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
Podcast: Proactive Mindfulness
This page shows all episodes of the Proactive Mindfulness podcast in chronological order (most recent on top).
You can see also separately:
– Conversations about mindfulness
– Conversations about therapy
– Short Talks
You can also see an Alphabetical list of all conversations
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Jeffery Smith: How therapy works (video #2: Clinical practice)
This is a continuation of Jeffery Smith’s description of how psychotherapy works
Jeffery Smith: How therapy works (video #3: Q & A)
Q & A session on how therapy works with Jeffery Smith and Serge Prengel
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.
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.
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.
Elliot Jurist on the process of mourning
We talk about the process of mourning and how it relates to the human condition
Jan Winhall: Treating trauma & addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal model
Jan Winhall describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.
Peter Afford: A neuroscience perspective on the felt sense
Peter Afford & Serge Prengel we discuss the felt sense as the experience of living (i.e., interacting) from a neuroscience perspective.
Ron Purser: Beyond McMindfulness
Ron Purser & Serge Prengel talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction.
Mark Schenker on addiction, part 3: A larger context
Mark Schenker puts addiction and its treatment in a larger context, philosophical and spiritual.
Monica Gomez Galaz & Özlem Mavis: A felt sense of faith
We explore faith as a human experience. That is, it need not be attached to any religious narrative.
Mark Schenker on addiction, part 2: Treatment
Mark Schenker talks about the treatment of addiction, including assessment, defining recovery, and treatment issues.
Mark Schenker on addiction, part 1: What is addiction
Mark Schenker defines addiction and talks about his integrative model
