, May 10, 2021 The beer bottle that cracked over Christian Pean’s head unleashed rivulets of blood that ran down his face and seeped into the soil in which Harold and Paloma Pean were growing their three boys. At the time, Christian was a confident high school student, a football player in the suburbs of McAllen, Texas, a border city at the state’s southern tip where teenage boys — Hispanic, Black, white — sung along to rap songs, blaring out the N-word in...