LIVE Legacy Interview
Suzanne Zeedyk
Tuesday 26 April 2022, 7-9pm UK,
2-4pm EST, 12-2pm MT, 11am-1pm PT
A recording will made for all ticket holders
The latest LIVE MINDinMIND Legacy Interview is with Suzanne Zeedyk, one of the leading science communicators of her generation who will be in conversation with Jane O'Rourke.
Suzanne is driven by a desire to communicate to the widest possible audience the Science of Connection. Her talks about attachment, trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and intersubjectivity have gained her an international reputation and described as “life changing” by professionals, parents and leaders alike.
Suzanne's special ability to make psychological understanding relevant to world events, professional systems and personal lives has made her a powerful influencer.
Having left her academic position as an infant research scientist more than a decade ago, Suzanne now reaches over 100,000 people a week on social media. She does this by exploring an exceptionally wide array of applications of the science she loves such as criminal justice, business, education, theatre, dementia and the neurobiology of babies.
She says her style of delivery manages to bypass the ordinary emotional defences that block us from “really getting” the very information that can assist us in building a better future, both collectively and individually.
Her analogy, ‘Sabre Tooth Tigers and Teddy Bears,’ to explain the concept of Attachment and its discomforting biological origins in the fear that we will die if someone cannot come to help us manage big feelings, has become an important part of her thinking and work.
She believes that feelings of shame, guilt, fear, overwhelm too often block people from comprehending the science, and she argues that these are the moments in which we need to reach for ‘Fierce Curiosity’.
We have invited key colleagues to share their first-hand experience of Suzanne’s work. We will ask them why they think her style is so impactful and the changes that have come about in their organisations since learning from her about concepts such as Attachment.
Suzanne is a brave, funny and thought provoking speaker. We are sure you will learn, laugh and be inspired by her insistence that “everyone deserves to know this stuff”.
Please join us for an evening in which she and her colleagues will inspire you in your work or as a parent, to make the change needed for a better world for our children.
In this interview you will hear:
- How it's possible to make the Science of Connection (attachment, ACEs, trauma and intersubjectivity) a powerful tool for change in your community or work
- Why if we want to drive change in public opinion, we have to help people identify with sadness, loss and suffering while providing the emotional containment that enables them to cope with such identification
- Inspiring stories of how change has happened in a variety of sectors, from policing to business to parents, simply through understanding the Science of Connection
Special guests
We ask MINDinMIND legacy interviewees to invite special guests to discuss their work:
Anna Newell is Ireland’s leading maker of theatre for babies. Her award-winning productions have travelled around the world, from South Africa to New York and back home to the UK and Europe.
At the centre of all Anna’s work is an awareness of the power of connection, a wisdom that she attributes to Suzanne Zeedyk. In 2015, she created the world’s first ever BabyDay, attracting 15,000 of Belfast’s youngest citizens and their grown-ups. Although on the surface it may have looked like a family day out, behind it was a deep knowledge of infant neuroscience, supplied by Suzanne.
Anna will share the story of how understanding the Science of Connection has changed her and changed the way she makes theatre. She believes that babies “deserve beauty” and that making theatre is a way of changing the world.
Her work may not be an application that John Bowlby ever imagined for attachment theory, but once you hear Anna talking about it, you might decide he would have approved!
John Carnochan was, for more than 30 years, a police officer based in Strathclyde Police Department. In 2005, he and his colleague Karyn McCluskey established the innovative Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, with the goal of persuading Scottish society, at the levels of both public and professional systems, to adopt a different attitude to violence. Violence was not something that could be reduced simply by locking up bad people, but rather by conceiving it as a public health issue. Violence could be prevented – if we better understand the impact of childhood. Many people contributed to this shift in attitude, and one of those was Suzanne Zeedyk. John will share the story of how Suzanne informed his understanding of childhood in crucial ways and how he worked to take those insights to others who wouldn’t normally have thought that ‘babies were their business’
Pauline Scott is Managing Director of TIGERS Group, based in Glasgow. She and her 150-strong team provide apprenticeships to help young people enter the workforce in the construction, business administration and early years sectors. Her knowledge of attachment theory and ACEs, acquired through Suzanne’s guidance and leadership, has transformed the way in which she runs her business, and she now invests heavily in making sure the lives of every single member of staff are touched by this knowledge too. Pauline will share the story of that transformation and reflect on why she thinks the business sector is poorer because it is not more familiar with the science of connection.
Suzanne Zeedyk | Live Legacy Interview | The Power of Emotional Connection
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