Proactive Mindfulness is an approach developed by Merete Holm Brantbjerg and Serge Prengel.
Merete Holm Brantbjerg
Merete Holm Brantbjerg is an innovative psychomotor trainer and a co-creator of Bodynamic Analysis. With a career spanning over 40 years, Merete has spent the last two decades developing Relational Trauma Therapy, an approach that bridges psychomotor techniques, neuro-centric skill training, and systems-oriented groupwork to support trauma recovery.
Her methodology focuses on regulating hypo-states—areas of the body and mind that become under-responsive due to trauma. By creating systems of mutual regulation, her work helps individuals access and process emotions and experiences that have been held in dissociation.
Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Merete leads workshops and training programs both in-person and online for therapists across the globe. Her work is known for being deeply practical, innovative, and grounded in compassion, offering valuable tools for integrating body awareness into trauma therapy.
Serge Prengel
Serge Prengel, LMHC, is a therapist in private practice and a co-founder of the Integrative Focusing Therapy training program. He has been exploring creative approaches to mindfulness grounded in the Polyvagal Theory. He draws from a deep well of experience in fostering mindful change through embodied, experiential approaches.
Serge was trained in Focusing, Core Energetics, and Somatic Experiencing. His work also draws from Systems-Centered theory. Over the years, he has been exploring the similarities and differences between different approaches to better understand how change happens. He has conducted over 200 interviews with therapists, Focusers, researchers, and mindfulness practitioners for the Active Pause podcast and the Focusing Conversations series.
Serge wrote The Proactive Twelve Steps: A Mindful Program for Lasting Change and was the co-editor of Defining Moments For Therapists.
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