Embracing mindful connection & its transformational power
Serge Prengel and Bruce Nayowith explore the power of mindful human connections and their vital role in personal growth.
Redefining Mindfulness
Here are some of our core ideas about proactive mindfulness.
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What we mean by mindful engagement
Engagement in everyday life involves being present in the moment. Here is a simple, down-to-earth example of how it works in everyday life.
Engaging with life involves engaging with our body
Explore why embodied presence improves mindful engagement in everyday life and how to cultivate it.
What prevents us from engaging more fully in life: a mindful group exploration
In this video, people reflect on their inner experience when they have difficulty engaging compared to when they can engage more.
Mindfulness journey
I share here what has shaped my understanding of what I now call Proactive Mindfulness.
Polyvagal-informed mindfulness: Inner connection & interconnection
This article describes how the Polyvagal Theory gives us an embodied and relational perspective on mindfulness.
Living life as a koan: the emergence of new possibilities
A koan is something that brings you to the very edge of logical reasoning. Here I describe how it works with life koans, then talk about visual koans.
Active Pause: From Mindless to Mindful
As we pause, we shift from mindless to mindful, i.e., we pay attention to our inner experience in relation to what we are doing.
How to turn insight into action: the safecracker
I use the metaphor of a safecracker to describe how we can turn insight into action.
Implicit relational knowing
The phrase implicit relational knowing was first used to describe the way babies know how to watch and respond to their mothers.
Sunflower Mind: An embodied philosophy of life as interaction
The interaction (the circumstances) shapes you. Sensing into your bodily experience puts you in touch with the bottom-up response of your organism.