Proactive Mindfulness: Redefining Personal Growth

Sonia Sequeira talks about mindfulness, with a special focus on sound meditation.

Feeling At Home, by Ifat Eckstein

A chapter from the upcoming book, What Sustains Me.

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With more than 20 years experience of working as a couple & family therapist, for the last 10 years I enjoy bringing the world of FOT to the therapeutic space, giving workshops, teaching various courses and coordinating workshops. My desire is to bring an awareness of our interconnectedness through the felt sense, to bring back our sense of Oneness, our shared journey in this life. This process involves writing as a channel of expression. Through it I explore and try to find ways to bring this expanded perspective to daily life, to bring us back to our natural roots.

To all these endeavors I bring experience and insight from couple and family therapy, group leading and teaching, my meetings with patients and colleagues. Inspired by the worlds of Judaism, Buddhism, the philosophy behind Focusing, Indigenous traditions and more, my personal journey and professional work is nourished and enriched.

Published December 2015

In this conversation, we explore what it is that predisposes us to experiencing a sense of shared connection in a group, and relate it to the mammalian brain, and the synchronization of mammals.

About Roberto Larios Aguilar: Originally he was a Medical Doctor in the area of General Surgery, he quit and, as he began to feel the ‘lack of connection’ with other people, that reason and his own struggles made him began a Masters degree in Psychotherapy. There he was immediately attracted to the experiential theory of E. Gendlin. He is a certified Focusing Trainer and Wholebody Focusing coordinator. He loves mountain climbing and long remote trekkings. Actually he devotes his time to the clinical practice in the area of experiential psychotherapy, and recently very interesed in exploring “the shared Field” and the role of Wholebody Focusing, Touch and Consciousness in healing physical and emotional issues.

Published November 2015

Michelle Lee Weldon blends Yoga, Psychotherapy and Neurosculpting® to help her clients create sustainable change by re-wiring new patterns and habits into their daily routines.  She is a guest lecturer in several Yoga Teacher Trainings across the country, a national presenter in the field of mindfulness and is the co-creator of Neurosculpting® Yoga. In addition to teaching yoga classes and providing individual coaching and psychotherapy sessions, Michelle provides professional mentorship to therapists and coaches interested in creating a successful practice integrating yoga, meditation and psychotherapy.

Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and a Certified Neurosculpting Fellow based in Denver, Colorado.  In her spare time she dabbles in social entrepreneurship and writing and loves the ocean, world travel and being generally ridiculous. See her website.

Published November 2015

In this conversation, Bruce Nayowith talks about Subtle Activism at an experiential level.

As Dr David Nicol describes it, Subtle Activism is applying the wisdom of our inner work to the collective dimension, for collective transformation, rather than the personal domain. Another of his quotes: “Subtle activism can be understood as a set of practices that allow us to connect, in the depths of our being, with our love for the world and our longing for it to reflect the highest potentials of human nature.”

Anytime one engages in a personal growth or healing process, it benefits others around them. What distinguishes Subtle Activism is that one is intentionally working with a larger realm than the personal – the collective is the subject of our attention and care, rather than simply a byproduct of it.

If you are interested in Subtle Activism, here are links you may want to explore:

* The Gaiafield Project. Quoting from their website:The Gaiafield Project promotes the study and practice of subtle activism, which affirms the power of consciousness-based approaches like global meditation and prayer events to support social and planetary transformation.

* HeartMath Institute has done much research in the connections between heart, brain, others, and the Earth. They sponsor science and research pointing to ways that the Earth’s fields, and human fields, interaffect each other.

Also: Summary and Notes from Subtle Activism Summit Sept 8-10, 2015:

* 5 page Summary of TITLES of the talks that Bruce Nayowith attended:

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SAsummary.htm

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SASummary.rtf (downloadable)

* 39 pages of NOTES from the talks that Bruce Nayowith attended:

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SASummitNotes.htm

http://www.serviceoflife.info/planetaryhealing/SASummitFullnotes.rtf (downloadable)

Since 1987, Bruce Nayowith has been Focusing personally, and to explore other processes that encourage unfolding of individual and systemic potential. These include neurobiology, depth and developmental psychology, whole brain education, NonViolent Communication, and emergent group processes such as Dynamic Facilitation, Open Dialogue, and Family Constellations.

 

Published October 2015