Proactive Mindfulness

By Serge PrengelSociety & Culture Health & Fitness Mental Health Education Self-Improvement

Proactive Mindfulness episodes

July 07, 2022 Noga Arikha: The embodied mind
Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.
47 min
June 23, 2022 A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy
We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.
38 min
April 17, 2022 Bruce Gibbs: Finding the right distance from our experience
We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.
33 min
April 11, 2022 A focus on trauma-informed mindfulness

The Relational Implicit podcast is now located on the Active Pause website. Our focus is on redefining mindfulness based on trauma-informed therapy and the Polyvagal theory.

This change reflects the experiential and intersubjective nature of what we do as therapists.

We are not providing impersonal “treatment” to people we are observing as detached observers. We are engaged in a deep process whose effectiveness is related to our ability to engage.

The moment-by-moment dance between empathy, connection, and self-awareness is a dance of mindful engagement.

Regardless of whether or not we practice mindfulness in traditional ways (e.g. meditation), mindfulness is a big part of what we do.

The practice of trauma-informed therapy and the Polyvagal Theory have been changing the way we think of mindfulness, in our work, and in our life.

It takes a pause to shift from a mindless, reactive mode to a more mindful mode. It takes safety for the pause to be an active process as opposed to a mere interruption (or, even, a frustration). We know this in the way we work with our clients, and in the way we track ourselves while we are in session.

I am inviting you to join in this exploration of how we can further deepen our emerging understanding and practice of mindfulness.

Published April 2022
4 min
March 01, 2022 Ken Benau: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma
58 min
March 01, 2022 Polyvagal-informed meditation
This meditation format combines inner connection and interconnection.
4 min
February 14, 2022 An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry
We share with you what we like about the notion of "inquiry," and to do so by giving you a flavor of what we mean by it.
17 min
February 01, 2022 Lawrence Berger: A quest for meaning
We start this conversation from the perspective that human beings are self-interpreting animals, and go on to explore what gives us a sense of meaning.
44 min
January 19, 2022 Jacqui Lewis: Fierce Love
Jacqui Lewis & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.
25 min
January 18, 2022 Jeffery Smith: How psychotherapy works
Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.
46 min

About Proactive Mindfulness

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This podcast explores how mindful presence shapes personal growth, from healing trauma to living mindfully. We cannot force personal growth through sheer willpower or simplistic formulas. We grow as…