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.
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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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
Suzanne Noel: What Sustains Me
Suzanne Noel talks about what sustains her: swimming, riding a motorbike, and connecting with others.
Bruce Gibbs reflects on his experience with meditation & Focusing
Bruce Gibbs talks about what his practices of meditation and Focusing have in common, what is different about them, and how they can enhance each other.
Merete Holm Brantbjerg: What Sustains Me
Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about the deeply satisfying bodily experience of finding what sustains her.
Susan Rudnick: Mindfulness within a broader context
Susan Rudnick talks about mindfulness within the broader context of Buddhism and the Zen tradition.
Merete Holm Brantbjerg: A gentle exploration of stress
In this conversation with Merete Holm Brantbjerg, we explore experientially what happens in our body when we get stressed.
Gregory Kramer: A Whole Life Path
Gregory Kramer talks about integrating Buddhist wisdom with our everyday life.
Francesca Maximé: Embodied anti-racism
Francesca Maximé talks about how to find mindful, embodied responses to racialization and racism.
David Allen: The implicit pressures that shape our clients
David Allen discusses how, to be effective, therapy has to address the implicit pressures that shaped our clients and continue to shape them.