Becoming a Somascientist
Where you are are the scientist and the soma is yours. (Soma: Greek for "the living body.")
Whether you're a parent, educator, therapist, researcher or simply someone wanting to better understand yourself, Somascience offers a new way of exploring the human experience.
Rather than focusing on isolated parts of who we are, Somascience incorporates philosophy, theory and practical application to explore one of the most overlooked influences on our lives—how we handle discomfort.
As an emerging interdisciplinary research project, Somascience integrates diverse discilines to better understand the biological, behavioural and social processes that shape human adaptation.
Most importantly, Somascience isn't just something you study—it's something you become. A Somascientist is someone who learns to use their somaintelligence to navigate lived experience in ways that keep them open to learning, growth and possibility.
Somascience Principles
Exploring the 4 mechanisms of human adaptation and how they combine to create the conditions of our learning environment.
Principle 1
We are somatic communication systems
Our living bodies continuously communicate through our FEELINGS—an intelligent, in-built communication system expressed through sensations, emotions, thoughts, to every level of our biology.
Principle 2
We learn through lived experience
Every experience shapes us. The way
we respond to discomfort creates
the learning environment that influences future communication, behaviour and development.
Principle 3
Somaplasticity shapes adaptation
The human organism continually adapts throughout life. Somaplasticity describes our remarkable capacity to reorganise biologically, behaviourally and relationally in response to lived experience.
Principle 4
Patterns
become self-amplifying
Principle 5
How we handle discomfort changes everything
Every response to discomfort shapes our future capacity to communicate, learn and adapt. Becoming a conscious participant in this process creates the conditions for learning, growth and human flourishing.
Somascience is built upon three interconnected foundations.
Philosophy • Theory • Practice
A new way of seeing ourselves and the human experience.
Recognising that we are intelligent living organisms whose in-built communication system deserves our attention, curiosity and respect.
A framework for understanding the mechanisms of human adaptation.
Bringing together diverse perspectives into a coherent explanation of how biology, lived experience and behaviour continually shape one another.
A way of participating in life.
Developing embodied communication skills
that help us work with our biology rather
than against it, allowing learning, growth
and adaptation to become part of everyday
life.
Is This For Me?
The FeelingConnected framework and process suits all personality types and learning styles and is essential for every emotional toolbox.
And it's NEURODIVERGENT FRIENDLY!
