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May 1, 2023 • 22min

Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction

Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.
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Apr 1, 2023 • 47min

Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety

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.
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Feb 1, 2023 • 52min

A conversation on mindfulness & the Polyvagal Theory

How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.
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Jul 22, 2022 • 24min

Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness

We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.
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Jul 7, 2022 • 47min

Noga Arikha: The embodied mind

Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.
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Jun 23, 2022 • 38min

A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy

We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.
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Apr 17, 2022 • 32min

Bruce Gibbs: Finding the right distance from our experience

We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.
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Mar 1, 2022 • 57min

Ken Benau: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma

This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma
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Feb 14, 2022 • 17min

An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry

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.
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Feb 1, 2022 • 43min

Lawrence Berger: A quest for meaning

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.

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