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The Sanctuary Model is a trauma-informed organisational change intervention developed by Sandra Bloom and colleagues. Based on the concept of therapeutic communities, the model is designed to facilitate the development of organisational cultures that support the victims of traumatic experience and extended exposure to adversity.

Click or scan the QR code to read about the framework and its implementation [PDF].

Proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar (1992), ‘Dunbar’s number’ refers to a concept that limits the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. The proposed number is said to lie between 100 to 250 people and is commonly cited as 150 people (Dunbar, 1993).

Learn more by watching this TED talk [15:17 mins] by Robin Dunbar. Click or scan the QR code to start watching.