On this week’s podcast Dr. Al-Samarrrai interviews, BIPOC architects Sean Bolden and Maab Mohamed Talk about life at the intersection of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter. There is much to learn in this exploration of race and culture. Maab is passionate about equity and sustainability in design. She has a BS in Architecture from Portland State University and volunteered with multiple design projects before joining AWB-Oregon. She is a Designer at Carleton Hart Architects and a committee member of Diversity in Design group. Always open to learning, she enjoys working on projects of various types and scales.

Sean is passionate about sport facility design. He has a Masters in Architecture from Prairie View A&M University and volunteers with high school teens and middle school pre-teens teaching Architecture and Robotics. He is a Job Captain at Carleton Hart Architects and a committee member of the Sustainability group. Never content on the knowledge he already has, Sean continues to seek answers to complex challenges.

Interactions with the External World

Dr. Al-Samarrai, Jane and Shayna discuss engaging with the external environment during the times of corona post sedation. Do we actually want to return to ‘normal?’ What behaviors have changed and how are they impacting our nervous system? Are we now enemies? In this episode we explore personal believes, values, confirmation bias and how we know what we know. We dive into the benefits of naturopathic medicine and the value of exploration of new and different ideas.

It cannot be just another Monday for everyone that does not have black skin. Because every time a Black man dies it is a reminder that my nephews and brothers and future sons are not safe. Because every time a minority dies, it is a reminder that I am not safe. It is living in constant fear. And if I must live in constant fear, everyone I know needs to at least live in some semblance of open anger about that fact.

In peace, love, and open anger,

Pearline Josephine Davis

Between No Longer & Not Yet

Transitional times are challenging for all of us. They require us to let go of what we know and are comfortable with to embark on something we hope will be better than what we had. In this podcast graduating students, Jane, Shayna, and accomplished working professional, Sarah Wortman, join Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai to talk about how women are navigating liminal times to help us further individuate successfully.

Between No Longer and Not Yet

Transitional times are challenging for all of us. They require us to let go of what we know and are comfortable with to embark on something we hope will be better than what we had. In this podcast graduating students, Jane, Shayna, and accomplished working professional, Sarah Wortman, join Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai to talk about how women are navigating liminal times to help us further individuate successfully.

In The Time Of Corona & Conflict: Paused Reflections

The pandemic quarantine offers gifts as well as challenges. In today's podcast Dr. Lahab and Jane Litsey discuss how this reset of everyday life provides opportunities to reconnect with our bodies, understand our essential selves, and rethink our relationship with the planet.

Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai CEO of the Institute For Conflict and is a licensed Clinical Psychotherapist with a Masters in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Clinical Psychotherapy with a sub specialty in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. He has been practicing for over a 20 years in residential, clinical settings, schools, universities and private settings. Dr. Lahab has worked extensively with children, adolescents and adults, providing individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy and group therapy as well as lecturing and providing clinical supervision to other professionals.

Practicing since 1999. He is active in research and writing and has developed a working relationship with the Jung Institute in Zurich since 2005. He started to work with Mythodrama in 2005 and has since been using Mythodrama in group and individual settings. Having seeing the positive effects of Mythodrama himself, he opened the IFC in 2010 to bring the process to the United States. Conferences, trainings and talks that he organizes bring together multiple specialists in the field on the psychology of conflict Shayna L. Keller is a naturopathic medical student graduating in June 2020. She will begin to see clients and patients in November 2020 upon setting up her practice in rural Colorado. Shayna is most interested in providing well-rounded primary health care which includes mental health. She loves to work ‘through the muck’ that makes up much of the human condition and help normalize the feelings and emotions that we are often told is pathological. Shayna thinks that the most effective work can be done when a client is willing to go to those unacknowledged corners of our self and practice personal responsibility. Jane Litsey will be graduating as a naturopathic doctor from Bastyr University in June of 2020. Her vision for future practice is a to be a doctor who sits at the confluence of Mind-Body-Spirit and who respects the ever changing dynamics between the three. She hopes to bring awareness that the psyche of a patient is directly influencing the physiology of the body and the physiology of the body is directly influencing the psyche of the patient. The worlds of mind and body inside us are communicating – not separate. She hopes to be a voice in the external community connecting psychologists (mind) with the medical doctors (body) to serve patients in their wholeness better. Her philosophy of medicine is that disease is a sign not to be silenced or eradicated, but a message to be listened to and understood. She hopes to open minds to the potential that disease can be a powerful teacher that has arrived to point us home to self-understanding and a fuller more complete embodiment of self. She sees this is as the journey of healing and life.

Jane also has a degree in human physiology from the University of Colorado and has special interests in autoimmunity, psycho-neuro-immunology, neuroscience, dance, and embodiment and is on her own quest for self-understanding. You can find more of her ideas and work on her website JaneLitsey.com. She will be practicing medicine somewhere in Seattle this fall

Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai Founder of the Institute For Conflict interviews George Kurian a partner of the IFC. George Is a Documentary film-maker, video and photo journalist based in Beirut specializing in conflict and war-zone reporting. Worked in Conflict Zones including Syria, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Somalia, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Rwanda, apart from other countries in Africa and Asia.

Director-Producer-DOP(Camera) with experience in human-interest stories, historical productions and investigative journalism. The Crossing is currently premiering on (Amazon Prime).

Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai interviews Jungian Analyst Dr. Luigi Zoja a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institut – Zurich, past president of the International Association of Analytical Psychology and former lecturer at the Universities of Palermo and Insubria (Italy) and at the University of Macao. Visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, he has a private practice in Milan, having previously worked in New York. He has published several books including Ethics and Analysis (A&M Texas University Press, 2007; Gradiva Award 2008); Violence in History, Culture and the Psyche (Spring, 2009); Paranoia. The Madness that Makes History (Routledge, 2017). Many have been translated into other languages

Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai CEO of the Institute For Conflict and is a licensed Clinical Psychotherapist with a Masters in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Clinical Psychotherapy with a sub specialty in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. He has been practicing for over a 20 years in residential, clinical settings, schools, universities and private settings. Dr. Lahab has worked extensively with children, adolescents and adults, providing individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy and group therapy as well as lecturing and providing clinical supervision to other professionals.

Practicing since 1999. He is active in research and writing and has developed a working relationship with the Jung Institute in Zurich since 2005. He started to work with Mythodrama in 2005 and has since been using Mythodrama in group and individual settings. Having seeing the positive effects of Mythodrama himself, he opened the IFC in 2010 to bring the process to the United States. Conferences, trainings and talks that he organizes bring together multiple specialists in the field on the psychology of conflict Shayna L. Keller is a naturopathic medical student graduating in June 2020. She will begin to see clients and patients in November 2020 upon setting up her practice in rural Colorado. Shayna is most interested in providing well-rounded primary health care which includes mental health. She loves to work ‘through the muck’ that makes up much of the human condition and help normalize the feelings and emotions that we are often told is pathological. Shayna thinks that the most effective work can be done when a client is willing to go to those unacknowledged corners of our self and practice personal responsibility. Jane Litsey will be graduating as a naturopathic doctor from Bastyr University in June of 2020. Her vision for future practice is a to be a doctor who sits at the confluence of Mind-Body-Spirit and who respects the ever changing dynamics between the three. She hopes to bring awareness that the psyche of a patient is directly influencing the physiology of the body and the physiology of the body is directly influencing the psyche of the patient. The worlds of mind and body inside us are communicating – not separate. She hopes to be a voice in the external community connecting psychologists (mind) with the medical doctors (body) to serve patients in their wholeness better. Her philosophy of medicine is that disease is a sign not to be silenced or eradicated, but a message to be listened to and understood. She hopes to open minds to the potential that disease can be a powerful teacher that has arrived to point us home to self-understanding and a fuller more complete embodiment of self. She sees this is as the journey of healing and life.

Jane also has a degree in human physiology from the University of Colorado and has special interests in autoimmunity, psycho-neuro-immunology, neuroscience, dance, and embodiment and is on her own quest for self-understanding. You can find more of her ideas and work on her website JaneLitsey.com. She will be practicing medicine somewhere in Seattle this fall