Conversations about Mindfulness

Polyvagal-informed mindfulness: Serge Prengel & Blake O’Connor

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

Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness

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

Noga Arikha: The embodied mind

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

A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy

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

Bruce Gibbs: Finding the right distance from our experience

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

An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry

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.

Lawrence Berger: A quest for meaning

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.

Salvador Moreno-Lopez: Sensing into life as a musical improvisation

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

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.