Proactive Mindfulness

I share here what has shaped my understanding of what I now call Proactive Mindfulness.

Gregory Kramer and I set about to embody the attitude of not knowing as we stay present with what happens moment by moment.

This approach blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating.

I want to find a down-to-earth experience that helps me relate to non-duality.

I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.

Koshin Paley Ellison and Serge Prengel talk about connecting with others as a healing spiritual practice.

Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.

Serge Prengel talks with photographer Pablo Márquez about his meditative approach to photography. Pablo describes how his art emerges from his being present.

Serge Prengel talks with Linda Modaro and Nelly Kaufer about their gentle, inspiring approach to meditation practice and self-discovery.

Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.

Serge Prengel talks with Seth Zuihō Segall about his journey, making sense of life through the practice of psychology, Buddhism, and philosophy.

Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.

We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.

How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O'Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.

We talk about freeing meditation from pressures and welcoming every aspect of our inner experience.

Antonio Damasio described Nora Arikha as a poet and a painter with the soul of a scientist.

We discuss how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called spirituality & philosophy.

We explore a concept that is very important to Bruce Gibbs, finding the right distance from our experience.

This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma

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.

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.

Jacqui Lewis & Serge Prengel talk about bringing a quality of fierce love to our life, as a person and as an agent of change.

Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.

We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life.

Serge Prengel describes an embodied perspective on how we experience a sense of being (part of) something larger.