What Matters: Conversations

How can psychosynthesis inspire and fuel the creative process and the manifestation of artistic expression for a world-wide audience?In this episode, we are joined by composer and psychosynthesis-trained counselor, Steve Banks to discuss his stirring, evocative and enlightening composition Blue Pearl: A One World Oratorio which will be premiering May 14, 2022 in London and streamed live and on demand for a few days after the concert. Steve shares about what brought him to psychosy...

How can psychosynthesis inform our unfolding in life and work?Karen Randall is a Transition Life Coach, Creative Arts Facilitator, and Director of Coaching Internships and Supervision at Synthesis Center San Francisco. She has walked many paths in her life and work. In this episode of What Matters, Conversations, Craig Behenna talks to Karen about her path to psychosynthesis and the importance of her work as a coach. Karen also discusses the importance of sports coaching in her life and...

How can psychosynthesis coaches and therapists become allies through an understanding of the fluidity of gender identity?In this podcast, host Craig Behenna talks with Leyza Toste about her journey into Psychosynthesis, her work with people in professional and personal life who have ‘embodied their gender’, coming out as transgender in the workplace. Craig and Leyza discuss the undivided life, how we can use privilege to be an ally with transgender clients and the ways a tra...

How do Igniatian Spirituality, Yoga and Psychosynthesis enhance and expand our experience and quality of consciousness?In this episode of What Matters, Alan C. Haras joins host Craig Behenna in a wide ranging conversation that includes Ignatian Spirituality, the practice of Ignatian Yoga, and psychosynthesis founder Roberto Assagioli’s own thoughts on the asana practice of yoga.Alan also shares his work with clients using psychosynthesis techniques, the importance of understanding and w...

How do we hold the alignment between Light and Shadow/Trauma and Healing?Join us for this deeply personal interview with Wim as he shares his own journey through illness and loss and how Psychosynthesis found him during a most challenging and difficult time in his life. He discusses his own realization about the importance of both descending and transcending in the process of personal growth, "We should be able to hold both our Light and our Shadow, our Love and our Fear - this is a pro...

How can we function at our best in our lives and in our work? How can acknowledging and be in harmony with our nervous system to enhance our well being and fullest expression of self in the world?Sara Vatore shares how she has woven her in-depth experience with education, performance coaching, somatic experiencing work and psychosynthesis into a cohesive, beneficial and robust approach to coaching practice. In conversation with Sara, we learn tools to help u...

How can we come to terms with personal and cultural challenges and transform our fear and grief into action that inspire us to channel our gifts to make a positive difference in the world? How can we discover the fluid nature of purpose through expanding our awareness, tuning in and being informed by our own experience and live life joyfully?Join us for our interview with long time Psychosynthesis psychotherapist, author and The Work That Reconnects instructor to learn more about ...

How can we find our particular way of contributing to the unfolding and positive synthesis of our world?Through this illuminating interview with Thomas Yeomans, a decades long, worldwide practitioner and teacher of Psychosynthesis, learn about his experience in meeting and learning from Roberto Assagioli, his understanding of the field and content of as well as the unfolding of that work in the US and across the world. Tom shares his own work, detailed in his book "Holy Fire: The ...

How did one of the foremost psychosynthesis practitioners in the US in 20th and the first quarter of the 21st century discover the transpersonal psychology, psychosynthesis?In our conversation with Didi Firman, we learn about how she discovered psychosynthesis and how she shares this work with her clients and students, as a coach, a teacher and author. Join us as we discuss with Didi how to bring the wisdom of psychosynthesis theory and tools more fully into the world.This conversation was re...

What is Psychosynthesis? In our first episode, meet your hosts Craig Behenna and Christina Gustafson as they explore this question, describe their vision for this podcast, and share their own psychosynthesis journeys. Learn more about this dynamic and creative approach to transpersonal psychology, developed by Dr. Roberto Assagioli in the early/mid 20th century, which he called, "a spiritual psychology founded in the synthesis of western positive science and eastern es...