How to depolarize conversations: The mindful practice of pluralism
The following one-minute video reflects a simple way to embody a pluralist approach in our difficult conversations.
Practice: Events & Courses
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Redefining meditation: A group practice for inner connection & interconnection
It is normal to feel awkward when you force yourself to sit quietly by yourself if you are not accustomed to doing that. The practice I describe here combines meditation and mindful connection.
Embodied intelligence: Focusing as your Inner GPS
I teach Focusing as the mindful practice of using your embodied intelligence, your bodily felt sense, to navigate the challenges of life.
Polyvagal Mindfulness: An embodied perspective on life as interaction
This course is offered by the Polyvagal Institute. It is for people who see an opportunity to redefine mindfulness based on Polyvagal Theory (PVT).
Sunflower Mind: The embodied & relational edge of Focusing-oriented therapy
Focusing is based on our ability to experience and process a bodily felt sense. This course describes what makes this possible, how it relates to fostering therapeutic change, and how to apply it effectively in therapy.
The DNA Of Change: The proactive & mindful edge of Focusing-oriented therapy
This process group fosters experiential integration of what you know about yourself and what you know about therapy. It trains you to help clients discover their way forward through an embodied experiential process that flows naturally.
Tuesday group: Meditation in connection
Exploring together, we give ourselves more of a chance to experience meditation as a process going on beyond the strict boundary of the isolated self.
UNfocusing: Introduction to Focusing as your Inner GPS
Focusing is a natural process. It works best when we create a space in which it arises by itself. There are 9 video clips for a total of 24 minutes.
Introduction to Sunflower Mind in Therapy / Q&A
Focusing is based on our ability to experience and process a bodily felt sense. This course describes what makes this possible, how it relates to fostering therapeutic change, and how to apply it effectively in therapy.
Get a grip: Embodied mindfulness exercise
It takes just one minute to literally get in touch with your inner experience. This simple embodied mindfulness exercise just requires a little ball.
One-minute mindfulness: Embodied presence
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.
Mindful breathing: A mindfulness exercise for couples
Here is a simple mindfulness practice to do with your spouse or partner: breathing together.
Mindful Listening Partnership (5-minute video)
If you want to hear yourself think, it’s very helpful to be listened to: The following 5-minute video outlines how to have a mindful listening partnership.
Mindful Listening Partnership FAQ
To free up our creativity, it helps to explore the issue in a Mindful Listening Partnership.
Felt sensing: A mindful inner exploration
Felt sensing is a natural ability that we all have. For many of us, it takes a special kind of attention to find it as we have been over-reliant on explicit cognition.