Thursday, 18th January 2024 at 6pm.

Tickets available for attendance

• in person at the Poly, Falmouth (ticket cost covers Poly room hire)
• online via Eventbrite (free tickets)

Join Robin Johnson as he explores a relatively new approach in contemporary biology.

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About the talk

Robin will explore the potential that there may be in a relatively new approach in contemporary biology that offers a fresh and radically different account of the nature of our humanity than the one we have seen from 20th Century evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

The starting point will be the concept of the Umwelt, as developed by Jakob von Uexkell, as a novel perspective on subjective, ‘lived’ experience.

He will be illustrating this potential in the context of our growing understanding of ‘complex trauma’, compound psychological and emotional trauma, the dynamics of social exclusion and the work of many creative services in turning lives around.

About the Speaker

Robin Johnson was a psychiatric social worker, then a specialist advisor on mental health and housing with the department of health and later a journal editor and a visiting fellow at several universities. Robin’s work included setting up PIElink, a platform to connect people addressing psychological and emotional issues that go with homelessness and other complex psychological and emotional needs. He has recently published two books on these Psychologically Informed Environments.