Proactive Mindfulness

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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