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How to Understand and Heal Emotional Trauma

RSA Event

05 Mar 2015

RSA House, London

How can we better understand the impact trauma has on individuals and communities? Writer and researcher Dr Daniela F. Sieff visits the RSA to explore the dynamics of trauma, and how it can best be understood and transformed.
What Happened to the Soul?

RSA Event

31 Mar 2014

RSA House, London

In the latest event in our series on spirituality in the 21st century, psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist considers the status of the soul. Once considered the most important part, indeed the whole purpose, of a human life - has science has now rendered the idea of the soul irretrievably redundant? If so, what have we lost?
On Being Touched and Moved: why spirituality is really about the body

RSA Event

26 Nov 2013

RSA House, London

In the next in our new series of talks and debates opening up a new public conversation about spirituality in the 21st century, Professor Guy Claxton explores spirituality’s embodied nature.
Beyond Belief: Taking Spirituality Seriously

RSA Event

16 Oct 2013

RSA House, London

Many have argued that the world’s problems may be ultimately ‘spiritual’ in nature, and much of the population, atheists and believers alike, claim to have a spiritual dimension to their lives. But what do we really mean by the spiritual? The RSA launches a major new series rethinking the cultural and social value of spirituality, with speakers to include Madeleine Bunting, Robert Rowland Smith, Elizabeth Oldfield and Jonathan Rowson.
Making 'Social' a Superpower in the Classroom

RSA Event

26 Sep 2013

RSA House, London

Professor Matthew Lieberman, one of the founders of social cognitive neuroscience, visits the RSA to show how the brain's social urges can radically enhance classroom learning.