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By Neda Ulaby, Photo: Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum, National Public Radio, January 6, 2022 Your imagination does the work at The Great Animal Orchestra – you just sit in a dark room and listen. Currently at the Peabody Essex museum in Salem, Mass ., through May 22, the exhibition immerses visitors into soundscapes from remote parts of the planet: seven of them, from the tropics to the tundra. No wildlife footage accompanies this symphony of wild animals. It's audio first, in a...

By Gretchen Reynolds, Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar, The New York Times, January 5, 2022 After two years of Covid-19 and its disruptions to our exercise routines, many of us may feel like we have forgotten how to be fit. But an encouraging new study suggests that our muscles remember. The study involved mice, but it builds on similar experiments with weight training and people. It found that muscles developed a pervasive and lasting molecular “memory” of past resistance exercises that helped them...

By John Fensterwald, Photo: Andrew Reed, EdSource, January 6, 2022 At Pacific Elementary School, lunches are cooked from scratch daily with local produce and pasture-raised chicken donated by a nearby farm. Meals combine old favorites — tacos and homemade pizza — with the exotic: Filipino chicken adobo, Brazilian pumpkin stew, latkes for Hanukkah and Nigerian jollof rice for Kwanzaa. It’s no wonder that families from nearby Santa Cruz fill up many of the seats in the seaside town of...

By Kat Eschner, Illustration: Anuj Shrestha, The New York Times, January 5, 2022 Oregon is legalizing mushrooms. Ketamine can be delivered to your home . People are microdosing LSD to treat pandemic-related anxiety and Wall Street is pouring billions into companies that sell mind-altering drugs. It seems like psychedelics — though mostly still illegal — are everywhere. While the federal government does not recognize a medical use for most of these drugs and says they have potential for...

Attachment & Trauma Network (ATN) is excited to announce the addition of a screening of the Mott Haven Documentary at the 5th annual Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference on Thursday, Feb 24, 2022. The screening will include a conversation with JC Hall, LMSW, EXAT a Hip Hop artist and clinical social worker who runs the Hip Hop Therapy Studio program at Mott Haven Community High School, a “second-chance” transfer school in the South Bronx. In 2013, Hall assembled a professional...

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences.

By The HOPE Team, 1/6/2022, positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ As we ring in the New Year, HOPE is looking forward to all our new trainings, workshops, resources, and activities! Keep reading to find out more about upcoming opportunities: to present a workshop at the 2022 HOPE Summit, to become a certified HOPE facilitator, and to join a conversation of HOPE with others in your field. [ Click here to read more .]

By Sunny Fitzgerald, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, October 18, 2021 This summer, while friends announced pregnancies and career changes, and others held postponed weddings in the brief window between the vaccine rollout and the delta surge despair, I quietly marked a milestone of my own: 52 therapy sessions in 52 weeks. If you’ve never engaged in therapy, this might seem insignificant. But therapy is not just a casual chat on a comfy couch, as it is so often portrayed in television and...

By Jeremy Adam Smith and Kira M. Newman, Greater Good Magazine, January 4, 2022 In the first half of 2021, the Pew Research Center surveyed almost 20,000 people in 17 countries. Their question was simple: “What aspects of your life do you currently find meaningful, fulfilling, or satisfying?” Each of these advanced economies—including Canada, France, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan—was having a different experience at the time. Some were ravaged by COVID-19 and some had...

By Johann Hari, Illustration: Eric Chow, The Guardian, January 2, 2022 W hen he was nine years old, my godson Adam developed a brief but freakishly intense obsession with Elvis Presley. He took to singing Jailhouse Rock at the top of his voice with all the low crooning and pelvis-jiggling of the King himself. One day, as I tucked him in, he looked at me very earnestly and asked: “Johann, will you take me to Graceland one day?” Without really thinking, I agreed. I never gave it another...

January is here, and with it our Winter 2022 Virtual Classroom Series begins! Circles of Safety: Awareness to Action kicks off our Series at the end of January followed by another Awareness to Action course in February and a Training of Trainers course at the end of February. Click here to register and to learn more about how our trainings can help you and your organization to create safer environments for your agency, your staff, and the children and families you serve. Please reach out...