Speaker(s):
Presentation: Neuroscientists now tell us that 80% of what our brain is up to at any given moment is thinking about social relationships. This keynote explores some revolutionary findings about our social brains and the implications these findings will have on our service system. Helping people to heal and recover will depend on our capacity to support them in developing enduring, positive relationships.
Objectives:
- Explore recent research findings which suggest ours is a social brain
- Describe ways in which we are bio-mechanically set up to seek relationships and to be frightened of relationships, and why self-confidence matters
- Explain how being disconnected to social relationships can create physiological and psychological distress in the bodies