Safety, Being Seen & Heard

Internal code: 3.1b

Target groups: students

General description
 * (Van der Kolk, B. (2014)) “More than anything else, being able to feel safe with other people defines mental health, safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. The critical challenge in a classroom setting is to foster reciprocity: truly hearing and being heard; really seeing and being seen by other people.”

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Assumptions
 * (Van der Kolk, B. (2014)) “People who feel safe and meaningfully connected with others have little reason to squander their lives doing drugs or staring numbly at television; they don’t feel compelled to stuff themselves with carbohydrates or assault their fellow human beings. However, if nothing they do seems to make a difference, they feel trapped and become susceptible to the lure of pills, gang leaders, extremist religions, or violent political movements – anybody and anything that promises relief.”

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