Podcast appearances and mentions of ronald purser

Famed author of 'McMindfulness' returns to the podcast to discuss his latest article 'How the Life Coaching Industry Sells Pseudo-Solutions to Our Deepest Problems': "The cultural pressures to become a self-made individual have intensified at the same time that sources of social support have decreased. Enter the life coach." We discuss the many issues surrounding life coaches, credentialism (or lack of it) and how the industry is underpinned by the deeply flawed 'science' of Positive Psychology (and founding father Martin Seligman's troubling statements). References: How the Life Coaching Industry Sells Pseudo-Solutions to Our Deepest Problems: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/how-the-life-coaching-industry-sells-pseudo-solutions-to-our-deepest-problems McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/mcmindfulness-how-mindfulne Almost anyone can become a life coach. A hidden camera investigation reveals why that's a problem: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-life-coach-1.6364745 Scientific Pollyannaism - From Inquisition to Positive Psychology: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-15982-5 -- Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead Email us with feedback, questions, suggestions at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. -- Harriet's other shows: WBAI Interpersonal Update (Wednesdays): https://wbai.org/program.php?program=431 Capitalism Hits Home: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPJpiw1WYdTNYvke-gNRdml1Z2lwz0iEH -- ATTENTION! This is a Boring Dystopia/Obligatory 'don't sue us' message: This podcast provides numerous different perspectives and criticisms of the mental health space, however, it should not be considered medical advice. Please consult your medical professional with regards to any health decisions or management. ⸱1 Like --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsnotjustinyourhead/message

Na czym polega szkodliwość hustle culture? Jak wyrwać się z myślenia, że poziom zajętości warunkuje naszą wartość jako ludzi? Dlaczego bycie zapracowanym daje nam poczucie władzy? Czy obecną kulturę należy terapeutyzować? I czy praca nad sobą z miejsca bycia niewystarczająco dobrą może stać się toksyczna? Po raz drugi porozmawiałam z wspaniałym filozofem, publicystą, autorem książek, czyli Tomaszem Stawiszyńskim. Jaka to była przyjemność! Poruszyliśmy kwestię tzw. hustle culture, której głośne slogany typu: „No pain, no gain" przeniknęły już nasze myślenie o sobie nawzajem. Bo na pytanie o samopoczucie zdecydowana większość odpowiada: „Mam mnóstwo roboty". Tomasz opowiedział o toksyczności takiego myślenia, uchylając rąbka tajemnicy na temat tego, jakie mechanizmy stoją za dyscyplinowaniem nas do wiecznej zajętości. Po łapach dostało się także branży samorozwojowej, która uzupełnia narrację toksycznej produktywności, oferując uwodzące obietnice o byciu najlepszą wersją siebie za jedyne X tysięcy dolarów. Jestem szalenie wdzięczna za tę rozmowę. Pozwoliła mi odbić wiele własnych doświadczeń i rozczarowań systemem od wiedzy i doświadczenia Tomasza. Zapraszam do odsłuchu, jeżeli Wy też macie już dość toksycznej produktywności i niekończącej się, opresyjnej wręcz pracy nad sobą. Strona Tomasza: https://stawiszynski.org/ Podcast Tomasza „Skądinąd": https://open.spotify.com/show/63P6mjkyXIyJkWj8a6yLwO Mój tekst o toksycznym rozwoju osobistym: https://wellbee.pl/blog/zdrowie-psychiczne/toksyczny-rozwoj-osobisty/ Literacko-podcastowe polecenia Tomasza: Eva Illouz, „Uczucia w dobie kapitalizmu", „Dlaczego miłość rani?" Ronald Purser, „McMindfulness" Renata Salecl, „Tyrania wyboru" Making Sense with Sam Harris (podcast) Conversations with Coleman (podcast) The Michael Shermer Show (podcast) Honestly with Bari Weiss (podcast) Raport o stanie świata (podcast) Imponderabilia Karola Paciorka (podcast) Sznurowadła myśli – podobno ciekawe :) Coś Osobliwego Aleksandry Przegalińskiej (podcast) Poczytaj mnie na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/sznurowadla.mysli/ PATRONITE – Jeśli uważasz moje treści za wartościowe i pomocne, możesz wesprzeć dalszy rozwój Sznurowadeł, dołączając do grona Matronek i Patronów na Patronite. Zapraszam z całego serca. Szczegóły subskrypcji znajdziesz pod linkiem: https://patronite.pl/sznurowadla-mysli Ukłony i podziękowania za realizację dźwięku należą się niezastąpionemu Piotrowi Sz. Sznurowadeł możecie posłuchać na: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker, Overcast, PocketCasts i RadioPublic. Patronem odcinka jest Wellbee, platforma do psychoterapii online.

This week Marc Settembrino joins Jivana for a powerful conversation about living in a larger body, reclaiming the word "fat," righteous anger, and the disconnect between capitalism and the yogic teachings. Marc is a fat-queer educator, researcher, and yoga facilitator based in Hammond, LA, who envisions a world that celebrates diversity and promotes dignity. In 2018 Marc created Fat Kid Yoga Club, a supportive yoga community for folks with larger bodies to explore joyful movement and celebrate what is possible in their bodies one practice at a time. Marc describes their experience living in a larger body, how fat folks are often objectified simply for existing, and how asana helped inspire their teaching philosophy: to hold space for people to move their bodies freely and experience them in a way that is not attached to shame. Jivana and Marc also take a deep dive into the harmful impact of diet culture in Western or "American" yoga and discuss the problematic nature of our modern-day yoga mat. Learn more about Marc.Follow Mark and Fat Kid Yoga Club on Instagram.Learn more about McMindfulness by Ronald Purser. Learn more about Jivana's book.Learn more about Jivana.Pre-order your copy of Yoga Revolution at Shambala, Amazon, or wherever books are sold.

In this far-ranging conversation, we talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction. Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His latest book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist […]

In this far-ranging conversation, we talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction. Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His latest book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist […]

In this far-ranging conversation, we talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction. Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His latest book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist […]

After engaging in another 21-day mindfulness journey created by Deepak Chopra, Jaimie and Sunny delve into critiques laid against the mindfulness industry and how it has been co-opted by capitalism. They share their own conflicting experiences and thoughts about how mindfulness has become a multi-billion dollar industry.    Specifically addressed in this episode are the following articles: “The Mindfulness Conspiracy” by Ronald Purser, published by The Guardian; “Fuck Mindfulness Workshops” by Tithi Bhattacharya, published in Spectre Journal Sunny and Jaimie also reference The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies’ mindfulness practices, as well as Dr. Gail Parker’s book, Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma.

Ronald Purser is a professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books including his most recent, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Purser's essays and other writing have appeared in the Huffington Post, Alternet, Tikkun, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Purser explains how neoliberal gangster capitalists and other plutocrats have distorted and cooptated “mindfulness” for profits and ultimately as a tool for creating a passive, isolated, weak public of consumers and passive citizens. He also shares what he learned about how “mindfulness” apps are actually created not for reasons of helping users but to make profits for huge companies. Chauncey reflects on questions of freedom and government and how Biden's COVID-19 stimulus bill may in fact be one of the most progressive and positively transformative acts of legislation since the Johnson administration. And Chauncey also shares some found wisdom on questions of personal integrity, self-respect, and honor. SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW The American Rescue Plan Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse Beyond Covid relief: Biden invokes LBJ as Democrats aim to expand welfare state I Can't Give You Anything But Love New child tax credit could slash poverty now and boost social mobility later Would a $15 Minimum Wage Reduce ‘Deaths of Despair'? WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Description  Gathering data about student expectations and experiences with new technology is essential to developing effective courses to be delivered online during the pandemic. In this interview we spoke with Daigengna Duoer, who taught an online course on Zen Buddhism at UC Santa Barbara this past summer. Daigengna repeatedly surveyed her students to evaluate their preferences and comfort with the format and content of the course. In this episode, we hear about some creative and specific ways she created an engaging asynchronous learning experience in a course that was taught entirely remotely. Some key take-aways? One-on-one zoom meetings to develop paper topics, a preference for asynchronous, but also short, lectures, and being sure to build a course that allows students to focus on topics of real interest to them.  Quotes  "74% of my students actually preferred asynchronous. I was really shocked. 0% preferred 100% synchronous formats." Daigengna Duoer "Teaching in covid-19 really made me become more aware about how students learn, how they want to learn, what they want to learn, especially when it comes to Buddhism and also Zen, things like this, so they are really technology-oriented, but they're also very flexible, I think, and they really want relevant information and material and also arguments for their immediate concerns." Daigengna Duoer "One of the advantages we have as instructors of humanities courses where we can definitely teach this exciting content, but we can also teach, useful transferable skills through this content to students." Daigengna Duoer Links and References   Daigengna Duoer, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Religious Studies   https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/student/daigengna-duoer/  Daigengna's Personal Website  https://www.daigengnaduoer.com  Panopto video recording and sharing software https://www.panopto.com/ Ronald Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600158/mcmindfulness-by-ronald-purser/ Hwansoo Kim, "The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei's Zen Training with Korean Masters" www.jstor.org/stable/30233856 Joshua Irizarry, "Putting a Price on Zen: The Business of Redefining Religion for Global Consumption" http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/147 Peter Romaskiewicz, Mind Lab exercises    PRE-Course Survey POST-Course Survey

Read Ronald Purser’s piece for The Guardian here, which has been adapted from his book, ‘McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality’. THERAPY OF DANCE, IN CONVERSATION is created by Elise Mireille and Ella Newell. This episode was edited by Ella herself and mixed by þóroddur ingvarsson. A big thank you to Tabitha Swanson for our logo, as well as a shout out to the song in this podcast ‘Envelope’, which was created by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith for her album EARS. Subscribe to THERAPY OF DANCE’s newsletter and stay in the loop for new episodes, panel events and pop-up dance classes. If you have ideas or questions, say hello@therapyofdance.com or just slide in to our DM’s @THERAPYOFDANCE. We love hearing from you!

Adam looks into body language after a twitter user’s viral claim that The Mountain from Game of Thrones is revealing “Beta Male” behaviour in a photo. Darren dives into the world of Cyber War with a great overview of The Perfect Weapon by David Sanger, and how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics. He also looks at Ronald Purser’s McMindfulness, a razor-sharp critique of the mindfulness movement. Stay safe!

New year. New books. New you? The Seminary Co-op’s Colin and Alena search for Self-Help in the guise (and stacks) of literature, capitalist spirituality, ancient philosophy and more on this week’s Front Table. Featured Books: The Self Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature by Beth Blum (from Columbia University Press) Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall (from Penguin) McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality by Ronald Purser (from Repeater) How to be a Leader by Plutarch (from Princeton University Press) This episode features music by Kevin MacLeod

Sam speaks with professor Ronald Purser about the neoliberalism of mindfulness, the libertarianism of self-help, and the corporate piracy, cultural appropriation, exploitation, and racism of privatized mysticism and New Age. Ronald is a writer, a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, as well as an ordained Buddhist teacher. He has written a new book called McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. If you've been skeptical at all about self-help, the mindfulness movement, New Age, productivity/ hustle porn, or different programs HR and management are always trying to incorporate into your lives, this is the episode you've been waiting for. And if you love the show, tell your friends. Spread the word. Tell them they're missing out. Also, rate and review us. Be detailed, and tell us about yourself and how you heard of us. This lets Apple and other podcasting apps know that they should be telling others about us. Find Ronald at: https://www.ronpurser.com, find his book here: https://amzn.to/3awtrTH Support Southpaw on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod You can find Southpaw on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @SouthpawPod As well as on the Southpaw Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/southpaw You can also find Sam on Twitter and Instagram: @StuffFromSam

Você é multitask? Usa o mindfullness para mudar seu mindset? Nesse episódio a gente explora como a atenção virou produto. E vende.   /// Neste episódio cito alguns trechos da ótima entrevista com o autor do livro McMindfullness feita pelo site OpenDemocracy. Seguem os links da entrevista e do livro de Ronald Purser, ainda sem edição em português.   /// Entrevista: https://www.opendemocracy.net/pt/democraciaabierta-pt/la-falsa-revoluci%C3%B3n-del-mindfulness-pt/   /// Livro: https://www.amazon.com/McMindfulness-Ronald-Purser/dp/191224831X

Ron Purser, Ph.D. is a professor of management at San Francisco State University where he has taught the last eighteen years in both the MBA and undergraduate business programs. Prior to moving to San Francisco, he taught at Loyola University of Chicago. He received his doctorate in organizational behavior at Case Western Reserve University. He is co-author of five books including, 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society (Stanford University Press, 2007), and over 60 academic journal articles and book chapters. More recently, Prof. Purser writings have been exploring the challenges and issues of introducing mindfulness into secular contexts, particularly with regards to its encounter with modernity, Western consumer capitalism, and individualism. In 1981, he began attending classes and retreats at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. His formal Zen training started at the Cleveland Zen Center in 1985 under Koshin Ogui Sensei, who had been Shunryu Suzuki’s personal assistant in the early 1960’s. After returning to San Francisco in 1997, he continued to study and practice with Zen teachers and Tibetan lamas, is now an ordained Dharma instructor in the Korean Zen Buddhist Taego order. His professional writings and publications currently focus on the application of Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practices to management, and organizations.  His recent articles include Revisiting Mindfulness: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization (with Joe Milillo at Harvard); Zen and the Art of Organizational Maintenance; Zen and the Creative Management of Dilemmas (with Albert Low); Deconstructing Lack: A Buddhist Perspective on Egocentric Organizations; and A Buddhist-Lacanian Perspective on Lack. His articles Beyond McMindfulness (Huffington Post) and Mindfulness’ Truthiness Problem (Salon.com) went viral in 2013 and 2014.

We're back with Season 3 of Strange Magic!In this episode we review our Empress and Hanged Man predictions from the beginning of the year to look at what's come true and how it's all played out. We also take a deep dive into a review of our own cards of the year in the hopes that you'll be inspired to check back in with your cards as well. xo**********************************References from the ShowTo buy Sarah's "Many Moons Lunar Planner," CLICK HERE.To pre-order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.The Mindfulness Conspiracy essay by Ronald Purser in The Guardian that Amanda discusses.Keeping Harvey Weinstein's Secrets, Part 1 and Part 2, on The Daily podcast by the NYT which Sarah discusses.**********************************Get in touch with Strange Magic at strangemagicpodcast@gmail.com . Or, contact Sarah, Amanda, or Carolyn below to book a session or just to find out more:********************************** Sarah Faith Gottesdiener *(moon witch, artist, tarot reader, designer):https://modernwomen.bigcartel.com/To sign up for Sarah's newsletter, click here.To buy Sarah's "Many Moons Lunar Planner," CLICK HERE.www.visualmagic.infoSarah's Instagram**Amanda Yates Garcia (art witch, healer, writer):www.oracleoflosangeles.comTo sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE.To pre-order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.Amanda's InstagramAmanda's Facebook**Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (musician, artist, producer):Carolyn's Instagram**CONTRIBUTORS:Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, Amanda Yates Garcia, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. With editing help from Justine McLellan.

Mindfulness – the psychological practice of bringing one's attention to the present moment through meditation – has gone mainstream. It has been enthusiastically co-opted by Silicon Valley and other large corporations as well as schools, governments and even the U.S. military. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the status quo? That's the view of Ronald Purser, Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, Buddhist practitioner and author of McMindfulness. In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, he was interviewed by Helen Lewis of The Atlantic on his radical critique of the mindfulness industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution.But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? Writer + Academic Ronald Purser joined us in conversation with Hettie O'Brien to debunk the so-called “mindfulness revolution,” exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification.

Ron's new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality ... A brief history of mindfulness in America ... Ron's critique of the corporate teaching of mindfulness ... A tool vs. a path ... Ron: The mindfulness industry individualizes social problems ... A call for civic mindfulness ... Can capitalism and spirituality be reconciled? ...

Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and a longtime Buddhist practitioner who popularized the term McMindfulness in a piece he wrote for the Huffington Post in 2013. In it, he argued  that mindfulness practice has been commercialized, and reduced to a mere “self-help technique.” His new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, offers an argument against the mindfulness movement, claiming that corporations have embraced the practice in order to advance a neoliberal agenda.  Here, Purser strikes a more balanced tone and discusses the good and bad of the mindfulness movement, explains what he means by the catch-all term McMindfulness, and presents his view that mindfulness has an untapped potential to bring about real social change.

Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. 

Ronald Purser és autor del llibre ‘McMindfulness’. En un article recent per al diari britànic ‘The Guardian’ plantejava com ‘‘l'estrés s'haprivatitzat, i la càrrega de gestionar-lo se subcontracta alsindividus’’. Volem parlar d'això amb el periodista David Blay, coautor d'‘El viaje del equilibrista’, autor de ‘Por qué no nos dejan trabajardesde casa?’, en què reflexiona precisament sobre com les nostresrelacions laborals acaben influint d'una manera tan decisiva en la ideade benestar.

In this interview, host Vincent Horn speaks with Dr. Ronald Purser–professor of management at SFSU and an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher in the Korean Taego order. They explore Ronald’s research on organizational mindfulness, mindfulness in corporate settings, and how Buddhist philosophy can inform organizational theory and practice, with a particular emphasis on exploring the limitations and shadow-sides of the mindfulness movement as it moves into the business context. Episode Links: College of Business at San Francisco State University ( http://cob.sfsu.edu/cob/directory/faculty/ronald-purser ) Center for Creative Inquiry ( http://www.creativeinquiry.org/develop/index.php ) Korean Buddhist Taego Order ( http://www.taegozen.net ) Beyond McMindfulness ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-purser/beyond-mcmindfulness_b_3519289.html )