Deep Connection & Relational Intelligence: Ellen Waenink on Transforming Your Relationships

What if the secret to deeper relationships wasn’t what you say—but how deeply you presence yourself?

In this beautiful conversation, Ellen Waenink, Transformation Coach and relational leadership facilitator, joins Kenneth Sørensen to explore transformational connection, Circling, and how conscious relating helps us heal, grow, and become more ourselves in relationship.

If you’ve been seeking authenticity, emotional intimacy, and self-leadership, this episode is for you.

💡 What You’ll Hear:

• What Circling is and why it’s transformational

• How to bring awareness to relational triggers

• How to deepen self-awareness through connection

• Ellen’s live demonstration of conscious relating

• The difference between coaching and psychotherapy

👤 About Ellen Waenink

Ellen is a Transformational Coach and former public sector leader, now guiding individuals toward conscious leadership, emotional intelligence, and inner alignment through workshops, one-on-one sessions, and group experiences.

🌐 Learn more

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow, rate, and share this episode with someone who values deeper connection and inner work.

Trauma Healing & Psychosynthesis: Niklas Thrane on EMDR, IFS, and Deep Inner Recovery

How can trauma—from birth to adulthood—be healed through body-centered psychotherapy?

In this soul-stirring episode, Kenneth Sørensen interviews Niklas Thrane, founder of the Copenhagen School of Healing Arts, about his integrative trauma healing approach using psychosynthesis, IFS, BrainSpotting, EMDR, and meditation.

Drawing from decades of experience, Niklas offers profound insight into how trauma lives in the body and how healing requires both spiritual awareness and grounded therapeutic tools. He also shares concepts from his new book and leads a short demo session at the end.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• How trauma impacts the subconscious and nervous system

• Birth trauma and its lifelong effects

• Working beyond the witness self in therapy

• Combining EMDR, BrainSpotting, and psychosynthesis

• A demonstration of Niklas’ therapeutic method

👤 About Niklas Thrane

Niklas Thrane is a trauma therapist, founder of the Copenhagen School of Healing Arts, and expert in body-centered healing and spiritual psychology.

• Visit his school

• Pre-order his book Tidslommer

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow, rate, and share the podcast if this episode helped you understand the soul of trauma work.

Leading with Soul: Mats Graffman on Psychosynthesis, Growth & the Vision Behind HumaNova

In this episode of Psychosynthesis Conversations, Kenneth speaks with Mats Graffman, the visionary CEO of HumaNova, Sweden’s largest psychosynthesis training institute.

Discover how Mats blends his experience in media and business with deep therapeutic training to lead an organization that teaches self-awareness, leadership, and transpersonal psychology to thousands of students every year.

Whether you’re exploring psychosynthesis for personal or professional development, this conversation is a must-listen.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• How psychosynthesis shapes leaders and organizations

• The structure and power of HumaNova’s training programs

• Using Assagioli’s egg diagram in group and organizational consulting

• The art of staying soul-aligned in business

• A practical psychosynthesis exercise guided by Mats

👤 About Mats Graffman

Mats is a psychosynthesis therapist and CEO of HumaNova in Stockholm. He integrates transpersonal psychology with executive experience and has trained in Schema Therapy and short-term psychodynamic work.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• Kenneth Sørensen’s Channel

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow, share, and let others discover how psychosynthesis can transform not just individuals—but organizations and society at large.

Love, Will & Self-Discovery: Ann-Marie Lamb on Psychosynthesis and the Path to Wholeness

How do we balance love and will on the path to personal growth?

In this episode of Psychosynthesis Conversations, Kenneth Sørensen is joined by Ann-Marie Lamb, former Executive Director of the PsykosyntesAkademin in Stockholm, to explore the deep inner work of psychosynthesis and how it can help us become our authentic selves.

From navigating corporate life to reviving a spiritual training institution, Ann-Marie shares how meditation, inner guidance, and the will to choose transformed her life—and how you can use the same tools for yours.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• How psychosynthesis fosters transformation in crisis

• The role of love and will in therapeutic practice

• Why the seven core experiences matter in healing

• Reflections on the will to choose and the will to be

• A guided psychosynthesis exercise from Ann-Marie

👤 About Ann-Marie Lamb

Ann-Marie Lamb is a senior psychosynthesis therapist, teacher, and leader in the European psychosynthesis community. She combines corporate leadership experience with a soul-centered approach to personal and professional development.

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• The Soul of Psychosynthesis – Kenneth Sørensen

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 If you loved this dialogue, follow and share the podcast to support holistic psychology and spiritual development worldwide.

Unlocking Consciousness: Richard Schaub on Assagioli, Psychosynthesis, and the Path to Inner Freedom

What does it mean to live from “consciousness without content”?

In this illuminating conversation, Richard Schaub, co-founder of the New York Psychosynthesis Institute, joins Kenneth Sørensen to reflect on his 45-year journey in psychosynthesis, including his time in Florence, his reflections on Assagioli’s legacy, and how spiritual practices can be grounded in daily psychotherapy.

You’ll hear about Dante’s Path, the role of the Higher Self, and how to facilitate superconscious experiences through witnessing, choice, and inner presence.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• Assagioli’s lesser-known teachings

• Consciousness, choice, and the witnessing Self

• Why Assagioli disliked The Act of Will

• How spiritual openings can be grounded without drugs

• A psychosynthesis exercise led by Richard Schaub

👤 About Richard Schaub

Richard Schaub is a psychologist, author, and longtime teacher of psychosynthesis. He blends Zen, meditation, and therapeutic practice to help clients awaken to the Higher Self.

🔗 huntingtonmeditation.com

📘 Buy Dante’s Path on Amazon

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• Dante’s Path – Book

• Richard Schaub’s Website

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Share this episode to help keep Assagioli’s vision alive—and inspire others to explore the depths of their own inner potential.

Healing ADHD & ASD from Within: Karen Rawden on Psychosynthesis, Trauma, and the Power of Will

How can trauma-informed psychosynthesis therapy help individuals with ADHD and ASD find inner balance and self-worth?

In this enlightening episode, Karen Rawden, senior psychotherapist and faculty member at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, joins Kenneth Sørensen to explore how psychosynthesis principles empower neurodivergent individuals.

Karen shares powerful therapeutic insights from her award-winning research on ADHD, as well as how she uses tools like disidentification, awareness, and co-regulation to create meaningful change in her clients’ lives. A guided psychosynthesis meditation is included.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• What makes psychosynthesis effective for ADHD & ASD

• How trauma impacts willpower and emotional resilience

• Building an inner container through awareness and story

• The spiritual dimension of healing in neurodivergent clients

• A guided meditation Karen uses with clients

👤 About Karen Rawden

Karen Rawden, MA, BACP, UKCP is an award-winning therapist, researcher, and educator with over 20 years of experience. She specializes in trauma-informed psychosynthesis, addiction recovery, and neurodiversity. She also founded a large UK/Ireland COVID support network and serves as faculty at the Institute of Psychosynthesis in London.

🔗 karenrawden.com

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• Karen Rawden’s Website

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Share this episode with someone navigating neurodiversity or trauma. Every listen supports holistic healing.

Through the Eyes of a Student: Isabelle Küng on Assagioli’s Legacy and the Soul of Psychosynthesis

What if you could study directly with the founder of psychosynthesis?

In this powerful and personal interview, Kenneth Sørensen sits down with Isabelle Küng, one of the last living students of Roberto Assagioli, to reflect on the life, work, and spiritual vision of this great pioneer.

From meditation and astrology to the egg diagram and parapsychology, Isabelle shares rare stories and teachings from her decade-long study under Assagioli, offering an invaluable contribution to the spiritual psychology movement.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• What Assagioli was like as a teacher and human being

• The holistic structure of the psyche as seen in psychosynthesis

• How the egg diagram maps our inner universe

• The intersection of astrology, meditation, and parapsychology

• Isabelle’s guided psychosynthesis exercise

👤 About Isabelle Küng

Born in 1944 in Switzerland, Isabelle studied under Assagioli for over a decade. Her deep integration of psychosynthesis shaped her career in education, where she guided young women through personal and spiritual development. She now writes about her memories and teachings from that time.

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• Freedom in Jail – Assagioli’s Incarceration Story

• Psychosynthesis and Parapsychology

• Psychology and Human Existence by Roberto Assagioli

• Sundial House – Group Creative Meditation

• Meditation Mount – Assagioli’s Study Materials

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow the podcast, share this episode with a friend, and help us keep the light of psychosynthesis alive.

Surrender and the Will: Dr. Saphira Bjørnå on Addiction, Psychosynthesis, and Deep Inner Healing

What if addiction is more than a disease—what if it’s a spiritual initiation?

In this profound episode, Kenneth Sørensen speaks with Dr. Saphira Bjørnå, a psychosynthesis psychotherapist and researcher, about the deep connection between addiction, the will, and the soul. Drawing from her Ph.D. work on the 12-Step Program, Saphira reveals how surrender becomes a portal to empowerment, and how spiritual guidance, group healing, and inner helpers can help those in recovery reclaim their self-worth.

You’ll also learn how psychosynthesis views addiction as a misdirected longing for wholeness—and how the journey inward leads to the emergence of a mature will that can hold both pain and purpose.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• The spiritual dimension of addiction and surrender

• How psychosynthesis and the 12-Step Program work together

• The concept of “will-complexes” and subpersonalities in recovery

• Stories of transformation and the moment of rock bottom

• A guided meditation to support the healing journey

👤 About Dr. Saphira Bjørnå

Saphira is a trauma-informed, transpersonal psychotherapist and Ph.D. researcher with over two decades of experience. She offers EMDR, addiction support, and spiritual integration in private practice and education.

📧 Contact: [email protected]

🌐 Website: www.dinsamtalepartner.com

📞 Phone: +47 928 90 162

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Psychospiritual Institute

• Disidentification & Self-Identification Exercise

• Kenneth’s Website

• Kenneth’s Linktree

• Facebook Page

• 7 Free Meditations

• Webshop

Free E-books:

• Subpersonalities

• Parapsychology

• Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow, share, and join us in bringing compassion, insight, and soul to the journey of healing.

Bridging Trauma and the Soul: Kenneth Sørensen on Transcendence, Psychosynthesis & Christ Consciousness

Can spiritual experiences truly transform us if they remain ungrounded?

In this moving conversation hosted by Valentina Fratu, Kenneth Sørensen opens up about his journey through transcendence, trauma, and spiritual embodiment. From his first Advaita-like experience of being nobody, to a mystical encounter with Christ Consciousness, this episode explores how psychosynthesis provides a framework to integrate the heights and depths of human experience.

We also explore the danger of ego inflation, the importance of disidentification, and how each fragment of light must be made real through the practice of love.

🌿 What You’ll Hear:

• How transcendence and trauma are intertwined

• Why psychosynthesis is a map for spiritual integration

• Kenneth’s firsthand transcendent experiences

• Disidentification, meditation, and soul embodiment

• The balance between shadow work and mystical states

👤 About Valentina Fratu

Valentina holds an MA in Sociology and leads a research program on transcendent states of consciousness. Her work explores how spiritual experiences can transform individuals when rooted in psychological understanding.

🌐 Learn more: Evolve Conscious Research Project

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• The Soul of Psychosynthesis

• What is Psychosynthesis?

• Integral Meditation

• 7 Free Meditations

• Subpersonalities – Free E-book

• Parapsychology – Free E-book

• Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis – Free E-book

• Kenneth’s Linktree

• Webshop

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow, share, and take a step deeper into the mystery of your own soul.

Let me know when you’re ready for the next episode ✨

Awakening the Ecological Self: Val Silidker on Psychosynthesis, Nature, and the Call of the Soul

Why do we need to remember ourselves as part of the living Earth?

In this soul-nourishing dialogue, Kenneth Sørensen and Val Silidker explore how the Ecological Self can support our spiritual awakening and help heal the collective crisis of disconnection. Through the lens of transpersonal psychology, psychosynthesis, and evolutionary leadership, this episode invites you to reclaim your sacred role within Earth’s living web.

Val shares her path into nature mysticism, the moral imagination, and how returning to the body of the Earth reconnects us with the soul’s deeper call.

🌱 What You’ll Hear:

• What the Ecological Self is—and why it’s vital to healing

• How transpersonal psychology relates to planetary health

• Val’s mystical experiences in nature and their deeper meaning

• Aligning with the Soul and the Earth’s evolutionary drive

• A powerful psychosynthesis practice on pain and love

👤 About Val Silidker

Val is the co-founder of the Psychospiritual Institute and author of Call of the Ecological Self. She is a coach, speaker, and facilitator known for her work in eco-therapy, spiritual leadership, and the integration of psychological and planetary healing.

🌿 Learn more: psychospiritualcoaching.com

🔗 Resources Mentioned:

• Disidentification & Self-Identification Exercise

• Kenneth’s Website

• Kenneth’s Linktree

• Facebook Page

• 7 Free Meditations

• Kenneth’s Webshop

Free E-books:

• Subpersonalities

• Parapsychology

• Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

🪷 BONUS RESOURCES

• Mindful Mondays – Free 7-Week Meditation Journey

• Get 7 FREE Meditations

• Free E-books:

 • Subpersonalities

 • Parapsychology

 • Conflicts, Crises & Synthesis

• Kenneth’s Webshop

• Kenneth’s Linktree

🙏 Follow the podcast and share it with a friend who feels the call of the Earth and the soul.

Let me know when you’re ready for the next one, Anna! 🌍💛