Conversations about Therapy

Leslie Ellis & Serge Prengel: Active Imagination

I invited my friend and colleague Leslie Ellis tohave a conversation about Active Imagination in therapy and in life.

Peter Levine reflects on his life and work

Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.

Raja Selvam: Embodying emotions

Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.

Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction

Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.

Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety

We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.

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.

Ken Benau: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma

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

Jeffery Smith: How psychotherapy works

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

Jeffery Smith: How therapy works (video #2: Clinical practice)

This is a continuation of Jeffery Smith’s description of how psychotherapy works

Jeffery Smith: How therapy works (video #3: Q & A)

Q & A session on how therapy works with Jeffery Smith and Serge Prengel

Cherionna Menzam-Sills: Exploring pre- and perinatal experiences

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