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Episode 166 :: John Taylor :: Growing Diversity in Mindfulness Communities
John Taylor Today we speak with John Taylor about his life and work changing the conversation about diversity in mindfulness communities and teaching institutions. As mindfulness continues to become more and more integrated into contemporary society, it faces a growing awareness of the relationship between non-duality and the realities faced in everyday life. Can we…
Read MoreEpisode 165 :: Jamie Bristow :: Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times
Jamie Bristow Jamie Bristow joins us to speak about The Mindfulness Initiative, and their publication Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times. Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining me, and I wanted to take a moment to thank you for being here. It’s been several months since the last episode as I needed time to both recover…
Read MoreEpisode 164 :: Zindel V. Segal :: Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Zindel V. Segal Zindel Segal joins us to speak about Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. You might have noticed that things have changed significantly in the world, whether that’s taken globally or for your personal world. The pandemic has called into sharp contrast the competing needs of health versus economic concerns, and social distancing has forced…
Read MoreEpisode 163 :: Frits Koster :: Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living
Frits Koster Frits Koster joins us to speak about Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living. Compassion as the practice of intentional care for those in distress, is a very wide and deep topic. Whether that takes the form of self-care or care of others, there are ways in which mindfulness can inform and grow compassion to be an…
Read MoreEpisode 162 :: Ronald Epstein :: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Ronald Epstein Ronald Epstein joins us to speak about Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity. When I was little, the medical profession seemed very removed from human experience. It was clinical and antiseptic not just medically, but personally. It seems there is a shift to acknowledging and even working with the mental and emotional side of…
Read MoreEpisode 161 :: Sam Himelstein :: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens
Sam Himelstein Sam Himelstein joins us to speak about Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals. Working with younger participants of mindfulness programs or treatments presents some unique challenges, requiring unique skills and experience. There is an additional layer of complexity when those teens also have a history of trauma. Our guest…
Read MoreEpisode 160 :: David Treleaven :: A Course on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
David Treleaven David Treleaven returns to the podcast to speak about his recent course on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. Mindfulness teachers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to be informed about how the symptoms of trauma can show up in the participants of our programs, what to look for, and how to best support students. But…
Read MoreEpisode 159 :: Catharine Hannay :: Being You: A Girl’s Guide to Mindfulness
Catharine Hannay Catharine Hannay joins us to speak about Being You: A Girl’s Guide to Mindfulness. If you take a look at mindfulness books, there’s a lot available these days. Only a few, however, address the needs and interests of teens, especially young women. Today, we get to spotlight one. Catharine Hannay is the founder…
Read MoreEpisode 158 :: Irene Kraegel :: The Mindful Christian
Irene Kraegel Irene Kraegel joins us to speak about The Mindful Christian. I often hear concerns from people that mindfulness is in conflict with their religious views. Most of the time there is an opportunity to clear up those misunderstandings, but there remains a strong bias about mindfulness just being stealth Buddhism. Spoiler alert: it’s…
Read MoreEpisode 157 :: Ravi Kudesia and Christopher Reina :: Antecedents of Mindfulness
Ravi S. Kudesia Ravi S. Kudesia and Christopher S. Reina join us to speak about the antecedents of Mindfulness. We are beings in an ecosystem, a process of becoming in each moment within our environment. We are not separate from it, it influences us and we have an impact around us. How do our motivations…
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