
Proactive Mindfulness aka Active Pause
A contemporary take on mindfulness, informed by embodied therapy & the Polyvagal theory
Latest episodes

Jul 22, 2022 • 24min
Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness
We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jan 19, 2022 • 24min
Jacqui Lewis: Fierce Love
Jacqui Lewis & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.

Jan 18, 2022 • 0sec
Jeffery Smith: How psychotherapy works
Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.

Dec 1, 2021 • 33min
Salvador Moreno-Lopez: Sensing into life as a musical improvisation
We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life.