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Pablo Márquez talks about his meditative approach to photography. He describes how his art emerges from his being present.Active Pause

Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer are the authors of: Reflective Meditation: Cultivating Kindness and Curiosity in the Buddha’s Company.Active Pause

In conversation with Raja Selvam, we explore the practice of developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.Active Pause

Seth Zuihō Segall talks about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy. We talk about values, and the value of pluralism in a divided world.Active Pause

Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction.Active Pause

We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.Active Pause

How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.Active Pause

We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.Active Pause

Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.Active Pause

We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.Active Pause

We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.Active Pause

This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational traumaActive Pause

We share with you what we like about the notion of "inquiry," and to do so by giving you a flavor of what we mean by it.Active Pause

We start this conversation from the perspective that human beings are self-interpreting animals, and go on to explore what gives us a sense of meaning.Active Pause

Jacqui Lewis & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.Active Pause

Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.Active Pause

We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life.Active Pause

Serge Prengel describes an embodied perspective on how we experience a sense of being (part of) something larger.Active Pause

I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.Active Pause

This conversation starts with a guided, experiential exploration. Then we talk about early developmental experiences, with a perspective informed by trauma therapy and mindfulness.Active Pause

We talk about the process of mourning and how it relates to the human conditionActive Pause

Jan Winhall describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.Active Pause

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

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.Active Pause

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

Annie Bloch has been practicing meditation and Focusing. She talks about Focusing as a direct connection with our inner wisdom. Annie Bloch is a hunter- gatherer-gardener in the fields of systems thinking, cognitive sciences, and psychotherapy. French and half American, on a dual path: Buddhist and Jewish. Published June 2021.…

Mark Schenker defines addiction and talks about his integrative model. Mark Schenker is a licensed psychologist with 40 years of experience working with patients with substance use disorders. Dr. Schenker has written “A Clinician’s Guide to Twelve-Step Recovery” (Norton, 2009) and the chapter “Addiction Treatment Settings” for the APA Handbook of C…

Suzanne Noel talks about what sustains her: swimming, riding a motorbike, and connecting with others. Suzanne Noel is a Certifying Coordinator for the International Focusing Institute.in New York. She developed Recovery Focusing (the crossing of the 12 Steps for addictive process with Felt Sensing), out of which she developed her H.O.W. We Heal mod…

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. Bruce Gibbs, Ph.D., has explored consciousness, both academically and experientially, for many decades. He has practiced Yoga, Vipassana, and Zen meditation. He teaches Focusing and meditation, has…

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

In this conversation, Gregory Kramer compares the perspectives that psychotherapy and Buddhism have on dealing with human suffering. Gregory Kramer teaches, writes, and is the founding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community. His primary focuses are sharing a relational understanding of the Dhamma and teaching Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal f…

Susan Rudnick talks about mindfulness within the broader context of Buddhism and the Zen tradition. Susan Rudnick LCSW is a Focusing-oriented therapist in private practice in Westchester NY. She has a long-term practice in Zen Buddhism, and recently has been integrating this consciousness with her roots in Judaism. In her seventies, she wrote and p…

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

Evelyn Fendler-Lee and Serge Prengel have been exploring creative ways to think about thinking in such a way that it opens up new horizons. This process involves sharing some of what comes up as we proceed. We feel that the sharing broadens our exploration as it stimulates further thoughts in you. For a transcript, see my article in Medium: Thinkin…

Gregory Kramer talks about integrating Buddhist wisdom with our everyday life. Gregory Kramer teaches, writes, and is the founding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community. His primary focuses are sharing a relational understanding of the Dhamma and teaching Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal form of Buddhist insight meditation. He has been teachi…

In this conversation, Michael Changaris talks about how crucial touch is to our sense of self and our well-being. He refers to research as well as examples in clinical practice and in everyday life. The conversation concludes with an invitation to a simple way to experience this in your life. Michael Changaris, PsyD. is the Chief Clinical Training …

Francesca Maximé talks about how to find mindful, embodied responses to racialization and racism. Francesca Marguerite Maximé is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American embodied antiracism educator, somatic psychotherapist, award-winning poet/author, certified mindfulness meditation teacher. She also hosts the ReRooted podcast on Ram Dass’s Be Here No…

We discuss how the past of Sing Sing prison gives us perspective on building a fairer society. Brent Glass is the Executive Director of the Sing Sing Prison Museum.Active Pause

To be effective, therapy has to address the implicit pressures that shaped our clients and continue to shape them. This includes the implicit messages people derived from their upbringing (e.g. parent implicitly encouraging child to act out while explicitly not doing so). This also includes the social milieu which exerts implicit pressure for them …

Jan Winhall and Serge Prengel talk about making meaning. Or, rather, feeling it, sensing into it. Jan Winhall, M.S.W., R.S.W., F.O.T., is a psychotherapist in Private Practice and Director of Focusing On Borden, a centre for teaching Focusing and Focusing Oriented Therapy. Jan is the author of “Addiction From The Bottom Up: A Felt Sense Polyvagal M…

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

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.Active Pause

In this conversation, you will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting’s gathering circle. Harbert describes how his work with Gendlin’s philosophy and Quaker practice came about in a Quaker meditation as a felt sense to map Quaker language into Gendlin’s language. He looks at the underlying commonality between Focusing and Quaker medi…

“In this guided meditation, I will share with you how you can experience each breath as a gift from the Divine. The tradition is Shaivism Tantric Yoga, and just my own yoga physical practice. But yes the origins are Yogic. But the awareness of smell etc can be credited to SE. Or Shakti. Maybe it is Shakti, the essence of life embodied.” Victoria Ra…

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

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

Five years after the original conversation we had about what sustains her, Judyth Weaver follows in 2020. Judyth O. Weaver was awarded the USABP Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. As a modern dancer she went to Japan in 1965 to study Kabuki and Noh and then entered a Zen Buddhist monastery. Back in the U.S. in 1968 she studied T’ai Chi Ch’uan and …

Judyth Weaver talks about her life force (2015). See also 2020 follow-up conversation. Judyth O. Weaver was awarded the USABP Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. As a modern dancer she went to Japan in 1965 to study Kabuki and Noh and then entered a Zen Buddhist monastery. Back in the U.S. in 1968 she studied T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Sensory Awareness, …

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