Track our platform evolution, content releases, and strategic developments
"Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis: From Freudian Theory to Observable Interaction" - Building on yesterday's Freud essay, this 20,000-word exploration traces how psychoanalytic insight evolved into practical tools for understanding family support dynamics. From Freud's intrapsychic model through Klein, Bowlby, and Sullivan to Berne's observable ego states, discover how Parent-Adult-Child frameworks illuminate the transactional patterns, stress dynamics, and systemic games that frontline workers encounter daily.
"Freud's Structural Model for Frontline Family Support: Understanding the Unintegrated Legacy of Early Infancy" - Our most substantial academic essay to date explores how early ego formation in adverse environments creates lasting patterns resistant to therapeutic intervention. Using the accessible "gingerbread metaphor" alongside contemporary research, this 60-minute read bridges psychoanalytic theory with practical application for family support practitioners.
"Syntropy and the Tag: The Accidental Prophecy of the Awful Popcorn Movie Hackers" - Our latest addition to the Systems Thinking, Cultural Commentary & Reform section explores how a terrible 1995 film accidentally encoded truths about technology, identity, and culture that keep finding new receivers thirty years later.
October newsletter marks a significant strategic shift: postponing November workshop and January Foundation Course to March and post-Easter 2026 respectively, allowing October-February focus on content development and organic platform growth. From 19 essays in September to 24+ now, with new Check-in Cards, Young Thinking section, and Living Emergence enhancement.
New 5,000-word essay exploring how feedback requests reveal organisational deafness rather than openness. Through Macnamara's research on organisational listening, discover why formal feedback signals absence rather than presence.
New collection of analytical frameworks exploring adopted positions: Humility, Victim, Confidence, Ambiguity, and Patience. Not prescriptive tools but frameworks for understanding human dynamics.
Personal reflections launched with "This Killing Thing" - a 7,200-word exploration of killing as natural phenomenon and human participation in nature's fundamental pattern.
First YoungFamilyLife newsletter distributed, establishing monthly communication rhythm. Features essay highlights, platform developments, and upcoming course information.
"Changing People: A Psychological Impossibility" - Six-part series totalling 58,000 words now complete. From Angie Thokden's morning chaos through evolutionary biology to practical adaptation strategies.
Platform reaches significant milestone with over 100,000 words of evidence-based content across 17 essays. Topics span community guides, family development, professional practice, and systems thinking.
4-part Bungay Family Guide (12,000 words) provides comprehensive local resource
Essays on safeguarding, collective intelligence, and organisational dynamics
Evidence-based insights on attachment, play, stress, and emotional regulation
With strategic focus shifting to content development through February 2026, expect continued essay expansion, Check-in Cards collection growth, Young Thinking section development, and organic platform growth. Workshop and Foundation Course launch March/post-Easter 2026.