The most fabulous #Edinburgh #Fringe #Festival performance by #DarrenMcGarvey 🥰 #TraumaIndustrialComplex @mariemcquade.bsky.social @nathlebret.bsky.social
A reminder that the pre-launch for Darren McGarvey's new book #TraumaIndustrialComplex takes place tomorrow, Wed 14 May, 7pm. We're even going to share the book cover! Register on this link: thebowlbycentre.org.uk/trauma-indus...
Please make a donation if you can, as it helps the Bowlby Centre.
Darren McGarvey has tried to do somethng conceptually, culturally &personally challengng in these pages - all at the same time! That's sophisticated writing. I keep wonderng who might miss that nuance, who might skip past the msg of his title #TraumaIndustrialComplex. He's speakng with me on 14 May.
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"Just as an unjust society inflicts suffering by forcing people to hide who they truly are, using shame & bigotry as a weapon, we may also collaborate in our own quiet torture -- choosing to suppress truths about our nature."
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"It is sobering to think of all the other Grannies, mothers, & women like her—women with the capacity for brilliance—who were quietly stifled by the world they were born into."
I love how this story made me reflect.
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"He refused to feed the drama, which in turn, began to break its power over me."
Refusing to feed the drama. A powerful strategy for managing Life.
Please join us on 14 May to hear Darren talk about it himself.
On 14 May, I am interviewing Darren McGarvey about his forthcoming book #TraumaIndustrialComplex. You might have seen me sharing some of my favourite sentences from the book. Please join us for a fascinating conversation. thebowlbycentre.org.uk/cpd/
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"By now, if I’ve done my job, facilitators, consumers & storytellers alike should feel a bit uncomfortable about their entanglemnt with the TIComplex."
Discomforting questions underpin Darren's new book. I welcome that.
#MoralChoices
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"A memory: I am crying at the front door of a nursery as my favourite teacher explains she is leaving. I don’t want her to go."
Our culture does not think of the emotional loss brought into children's lives by our early years system.
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"What I need to know, before anything else can happen, is that I am safe and secure."
If Darren, an adult, needs to know this now, in his adulthood, how much more do children need to know this in their childhood?
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"This book is an invitation to get radically honest with ourselves -- to hold our own narratives up to the light & ask: Is this story true? Not, is it comforting?"
#TraumaIndustrialComplex by Darren McGarvey
#FavouriteSentences
"Trauma has redefined how we tell our stories, how we seek validation, and how we make sense of suffering."
I love that in his very first paragraph, Darren has focused us on an uncomfortable insight: Suffering.
People! I have the incredible treat of an advance reading of Darren McGarvey's new book, in advance of our Pre-Launch Conversation on 14 May w/ The Bowlby Centre. Darren has given me permission to share some of his sentences. So I'm going to do that over the coming days. #TraumaIndustrialComplex
I am soooo delighted that such interest is already being expressed in this conversation event with Darren McGarvey. And we only announced it today! I think his book is innovative & novel & thoughtful and that the world needs it. #TraumaIndustrialComplex 14 May, 7pm
thebowlbycentre.org.uk/cpd/
Today I'm celebrating people doing brave & creative things to make the world a saner place. Darren McGarvey is one of those. He's got a project on the go: #TraumaIndustrialComplex. In it, he interviewed Janey Godley. We lost her recently. So, here they both are.
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This article brought to mind McGarvey's recent project #TraumaIndustrialComplex, which is concerned with the stories we tell ourselves. "A lot of the work we do is trying to help people before the story they make of trauma is solidified. We help with the narrative.”
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