*5.2. Social Coherence*

Social coherence refers to harmonious relationships that facilitate efficient energy communication, cohesion, and action [8]. Effective multi-professional team functioning is ideal in many healthcare contexts. When nursing personnel, physiotherapists, medical practitioners, clinical psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists effectively pool their particular areas of expertise in diagnostic and therapeutic contexts, patients heal. Hospitals implementing HeartMath programs have seen increased personal, team, and organizational functioning, as well as significant decreases in anxiety, depression, and anger. Studies provide evidence of functioning bioenergetics communication systems in highly coherent group contexts. Individuals with high heart coherence readily facilitate group coherence [8,31]. These findings have important implications for interpersonal group, family, and community psychotherapy. Studies indicate that emotional self-regulation skills and heart rhythm coherence training are associated with significant improvements in communication, employee satisfaction, productivity, problem solving, and significant

returns on financial and social investments [8,31,32]. Numerous studies show that HRV coherence feedback facilitates self-regulation techniques and a wide range of health and performance outcomes.
