Dirk Winter

Developing Meaning

Health EN ↓ 28 episodes

A podcast about healing trauma and finding meaning. Have you ever wondered what your therapist has figured out about life's big questions? Join psychiatrist Dr. Dirk Winter as he speaks with colleagues, therapists, and other healers about what they have learned from their clinical work about how to heal trauma and build more meaning and purpose into our lives. Developing Meaning is NOT CLINICAL ADVICE and is NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY INSTITUTIONS. It is intended to play with ideas that are emerging, fringe, and outside of the mainstream in order to discover the meaning of life. Produced by Dirk...

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#3: Dr. Jean Marmoreo - on Medically Assisted Dying, Living Wakes, and Meaning at the End of Life. 11.08.2023 46:08

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jean Marmoreo has been a family physician for upwards of forty years. For most of those years, she practiced mid-life medicine while breaking marathon records and hiking all around the world. Her speciality shifted in 2016, when MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) was legalized and she became one of Canada’s first MAiD practitioners. Having worked in the end-of-life...

#1: Introducing the Developing Meaning Podcast 11.08.2023 24:31

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered what your psychiatrist or therapist has figured out about life's big questions? In this first episode adult and child psychiatrist Dr. Dirk Winter begins his exploration of what clinicians have learned about how to build more meaning and purpose into our lives. Also, Dr. Winter suggests a daily meaning enhancement technique that combines Victor Franke...

#2: Annette Dubreuil Discusses Eugene Gendlin's Felt Sense as it Applies to Meaning, Creativity, and More. 11.08.2023 1:16:54

Send us Fan Mail Many emerging therapies like EMDR, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, and Psychedelics target a client’s “Felt Sense” and “Embodied Knowing” rather than intellectual and cognitive insight. The term “Felt Sense” was coined by philosopher Eugene Gendlin, who developed a peer to peer therapy process called Focusing in the 1950s. Here we present a conversation with Focusing expert Annette...