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

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 • 45min
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.

Nov 28, 2021 • 9min
Embodied spirituality: a felt sense of something larger
Serge Prengel describes an embodied perspective on how we experience a sense of being (part of) something larger.

Nov 1, 2021 • 45min
Cherionna Menzam-Sills: Exploring pre- and perinatal experiences
This conversation starts with a guided, experiential exploration. Then we talk about early developmental experiences, with a perspective informed by trauma therapy and mindfulness.

Oct 1, 2021 • 29min
Elliot Jurist on the process of mourning
We talk about the process of mourning and how it relates to the human condition
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