Evelyn Fendler-Lee and Serge Prengel have been exploring creative ways to think about thinking in such a way that it opens up new horizons. This process involves sharing some of what comes up as we proceed. We feel that the sharing broadens our exploration as it stimulates further thoughts in you.  For a transcript, see […]

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Thinking As Movement

Shelly Chauhan continues to reflect on her experience dealing with breast cancer. Our first conversation was after she had had her diagnosis. This second conversation takes place after the surgery and the first round of chemotherapy. Among other things, she talks about her experiences with pain. Shelly Chauhan MSc CPsychol : As a London-based chartered […]

Shelly Chauhan: 2nd conversation about her experience dealing with breast cancer

Gregory Kramer talks about integrating Buddhist wisdom with our everyday life. Gregory Kramer teaches, writes, and is the founding teacher of the Insight Dialogue Community. His primary focuses are sharing a relational understanding of the Dhamma and teaching Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal form of Buddhist insight meditation. He has been teaching worldwide since 1980. In […]

Gregory Kramer: A Whole Life Path

Jan Winhall and Serge Prengel talk about making meaning. Or, rather, feeling it, sensing into it. Jan Winhall, M.S.W., R.S.W., F.O.T., is a psychotherapist in Private Practice and Director of Focusing On Borden, a centre for teaching Focusing and Focusing Oriented Therapy. Jan is the author of “Addiction From The Bottom Up: A Felt Sense […]

Jan Winhall: Making meaning

Richard Gillett is the author of It’s A Freakin Mess: How to thrive in divisive times. Here, we talk about how personal and social divisiveness manifests and its huge costs to our physical and mental well-being. We talk about how to change the pain of polarization, and how we feel so much better and become […]

Richard Gillett: The high cost of divisiveness and how to deal with it

You can download a printable PDF of this article.  Political conversations tend to bring up activation and polarization. This is not a reason to avoid them. The following provides some suggestions to make them a more satisfying experience. These suggestions stem from a simple premise. In political discussions, we tend to become focused on arguing […]

How to depolarize political conversations

See the audio recording below the text. I like to refer to my contemplative practices as Active Pause, as opposed to meditation. There is so much baggage, so many expectations about what meditation is or is not. I find it very liberating to think of it differently.  Putting a different name on it helps free […]

One-Minute Mindfulness: Active Pause With Fingers Touching

In this conversation with Merete Holm Brantbjerg, we explore experientially what happens in our body when we get stressed. See PDF transcript of this conversation. Merete Holm Brantbjerg developed Relational Trauma Therapy, a psychomotor and systems-oriented approach. She is an international trainer, group leader, and therapist based in Denmark. See her website. For therapists: See conversation with […]

Merete Holm Brantbjerg: A gentle exploration of stress

In this conversation, you will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting’s gathering circle. Harbert describes how his work with Gendlin’s philosophy and Quaker practice came about in a Quaker meditation as a felt sense to map Quaker language into Gendlin’s language. He looks at the underlying commonality between Focusing and Quaker […]

Harbert Rice: How a felt sense functions in a group

“In this guided meditation, I will share with you how you can experience each breath as a gift from the Divine. The tradition is Shavism Trantric Yoga, and just my own yoga physical practice. But yes the origins are Yogic. But the awareness of smell etc can be credited to SE. Or Shakti. Maybe it […]

Victoria Ramos: Dance with the Divinity which is you (a guided meditation)

The nervous system is where our experience begins. In this conversation, Deb Dana describes how it works and how it affects our daily life. There is a PDF transcript of this conversation. Deb Dana, LCSW, specializes in treating complex traumatic stress and lectures internationally on the ways Polyvagal Theory informs clinical interactions with trauma survivors. […]

Deb Dana: How the nervous system affects our daily life

Here, I am not talking about faith in God or in religious beliefs. I am talking about the human capacity for the experience of faith. See transcript below the audio player. Transcript: When you hear the word faith, you probably think about religious belief. Or maybe, faith in God, not necessarily to a given religion. […]

Faith as a human experience

In this 3-minute video, Stephen Porges talks about finding meaning in these difficult times: “Perhaps this challenging period is directing us to what our real goal in life is. And that is to relate to others, to connect.” See PDF transcript). See also:  Stephen Porges on why and how to connect. Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D., is […]

Stephen Porges: Finding meaning in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis

During these difficult times, you can help other people, and help yourself, by reaching out. Connect via FaceTime, Skype, other forms of video-conferencing, or by phone, rather than just text or email. And you can make the connection richer if you share with your friends the practice of Active Listening. In fact, this helps you […]

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