Podcasts about voice dialogue

  Welcome to this transformative guided meditation designed to help you connect with the wisdom of your inner parts and integrate shadow experiences with compassion. In this meditation, you'll gently explore where your distressing emotions reside in your body and invite them into a dialogue with your protective and vulnerable parts.

Today on Sense of Soul I have Adelheid Oesch, she is a counselor, teacher, and writer based in Lausanne, Switzerland. A mother of four, Adelheid spent the first part of her adult life raising her family and developing her career as a partner in the family art and antiques business. She later developed a second career as the founder of 'L'Atelier du Dialogue Intérieur' (Voice Dialogue Workshop), where she has been teaching ‘Voice Dialogue' and guiding people on their path of self-discovery and spiritual growth since 1993. Adel­heid's expertise in ‘Voice Di­a­logue' has been cul­ti­vat­ed through years of ded­i­cat­ed study and collaboration with some of the most influential figures in the field. She has worked close­ly with Dr. Hal Stone and Dr. Sidra Stone, the cre­ators and de­vel­op­ers of ‘Voice Di­a­logue, of the theory and practice of the Psychol­o­gy of selves and of the Aware Self'. Her book The Ark Within is a poetic yet pragmatic book guides you to rediscover yourself as a living Noah's Ark—a three-dimensional volume of conscious presence, stable and vast enough to actively embrace and support each facet of your being. She masterfully weaves together the spiritual wisdom of the world with the ground-breaking insights of 'Voice Dialogue' psychology. Continue Your Initiatory Journey with the Exercise Manual for The Ark Within- This practical companion guide helps you anchor the profound insights of Adelheid Oesch's groundbreaking book, The Ark Within, into tangible, life-changing practices. Both books are available on Amazon! https://www.dialogueinterieur.com www.senseofsoulpodcast.com www.newrealitytv.com

Do you ever wonder how that inner voice of yours is shaping your world and impacting your mental health, your body, your reality and especially your relationships?  Andrea Rowley (an expert in cognitive behavioral coaching and Chief Clinical Coach Officer at Noble Health) joins us this week to share how,"Our language is defining what we believe about ourselves."Andrea suggests considering questions like,"What am I missing?" “Maybe there is more to this inner narrative outside of me, that I am not seeing?” This shift away from yourself-centric mid brain, not only fosters a healthier self-relationship, but also activates the brain'sproblem-solving prefrontal cortex. Dr. Skinner adds, "Curiosity is a huge factor here," encouraging listeners to replace our self-condemnation with curiosity and challenging our ingrained negative beliefs. Asking ourselves and our children frequently:“How is your relationship with yourself? How are you speaking to yourself? How are you treating yourself?” ….These questions can reframe our miscalculated and misguided ideas about our worth and especially recenter our own children's sense of worth. Small simple shifts to more positive and compassionate inner language can move mental mountains!We hope you will join us this week on Finding Noble!You and us--We got this,Carly Red & Dr. SkinnerShow Notes:00:00 Introduction and Guest Bio02:02 The Power of Communication04:36 Understanding Self Talk06:10 Origins of Negative Self Talk10:55 Transforming Negative Self Talk17:32 Developing Self Compassion23:49 Setting Boundaries and Self-Compassion24:39 Creating New Neural Pathways25:29 Parenting Without Self-Judgment26:50 Handling Public Parenting Challenges28:24 Visualizing Positive Self-Talk29:14 Mindfulness and Self-Dialogue29:37 Encouraging Positive Self-Talk in Children30:36 Practical Tips for Positive Self-Talk32:42 Challenging Negative Core Beliefs35:37 Self-Compassion and Compassion for Others39:50 Attuning to Children's Emotions44:20 Reflective Listening with Children46:27 Final Thoughts on Self-Talk and Mental HealthWatch the episodes on Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@FindingNoblePodcast⁠⁠⁠https://findingnoble.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠We are hoping to help homes, families and educators everywhere…so please like, review, subscribe and... even share with friends and family looking for parenting support.To subscribe to helpful emails head here:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://findingnoble.com/about/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch the episodes on Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@FindingNoblePodcast

Therapist and founder of IFS, Dr Richard Schwartz, joins me to discuss “parts”, what IFS is, how all parts are positive, Voice Dialogue, Big Mind, “exiles” and society, COVID, and more. I also take part in a very personal demo. Full on, deep and wonderful. Learn more about Richard here: https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd -------------------------------- Richard Schwartz began his career as a systemic family therapist and an academic. Grounded in systems thinking, Dr. Schwartz developed Internal Family Systems (IFS) in response to clients' descriptions of various parts within themselves. A featured speaker for national professional organizations, Dr. Schwartz has published many books and over fifty articles about IFS. -------------------------------- Check out our YouTube channel for more coaching tips and our Podcast channel for full episode videos Uplevel your coaching with a free copy of Mark's latest eBook, The Top 12 Embodiment Coaching Techniques  Join Mark for those juicy in-person workshops and events Fancy some free coaching demo sessions with Mark?  Connect with Mark Walsh on Instagram  --------------------------------------------------------- As a thanks for being a loyal listener, we're sharing a cheeky discount code for $100 OFF our most popular Certification of Embodiment Coaching course:  CEC100PODCAST More info here: https://embodimentunlimited.com/cec/

A couple weeks ago I heard a sound near our back screendoor, as if an animal were wrestling with a large bag of cat food. I assumed my cat Sasha was trying to break into her bag of treats, and noted the sound but didn't respond right away.A few minutes later, the sound long faded, I went to check on Sasha to see how far she got with trying to claw her way into her treat bag. As I approached the backdoor I did not find Sasha, nor a clawed open bag of treats. Our screen door was open to the size of Sasha, outside her large bag of cat food lay open on the porch stairs. As I stood, stunned at the sight of a catless night—Sasha whipped around the backyard chasing something that remained in the shadows, her tail puffed out to the size of a racoon's tail.I have been thinking about wanting. Hunger. The pull of a certain kind of desire to grasp for, reach out for…something else. This energy often creeps up the stairs of my body from somewhere in the dark and before I even realize it my hand is holding my phone, or reading news headlines, or I'm fixing myself a snack or another cup of coffee.This time of year wanting seems heightened.Something about the seasons turning deeper into autumn. Trees shedding leaves as the sun looms lower in the fading day-lit sky.The animal in us is preparing to hibernate. The hungry heart is trying to find nourishment. The pull to nourish, to find safety— in the midst of an uncertain world heightened by a polarizing election, on-going war and climate instability—is completely natural. Our bodies and nervous systems seek balance.Yet what is nourishing? What is safety when the ground appears to be constantly moving? Who is the one whose hand slips up from the shadows, then vanishes back into hiding, as spirals of shame circle?You just wasted an hour scrolling. I can't believe you ate that. Wow, you pressed snooze again?  You're worthless. Unloveable. Unfit for human consumption. The shame says…When I lived at Great Vow Zen Monastery we had a practice of singing to the hungry heart. Calling to this part of us, this part of others and our world. And instead of shunning it or throwing shade on it or blaming and shaming it—we would invite a spirit of welcome, acceptance, love and understanding.The chant is called the Kanromon and was written together with Krishna Das and Bernie Glassman. Here are the words, if you would like to sing it too.Calling all you hungry hearts. Everywhere through endless time. You who wander, you who thirst.I offer you this bodhi mind. Calling all you hungry spirits. All the lost and the left behind. Calling all you hungry hearts. Everywhere through endless time. Gather round and share this meal.Your joy and your sorrow, I make it mine.It is part of a ceremony for the hungry heart, called the gate of sweet nectar. A version of this ceremony is part of the daily liturgy at Soto Zen Monasteries in Japan.It is one of the songs from our liturgy that I brought into my practice outside of the monastery walls. I sing it on walks through town, sometimes before I eat a meal, to my cat and before my altar with a stick of incense as my heart opens to the size of the world. It is a song of offering. It is a song of deep love. It's a song that lets me be lost—a song that speaks to those in the shadows. It has the power to save a ghost. To make the lonely, smile. It empowers us to hug our demons, and face the unpredictability of life in human flesh.This week I had the opportunity to facilitate and participate in three practice communities where we gathered together to welcome the hungry heart. The gatherings were simple. We sat in loving awareness and invited our hungry hearts to the table of our lives. And, through our collective attention, love and understanding the hungry part was given space to tell + show what it wants and needs, and then experience a deeper form of nourishment. The nourishment of compassionate attention and collective witnessing is powerful. When parts of us are hidden in shame, they often feel like they are the only ones who feel this way. Or that they are fundamentally wrong, or unloveable, or unworthy.To integrate the hungry heart into our lives, to invite them into the light of awareness— is healing. It's like reclaiming a piece of our nature. For in that invitation, transformation starts to happen, true nourishment becomes possible.As we head into election week, I feel it's important to remember my vows to myself and this world.I vow to create sacred spaces in this violent and beautiful world where we:* Center healing* Remember our true nature* Challenge our assumptions* Turn towards the shadow* And live as if love were the pointWhat are your vows? How do you intend to show up in this unpredictable, precarious, ever-changing experience we call human life, or the world, or america?Current OfferingsSpiritual Counseling — I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. Spiritual Counseling can help you:* Companion Grief + Loss* Clarify Life Purpose* Heal Relational Conflict + Inner Conflict* Work with Shadow Material* Heal your relationship with Eating, Food or Body Image* Spiritual Emergence* Integrate Psychedelic or Mystical Experiences* Move Through Creative Blocks, Career Impasses and BurnoutIn addition to my Zen training, I am trained in Buddhist Psychology, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy), Process Art and Mindful Eating. My approach also has a deep Jungian influence.Astrology— I am starting to offer astrology readings. I have found astrology to be a helpful map for connecting to the more mythic unfolding of life. It can help us honor our gifts, navigate challenges, get perspective and connect with planetary allies. It can also offer guidance on the questions that arise in our lives and aid us in stepping more fully into our wholeness. I am currently offering the following types of readingsNatal Chart ReadingsAstro Counseling PackageTransit ReadingsGreat Work of Your Life ReadingMonday Night Meditation + DharmaEvery Monday 6P PT / 9P ETJoin me on zoom for 40 minutes of meditation and a dharma talk. We are currently exploring a text called The Eight Realizations of Great Beings, which gives us an opportunity to practice inquiry and embodying love as we discover our Awakened Nature together.This event is hosted by the Zen Community of Oregon. All are welcome to join. Drop in any time.Zoom Link for Monday NightSky + RoseWhat is it? An experiment in the impossible task of excluding nothing and loving everything. An alchemy of play, presence and wandering into the shadows, you could say.Sky & Rose is a practice container that will:* Center group parts work practices to explore the fluidity, span and dream of who we are - somebody, nobody, everybody. You will be invited to express yourself vocally and physically, engage your imagination and play outside habituation.* Do interpersonal and group meditation practices of seeing, being and awakening.* Directly explore emotional embodiment & shadow work* Include Beauty, Art & Wonderment as core practice elements Through rituals of imagination, meditation technologies and co-created fields of intentional play, we can slip out, for a time, of confining identities defined by our histories, culture and comfort.Delivered by these practices, we can begin to inhabit perspectives and modes of being that stretch our sense of the possible and refresh our sense of the everyday. You might find yourself wearing Luminosities face or inhabiting Laughter's chest. Together we might try out Venus's view of the very life we live or we might make space to feel Chaos's dance and shake off some rigidity.All of these are just examples of where our wondering and feeling into places of vitality and expansion may take us.We will rebel against the quotidian and respect ourselves too much to only have crumbs of the sacred!It was also be a time to work together with the challenges to living heart forward with sanity and presence within this hyper-fractured funhouse/madhouse world.Sky and Rose is a place for Jogen and i to invite you into practices and explorations of 'soul work' that are not part of the Buddhist tradition but that have nonetheless been sources of growth and joy for us. Our influences in this include Paratheatre, IFS and Voice Dialogue, Hakomi, Process Work, Butoh, Jungian dream work and more.We initiate Sky & Rose as an experiment in embracing Spirit and Soul simultaneously, together imagining and practicing interpersonal liberation, playfulness and spaciousness in this time of deep adaptation.Meets monthly on Sundays from 10:30A PT - 12:30P PT / 1:30P ET - 3:30P ETNext Session is on Dec 1I'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, budding Astrologer and Artist. I currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner Patrick Kennyo Dunn, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through Mud Lotus Sangha. If you happen to be in Columbus, feel free to stop by. We have weekly meditation gatherings and monthly Saturday offerings as well. This is a public episode. 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We all have an "inner child:” the part of ourselves that carries the emotions, beliefs and experiences from our early years. While this aspect of ourselves can be a source of creativity, playfulness and wonder, it might also harbor unresolved wounds that affect our adult relationships and behaviors. In this episode, Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore what the inner child really is, how it manifests in our lives, and practical ways to work with this important part of ourselves. They discuss how to identify inner child wounds, demonstrate techniques like voice dialogue, and share strategies for bringing more awareness and healing to our younger selves. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:20: What is the inner child? 7:30: How the inner child shows up in our adult lives 10:40: A CBT-ish way of thinking about the inner child 16:40: Unmet needs, and examples of inner child wounds 21:45: Promoting the positive aspects of the inner child 28:50: How to begin engaging with the inner child 35:30: Shame, and turning toward yourself 39:00: Reparenting 46:30: Voice Dialogue demonstration 1:00:15: Reflections on the demonstration 1:06:00: Other approaches, and reasons you might be having a hard time 1:09:25: Rage and release, looking at pictures, and creating an autobiography 1:14:00: Balancing the inner child's desires with the realities of life 1:20:10: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there.  Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell.  Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Trust your gut with Seed's DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month.  Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BEINGWELL at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod  Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world's largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As part of Autumn Ango with the Zen Community of Oregon, we are contemplating a text called the Eight Realizations of a Great Being. A text that some sources say is the last teaching that the Buddha gave. We are working with an interpretation by Thich Nhat Hanh edited by Hogen Bays, Roshi.I want to start this reflection with a poem that was read to me by another Zen Teacher, Daniel Terrango during a sesshin he led here in Ohio a couple of weeks ago. I felt fortunate to get to sit sesshin with him, and to receive this poem. It's one of those poems, at least for me, that I want to pass along.I Was Reading A Poem By David RutschmanI was reading a poem by Ryōkan about a leaf, and how it showed the front and the back as it fell, and I wanted to call someone — my wife, my brother — to tell about the poem.And I thought that maybe my telling about the poem was the front of the leaf and my silence about the poem was the back.And then I thought that maybe my telling and my silence together were honestly just the front of the leaf, and that the back was something else, something I didn't understand.And then I thought that maybe everything I understood and everything I didn't were both actually just the front of the leaf — so that the totality of my life was actually just the front of the leaf, just the one side — which would make the other side my death. . . .Unless my life and death together were really still only the front of the leaf?I had left the branch. I was falling.I was loose now in the bright autumn air.Now the first realization.All the world is impermanent. The earth is fragile and perilous.The four great elements are both suffering and emptiness.In the five skandhas there is no self.Everything that arises, changes, and perishes, is illusive, unreal,and without a master.Thought is the root of suffering, The body a reservoir of desire.Thus, observing and contemplating, one gradually breaks free frombirth and death.Here in both the poem and realization—we are invited to really take up impermanence as a contemplation. In Buddhism impermanence is considered one of the marks of existence. My teacher Hogen Roshi would often say that these marks are part of what make a teaching, a dharma teaching, so he would encourage us to consider them whenever we gave a dharma talk.The marks are:* Impermanence—insight into change, on the minute moment to moment level as well as on the level of our own lifespan, the lifespans of institutions, societies, world systems, the earth itself. This insight is to really see directly that all things are of the nature of change.* No-fixed-self—nothing is fixed, everything is in relationship, not a single thing or being exists independent of others. We interare, our nature is shared.* Dukkah/Nirvana—we suffer when we want things to be different then they are, whether that is trying to get rid of an experience we don't want or trying to get more or hold onto to something that we do want, recognizing this we can discover through practice how to attune to the true nature of things as they are, which is interconnected, not-separate and flowingThe Buddha said: All the world is changing. We can not hold on to a single thing. Even the earth itself, our home is fragile and perilous. The four great elements (water, fire, earth, air/wind) can cause suffering, but are empty in their nature (composed of other parts, interdependent, spacious).How is this true in our experience? All the world is changing. Such a beautiful mantra. The poem I read in the beginning captures the beauty and mystery of a single leaf falling, and how in very real ways this is like our life, we are floating, tumbling, dancing, falling through space. We are really bearing witness to the unreliable nature of the earth itself, how the lives humans built isn't sustainable with the earth's natural balance. And we are seeing the loss and destruction from these great hurricanes. I happen to have many acquaintances, friends and teachers who live in the Asheville area. There has been so much destruction, devastation and loss from the hurricane. Same too in Florida, in Nepal, in parts of Africa and Europe this year. All over the world beings are experiencing devastation, loss, pain and hardship due to Climate Instability—wildfires, smoke, floods, damaged water supplies, loss of housing and infrastructure—this is the world we live in now.And, the Buddha gave this teaching before cars and planes and the industrial revolution. The earth has always been fragile and perilous, there have always been storms, volcanoes, fires, floods. Great forces of destruction rising up from the earth, from the great elements. This contemplation of impermanence is an invitation to really look deeply into the nature of our experience. What happens when we allow the truth of impermanence to be here. What do we notice? How does attuning to impermanence, contemplating impermanence help us face the climate crisis? Does it?I was listening to a podcast interview with Susan Murphy who is a Zen Koan Teacher from Australia. She writes on Zen practice and the Earth. One of her first books is called Minding the Earth, Mending the World and her most recent book is called A Fire Runs Through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis.I want to share an excerpt from her book, for I feel it is a powerful meditation on how we contemplate impermanence and turn towards the climate crisis as part of our spiritual practice. She says:The times are always uncertain until we cease longing for certainty, and only then do they become truly interesting. The planetary crisis we're in together is now simply the given the strange, inarguable gift of what is. The fervent half-prayer of “Precarious!” overhears the realization that any escape is futile. Who now in good faith can dispute planetary heating and its appalling consequences and our drift toward civilizational suicide, ruined lands, biodiversity collapse, record-breaking megafires and megafloods, and new pandemics. And then there's our shadow pandemic, too: panic, confusion, and conspiratorial rage, shadowed by dread, anxiety, and depression.The planetary dangers that haunt us make our time an exquisite moment, piercing and inescapable. Also baffling to the point of provoking fresh realizations, hence the description of this time as a “gift” brimming with untested possibilities right along with potentially dire consequences. Dare we celebrate the way it stretches us, this strange privilege of being alive right now? Can we embrace the sheer lunacy of our moment, in which the biggest human “ask” in history up to now has chosen us?A koan scandalizes all suppositions (literal, rational, empirical, neurotic) that hold up the shaky sky of human knowing and fearing, until the leaves blowing in the street, the wave welling over a rock, the eyelashes of the cow all share the same realm as this mind. The shock of this can stoke new depths of fiery, fiercely protective love for the Earth. With luck, this love is fierce enough to protect our home from the worst impulses in ourselves and turn them to good.The ecocrisis of our time raises the question of the true nature of our human presence on the Earth as a koan that rightly exerts an almost overwhelming pressure on our hearts. It cannot be resolved, and the suffering it causes cannot be relieved without breaking through the paradigm that is so relentlessly causing it. Zen koans help us grow skilled in tolerating a precarious state of mind, and not turning away but growing curious instead. That we can't go forward in the usual way becomes the strangely valuable offer of the moment. Not-knowing, in the spirit of improvisation, accepts all offers! And the Zen koan turns every obstacle into the way.Take a despairing reaction like “There is nothing I can do to stop this disaster!” Looking beyond the ideas of “I,” and “stop,” and even the activity of “doing,” can we even dare to look deeply into the crisis and not-know what it is, or that it is so? Perhaps even disaster loses its power of impasse when scrutinized by a trusting form of productive doubt. Can something be done with less doing, using the calm inside the moments that can be created within an emergency when what is happening is met with not-knowing?The way we have framed reality is plainly out of kilter and out of date. Koan mind breaks the rigid frame and makes an ally out of uncertainty, asking it to be our guide in the darkness.Every koan has a bit of the apocalyptic about it, lifting the veil that this dream of a separate self throws over the wholeness of reality. Apocalypse implies destruction of a world, but hiding in that word is the older meaning, that of a necessary revelation, a veil torn away, leaving no choice but to see what is hidden from us in plain sight.Crises shape and transform us all our lives. The limitations that grow apparent to a crawling infant become the seeming unlikelihood of learning to walk. Impasse is the unavoidable opportunity to see beyond expectations, suppositions, and impossibilities as they crumble before our eyes. Crisis, whether at the vast or intimately personal level, is what reveals that there is no “normal,” despite all strenuous efforts to coax one into being. Not-knowing is relaxing into trusting this.…To truly contemplate impermanence invites us into this kind of not-knowing and opens the creative potential of any given moment. Because this is not fixed in place, we are not fixed in place. The world, our minds, our hearts are malleable–are flowing. And these words are just dead words until we really allow ourselves into the inquiry. The living contemplation—what am I? What if anything stays the same? What is my actual experience of change?Zen celebrates responsiveness, a responsiveness that comes from un-fixing ourselves from our fixed beliefs about how things should be, which actually allows us to respond to what is.We suffer impermanence because we expect it to be otherwise. We try to create structures, systems that will be reliable, predictable, and unchanging. We have cultural values that try to hide aging, death, disability, trauma—anything that pokes a hole in the narrative of stability and progress. So much of our systems, and therefore our thought processes, are not built on basic principles of how the world actually is, how life actually is. What would it look like if we lived rooted in this first realization: everything is changing, life is uncertain?What systems or structures or basic principles would we instill in our society if we really embraced the truth of change, transformation, death/rebirth, impermanence? As well as an understanding that we are interdependent, there is no I separate from you, this great earth, the creatures who live here, the plants, animals, rivers and each human being.So how do we practice impermanence? In meditation or in our direct experience outside of meditation we can tune into the constancy of change. Notice, really notice how the sensations in your hand change, if you really look, is there a single sensation that stays the same moment to moment? We can explore the direct experience of what I like to call radical impermanence—by exploring the changing nature of our sensory environment, the components of experience that make up our sense of self. Notice, how long does a single thought last? Can you grab hold of a thought? Do thoughts have a beginning, middle and end? What about emotions or feelings? Sounds?As we explore our experiential experience in this way, a real question can arise—what if anything remains? What continues? This kind of inquiry isn't meant to be done once, but is an on-going practice. How quickly do assumptions and predictions take over and have us believing again that we are permanent, solitary, independent and alone—and that our beliefs are unquestionably true?As I practice with impermanence, I have come to appreciate that change is beautiful, its necessary, the constancy of change allows each moment to arise fresh—never before seen or experienced. When the mind isn't dragging the previous moment onto the present, or reaching out for some future experience where we are redeemed or destroyed—what is this?It is also quite rich and worthwhile to take this contemplation of impermanence into our interpersonal relationships and our connection to life on earth or in this world.Grief, anger, rage, disappointment, sadness, numbness, confusion, despair are all companions of loss. If we learn to sit with and accompany these emotional responses with compassion and curiosity—they become part of the inner/shared journey on the realization of impermanence. They teach us what it is like to sit at the threshold of not-knowing, to find acceptance in the midst of whatever is happening, to find our way back to a love that is greater than fear. Some people are elders in impermanence, for they possess a wisdom that is gained through weathering loss. These people aren't necessarily old in years, but often the wisdom of loss does come with age—as we keep meeting the various uncertainties of life, the crisis points as Susan Murphy calls it, the moments of loss or change, be it the death of a loved one, a natural disaster in our town, war, loss of work, illness, accidents, injury, or living in a body that is aging—as we encounter impermanence with a learning attitude, insight deepens, gratitude grows, the waves of grief become waters we are more familiar navigating and perhaps we deeper our capacity to help others through them.Impermanence presents us with the koan that rests at the center of our lives as mortal beings—what are we? What is this life? What is death? Koans as Susan Murphy says, make us uncomfortable. If reading this first realization makes you uncomfortable, there is something here for you to deepen into, to stay with…We have two prayers in Zen that are prayers of impermanence, reciting them helps us turn towards and embrace the uncertainty of this life—to gain traction or companionship as we move through this changing world.The Five RemembrancesI am of the nature to die, I can not escape deathI am of the nature to have ill health, I can not escape having ill healthI am of the nature to age, I can not escapeAll that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature of change, I can not escape being separated from themMy deeds are my closest companions, I am the beneficiary of my deeds, my deeds are the ground on which I stand.Verse of the Diamond SutraA star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in the summer sky,A flickering lamp, a phantom and a dreamSo is this fleeting world…This writing is a draft of the dharma talk podcast you can listen to. At the end of the talk a sangha member offered a stanza from Mary Oliver's In Blackwater Woods as a capping phrase.To live in this worldyou must be ableto do three things:to love what is mortal;to hold itagainst your bones knowingyour own life depends on it;and, when the time comes to let it go,to let it go.I'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, budding Astrologer and Artist. In my Spiritual Counseling Practice, I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy) and Mindful Eating. Below are some of my current offerings.I currently accepting a couple of new clients if you or anyone you know is interested in Spiritual Counseling.Monday Night Meditation + DharmaEvery Monday 6P PT / 9P ETJoin me on zoom for 40 minutes of meditation and a dharma talk. We are currently exploring a text called The Eight Realizations of Great Beings, which gives us an opportunity to practice inquiry and embodying love as we discover our Awakened Nature together.This event is hosted by the Zen Community of Oregon. All are welcome to join. Drop in any time.Zoom Link for Monday NightSky + RoseWhat is it? An experiment in the impossible task of excluding nothing and loving everything. An alchemy of play, presence and wandering into the shadows, you could say.Sky & Rose is a practice container that will:* Center group parts work practices to explore the fluidity, span and dream of who we are - somebody, nobody, everybody. You will be invited to express yourself vocally and physically, engage your imagination and play outside habituation.* Do interpersonal and group meditation practices of seeing, being and awakening.* Directly explore emotional embodiment & shadow work* Include Beauty, Art & Wonderment as core practice elements Through rituals of imagination, meditation technologies and co-created fields of intentional play, we can slip out, for a time, of confining identities defined by our histories, culture and comfort.Delivered by these practices, we can begin to inhabit perspectives and modes of being that stretch our sense of the possible and refresh our sense of the everyday. You might find yourself wearing Luminosities face or inhabiting Laughter's chest. Together we might try out Venus's view of the very life we live or we might make space to feel Chaos's dance and shake off some rigidity.All of these are just examples of where our wondering and feeling into places of vitality and expansion may take us.We will rebel against the quotidian and respect ourselves too much to only have crumbs of the sacred!It was also be a time to work together with the challenges to living heart forward with sanity and presence within this hyper-fractured funhouse/madhouse world.Sky and Rose is a place for Jogen and i to invite you into practices and explorations of 'soul work' that are not part of the Buddhist tradition but that have nonetheless been sources of growth and joy for us. Our influences in this include Paratheatre, IFS and Voice Dialogue, Hakomi, Process Work, Butoh, Jungian dream work and more.We initiate Sky & Rose as an experiment in embracing Spirit and Soul simultaneously, together imagining and practicing interpersonal liberation, playfulness and spaciousness in this time of deep adaptation.Meets monthly on Sundays from 10:30A PT - 12:30P PT / 1:30P ET - 3:30P ETJoin us for our Opening Ritual + Practice exploringThe Ritual of LiminalitySunday October 27I currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner Patrick Kennyo Dunn, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through Mud Lotus Sangha. If you happen to be in Columbus, feel free to stop by. We have weekly meditation gatherings and monthly Saturday offerings as well. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amykisei.substack.com/subscribe

Since leaving the monastery a few years ago, I have become interested in how the ancient Zen teachers talked about the spiritual path. Language about the realizations that compose awakening are nested in the Zen chants that I would chant daily as a monastic, but we were so immersed in the continuous-ness of practice, that rarely would we stop and try to map out the territory. We were living it, who needed the borrowed words of those long dead to put a conceptual overlay onto something so fleeting as experience?My teacher Chozen was fond of saying that Zen was a practice without guardrails or measuring sticks—we stumble around in the dark. And somehow in this stumbling, in the dark terrain of life before concepts— our faith deepens and our sense of self loses its limiting bearings in exchange for an indescribable vastness that belongs to no-one. Zen teachers over the years have said of Zen that, “it is good for nothing”, or “a practice of non-attainment.”Others, including the early founders of the Soto school, described or attempted to show through poetry and image, some of the dynamics at play in this “good for nothing” journey of “non-attainment” and spiritual maturation.Two such teachers are Zen Masters Shitou and Dongshan Liangjie. Shitou's famous work The Sandokai or The Identity of Relative and Absolute is still chanted at Soto Zen Monasteries and Temples all over the world. And Dongshan's Precious Mirror Samadhi, which contains his teaching of the Five Ranks is similarly revered.There is a magic to language. A symbol is passed down for centuries, from spoken word, to ideogram, to letters and words in our own tongue, which become images again appearing in our imagination, references to a memory that we can almost taste.Words are sensual. We taste our words as we speak them. We feel their images and are invited into their song. Sentences are like spells. They captivate the heart. They have the power to render us transformed in this midst of their utterances. When used mindlessly words can kill the thing they are attempting to name. They can create landscapes of lies, delusive dreams that collectively capture our imaginations and send us spiraling further away from ourselves.Yet, words are also alive. Language lets us re-cast the spell on itself. A single word can be a deep medicine for the exiled heart. A point of connection—a way in.The theme of the absolute and the relative is a timeless dance of wholeness. What happens when we really venture to peer into Mind, inquire into the inner workings of our hearts, this experience we call my life?— well it's empty yet appearing, spacious yet seemingly tangible, here yet unfindable. What we call one, is also many—a relationship so intimately entwined, it can feel like a great wrong has been committed to even speak as if they were two separate and distinct experiences. And yet, we long to make meaning. To communicate the inner landscapes of the heart-mind. To celebrate the journey. We are map-makers of consciousness, knowing that as we chart the choppy, ever-changing waters of the heart, it's already shifting—there is nowhere where we truly stand besides the momentariness of standing right where we are.As I study the Sandokai and Dongshan's Five Ranks, I have come to appreciate the play of light and shadow or relative and absolute as a generous reminder once spoken by Master Ma, and later by my own teacher Hogen Roshi—”we can't fall out of the deep samadhi of the universe.” We are always on the path, and the path is always revealing a new face of this mystery.So let's explore one map of the great ocean of awareness and perhaps through these words and images we will recognize some of our own footsteps.The Light within the Dark (the Relative with the Absolute)Dongshan: The third watch of the night, before moonrise—don't be surprised if there's a meeting without recognition. One still harbors the elegance of former years.My meditation is so spacious, it reminds me of that time when…Dogen Zenji says, when the truth fills our body and mind, we realize that something is missing. As someone who spent a lot of days, months and years in zazen and retreat, a taste of spaciousness can trigger a longing for my time as a total beginner to practice, who just stumbled into this dark mystery of being and had no skin in the game, no vow, just a heart turned towards spaciousness.The Dao De Jing says, In the Dark, darken further…Have you ever meditated in the dark before moonrise? Have you ever let yourself let-go for a moment the ordinary distinctions of seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking? What kind of place is this? Does anyone remain?The Dark within the Light (The Absolute in the Relative)Dongshan: Having overslept, the elder woman encounters the ancient mirror. This is clearly meeting face-to-face, only then is it genuine. Don't lose your head by validating shadows.I love this concept called non-linear emergence. A recognition that being human is non-linear. Healing in non-linear. Awakening surely is non-linear. Because we are never outside of the mysterious grace of our awakened nature, sometimes a moment of clarity rises up in the midst of a seemingly ordinary moment or even what we might consider a moment so outside of our concept of practice. Like those days when we sleep in, or are hungover, or ate too much cake, or feel distracted, busy, on autopilot, lost, alone in our suffering, or pain.Then suddenly, there is an encounter—a stranger smiles, we notice the yellow of a sunflower, a piece of music grabs our attention, we look up at the sky—and something happens. We find ourselves gazing into the ancient mirror. A true encounter. Face-to-face—we glimpse, we remember our shared nature, we feel an enduring love and acceptance, we taste the light of being.Yes right here in the midst of the ordinary, in the midst of the colossal ways we harm each other, in the midst of all the injustices in our crazy-making world—there is love, there is peace. The sacred rises up and kisses us on the cheek. And we keep on living. We go to work, we meet with a friend, we use the toilet when we need to, we continue to heal, we face the innumerable challenges of living a human life.As one Zen master said, awakening is an accident, practice makes us accident prone.Just the Dark (Coming from within the Absolute)Dongshan: Within nothingness there is a road out of the dusts. Just avoid speaking the forbidden name of the emperor and you will surpass the worthies of ancient times, who cut off tongues.Rinzai says: sometimes I take away the person and the environmentAll reference points lostJust don't try to speak of itThough many people practice ZenFew have lost their MindCutting off tongues aside, let me ask— when your mind isn't reifying anything—where do you abide?Enter the dark cave of meditation, it's OK to not-know who you are.One Zen student said when asked, what happens when you think about the one who thinks—I find that there is nothing there at all.Just the Light (Mutual Integration / From within the Relative)Dongshan: No need to dodge when blades are crossed. The skillful one is like a lotus in the fire. Surely you possess the aspiration to soar to the heavens.In the midst of our work, our relationships, our confusion, our intellectual pursuits—the dharma is here. We don't need to look for peak experiences or make wonderment happen. Every meeting is genuine. The dharma is us. Our vow, our heart's aspiration, the bodhisattva dwells in this very ordinary, cryptic, heart-wrenching human realm.Let yourself be a lotus in the fire.Aspire to see your life as a lotus blooming in the midst of all these flames.Light and Dark Together (Arriving at Concurrence)Dongshan: Everyone longs to leave the mundane stream, still you return to sit in the charcoal heap. Zen celebrates such a complete shedding. Is such a place possible? To no longer long for some peak experience, some validation from the universe that you are OK, that all is sacred. Faith can permeate one's being so completely that the world of oneness and the world of diversity are so intertwined that it no longer makes sense to make distinctions. The tradition also celebrates responsiveness. Born from practice-realization we respond to the complexities of our lives. We walk freely through the other ranks, as we live our lives of practice. Most great Zen and Buddhist teachers continued to sit retreats and had a daily practice throughout their lives.Whether the charcoal heap is your zafu or this burning world of change and pain or the complete combustion of being so fully here for those you love + the work you do—you continue to sit in it, with it, with all beings.Thank you for your practice, thank you for living the life you have as genuinely as you do. As we walk the circle of the way, never falling out of the deep samadhi of the universe, we encounter these different expressions of the great heart of being. You might describe them differently, if you bother describing them at all. Perhaps you too are a mapmaker, a spell-caster, one haunted by a call to make meaning and embody love in our sometimes chilling yet beautiful world.In the dharma talk, I offer some other reflections on this topic—as it pertains to the practice of Ango. A time in the Zen Community of Oregon's annual practice cycle that we dedicate to intensifying practice with the support of Sangha.…I'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, budding Astrologer and Artist. In my Spiritual Counseling Practice, I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy) and Mindful Eating. Below are some of my current offerings.Monday Night Meditation + DharmaEvery Monday 6P PT / 9P ETJoin me on zoom for 40 minutes of meditation and a dharma talk. We are currently exploring a text called The Eight Realizations of Great Beings, which gives us an opportunity to practice inquiry and embodying love as we discover our Awakened Nature together.This event is hosted by the Zen Community of Oregon. All are welcome to join. Drop in any time.Zoom Link for Monday NightBeyond Mindfulness: Deepening Your Meditation Practice Class SeriesStarts today! This workshop style course is designed to provide a map of the meditation path as well as:* Introduce you to the five main styles of meditation (calm-abiding, concentration, heart-based practices, inquiry and open-awareness)* Help you understand the intention of each method and how to practice it* Help you understand how the various methods and techniques fit together and support each other* Provide a fun, non-judgmental learning environment where you can try things out, ask questions and explore* Give you the opportunity to work with a teacher with an extensive background in various meditation techniquesSky + RoseWhat is it? An experiment in the impossible task of excluding nothing and loving everything. An alchemy of play, presence and wandering into the shadows, you could say.Sky & Rose is a practice container that will:* Center group parts work practices to explore the fluidity, span and dream of who we are - somebody, nobody, everybody. You will be invited to express yourself vocally and physically, engage your imagination and play outside habituation.* Do interpersonal and group meditation practices of seeing, being and awakening.* Directly explore emotional embodiment & shadow work* Include Beauty, Art & Wonderment as core practice elements Through rituals of imagination, meditation technologies and co-created fields of intentional play, we can slip out, for a time, of confining identities defined by our histories, culture and comfort.Delivered by these practices, we can begin to inhabit perspectives and modes of being that stretch our sense of the possible and refresh our sense of the everyday. You might find yourself wearing Luminosities face or inhabiting Laughter's chest. Together we might try out Venus's view of the very life we live or we might make space to feel Chaos's dance and shake off some rigidity.All of these are just examples of where our wondering and feeling into places of vitality and expansion may take us.We will rebel against the quotidian and respect ourselves too much to only have crumbs of the sacred!It was also be a time to work together with the challenges to living heart forward with sanity and presence within this hyper-fractured funhouse/madhouse world.Sky and Rose is a place for Jogen and i to invite you into practices and explorations of 'soul work' that are not part of the Buddhist tradition but that have nonetheless been sources of growth and joy for us. Our influences in this include Paratheatre, IFS and Voice Dialogue, Hakomi, Process Work, Butoh, Jungian dream work and more.We initiate Sky & Rose as an experiment in embracing Spirit and Soul simultaneously, together imagining and practicing interpersonal liberation, playfulness and spaciousness in this time of deep adaptation.Meets monthly on Sundays from 10:30A PT - 12:30P PT / 1:30P ET - 3:30P ETJoin us for our Opening Ritual + Practice exploringThe Ritual of LiminalitySunday October 27I currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner Patrick Kennyo Dunn, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through Mud Lotus Sangha. If you happen to be in Columbus, feel free to stop by. We have weekly meditation gatherings, and are offering a day of meditation in October. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amykisei.substack.com/subscribe

I am just returning from my first in-person Zen sesshin here in Ohio. It was wonderful to practice the familiar rhythm of a silent, Zen-style meditation retreat so close to the place I currently call home. We practiced as the winds and rain from Hurricane Helene blew through South Western Ohio felling tree branches and power lines on the property of the Jesuit Spiritual Center where we were sitting our retreat. Despite a days long power outage on the property, we continued to practice and deepen into our shared vows and sense of interconnection. Our prayers and dedication of merit began to open up and include those living in areas that are affected by the winds, floods and destruction of the hurricane as well as those suffering in other ways all over our world—may they and we find relief from suffering and realize true happiness.Sesshin has this way of amplifying our aloneness and our togetherness. With nothing to do but sit, walk, eat and sleep, we have the rare opportunity to really let-go of or soften the reification of some of the ordinary functions of the mind, such as naming, conceptualizing, narrating, story-telling, etc. One is free to just be. And what is that? Something we are invited to continuously discover. So we sit on the edge of knowing and not-knowing, the precipice of becoming, the mystery of appearance inchoate. Being nothing and everything at once. Stopping for times the need to define or find a foothold in such existential territory. For me, it has been a while since I sat a full sesshin completely as a student. I felt like I had permission to rediscover what this practice is, from the embodied source—ground up. And zazen also had permission to be nothing in particular. There wasn't something to resolve, or fix or some insight to get. In a place of such permission zazen got to be so many things. At times a warm loving embrace, other times a sharpening stone, a quiet refuge, space, a place to explore fears + tensions, to make friends with myself in all its forms and manifestations, a hub of bodhicitta, the entire universe unhinged, rain + wind, a leaf falling, love of the ancestors through our teacher + guide, an iron yoke, a lover…nothing at all.I am appreciating how the practice does practice us, and how over the decade and a half that I have been engaged in intensive practice, there are so many practices that visit me, offering momentary medicine in this process of living. I don't need to take anything with me from moment to moment, I can trust that practice truly does continue. Though I do find myself drawn to creating the conditions to recognize the dharma in all times and places.I left sesshin feeling humbled and full. Daniel Terrango, our teacher and guide kept reminding us that the dharma is generous. Ah, yes. Can you feel it too?Right here is the heart of bodhicitta, a commitment to awaken together with all beings. Right here, all beings are awakening together in the sometimes maddening, sometimes heart-wrenchingly beautiful conditions of our current world-systems.In the teaching realm, I have been exploring a Zen poem called the Sandokai or Harmony of Difference and Sameness. In this dharma talk I zoom out and look at how we encounter difference and sameness in our dharma practice as well as our daily lives. It was rich and enlivening for me to engage in this contemplation, and I would be curious for those who listen to the talk or read the transcript—how it is for you.…I'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, budding Astrologer and Artist. In my Spiritual Counseling Practice, I practice at the confluence of spirituality and psychology, integrating mind, body and spirit. I am trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dream Work, Hakomi (Somatic Therapy) and Mindful Eating. Below are some of my current offerings.Monday Night Meditation + DharmaEvery Monday 6P PT / 9P ETJoin me on zoom for 40 minutes of meditation and a dharma talk. We are currently exploring the freedom, spontaneity and love of our original nature through the teachings of the Zen koan tradition. Koans invite us into the mythos of practice awakening, gifting us with the ordinary images of our lives, they help awaken us to the wonder, intimacy and compassion of life as it is!All are welcome to join. Drop in any time.Zoom Link for Monday NightBeyond Mindfulness: Deepening Your Meditation Practice Class SeriesThis workshop style course is designed to provide a map of the meditation path as well as:* Introduce you to the five main styles of meditation (calm-abiding, concentration, heart-based practices, inquiry and open-awareness)* Help you understand the intention of each method and how to practice it* Help you understand how the various methods and techniques fit together and support each other* Provide a fun, non-judgmental learning environment where you can try things out, ask questions and explore* Give you the opportunity to work with a teacher with an extensive background in various meditation techniquesI currently live in Columbus, Ohio with my partner Patrick Kennyo Dunn, we facilitate an in-person meditation gathering every Wednesday from 7P - 8:30P at ILLIO in Clintonville through Mud Lotus Sangha. If you happen to be in Columbus, feel free to stop by. We have weekly meditation gatherings, and are offering a day of meditation in October.Sky + RoseWhat is it? An experiment in the impossible task of excluding nothing and loving everything. An alchemy of play, presence and wandering into the shadows, you could say.Sky & Rose is a practice container that will:* Center group parts work practices to explore the fluidity, span and dream of who we are - somebody, nobody, everybody. You will be invited to express yourself vocally and physically, engage your imagination and play outside habituation.* Do interpersonal and group meditation practices of seeing, being and awakening.* Directly explore emotional embodiment & shadow work* Include Beauty, Art & Wonderment as core practice elements Through rituals of imagination, meditation technologies and co-created fields of intentional play, we can slip out, for a time, of confining identities defined by our histories, culture and comfort.Delivered by these practices, we can begin to inhabit perspectives and modes of being that stretch our sense of the possible and refresh our sense of the everyday. You might find yourself wearing Luminosities face or inhabiting Laughter's chest. Together we might try out Venus's view of the very life we live or we might make space to feel Chaos's dance and shake off some rigidity.All of these are just examples of where our wondering and feeling into places of vitality and expansion may take us.We will rebel against the quotidian and respect ourselves too much to only have crumbs of the sacred!It was also be a time to work together with the challenges to living heart forward with sanity and presence within this hyper-fractured funhouse/madhouse world.Sky and Rose is a place for Jogen and i to invite you into practices and explorations of 'soul work' that are not part of the Buddhist tradition but that have nonetheless been sources of growth and joy for us. Our influences in this include Paratheatre, IFS and Voice Dialogue, Hakomi, Process Work, Butoh, Jungian dream work and more.We initiate Sky & Rose as an experiment in embracing Spirit and Soul simultaneously, together imagining and practicing interpersonal liberation, playfulness and spaciousness in this time of deep adaptation.Meets monthly on Sundays from 10:30A PT - 12:30P PT / 1:30P ET - 3:30P ETJoin us for our Opening Ritual + Practice exploringThe Ritual of LiminalitySunday October 27 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amykisei.substack.com/subscribe

Deze podcast gaat over je innerlijke team en hoe deze je onbewust kan 'beheersen'. Bijvoorbeeld doordat je niet goed bij je gevoel komt en maar blijft nadenken en moeilijk uit je hoofd komt. Zelfcoaching courses: Hoe staat je innerlijke team opgesteld? En heb jij de regie of zitten kanten aan je stuur? https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/introductie-voice-dialogue-breng-je-eigen-persoonlijkheidskanten-in-kaart/ Pak de regie terug over je gedachten, overtuigingen en gevoelens (Voice Dialogue, innerlijke bus): https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/online-programma-voice-dialogue/ Bewuster leven tips, oefeningen, coachtechnieken en inspiratie: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/bewust/

Psychodrama met Lex Mulder Via Karin Brugman (van de podcast over voice dialogue) kwam ik in contact met Lex Mulder. Lex is o.a. een van de pioniers in Nederland op het gebied van psychodrama. In deze podcast leren we meer over psychodrama en wat het voor je (client) kan doen. Wat is psychodrama? Oorspronkelijk is Psychodrama een vorm van groepspsychotherapie die vanaf de dertiger jaren van de vorige eeuw ontwikkeld is door Jacob Levi Moreno. De essentie ervan is dat er niet gesproken wordt over de problemen van de patiënt, maar dat hun vragen uitgespeeld worden. Dat gaat met behulp van een aantal goed uitgewerkte uitgangspunten en technieken. Door de vraag in scene te zetten worden gedachten, gevoelens, en dilemma's concreet en (be)grijpbaar gemaakt. Door de beleving in het spel krijgt de client nieuwe, emotioneel doorvoelde inzichten en mogelijk alternatieve gedragswijzen aangereikt. De methode is na Moreno, die in 1974 overleed, wereldwijd verder ontwikkeld als therapie en ook toepasbaar gemaakt voor trainings- en opleidingswerk. Ook werd de methode toepasbaar gemaakt voor individuele settings: individuele psychotherapie en coaching. Wie is Lex Mulder? Ik ben afgestudeerd in klinische psychologie. Na een inspirerende periode als docent aan de Rijksuniversiteit van Leiden heb ik sinds 1988 een praktijk als zelfstandig (team)coach, trainer, opleider en psychotherapeut. Ik ben BIG geregistreerd gezondheidszorgpsycholoog en psychotherapeut (hoewel ik die registratie heb laten verlopen) Geïnspireerd door vele bronnen heb ik mijn eigen interventiestijl ontwikkeld: Speels en Actief. Ik werk graag (maar niet uitsluitend) en met succes met Psychodrama, Voice Dialogue, Voicedrama en Organisatiedrama. Over deze methoden heb ik een aantal boeken geschreven. Mijn partner Berry Collewijn en ik geven samen opleidingen in Voice Dialogue en Speels trainen en Coachen: www.berrycollewijn.nl.

After every five guest interviews, Amy Rowlinson reflects on each of the individual episodes and focuses in on specific topics pulling on different threads and diving deeper to explore elements that piqued her interest. In this episode, exploring topics of life rules, mental health, voice dialogue, managing inner critic, serendipity, bravery resilience, determination, stress, purpose, fear, intuition, contribution and impostor syndrome, Amy shares her Reflections with Actions from these five recent podcast episodes:   389 Create Conditions for Growth with Adrian Brown 390 Serendipitous Moments and Brave Steps with Richard McCann 391 Rule of Thumb with Hilary Briggs 392 Healing Power of Nature with Isaac Kenyon 393 Becoming the Artist with Bernii Mac   KEY TAKEAWAY “You have the freedom to choose your ‘why'. It is unique to you and dependent on your decisions, situations and responsibilities."   BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS* Embracing Our Selves by Hal Stone, Ph.D and Sidra L. Stone, Ph.D.- https://amzn.eu/d/j4cWHzr The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker - https://amzn.eu/d/fPZMWlS Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl - https://amzn.eu/d/bu4pVoF   ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.   WORK WITH AMY Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY and discuss purpose coaching or you want to launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 30 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall   KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.   *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.  

Today on the podcast, we have Rowan Garlow, a trauma recovery practitioner who utilizes Voice Dialogue, Somatic Experiencing, Inner Child, and Soul Retrieval for healing and integrating unresolved trauma. We talk about: -What is trauma recovery work? -What attachment trauma looks like specifically. -How trauma manifests in our behaviors. -Why your “over-reactions” are gateways to your healing. -How to heal attachment trauma. ——— Find Rowan: Website- www.rowangarlow.com Instagram- @rowangarlow ——— Find Jessica: Website- www.jessicadasilvacoaching.com Instagram- @thejessicadasilva

Het gevoel van vrijheid zit vooral in je hoofd. Je kunt nog zoveel tijd, geld of andere middelen hebben maar je nog steeds niet vrij voelen. Als je een innerlijke pusher aan je stuur hebt zitten die steeds maar door wil, doelen wil najagen en vooral druk wilt zijn, dan kun je niet genieten van de vrijheid die er wel is. Als je een innerlijke criticus hebt, die vindt dat jij niet mag genieten, dat je vooral nuttige dingen moeten doen, dan zul je de ontspanning niet kunnen vinden. Ik vertel je erover in deze podcast. Weten welke kanten bij jou aan je stuur zitten? Welke kanten achter in je bus die je juist wat meer naar voren zou willen hebben? Doe dan deze leuke online introductiecursus Voice Dialogue waarin jij ontdekt hoe jouw innerlijke bus eruit ziet en wat je daarmee kunt doen. Je vindt 'm hier: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/introductie-voice-dialogue-breng-je-eigen-persoonlijkheidskanten-in-kaart/ Of doe het online programma (aanrader): https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/online-programma-voice-dialogue/ Fijne dag! Wie ben je werkelijk en wat wil je écht? Online programma + 1,5 u persoonlijke coaching + 1x mail of WhatsAppcoaching + BONUS: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/wie-ben-je-werkelijk-en-wat-wil-je-echt-online-programma-15-u-persoonlijke-coaching-1x-mail-of-whatsappcoaching-bonus/ MELD JE AAN VOOR MIJN GRATIS E-MAILTIPS: https://458e83e5.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAJSgpCKtyq8At5i-tsR1N3_W7jserYmhqTvsy-Ka0hVzCU8ylpgPgRE7xfvyAJ7gfmpTpZZSm249TP8qm02XUyLyTMJDTPylo5jbHkkHTaSfvsaRrKCxUfridhb7FZQQA7L_mBq4z7w-kSQludipIJuWNUndFq29k4okwCWx-OtYytN9qHyppuWAINWvjl590UO7Fu427Qkk

Sono sempre di più le persone che si interessano al Voice Dialogue e alle opportunità che esso offre per vivere una vita consapevole ed equilibrata. Ma non solo, anche e soprattutto per conscerci più in profondità. Buon ascolto link utili:

To access our conference library of 200+ fascinating psychology talks and interviews (with certification), please visit: https://twumembers.com Dr Scott Kellogg and Amanda Garcia Torres are co-directors of the Chairwork Psychotherapy Initiative - an innovative therapy training organisation which empowers mental health professionals to integrate chairwork with their therapeutic approach. I attended one of their trainings in September 2023 and it was incredibly powerful, turning over many of the assumptions I held about how therapy should be done. In this conversation, we explore: — The therapeutic benefits of viewing human beings as containing multiple different parts — The two origins of the inner critic and why it may be behind the vast majority of mental health problems — How chairwork can be applied to heal addiction, trauma, and a wide range of issues. — How this approach helps to create space and distance internally from maladaptive coping parts that may be having a negative effect in our lives. And more. You can learn more about Scott and Amanda's work by going to https://transformationalchairwork.com. --- Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC is a certified Chairwork Psychotherapist and Co-Director of Training at the Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project. Ms. Garcia Torres received her Master's Degree in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from New York University and has also completed training in Voice Dialogue. She began her journey with TCPP in 2013 and has trained clinicians in NYC and internationally. Her presentations and writings have addressed such topics as chairwork, trauma, social justice, oppression, and identity issues. Ms. Garcia Torres is in private practice at Chairwork Therapy NYC. Scott Kellogg, PhD is the author of Transformational Chairwork: Using Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in Clinical Practice (2015, Rowman & Littlefield). He is a former Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at New York University and a Past-President of Division of Addictions of the New York State Psychological Association. An ISST-certified Advanced Schema Therapist, he has also trained in Gestalt Therapy and Voice Dialogue. Dr. Kellogg currently runs a chairwork-centered private practice in New York City. Through the Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project, he has taught this method of psychotherapeutic dialogue to practitioners in the United States and abroad. Interview Links: — Amanda's website: https://chairworktherapynyc.com — Dr Kellogg's website: http://transformationalchairwork.com/about/about-scott-kellogg — Amanda's latest article: https://bit.ly/transformational-chair — Dr Kellogg's latest article: https://bit.ly/APA-Psychnet

Ik kan het gewoon niet beter zeggen dan de mannen van 'Doe Maar' jaren geleden deden. De mannen van 'Doe Maar'? Dat was een band in de tijd dat ik nog tiener was en met een stijf-van-de-haarlak-kuif rond sjeesde op mijn fiets (gewoon met de benen, niet elektrisch) met een koptelefoon op en een walkman aan mijn broek. Aangezien ik ook veel klanten heb die zich scharen onder de groep Millenials (Y) en Generatie Z (en op welke andere manieren jullie dan ook in een hokje worden gestopt) zal ik even een uitleg delen van zowel Doe Maar als de befaamde walkman. En als je het herkent uit jouw tijd, dan herinner je je vast ook nog de oudjaarstophitlijst die je ging opnemen op een cassettebandje en precies aan het einde probeerde te stoppen zodat er zo min mogelijk gepraat op je bandje kwam te staan. Maar nu eerst: Doe Maar. Komt ie - bron: Wikipedia "Doe Maar was een Nederlandse popgroep, die invloeden uit onder andere ska, punk en reggae combineerde tot een eigen nederpop-geluid. De band bestond oorspronkelijk van 1978 tot 1984. Doe Maar had in die jaren vooral succes bij overwegend jeugdige fans, vooral jonge tienermeisjes." In die tijd waren beenwarmers (ja, echt!) en van die felle kleuren zweetbandjes (voor de sier niet omdat je echt zweette) helemaal in. Zag er niet uit als je het nu zou zien maar die kuif van mij was ook niet echt om aan te zien. Maar ja, toen wel. Ik wilde toen ook punker zijn maar dat mocht niet van mijn moeder.  En trouwens; die beenwarmers lijken me nu heeeerlijk! Maar toen waren er nog moeders die die dingen van voor je gingen breien en ik denk dat mijn moeder nu wel wat beters te doen heeft. En dan laat ik ChatGPT even uitleggen wat een walkman is: "Een walkman was een draagbaar apparaat dat in de jaren '80 en '90 populair was. Het was een draagbare cassette speler waarmee mensen onderweg naar muziek konden luisteren. Je stopte een cassettebandje in het apparaat en gebruikte een koptelefoon om te genieten van je favoriete muziek. Het was destijds een revolutionaire manier om muziek mee te nemen en te beluisteren, vooral voor mensen die graag onderweg waren. Het is interessant hoe technologie is geëvolueerd, hè?" Na de walkman met het cassettebandje, kwam de walkman waar je een cd in kon doen. Zo'n cassettebandje liep weleens vast en dan probeerde je met een potlood de boel weer een beetje in zijn verband te krijgen. #weetjenog? "En dan een deel van de tekst die Doe Maar zong. Ik doe er tussendoor een beetje tekst bij in cursief, dan weet je dat Doe Maar dat niet zong maar dat dat mijn gedachten erbij zijn. "We komen niets te kort, we hebben alles Een kind, een huis, een auto en elkaar Mmm, maar weet je lieve schat wat het geval is, ah Ik zoek iets meer, ik weet alleen niet waar (gewoon in Wendy's online programma) Is dit alles? (Oeh-oeh-oeh-oeh) Is dit alles? (Oeh-oeh-oeh-oeh) Mmm, is dit alles wat er is? Is dit alles? (Oeh-oeh-oeh-oeh) Oh, is dit alles? (Oeh-oeh-oeh-oeh) Is dit alles wat er is? Yeah (nee, er is meer, echt!) We zijn nu net een stuk in dertien delen (dat vind je dan weer in mijn Voice Dialogue programma!) Aan 't einde zijn we allemaal de klos Mmm, en leven trouw het leven van zovelen Oh, ik wil iets meer, ik wil een beetje los" Anyway. De mannen van Doe Maar hadden er in hun tijd en last van en dat is niet echt veranderd. Mensen in deze tijd voelen het nog steeds regelmatig: dat er iets mist in hun leven. Ik nam er een video-podcast over op. Die vind je hieronder. Online programma: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/wat-wil-ik-nou-echt/ Kort online programma: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/als-je-niet-weet-wat-je-wilt-bepaal-dan-eerst-je-richting/ #bewustleven #zelfvertrouwen #hoogsensitief #hoogbegaafdheid #zelfontwikkeling #zelfkennis #motivatie #verveling #sleur #watwilje #wiebenje #werkgeluk

Using Voice Dialogue and Body Centered Awareness, our guest, Iudita Harlan, has been helping people get into the flow of their lives for over thirty years. We talk about her experiences and then do a live demonstration. Iudita describes Voice Dialogue as a psycho spiritual consciousness process in which various Selves have a chance to talk to each other using the language of dream. Iudita grew up in communist Romania and her parents were holocaust survivors which led her to seek a process which allows us to embrace our shadows. She quotes her mentor. "For every shadow we embrace in ourselves, one less shadow is projected out into the world." After the break, we do two live demonstrations. Iudita works first with Katherine about a dream in which she can't tell is she has to pee or not then with Ray of Santa Cruz about a dream in which a car seems to have a mind of its own. Her next three part workshop called "Right Size Your Inner Critic" starts January 14. Find details at her webpage. BIO: Iudita Harlan is a long time integration specialist in private practice using the Voice Dialogue Psychology of Selves consciousness process created by Drs Hal and Sidra Stone and the Hellerwork Structural Integration process of Joseph Heller. She combines these with Body Centered Awareness and offers extensive workshops as well as private sessions. Find our guest at: Iudita.com Show was broadcast live on December 23, 2023 on KSQD, community radio of Santa Cruz. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Ambient music is created new every week by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback or suggestions for future shows at katherine@ksqd.org. Follow her on FB and IG @ExperientialDreamwork to find out about upcoming shows. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her go to ExperientialDreamwork.com. The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific Time. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at onair@ksqd.org. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms and are released the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/. Now also available on PRX at Exchange.prx.org/series/45206-the-dream-journal Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Available on all major podcast platforms. Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

In deze verhelderende aflevering van de Body en Talk Podcast, neemt ervaren psychotherapeut Peggy van Looveren ons mee op een intrigerende reis naar de kern van onze persoonlijkheid. Peggy verkent het fascinerende concept van 'De Ronde Tafel', beter bekend als 'Voice Dialogue'.Deze aflevering biedt een unieke kans om te ontdekken hoe onze diverse innerlijke karakters elk een eigen, waardevolle stem hebben binnen ons psychologische landschap. Peggy legt met passie en deskundigheid uit hoe deze methode ons kan helpen om een dieper inzicht te krijgen in onszelf en hoe we deze inzichten kunnen gebruiken om meer balans en harmonie in ons leven te brengen.Of je nu bekend bent met psychotherapie of nieuwsgierig bent naar zelfontwikkeling, deze aflevering is een must-listen voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in het verkennen van de dynamische wereld van onze innerlijke psyche. Laat je inspireren en verrijk je begrip van de complexe, boeiende wereld binnenin ons allen.- Deze aflevering werd gemaakt door Body en Talk in samenwerking met Audiokop.HOOFDSTUKKEN(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Voice Dialogue (02:00) - Identificeren (03:06) - Wie ben ik nog? (10:02) - Parkeer je rollen. (10:45) - Schaduw Rollen

Op een mooie vrijdagmiddag mocht ik op bezoek bij Karin Brugman in Utrecht op een prachtige zolderkamer waar ze praktijk heeft. Ik had haar boek 'verander niks' gelezen. Een makkelijk lezend boek vol met inzichten uit de voice dialogue. Het werd weer een fascinerend gesprek Karin Brugman is trainer, coach en een van Nederlands experts in het werken met Voice Dialogue. Honderden trainers en coaches zijn door haar opgeleid in dit gedachtengoed. Ze is co-auteur van de bestseller: Ik (k)en mijn ikken. Ontdek andere kanten van jezelf met Voice Dialogue en Coachen met Voice Dialogue. Handboek voor begeleiders. Onlangs verscheen haar nieuwste boek Verander niks. Goed zijn in wie je bent. Daarin word je uitgenodigd om je persoonlijke effectiviteit te verhogen door te luisteren naar signalen, die je geneigd bent te negeren. Karin Brugman werkt sinds 2008 als zelfstandige in haar praktijk De Onderstroom Training & Coaching. Daarin coacht ze leidinggevenden, medewerkers en expats in organisaties . Karin Brugmans is tevens opleider bij de Voice Dialogue Academie opgericht door Judith Budde. Ook begeleidt ze stellen die hun relatie willen verbeteren of daarin vastgelopen zijn.

Wie in jou heeft de regie als je je dag gaat plannen? Wie in jou bepaalt wat belangrijk is? Wie in jou zegt dat je door moet gaan ook al ben je moe? Wie in jou zegt dat je het nog beter had moeten doen? Wie in jou zegt dat het heel veel stress gaat geven als je zegt wat je vindt? Wie in jou...? Nou dat gaan we even onderzoeken tijdens deze podcast. Ik vertel je over kanten in jezelf die behoorlijk dominant kunnen zijn en ervoor zorgen dat je niet toekomt aan de dingen die voor jou belangrijk zijn. O, tijdens het opnemen van deze video/podcast zit duidelijk mijn enthousiaste kant met ADHD aan het stuur te trekken. Voice Dialogue, ontdek je sterke kanten, je schaduwkanten (daar ligt je potentieel) en je innerlijke criticus: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/online-programma-voice-dialogue/ Persoonlijke podcastcoaching: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/persoonlijke-podcastcoaching/ Stop met people-pleasen – Nee zeggen zonder schuldgevoel en conflicten https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/pleaser/

Kwetsbaarheid noem ik ook wel: 'echtheid' want dat is het in mijn ogen. In deze podcast vertel ik je erover. En over: - sterk moeten zijn van jezelf - de functie van emoties - je kwetsbaarheid of zwakte niet laten zien - verlatingsangst - de angst om gekwetst te worden - Voice Dialogue (die kanten in je bus) - negatieve emoties er laten zijn, in plaats van vluchten, afleiden of verdoven - dingen verwerken - jezelf de ruimte geven om aanwezig te zijn.

Deze podcast gaat over: - alles regelen - de boel onder controle willen houden - kartrekker zijn - je alleen voelen, niet gesteund en niet gewaardeerd - heel veel alleen moeten doen - je overmatig verantwoordelijk voelen - het gevoel hebben veel op je schouders te hebben - de dramadriehoek - scheefgroei in relaties - alles alleen moeten doen in je relatie en/of gezin - op het werk het meeste doen (maar niet altijd gezien worden) - teveel te doen hebben. Voice Dialogue coachprogramma om te doen, eventueel met persoonlijke begeleiding: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/online-programma-voice-dialogue/ Versie speciaal voor vrouwen: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/voice-dialogue-programma-voor-vrouwen/ Online coachprogramma over het vinden en leven conform jouw waarden: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/wat-wil-ik-nou-echt/ Online communicatiecursus: https://www.wendyborst.nl/product/communicatievaardigheden/ #dramadriehoek #relaties

In deze aflevering duiken we dieper in het thema van innerlijke tegenstrijdigheden. Je kent ze wel, die stemmetjes, de kwebbeltante op je schouder die allemaal commentaar levert op hoe je iets wel of niet zou moeten doen. Samen met paula ga ik in gesprek over het maken van belangrijke keuzes in je leven en het vinden of hervinden van de voor jou juiste koers. We hebben het onder andere over de Voice Dialogue methode, die gaat over verschillende delen van onszelf die elkaar beinvloeden. Zelf vertel ik over een belangrijk kruispunt in mijn ondernemers reis en welke obstakels ik daarvoor voorbij moest om mijn bedrijf een nieuwe richting te geven. Mijn eigen grootste cheerleader te zijn en 100% te gaan staan voor wat ik wil doen! Heb jij het gevoel dat je meer zelfregie zou willen in jouw leven? En kan je zelfvertrouwen een boost gebruiken? Vaak heeft je omgeving helemaal niet door dat er achter het vrolijke, zelfverzekerde masker toch ook onzekerheden zitten. Delen van jou die je wellicht tegenhouden om bepaalde keuzes te maken in je leven. Gelukkig hoef je dit niet alleen te doen. Nieuwsgierig hoe je met ons kan samenwerken? Neem dan een kijkje op onze website zelfleiderschapinstituut.nl en neem vooral vrijblijvend contact op wanneer je interesse hebt in een van onze trainingen! Link naar Ik (k)en mijn ikken: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/ik-en-mijn-ikken/9300000141119181/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008N-S--9300000141119181&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhvrNmcuqgQMVZDsGAB0Oyg91EAQYASABEgI86fD_BwE

#40 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Certified Flower Essence Practitioner and Educator Ruth Toledo Altschuler on how the elements, plants, and flower essences offer templates of wholeness that support the experience of coming home to the living world with our whole being. At a time on the planet when the human species has become so disconnected from the experience of the fabric of life, how do we become co-creators with the web of life again? In this episode, Ruth offers profound wisdom on how the elements, plants, and flower essences support the experience of coming into a state of embodied presence. She shares about vibrational medicine of specific flowers including Green Fairy Orchid, Moschatel, and Green Rain Orchid; and the power of being rooted and connecting with the process of inner reforestation. She also offers incredible insight on how for people who are feeling called to become part of the regeneration of Gaia at this time, amazing plants such as Lady's Mantle can help us connect with how to be agents of this healing through our hands and our hearts. Certified Flower Essence Practitioner, Voice Dialogue facilitator and True Purpose Coach, Ruth is originally from Brazil, where she initially launched her practice. An early connection with plants in Nature and a deep insight into the human psyche informed her practice of more than 3 decades, mentoring individuals through deep emotional healing, integration and empowerment. Ruth's greatest strength is identifying emotional patterns, offering clarity and tools so her clients can transform attitudes and habits, freeing their life force, so their lives can evolve and flourish to the next stage. Her ease with technology, skills as a photographer / designer, and her deep connection with the healing Archetypes of plants and flowers are a channel through which she brings Nature forces to infuse our inner and our digital world with healing beauty and integration, in times of polarization and fragmentation. Ruth is also the Co-founder of The School for Flower Essence Studies and Co-host of the Flower Essence Alchemy Earth Week Intensive, which starts on April 17th! In this amazing event, incredible teachers and experts will be sharing deep knowledge on experiencing the relationship between the elements, the essences, and ourselves; and how we can co-create and nurture a vitally potent sense of integration of our human selves within the web of creation. You can register for Flower Essence Alchemy here: https://floweressencestudies.com/flower-essence-alchemy/ You can find Ruth at: https://essencementoring.com and  https://www.essencecircles.com On instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruthtoledoaltschuler/On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/essence.mentoringFor more info please visit Sara's website at Multidimensional Nature and on IG https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: Workshop on How to Learn Plant Language

I veckans avsnitt möter vi Micke Gunnarsson och Lina Karlsson för ett samtal om relationer.  Hur kan vi förhålla oss till vår egen inre läkning och utveckling på ett så ärligt och medvetet sätt som möjligt för att kunna relatera till vår partner från en plats av närvaro, sårbarhet och kontakt?  Vad händer när vi tar ansvar för våra sår, vår historia och vågar titta på våra egna mönster och strategier. Kanske är det inte min partners fel att det blir som det blir utan invanda strategier som vi båda har med oss från förr som gör att vi hamnar där vi hamnar?  Ja, det här är inte bara en intervju med 2 fantastiska förebilder och inspiratörer - det är även ett samtal mellan 4 vänner. Tryggheten och värmen som redan finns oss emellan öppnar upp för både skratt, tårar, allvar och en rejäl dos av bus i samtalet.  Micke Gunnarsson är inspiratören, föreläsaren och författaren med över 20 års erfarenhet av personlig utveckling och lärande. Micke är även aktuell med boken ”Medvetet Föräldraskap - Om att möta våra barn där de är, inte där vi önskar att de vore”.  Lina Karlsson är inspiratören och vägledaren som tillsammans med sin syster grundat det holistiska centret Studio Besjälat i Halmstad. Lina är en kraft som vägleder människor till en djupare kontakt med sig själva genom samtal, energibehandlingar och olika former av fri rörelse.  Som kärlekspar inspirerar Micke & Lina andra par till en ökad närvaro och kontakt genom samtal, retreats och inspirationsdagar.  Uppskattade du det här samtalet? Dela gärna en recension i appen där du lyssnar eller dela det här avsnittet på din story och tagga oss! Tack för att du hjälper oss att göra vårt arbete möjligt! Anmäl dig till årsprogrammet i Voice Dialogue för dig som vill inkludera Voice Dialogue i ditt arbete som coach, terapeut eller andra kontext med koden ”perspektiv10” via learnvoicedialogue.com Kontakta Micke Gunnarsson: https://www.mickegunnarsson.se/ Kontakta Lina Karlsson: https://www.instagram.com/besjalat/ Vill du joina vårt Facebook community och möta fler lyssnare till den här podden? ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/mofjrdcommunity⁠ Anmäl dig till aktuella kurser med Going Deeper: ⁠https://www.goingdeeper.se⁠ Signa upp på inspirationsbrev för fler inspirerande perpektiv: ⁠https://mofjrd.com/inspirationsbrev⁠ Mer om Madeleine Mofjärd: ⁠https://www.mofjrd.com⁠ Mer om Peter Nilsson: ⁠https://www.peternilssoncommunication.com/ ⁠ Madeleine på Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mofjrd

How can Voice Dialogue help us heal, integrate and live more consciously?  In this weeks episode I connect with the author, psychologist and trainer Robert Stamboliev for a conversation about Voice Dialoge and how the method can help us heal, integrate and live more consciously.  Robert Stamboliev is the founder of the Institute for Transformational Psychology and has since 1983 passionately been working to put Voice Dialogue on the map in Europe.  In this conversation you´ll hear us talk about: How Voice Dialogue can help us heal, integrate and live more consciously How getting in touch with our inner selves can help us become more liberated and integrated as individuals Why understanding the positive need or intention behind our patterns will help us love ourselves more Read more about Voice Dialogue: ⁠⁠⁠https://learnvoicedialogue.com/⁠⁠⁠ Sign up to the Voice Dialogue Year Course and use the code "perspective10" for 10% discount: ⁠⁠⁠https://learnvoicedialogue.com/voice-dialogue-year-course/ ⁠⁠⁠ Contact Madeleine Mofjärd: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.mofjrd.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Madeleine on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mofjrd⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join our FREE Facebook Community: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/mofjrdcommunity⁠⁠⁠⁠ Share your contribution on SWISH: 123 614 75 24 Share your contribution on PayPal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/mofjrd⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sponsorship and collaborations: m⁠⁠⁠⁠adeleine@mofjrd.com

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Phil Ford. Phil is an associate professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is the author of the book Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture (a cultural history of hipness from the 1930s through the 1960s), the long-running blog Dial 'M' for Musicology, and various essays that have appeared in Representations, Journal of Musicology, Musical Quarterly, and elsewhere. With J. F. Martel he is working on a book titled Weirding, to be published by Strange Attractor Press. Phil is a pianist, rabid Wagnerite, crap Buddhist, degenerate fight fan, and avid consulter of the I Ching. He wishes that just for once he had an enthusiasm that he didn't have to apologize for or explain to his academic peers. He is also the co-host of the podcast Weird Studies. In this episode, we discuss Nick Lowe's song "The Beast in Me". Episode Highlights: The UFC and the recent Dana White controversy Carl Jung's notion of the shadow Ursula LeGuin's "A Wizard of Earthsea" Hal and Sidra Stone's Voice Dialogue therapy Zen Buddhism Alchemical transformation The universal religious impulse Much more!

This has got to be the soonest I've had a guest return for a "part 2" conversation. Tim is an expert at connecting people their purpose, something he considers soul-based. Our last conversation was powerful, but I felt we'd just scratched the surface. So dig in with us here on why so many men feel purposeless, the role nature plays in that, how technology alters how we connect, and much, much more. Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he serves as a certified Nature-Based Purpose Guide to support people who hear the call from wild nature to discover their purpose, those with a burning desire to live their vision and a willingness to work with resistance and fears through the Ecology of Self and Voice Dialogue. Tim also serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho in 2005 dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking.  Tim is a leader of men's groups and holistic rites of passage for males, guiding and initiating men and boys into the new paradigm of the mature masculine. Since 1999, Tim has dedicated his life towards consciously furthering this vision of living in balance with the Earth, community, family, self, spirit, and soul. Healing the cultural rift between the mainstream and indigenous cultures, transformational consciousness work, the spiritual journey, ancestral work, deep nature connection, family and holistic health are all deep commitments in his life. Tim is a heart-centered father of two brilliant boys and husband to a magnificent wife and lives in pristine Sandpoint, Idaho. Connect with Tim -Website: https://www.purposemountain.com/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PurposeMountain/ Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they're looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today.  Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

— Many people who find Georgia's website are searching for ‘Hypnotherapy for Alcohol Abuse‘, or How Do I Stop Drinking Alcohol?' and ‘How to give up alcohol.' They may have the belief that quitting is the only way forward... UNTIL NOW! You may feel you need to stop because you don't trust yourself because of your history of drinking. However, Georgia can assure you that you have incredible resources within that can kickstart you into a painless, simple Drink Less journey. This is why her Ahead of the Game program sells all over the world. It's the middle ground of drinking, where you discover how to drink less alcohol without the long winded, expensive and old-fashioned methods that just don't work. You may worry that you can't be that person, but tens of thousands of people around the world - just like you have turbo charged their confidence in their ability to drink less with this  straight forward, no-nonsense alcohol reduction roadmap. Georgia knows you can experience these spectacular results even if you don't believe it right now and remember this method is scientifically proven to work. Valeria interviews Georgia Foster — she is a Clinical Hypnotherapist & Voice Dialogue Trainer. Georgia qualified with distinction at The London College of Clinical Hypnosis in 1996. She also is trained in Voice Dialogue with the founders Hal & Sidra Stone, California 1994. She then went on to become one of the college's senior lecturers before venturing out on her own to build her on-line products while running her busy London Clinic. Georgia specializes is in alcohol reduction, emotional over-eating, self-esteem, anxiety and fertility issues. Her unique and highly successful approach has helped tens of thousands of people learn how to feel better emotionally and physically. Georgia has published several books, including: The Weight Less Mind The Drink Less Mind Drink Less in 7 Days The 4 Secrets of Amazing Sex The Stress Less Mind The Fertile Mind Her on-line programs are: 7 Days To Drink Less, Believing In You, Emotional Resilience Training, The Weight Less Mind and more. Georgia now resides in Melbourne, Australia with her partner Ian and triplet boys Ollie, Finn and Hugh. Georgia has been featured regularly in the media in Britain and Australia including Sky News, GMTV, The Morning Show, 3AW, 2GB, Psychologies Magazine, Good Housekeeping, just to name a few. Georgia speaks regularly at conferences and networking events, as well as her own seminars in Australia, USA and the UK about the power of the mind and how negative thinking is a habit we can unlearn. To learn more about Georgia Foster and her work, please visit: georgiafoster.com           — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

J. Tamar Stone, M.A., C.H.T., is internationally recognized as a psychotherapist, consultant, consciousness teacher, senior Voice Dialogue facilitator, and the originator of The Body Dialogue Process. She is also the creator of Selves in a Box, an interactive card deck and manual for Selves exploration. Tamar is the daughter and stepdaughter of Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, originators of Voice Dialogue. Tamar has taught at Pepperdine University, the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute, Antioch University, Mile Hi Church of Denver, and Kanzeon Zen Center. She maintains an international client base comprising individuals, couples, and professionals seeking a deeper, more fulfilling sense of self.   https://www.voicedialogueconnection.com/meet-tamar/

Get early access to our latest psychology lectures: http://bit.ly/new-talks5 Chairwork is a highly emotional and very powerful experiential psychotherapy that is currently undergoing a renaissance as clinicians all over the world are beginning to integrate it into their practices. Originally created by Dr. Jacob Moreno, the creator of Psychodrama, it was made famous in the 1960s by Dr. Frederick “Fritz” Perls, the creator of Gestalt Therapy. Chairwork, at its essence, involves: (a) inviting a patient to sit in one chair and to have an imaginary encounter with someone from the past, the present, or the future in the chair opposite; and/or (b) using several chairs to create dialogues among different parts of the self—with love, desire, fear, and courage often emerging as core themes. This presentation will include an introduction to the Four Dialogues – which is a crystallization of over 50 years of Chairwork Practice. Using Chairwork to: — Engage with Difficult Relationships; — Heal from Grief and Loss; and — Work through Traumatic Memories This will be followed by live case consultation/demonstrations with volunteers by Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC & Dr Scott Kellogg, PhD. -- Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC is a certified Chairwork Psychotherapist and Co-Director of Training at the Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project. Ms. Garcia Torres received her Master's Degree in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from New York University and has also completed training in Voice Dialogue. She began her journey with TCPP in 2013 and has trained clinicians in NYC and internationally. Her presentations and writings have addressed such topics as chairwork, trauma, social justice, oppression, and identity issues. Ms. Garcia Torres is in private practice at Chairwork Therapy NYC. Scott Kellogg, PhD is the author of Transformational Chairwork: Using Psychotherapeutic Dialogues in Clinical Practice (2015, Rowman & Littlefield). He is a former Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at New York University and a Past-President of Division of Addictions of the New York State Psychological Association. An ISST-certified Advanced Schema Therapist, he has also trained in Gestalt Therapy and Voice Dialogue. Dr. Kellogg currently runs a chairwork-centered private practice in New York City. Through the Transformational Chairwork Psychotherapy Project, he has taught this method of psychotherapeutic dialogue to practitioners in the United States and abroad. -- Links: - Get our latest psychology lectures emailed to your inbox: http://bit.ly/new-talks5 - Check out our next event: http://theweekenduniversity.com/events - Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC website: https://chairworktherapynyc.com -Scott Kellogg, PhD website: http://transformationalchairwork.com/about/about-scott-kellogg - Amanda Garcia Torres, LMHC latest article: https://bit.ly/transformational-chair -Scott Kellogg, PhD latest article: https://bit.ly/APA-Psychnet

IN THIS EPISODE OF THE HUMAN UPGRADE™...…two spiritual masters continue discovering new layers of and models for human experience. This combined episode covers aspects of consciousness, conscious agents, biodynamics, emotional body energy, the Enneagram, homeopathy and much more.Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. TIME magazine described him as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” He's been exploring the intersection of science and spirituality for decades.Deepak's 90th book: “Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential,” gets into what it means to be “beyond human.” You'll learn how to question reality, move past limitations constructed by your mind, and enter a new state of awareness. And when you realize a “reality without limits,” you'll be able to realize your full human potential.Abdul Hayy Lammert Holdijk has followed a Sufi path for the past 40 years, studying religion and consciousness with a hefty dose of pragmatism. He lectures on topics such as Epigenetics, Neurobiology, the Enneagram, Shadow Work, Voice Dialogue, Love, Dream interpretation, Jekyll and Hyde, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and a wide range of other topics related to consciousness and personality development. Abdul taught at the American University in Beirut for several years, and then at the American University in Cairo for 35. His profound life story includes adventure, spirituality seeking, questioning tradition and teaching others. He also leads spiritual retreats in Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, and the surrounding region.If you liked this special episode with Deepak and Abdul, you'll learn even more from listening to their full podcasts, directly below.Going Beyond the Human Mind to Discover Your Infinite Potential – Deepak Chopra – #683Who Am I? Finding Spirituality by Disrupting Tradition with Abdul Hayy L. Holdijk – #710WE APPRECIATE OUR PARTNERS. CHECK THEM OUT!Hydrate with Electrolytes: https://DrinkLMNT.com/DAVE, get a FREE LMNT Sample Pack with 8 single-serving packets for the cost of shipping ($5 for U.S. customers) Business Growth With SEO: https://www.stephanspencer.com, get a FREE consultationSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Discovering a sense of purpose in life can feel frustrating and ambiguous at times, and with the mountain of books and guides out there, it's also easy to dismiss the simple act of letting purpose find you, so to speak. Tim Corcoran specializes in helping people cut through the complexity and return to nature, so I sat down with him to dig into the nature and definition of purpose, the point of things like vision quests, and how nature speaks to us.  Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he serves as a certified Nature-Based Purpose Guide to support people who hear the call from wild nature to discover their purpose, those with a burning desire to live their vision and a willingness to work with resistance and fears through the Ecology of Self and Voice Dialogue. Tim also serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho in 2005 dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking.  Tim is a leader of men's groups and holistic rites of passage for males, guiding and initiating men and boys into the new paradigm of the mature masculine. Since 1999, Tim has dedicated his life towards consciously furthering this vision of living in balance with the Earth, community, family, self, spirit, and soul. Healing the cultural rift between the mainstream and indigenous cultures, transformational consciousness work, the spiritual journey, ancestral work, deep nature connection, family and holistic health are all deep commitments in his life. Tim is a heart-centered father of two brilliant boys and husband to a magnificent wife and lives in pristine Sandpoint, Idaho. Connect with Tim -Website: https://www.purposemountain.com/ -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PurposeMountain/ Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they're looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today.  Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, I speak with Merkaba Teacher, Egyptian Mystery Teacher, and Author... Sabrina Di Nitto. Sabrina and I discuss her new book "Enlightenment Codes for Cosmic Ascension: A Sacred Journey through Creation", and the powerfully advanced information that's found within it. Also, we discuss the encoded light information that can be found at sacred locations all over the world including Egypt.. Drop In!www.sabrinadinitto.com, www.enlightenmentcodes.comSabrina Di Nitto Bio:Sabrina Di Nitto listens with her inner senses to the realm beyond manifestation, moving between form and formlessness. She deepened her inner knowledge in spiritual psychology, alchemical healing, Egyptian mystery, Merkaba teachings, and transpersonal therapy to access the world beyond thought and form.Since 2008 she works as a Spiritual Teacher and cosmic midwife of new consciousness. She practices breathwork, regression and incarnation therapy, family constellations, Voice Dialogue, multidimensional Merkaba healing and reading. She has also developed her own Venus Light Technology for soul embodiment.Sabrina works with adults and children to integrate the light into their hearts and bodies. She works with many ascended masters and is initiated into the lineage of Thoth Hermes Trismegistus. Her innate gifts as a visionary run like a thread through her life and her work.Internationally she travels to sacred places to activate and reveal their pristine blueprint. Sabrina holds a M.A. in Romance Literature, Linguistics and Philology. She speaks Dutch, English, French and Italian. Her workshops and trainings are given in English, French and Dutch. She lives in Flanders, Belgium, where she teaches, guides and writes. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dans l'épisode 77 de Wake Up, Rise Up & Shine, je me réjouis de réunir un panel de femmes brillantes autour de comment influencer de manière positive la culture de votre entreprise. Je reçois Emmanuelle Nave, Ida El Hicheri et Laurence Boistay.Emmanuelle Nave est Directrice des Ressources Humaines de Mutuaide Assistance, filiale de Groupama. Elle est aussi mère de 4 enfants et ma co-auteure du livre J'arrête de râler au boulot !   paru aux éditions Eyrolles.Ida El Hicheri est Docteur en Psychologie du travail et des Organisations, psychologue et Executive Coach. Ancienne responsable RH à la SNCF, elle est aujourd'hui la fondatrice du cabinet Psy&Co Développement. Elle est aussi mère de 4 enfants et l'auteure du livre Femme-S, sorti en avril 2021.Laurence Boistay est executive coach, facilitatrice, coach en Voice Dialogue et Praticienne PNL. Elle a exercé dans les RH de grands groupes à l'international. Aujourd'hui, elle est à la tête de son propre cabinet de coaching. Elle est aussi mère de 2 enfants.Il semblerait que la crise sanitaire et le télétravail aient distendu les liens entre les équipes. Les changements incessants d'organisation génèrent un stress important, une fatigue générale et une  ambiance souvent morose. Au coeur de cette expérience, la culture d'entreprise joue un rôle important.Si vous avez pour ambition de contribuer à transformer de manière positive la culture de votre entreprise, alors cet épisode est pour vous !Dans cet épisode nous abordons :La culture d'entreprise : ce que c'est et pourquoi c'est importantComment faire évoluer les habitudes relationnelles qui sont polluantesPourquoi faire évoluer le groupe commence par oser évoluer soi-mêmePourquoi il peut être intéressant pour une entreprise d'encourager ses collaborateurs à avoir l'audace de dire ce qui ne va pasEn quoi la vulnérabilité est une clé pour renforcer la collaboration des équipesPourquoi les entreprises sont désormais ouvertes à faire vivre des programmes de développement personnel à leurs équipesCe qui se passe quand des équipes vivent ensemble les ateliers J'arrête de râler au boulotDécouvrez les ateliers J'arrête de râler pour les entreprises ICI.Téléchargez le dossier d'information sur notre programme de certification pour devenir ambassadeur certifié et animer vos propres ateliers J'arrête de râler.Si la thématique du bien-être au travail vous intéresse, décou les épisodes suivants :ÉPISODE 18 | Les Happy WorkersÉPISODE 52 | Être libre et heureux au boulot ÉPISODE 57 | Mon boss est nul mais je le soigne ===================Comment soutenir ce podcast ?Le meilleur moyen de le faire est de vous abonner au podcast Wake Up, Rise Up & Shine! sur Apple Podcast, et d'y laisser votre avis en lui donnant 5 étoiles ! *Et bien sûr, n'hésitez pas à faire connaître Wake Up, Rise Up & Shine! en le partageant à toutes les personnes qui vous sont chères et qui aspirent elles aussi à briller et ne plus vivre leur vie à moitié endormi !

What went wrong with research and psychotherapy research? The McNamara fallacy, named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven. The fallacy refers to McNamara's belief as to what led the United States to defeat in the Vietnam War—specifically, his quantification of success in the war (e.g., in terms of enemy body count), ignoring other variables. -From Wikipedia I remember going into my first day of research class during my masters program. We sat and learned the evidence based practice system that the psychology profession is based on. Put simply, evidence based practice is the system by which clinicians make sure that the techniques that they are using are backed by science. Evidence based practice means that psychotherapists only use interventions that research has proved are effective. Evidence is determined by research studies that test for measurable changes in a population given a certain intervention. What a brilliant system, I had thought. I then became enamored with research journals. I memorized every methodology by which research was conducted. I would peruse academic libraries at night for every clinical topic that I encountered clinically. I would select studies that used only the best methodologies before I would believe that their findings had merit. I loved research and the evidence based practice system. I was so proud to be a part of a profession that took science so seriously and used it to improve the quality of care I gave patients. There was just one problem. The more that I learned about psychotherapy the less helpful I found research. Every expert that I encountered in the profession didn't use methods that I kept reading about in research. In fact there were actually psychological journals from the nineteen seventies that I found more helpful than modern evidence based practice obsessed publications. They would come up in digital libraries when I searched for more information about the interventions my patients liked. Moreover I found that all of the most popular and effective private practice clinicians were not using the techniques that I was reading about in the scientific literature either. What gives? Psychological trauma and the symptoms and conditions psychological trauma causes (PTSD, dissociative disorders, panic disorders, etc) are some of the most difficult symptoms to treat in psychotherapy. It therefore follows that patients with disorders caused by psychological trauma would be one of the most studied populations in research. So what are the two most commonly researched interventions for trauma? Prescribing medication and CBT or cognitive behavioral therapy. One thing that most of the best trauma therapists in the world all agree on is that CBT and medication don't actually process trauma at all, but instead assist patients in managing the symptoms that trauma causes. As a trauma therapist it is my goal to help patients actually process and eliminate psychological trauma. Teaching patients to drug or manage symptoms might be necessary periodically, but surely it shouldn't be the GOAL of treatment. I'm mixing metaphors but this image might help clarify these treatment modalities for those unfamiliar. Imagine that psychological trauma is like an allergy to a cat. Once you have an allergic reaction to the cat, a psychiatrist could give you an allergy medication like benadryl. A CBT therapist would teach you how to change your behavior based on your allergy. They might tell you to avoid cats or wash after touching one. A therapist practicing brain based or somatic focused trauma treatment would give you an allergy shot to help you develop an immunity to cats. The CBT patient never gets to know a cat's love. I don't have time to explore here why therapy that gives patients scripted ego management strategies like CBT took over the profession after the nineteen eighties . If you have any interest in why check out my article Is the Corporatization of Healthcare and Academia Ruining Psychotherapy?. Suffice it to say that insurance and american healthcare companies pay for much of the research that is conducted and they like to make money. CBT and prescribing drugs are two of the easiest ways for those institutions to accomplish those goals. Many of the MOST effective ways to treat trauma use the body and deep emotional brain system to assist patients in processing and permanently releasing psychological trauma. Unlike CBT the modalities that accomplish this are not manualizable. They can not be reduced to a “if they say this then you say that” script. Instead somatic therapies often use a therapist's intuition and make room for the patient to participate in the therapeutic process. CBT on the other hand is a formula that a therapist is performing “correctly” or “incorrectly” based on their adherence to a manual. Right now hospitals are rushing to program computers to do CBT so they can reduce overhead. Yikes! Think of a therapy experience like the self checkout at Walmart. If myself and most of the leading voices of the profession agree that newer brain based and body based therapy modalities are the future of trauma treatment then why hasn't research caught up yet? To stop this article from becoming a book I will break down the failure of modern research to back the techniques that actually work in psychotherapy. 1. It's Expensive – cash moves everything around me Research studies cost tons of money and take tons of time. Researchers have to plan studies and get the studies cleared with funders, ethics boards, university staff, etc.. They then have to screen participants and train and pay staff. The average study costs about $45,000. I would love to do a study myself on some of the therapy modalities that we use at Taproot Therapy Collective, but unfortunately I have to pay my mortgage. Studies get more expensive when you are studying things that have more moving parts and variables. Things like, Uh… therapy modalities that actually work to treat trauma. These modalities are unscripted and allow a clinician you use their intuition, conventional wisdom, and make room for a patient to discover their own insights and interventions. Someone has to pay for those studies and those someones usually aren't giving you that money without an agenda. Giant institutions are the ones most likely to benefit from researching things like prescribing drugs and CBT. They are also the ones that are the most likely to be in control of who gets to research what. The sedative drugs prescribed to treat trauma work essentially like alcohol, they dull and numb a person's ability to feel. Antidepressants reduce hopelessness and obsession. While this might help manage symptoms, it doesn't help patients process trauma or have insight into their psychology. Antidepressants and sedatives also block the healthy and normal anxieties that poor choices should cause us to feel. Despite this drugs are often prescribed to patients that have never been referred to therapy. For all the “rigorous ethical standards” modern research mandates, it doesn't specify who pays the bills for the studies. Drug companies conduct the vast majority of research studies in the United States, and those drug companies also like to make money. Funnily enough most of the research drug companies perform tends to validate the effectiveness of their product. Does anyone remember all the 90s cigarette company research that failed to prove that cigarettes were dangerous? All those studies still passed an ethics board review though. Maybe we should distribute research money to the professionals wha are actually working clinically with patients instead of career academics who do research for a living. At the very least keep it out of the hands of people who have a conflict of interest with the results. This leads me to my next point. 2. We Only Use Research to Prove Things that we Want to Know – Duh! The thing that got left out of my research 101 class was that the research usually has an agenda. Even if the science is solid there are some things that the commissioners of the studies don't want to know. For example, did you know that the D.A.R.E. program caused kids to use drugs? Uh..yeah, that wasn't what patrons of that research study meant to prove, so you never heard about it. It also didn't stop the DARE program for sticking around for another 10 years and 10 more studies that said the same thing. Giant institutions don't like to be told that their programs need to change. They wield an enormous amount of power over what gets researched and they tend to research things that would validate the decisions that they make, even the bad decisions. If you want research to be an effective guide for clinicians to use evidence interventions then you have to research all modalities of psychotherapy in equal measure. When the vast majority of research is funneled into the same areas, then those areas of medicine become better known clinically regardless of their validity. When very few models of therapy are researched, then those few models appear, falsely, to be superior. Easier and cheaper research studies are going to be designed and completed much more often than research studies that are more complicated. Even when institutional or monetary control of research is not an issue, the very nature of research design means that it is trickier to research things like “patient insight” than it is to research “hours of sleep”. This leads me to my next point. 3. Objective is not Better – People are not Robots CBT was designed by Aaron Beck to be a faster and data-driven alternative to the subjective and lengthy process of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Beck did this by saying that patient's had to agree on a goal that was measurable with a number, like “hours of sleep” or “times I drank” and then complete assessments to see if the goal was being accomplished. Because of this CBT is inherently objective and research based. CBT is therefore extremely easy to research. This approach works when it works, but a person's humanity is not always reducible to a number. I once heard a story from a colleague who was seeing a patient who had just completed CBT with another clinician to “reduce” marijuana use. The patient, who appeared to be very high, explained that his CBT clinician had discharged him after he cut back from 6 to only one joint per day. The patient explained proudly that he had simply begun to roll joints that were 6 times the size of the originals. That story is humorous, but it shows you the irony of a number based system invading a very human type of medicine. Squeezing people and behavior into tiny boxes means that you miss the whole person. Patients with complex symptoms presentations of PTSD and trauma are often excluded from research studies because they do not fit the criteria of having one measurable symptom. Discarding the most severe and treatment resistant cases means that researchers are left with only the easiest cases of PTSD to treat. This in turn, falsely inflates the perceived efficacy of the model that you are researching. Additionally, these studies usually exclude people who “drop out” of therapy early. In my experience people who leave therapy have failed to be engaged by the therapist and their model of choice. This falsely inflates the efficacy of models that discount patients that don't continue to come to a treatment that they feel is not helping them. It is my belief that it is the therapists job to engage a patient in treatment, not the patient to engage themselves. Trauma patients often quickly know whether or not a treatment is something that is going to help them or whether or not the information that a therapist has is something that they've already heard. Trauma affects the subcortical regions of the brain, the same regions that newer brain based medicine is targeting. CBT is a cognitive based intervention that measures and seeks to modify cognition. Clinical research stays away from measuring subcortical activation and patients' subjective feelings in favor of measuring cognition and behavior. Newer models of therapy like brainspotting and sensorimotor therapy are able to deliver results to a patient in a few sessions instead of a few months. Brainspotting therapy changed my life, but after completing the therapy I didn't “know” anything different. Brainspotting did not impart intellectual or cognitive knowledge. I was able to notice how my body responded to my emotions. I was also able to release stored emotional energy that had previously caused me distress in certain situations. Brainspotting did not significantly change my behavior and it would be difficult to quantify how my life changed with an objective number. These kinds of subjective and patient centered results are difficult for our modern evidence based system to quantify. Researchers hesitate to measure things like “insight” “body energy”, “happiness”, or “self actualization”. However it is these messy and human concepts that clinicians need to see in research journals in order to learn how to do a human connection centered profession. 4. People Learn from People not Numbers – Publish or Perish Once a research study is complete, the way that it is delivered to the professional community is through a research journal. Modern research journals focus on cold data driven outcomes and ignore things like impressionistic case studies and subjective patient impressions of a modality. The decision to do this means that the modern research journal is useless to most practicing clinicians. Remember when I said that I read academic journals from the 70's and 80's? I do that because those papers actually discuss therapy techniques, style and research that might help me understand a patient. Recent research articles look more like Excel spreadsheets. The corporatization of healthcare and academia, not only changed hospitals, it changed Universities as well. The people designing and running research studies and publishing those papers have a PhD. Academia is an extremely competitive game. Not only do you have to hustle to get a PhD., you have to keep hustling once you do. How do you compete with other academics once you get your PhD? The answer is that you get other people to cite your research in their research. You raise the status of yourself as an academic or your academic journal based on how many people cite your article in their article. The amount of times that a publication has its articles cited is called an impact factor and the amount of times that an author's articles get cited is measured with something called an h-index or RCR. In my opinion many of the journals and academics with the low scores by these metrics are the best in the profession. The modern research system focusing on these metrics has definitely not resulted in the creation of some page turner academic papers. In fact this competitive academic culture has led to modern journals being garbage that create careers for the people that write them and not change in the clinical profession. Academics research things that will get cited, not things that will help anyone and certainly not anything that anyone wants to read. Often the abstract for a modern research paper begins like this “In order to challenge the prevailing paradigm, we took the data from 7 studies and extrapolated it against our filter in order to refine data to compare against a metric…”. They are papers written to get cited but not to be read. They are the modern equivalent of those web pages that are supposed to be picked up by google but not read by humans. 5. Good Psychology Thrives in Complexity – In-tuition is Out Do you remember the middle school counselor that said “I understand how you are feeling” with a dull blank look in her eyes? Remember how that didn't work? Good therapy is about a clinician teaching a patient to use their own intuition and the clinician using their own. It is not about memorizing phrases and cognitive suggestions. The best modalities are ways of understanding and conceptualizing patients that allow a therapist to apply their own intuition. A modality becomes easier to study, but less effective, when it strips out all of the opportunity for personality, individuality and unique life experience that a clinician might need to make a genuine connection with a patient. Research studies are deeply uncomfortable with not being able to control every variable that goes on in a therapy room. However, the therapy modalities that strip that amount of control from a clinician could be done by a computer. Why is it not okay to research more abstract, less definable properties that are still helpful and observable. For example let's say that this is the research finding: “Clinicians who introduce patients to the idea that emotion is experienced somatically first, then cognitively secondarily in the first session had less patients drop out after the first session.” or “Clinicians that use a parts based approach to therapy (Jungian, IFS, Voice Dialogue, etc.) were able to reduce trauma symptoms faster than cognitive and mindfulness based approaches.” If those statements are true then why does it matter HOW those clinicians are implementing those conceptualizations in therapy? If we know that certain strategies of conceptualization are effective then why does research need to control how those conceptualizations are applied? If clinicians who conceptualize cases in a certain way tend to keep patients, then why does it matter if we can't control for all the other unique variables that that clinician introduces into treatment. With a big enough sample, we can still see what types of training and what modes of thinking are working. Modern research has become more interested in why something works instead of being content to simply find what works. If patient's and clinicians with trauma all favor a certain modality, then why does it matter if we can't extrapolate and control all the variables present in those successful sessions. Research has stayed away from modalities that regulate the subcortical brain and instead emphasized more measurable cognitive variables simply because it is harder to measure the variables that make therapy for trauma effective! This is a whole other article, but the American medical community has become fixated on managing symptoms instead of curing or preventing actual illness. Research has become hostile to variables that contain affective experience or clinical complexity or challenging the existing institutional status quo. The concept of “evidence” needs to be expanded to include scientifically plausible working theories that have been validated by clinicians and patients alike. This is especially important regarding diagnoses that are difficult to broadly generalize like dissociative and affective disorders. 6. In Conclusion – Results Psychotherapy is a modality that is conducted between humans and it is best learned about and conveyed in a medium that considers our Humanity. The interests of the modern research conducting institution and research publishing bodies largely contradict the interests of psychotherapy as a profession. The trends in modern evidence based practice make it exceptionally poor at evaluating the techniques and practices that are actually helping patients in the field or that are popular with trauma focused clinicians. Addendum: Before someone leaves a comment, yes, I know about CPT, CBT-D, and TF-CBT. I've read those books. I'm going to call CBT-BS before you post that comment. So before you ask, no, they don't hold a candle to Brainspotting, Sensorimotor, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Neurofeedback, QEEG or any of the other effective brain based and somatic based medicine for PTSD and trauma. Find more @ https://gettherapybirmingham.com/  

Join a dynamic and diverse panel from different backgrounds for a roundtable discussion on what it means to heal trauma through dance. Dance is a powerful medium for healing trauma. Regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, or age, people can find community and strength through dance. They discuss the power of dance in healing from traumatic experiences and how to bring about more peace and resilience. Stefan Freedman, Author of the book 'Dance Wise,' is passionate about the role of integrative arts in transforming society. His research focuses on healing trauma through conscious movement. He has facilitated dance in mental health settings for 15 years in Ipswich, UK, and continues a weekly therapeutic movement class where many participants attend with their carers. Stefan's dance training includes dances from many cultures and styles. He sees dance as an integration of body, mind, emotions, and spirituality is drawn to exploring inwardly and outwardly, and has studied Voice Dialogue, Psychosynthesis, Co-Counselling, NLP, and NVC. Stefan coordinates a free online hub where facilitators share insights and practical tools. The aim is to create a global group of dancers and practitioners sharing resources contributing to a more compassionate and sustainable world. www.dancewise.net Marylee Hardenbergh studied under Irmgard Bartenieff and Penny Bernstein and is a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist. She served on the Board of Directors for the American Dance Therapy Association, and led numerous Movement Choirs for the openings and closings at the conferences; she was honored to be a keynote speaker at their 2015 conference. Hardenbergh loves to travel and work with communities to create site-specific performances that combine community art with therapeutic intentions, creating performances in sites worldwide. She was an Artist-In-Residence at the Center for Global Environmental Education at Hamline University in Minnesota and the original Artistic Director of Global Water Dances. She directs Global Site Performance and has received numerous awards for choreography. Globalsiteperformance.org Rebecca Faro's dance journey started at ten while attending Bush Davies & Elmhurst Ballet School. At seventeen, she auditioned for the London School of Contemporary dance. Overjoyed to be one of four accepted from eighty people, they found she had a back problem at that audition, meaning she couldn't continue with her dance career. Although this was earth-shattering news, it changed her direction. She began to explore movement as a healing path for herself & others, training in Creative movement through the Anna Halprin method. She continued her exploration by attending Authentic Movement, Contact improvisation, Rebirthing, Trance Dance, 5rhythms, BioDanza, and Grief Counselling courses. She has recently completed a ten-month online personal development training with Jamie Catto. dancinginsideout.com Alia Thabit is an Arab-American Oriental (belly) dance artist and a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. She is also a writing instructor, Dancemeditation and Spiritual Bellydance instructor, and creativity coach. Alia champions self-expression, resilience, and trust in the body. Her dance classes help participants reclaim their joyful spirit and deep wells of creativity. She weaves Somatic Experiencing techniques into her classes and coaching to help seekers transcend limiting beliefs and connect to their true self. Alia is the author of "Midnight at the Crossroads: Has belly dance sold its soul?" which challenges cultural stereotypes, discusses its evolution, and shows how to access the dance's inherent spirit and joy.

Marcellus Bear Heart Williams is what I call a living ancestor. A living ancestor is a person whose wisdom has not departed, but instead taken up residence in the hearts of those who loved him, and even perhaps in those that never met him – someone like myself. Living ancestors are not deceased, as in inert or forgotten. Their energy has not been destroyed; their spirit and work in the world is ongoing. Join us as we invite into the conversation the spirit of Bear Heart, his wife, Reginah Waterspirit, and Tim Amsden, the editor of the newly released book on Synergetic Press, The Bear is My Father: The Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Elder Marcellus Bear Heart Williams, the brilliant companion piece to The Wind is My Mother, that came out in 1996.   Reginah Waterspirit, co-author of The Bear is My Father, and the wife and medicine helper of Bear Heart, is originally from the Bronx, NY. An artist from birth, she sees all of life as art and has owned and operated numerous businesses, all centered around some form of art.  In 1979 she boarded the Queen Elizabeth the 2nd  ship in New York harbor and crossed the Atlantic Ocean bound for Europe.  After traveling from the Netherlands to the Greek Islands, she ended up in Italy painting in a 14th Century structure inhabited by Machiavelli when he wrote The Prince. In the early 1980s she studied Voice Dialogue, helpful in exploring our own personal and transpersonal energies, from the originators of the method: Hal and Sidra Stone. That was the beginning of a life change that led to her meeting Marcellus Bear Heart, of the Muskogee Nation-Creek Tribe, a caretaker of sacred ways. She was 42 years old when she embarked on a brand new, life adventure with Bear Heart,. They worked and travelled together in the United States, Europe, Mexico and Canada for the next 23 years. She went on to become an independent teacher of Voice Dialogue, other psycho-spiritual disciplines, and Art In The Park, a realistic type drawing class for the very young and elderly, that honors our connection with all living things. Regina is a member of an earth based community called The Earth Tribe and committed to the transformational process of humans who experience themselves as one of many species, not higher or lower in stature. A dog and animal lover, she lives in Albuquerque with [dog name Rocky?],  who reinforces her connection to the land.  Tim Amsden was born in Wichita, Kansas, earned a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City for 25 years, primarily on water quality protection issues. He and now lives with his wife, Lucia, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His writings have appeared in journals and anthologies throughout the US, as well as in Canada, Algeria, Ireland, and Turkey, and his full-length book of poetry, Vanishing Point, was published in 2015. He was editor of and contributor to a book titled The Bear is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muskogee Creek Medicine Man. that was published in 2021 by Synergetic Press. He is currently finalizing Love Letter to Ghost Land: Living Along an Ancient New Mexico Trail, a portrait of his life with Lucia in Ramah, New Mexico, and the history and deep spirit that permeates that sacred place. Marcellus Bear Heart Williams was born a full-blooded member of the Muskogee Creek Nation in Okemah, Oklahoma, on April 13th, 1918. One of the last traditionally trained medicine persons of his Tribe, he studied for 14 years under two medicine men, then went on to obtain an undergraduate degree, a divinity degree majoring in Biblical Greek, and an honorary Ph.D. in Humanities. He was a roadman in the Native American Church, an ordained American Baptist Minister, and spoke 14 languages, 13 of them native. He prayed with President Truman, put down prayers with police and firemen at Ground Zero, New York City. served on a variety of national and international panels and boards, and authored two books. His first book, The Wind Is My Mother, was published by Random House in 1996 and has been translated into 14 languages. His second book, co-authored by his medicine helper, Reginah WaterSpirit, was just published by Synergetic Press under the title The Bear is My Father. Although he passed on August 4, 2008, Bear Heart's energy and open-hearted unconditional love continues to enrich lives around the globe. With his medicine helper Reginah WaterSpirit, his simple message to the world lives on: Everyone is worthy, we are all one Tribe, and it is our responsibility to honor and support the living earth.

In this episode, Bridgit Dengel Gaspard shares how to use the modality of Voice Dialogue to resolve inner conflict about your relationship or about anything else! You can access Bridgit’s FREE gift “Reverse Engineer Love in Your Relationship e-book” here: https://conta.cc/2UOQTZE. Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, is the author of The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner   [...read more]

In this episode, Bridgit Dengel Gaspard shares how to use the modality of Voice Dialogue to resolve inner conflict about your relationship or about anything else! You can access Bridgit’s FREE gift “Reverse Engineer Love in Your Relationship e-book” here: https://conta.cc/2UOQTZE. Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, is the author of The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner   [...read more]

To receive $22 off your first 3 month Goddess Circle package use code GODDESS22 at check out. To follow Erin and find out when her program does launch go HERE. And follow her fun, loving Be Love Notes on IG. Join my texting community and leave a voicemail to ask a soul, inner child, loving all your selves questions which I will answer here on the podcast!

Bridgit Dengel Gaspard, LCSW, is a former performer who stumbled upon Voice Dialogue, developed by the Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone. She discovered the healing power of embodying your different Inner Selves or Alter Egos and trained as a Master Facilitator, which inspired her to change her career and become a psychotherapist and coach. She graduated from Columbia University, founded the New York Voice Dialogue Institute, and has led workshops for Omega Institute, NY Open Center and many others. She wrote 'The Final 8th: Enlist Your Inner Selves To Accomplish Your Goals' so those struggling within sight of their finish line would be able to access their different Alter Egos to  empower themselves and access the Alter Egos with the precise superpower they need. Every 3rd Thursday of the month at 8pm Eastern she offers a free Voice Dialogue Learning Lab Zoomshop so anyone can encounter this work for themselves and initiate their journey to reveal and release their hidden inner conflict that's blocking their fruition.   https://www.bridgit-dengel-gaspard.com For more information about Michelle, visit www.michelleoravitz.com Instagram: @thewholesomelotusfertility Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewholesomelotus/

COACHING SERIES! Twice a month I'll be releasing episodes of real time coaching. My first client for this series is Thomas, a 5/1 emotional manifestor. We did Voice Dialogue around his issue with the "lazy" part of himself (we changed this name to the "being" part) and the "boot strap" part of him that's a real go getter. I wove in information from his Human Design chart so he could understand these parts of himself and also his life purpose on a deeper level. Want to be considered for a future Coaching Series episode? Shoot me an email at teresa@howtobealion.com For more information about my services and to book sessions -> www.howtobealion.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/teresa-brenneman/support

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he serves as a certified Nature Based Purpose Guide to support people who hear the call from wild nature to discover their purpose, those with a burning desire to live their vision and a willingness to work with resistance and fears through the Ecology of Self and Voice Dialogue.   Purpose Mountain: https://www.purposemountain.com/ Follow Tim: https://www.facebook.com/PurposeMountain   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website | https://www.erickgodsey.com/ Instagram |https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/erickgodsey?lang=en   Sign up for my weekly Newsletter |  https://www.erickgodsey.com/   Subscribe to The Myths That Make Us: Itunes | https://apple.co/2Je6RG4 Stitcher | https://bit.ly/2TbivRD Spotify | https://spoti.fi/2XZMakj

Joining us this week for part two of this discussion of The Masks We Wear is Voice Dialogue and Shadow Alchemist- Meghan Fischer. Happiness is an inside job. A job we shouldn't assign to anyone else but our true self. Today we look at how we call up those shadowy, repetitive thoughts that often can swirl around in our heads- Leading us to sabotage our best intentions, keeping us from reaching our light inside and blocking our ability to truly shine. Tune to to find out how we finally remove those masks that we wear on this episode of The Light Inside. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thelightinside/message

This episode is a rerun of a previous episode on The Embody Podcast while I am on a short restorative hiatus. This episode is about how to sort out your inner chatter and reactive patterns with Parts Work. If you've seen the movie Inside Out, you've gotten a simplified taste of how your inner world may look. With many parts of us talking and acting at different times, it's helpful to know their motives, fears, desires, agendas, purpose, and function in your inner dynamic. Explore and embrace the parts of yourself so you can feel clarity and deeper awareness, heal the wounded or diminished parts, know what part of yourself is acting in various situations, and lead from your Self - from aligned intention. The idea that we have everything within us to heal can be easily accessed with Voice Dialogue as we open up inner gifts, wisdom, and strengths while healing wounds within. Enjoy guided healing experiences that will walk you through dialoguing with and embodying the parts of yourself.   Links, Article, and Resources All Show Notes for This Episode

Introduction: Sari is a renowned expert in the field of Agile, Business Innovation and Change. She is Managing Director of her own company Intact Academy that teaches 6 accredited programs for Leaders, Consultants and Coaches. A lot of her work is informed by her background in Transactional Analysis. Sari has worked for over 31 years, over 5 continents with in excess of 2000 Alumni from her programs. She has also worked in various director roles for companies like EMI Music, Shell, KLM and ASML. Sari is a prolific writer with 14 publications to her name. She has just completed her first book called “Agile Business Innovation & Design” which will be released later this year.    Podcast episode summary: Sari shared her wisdom on teams, her approach to team coaching and her definition of agile and how she supports companies adopt an agile model for business innovation. Sari populated this episode with numerous anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom for both leaders and practitioners of team coaching. Her insight into teams and what makes them great makes this a must listen.    Noteworthy points of discussion Agile is not about leadership characteristics or psychological factors it is more about  how the business is structured, how leadership is created to have the energy of a start-up and to be coach like and how the business co-operates with its customers and how innovation is married to a commercial orientation.  Sari consults business to adopt an Agile Business Innovation design in 28 weeks. Business must want to change to think and be Agile.  Intact Academy offers a very comprehensive Team Coaching Program. Based a lot around TA (Transactional Analysis) using concepts like Voice Dialogue, Constellations, Group Dynamics all used to support the team change Sari reminds listeners it is important to distinguish between Groups and Teams many people confuse the terms and forget what it means to work on a team Members have to accept Interdependence and Collaboration. Also, it is important that people understand the roles of Leadership and Followership  Sari described the approach she uses to support coaches learn about team coaching. She is adamant about the order in which team coaches approach teams.  Level One is all about the Structure of a team -boundaries/hierarchy/Roles Level Two is about relations on a team -how to improve the dynamics and improve social ranking between members  Level Three is about the team Imago or perception of the team and its culture  Sari shares an example of how Social Ranking when it is not equidistant can derail a team  Story is an important feature of teams and important to attend to the narratives teams hold and whether the current narrative will yield the change required for the team Some trip wires novice team coaches fall prey include assuming the role of the leader, mixing up the order described above, being there “merely to help” as opposed to speaking the truth and helping the Leader and team get really clear about what is expected to innovate and change Sari believes love is a wonderful energy for teams and helps a team change its story once care, attention and respect are in place  Sari uses the Hero's Journey with teams. Joseph Campbells book is about the story of stories -all stories can be seen as 12 steps -Vogel's work with the Hero's Journey is perhaps more accessible  Finally Sari after over 34 years as a practicing consultant, coach and leader is returning to what she calls the essentials, helping create meetings between people/sense making of relations-this is what is needed in todays' world – she is also going to do a lot more with stories and story -telling using dance and singing  Sari shares the resources she uses to inform her practice with teams ‘ but she also shares an invaluable resource, the everyday happenings. She suggests that we become better at everyday observation. Teams reveal themselves in the same way. Observation followed by conceptualisation to understand that behaviour means for change.    Resources: the following include the resources we alluded to over the course of our conversation  www.intactadademy.com  Agile Business Innovation and Design to be published later this year  Mary Beth O Neil: Executive Coaching with Back Bone and Heart  Joseph Campbell: he Hero with a Thousand Faces  Vogel, Christopher (2007) The Writers Journey  Morton A, Lieberman, Irvin Yalom and Matthew Miles: Encounter Groups First Facts 

Geke is a licenses clinical psychologist who has studied Transpersonal Psychology, Voice Dialogue, Breathwork and Bodywork. She is currently a leader of Ayahuasca Ceremonies in the Netherlands. We'll feel her warmth and her insighit in this podcast -- and her accent is amazing. You'll love this one.   Connect with Geke Dijkstra | https://gekedijkstra.com/   Connect with Erick Godsey: Website | https://www.erickgodsey.com/ Instagram |https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/ Twitter | https://twitter.com/erickgodsey?lang=en   Sign up for the weekly Newsletter |  https://www.erickgodsey.com/   Subscribe to The Myths That Make Us: Itunes | https://apple.co/2Je6RG4 Stitcher | https://bit.ly/2TbivRD Spotify | https://spoti.fi/2XZMakj  

Based on psychological development theories, Voice Dialogue is a fantastic exercise to help you tap into the roots of your self-mastery. Listen in to a conversation between host Jacquelyn Fletcher and Maggie Pierce, a coach who uses the powerful Voice Dialogue technique with her clients.