Proactive Mindfulness

Peter Afford & Serge Prengel we discuss the felt sense as the experience of living (i.e., interacting) from a neuroscience perspective.

Ron Purser & Serge Prengel talk about the limitations of "McMindfulness" and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction.

We explore faith as a human experience. That is, it need not be attached to any religious narrative.

Mark Schenker defines addiction and talks about his integrative model

Suzanne Noel talks about what sustains her: swimming, riding a motorbike, and connecting with others.

Bruce Gibbs talks about what his practices of meditation and Focusing have in common, what is different about them, and how they can enhance each other.

Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about the deeply satisfying bodily experience of finding what sustains her.

Susan Rudnick talks about mindfulness within the broader context of Buddhism and the Zen tradition.

In this conversation with Merete Holm Brantbjerg, we explore experientially what happens in our body when we get stressed.

Gregory Kramer talks about integrating Buddhist wisdom with our everyday life.

Francesca Maximé talks about how to find mindful, embodied responses to racialization and racism.

David Allen discusses how, to be effective, therapy has to address the implicit pressures that shaped our clients and continue to shape them.

we talk about how personal and social divisiveness manifests and its huge costs to our physical and mental well-being.

A myth is anything but a quaint story. It is an organizing principle that makes it possible for a society to coalesce and function as a society.

In this conversation, you will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting’s gathering circle.

In this guided meditation, I will share with you how you can experience each breath as a gift from the Divine.

The nervous system is where our experience begins. In this conversation, Deb Dana describes how it works and how it affects our daily life.

In these two short conversations, Bruce Nayowith explores his inner experience in 2 situations:

Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about working with low energy states and our "invisible parts" in the context of Relational Trauma Therapy.

Eric Wolterstorff draws on a systems approach to describe how the pandemic has elicited a stress chain reaction

I am not talking about faith in God or in religious beliefs. I am talking about the human capacity for the experience of faith.

we talk about how the coronavirus and social distancing are affecting our work as therapists

To counter the effects of social distancing and separation, we need to be sensitive to our nervous system's need to socially engage and connect.

Karyne Wilner talks about how cell life and neuroplasticity of the brain and body can be enhanced through work with the bioenergetic field.

We touch upon the personal and embodied impact of the polarized mind (or fixation on a single point of view to the utter exclusion of competing points of view).

Leslie Ellis talks about how working with dreams engages client and therapist in a co-creative process from which much can emerge.

We explore Climate Change from a perspective informed by somatic psychotherapy.

David Mars Ph.D. gives us an experiential sense of AEDP for Couples.

Sharon Stanley talks about what sustains her: the delight of just being alive, and how she gets in touch with that.

Satcy Reuille-Dupont talks about a blending of disciplines - - specifically, using exercise science to bridge understanding in somatic psychology interventions.

Dr. Gregg Henriques explains the Tree of Knowledge System and describes how it provides a way to think about the universe from an objective scientific view and a personal lifeworld view

using my bodily felt sense helps me orient in my daily life and my work, with much more certainty and precision than I would using only logic

Deb Dana talks about using the Polyvagal Theory in clinical practice, and how it helps to creatively involve clients in their healing process.

We talk about putting mindfulness and Buddhism in context -- the contexts in which they evolved, and in which they are currently practiced in the Western world.

Combining Eastern and Western trauma physiology, Alaine Duncan and Kathy Kain introduce a new map for body-oriented clinicians to help restore balance in their clients.