Raja Selvam: Embodying emotions
Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.
Proactive Mindfulness podcast
This podcast explores how mindful presence shapes personal growth, from healing trauma to living mindfully. It features short talks and conversations with thoughtful guests.
The Proactive Mindfulness podcast is available on all major podcast apps. You will also find every episode on this site, most of them as video. They are listed below in chronological order (most recent on top).
You can see separately: Exploring Mindfulness, | Exploring Therapy | Inspirational Talks. You can also see an Alphabetical list of all conversations
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Seth Zuihō Segall: In praise of Pluralism
Serge Prengel talks with Seth Zuihō Segall about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy.
Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction
Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.
Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety
We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.
What is Polyvagal-informed Mindfulness?
How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O’Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.
Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness
We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.
Noga Arikha: The embodied mind
Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.
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.
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.
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
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