Proactive 12 Steps

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Art: SP Proactive mindfulness involves being aware of what prevents us from being present and engaged in what we do. It also takes understanding it and dealing with it. All of this has to do with how our nervous system deals with interaction. We are wired to get a sense of whether a situ…

Eric Wolterstorff discusses the complexities of transference and counter-transference in therapy, particularly in the context of trauma. He shares an experience that illustrates the powerful dynamics at play and how they can lead to healing. Eric Wolterstorff, Ph.D., began his tra…

Julie Nelson is a Zen teacher who has also thought and written about economics, gender, ethics, and ecology. In this conversation, we talk about something that is often bypassed in discussions about spirituality: power dynamics and abuse of authority. Julie Seido Nelson is a tra…

We know that being more engaged in our lives is good, but we often struggle to do so. We can try to push ourselves to do that through sheer willpower, but that doesn’t usually work very well. Here, we focus on what happens in interaction with other people. The video below shows highlights of a…

Steve Hayes is a developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Here, we talk about going beyond the specifics of any given therapy, paying attention to what we want from the art and science of therapy. Steven C. Hayes is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Nevad…

Brenda Shoshanna and I are having a conversation informed by Zen, being present with our experience, as we discuss authority. Brenda Eshin Shoshanna is a psychologist, author, speaker and long-term Zen practitioner.  Her work is dedicated to sharing Zen practice with those of all …

 The Feldenkrais® method teaches people to be attentive to and aware of how they move so that they can change ineffective habits. In this conversation with Dan Clurman, we’re using some of these tools to put the method into practice and experience it in the moment. Dan is describing some mov…

At a recent talk, Ven. Losang Gendun was telling the story of a Buddhist monk who had been put in jail and tortured. The point of the story was how he responded to the situation. I asked him to expand on that. The following is what he said (see audio at the bottom of the p…

Jeff Warren has an iconoclastic approach to meditation and what it’s like to be human. Here, we discuss coming into the present, doing our best to practice what we preach while we preach it, as a sense of connection progressively counterbalances the friction and activation of life. …