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How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.

We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.

Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.

We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.

We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.

This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma

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.

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 & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.

Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.

We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life.

Serge Prengel describes an embodied perspective on how we experience a sense of being (part of) something larger.

I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.

This conversation starts with a guided, experiential exploration. Then we talk about early developmental experiences, with a perspective informed by trauma therapy and mindfulness.

We talk about the process of mourning and how it relates to the human condition

Jan Winhall describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.

Peter Afford & Serge Prengel we discuss the felt sense as the experience of living (i.e., interacting) from a neuroscience perspective.

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.

We explore faith as a human experience. That is, it need not be attached to any religious narrative.

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