Learning Conversation

20 min After beginning with disclosures about their espresso fixations, Maureen and Pierre jump into a reflection on conversation.   Going beyond reflections about their podcasting, this reflection considers the nature of conversation itself -  balancing speaking and listening.   The art of conversation. Elevating curiosity, holding space to listen and consider other people's ideas,   Maureen bril...

5 min. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

30 min What started as a Resource podcast on Ido Portal, an Israeli therapist viewing life as flow and movement, turns into a Discussion podcast on non-movement, grounding and touch as contrasted to flow and movement.    Maureen and Pierre discuss grounding to touch and contrast that movement therapies. Begin your morning with Pierre's sigh - an appreciation of morning in Sonoma - and Maureen's co...

8 min Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   Maureen's description of this podcast:  Pierre goes nuts about skiing! If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS  

22 min Maureen and Pierre are going to dive into a Learning Practice - the 3 minute drill talking about a single word.   But they don't!   They get into a Reflection on how the podcast started, and its various forms.   It's about Learning Conversation's one year anniversary. When we started podcasting, we had no idea how long our podcasts should go:   1 hour, 30, min, 20 min, 5 min, 3 min?   In ea...

4 min. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

14 min Pierre's off the slopes in Utah to talk about mindbody and spirit-focused podcasting with Maureen.  In vacation mode, he and Maureen reflect on happy places - s ki slopes and mountain tops, tennis courts and flat spots. After breaking down happy places, Maureen and Pierre reflect on their Learning Conversation podcasting journey. Where did the idea come from? What went into the decision to...

5 min. Pay attention! Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

15 min Resource:   Tara Brach Tara Brach and radical acceptance.   Tara's life's trajectory in the '60's was to go from college and then spend 10 years in an ashram.   She along with other resource figures like Jack Kornfield, Alan Watts, Sam Harris, were attracted to Eastern wisdom during the 50's, 60's and 70's - periods of change and questioning. Now many years later, figures like Tara Brach ha...

25 min. Jack Kornfield is one of those 'cross-over' figures from the 50's and 60's, that grew up in Western society and embraced Eastern wisdom.   A Buddhist philosopher who started centers in the United States for practicing meditation.   Learn about Jack Kornfield's journey as a young peace corp representative in Thailand in the '60's to the founding of Spirit Rock in Woodacre, CA in 1987, to hi...

13 min.   Maureen talks to Pierre about the Wellness Resource Center she is managing at her local Yoga studio.  How cool is that?  If you live in Danvers, MA, or anywhere nearby, check out Maureen's Wellness Center, where Maureen also teaches yoga.  Building on Landscapes for Learning curriculum and website, Maureen gets real in addition to virtual.  Bringing her unique blend of professional and p...

25 min. This pod is for Sydney. Maureen recognizes that Pierre's "good morning" is subdued and asks a question. How human to recognize. How gracious to ask.   Pierre relates the story of losing his friend and best companion of 14 years, his dog Sydney.    This pod cast relates a 'miracle story' or two of Syd's doing.   We dip into the subject of grief. Grief is a subject that isn't afforded much r...

5 min Camus?  The word is:  absurd. Join us. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

Landscapes for Learning is local! Mental Health Counselor and Wellness Educator, Maureen Bakis offers mindbody wellness and fitness programming at Bikram Yoga Danvers/Studio Y owned by James Frew, located on Route 1 South in Danvers, Massachusetts.  Maureen and James agreed that the The Wellness Resource Center in the studio is a welcoming space for members to gather together to share resources an...

6 min. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

30 min. This discussion is about Maureen's BOOK!  Title:   The Graphic Novel Classroom:   POWerful Teaching with Learning and Images, published by Corwin Press, 2011 Folks check out the cover graphic if nothing else!!!!   https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Novel-Classroom-POWerful-Teaching/dp/1628737344 .      ENJOY! -------- Using graphic novels as her main tool, Maureen taught young people how to re...

4 min. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   Today's word is:  Harvest If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS

22 min. Maureen and Pierre chat as Pierre recovers from cold and flu, discussing Michael Singer, a stalwart in the mind, body, spirit space. Michael Singer's book:   The Untethered Soul is a beautiful allegorical book.   Since writing that book, he's connected to the website:   Sounds True.   In that learning space, Singer creates an 8-part series:  Living from a Place of Surrender.   Pierre sugge...

5 min Today's word is:  MAD. It's A Mad Mad World! Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.   If you want to practice with us by supplying a word and joining us:   contact us through our websites. Landscapes for Learning YogaHEALS   I

15 min Come journey with us through conversation about CS Lewis's thinking his way from atheism to Christianity. A powerful story, an incredible journey. "Right and Wrong, A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe."   A title of one of CS Lewis's books - powerful.  Incredible.  CS Lewis posits humans know right and wrong without learning -  it's innate.   Learn more about CS Lewis. Go beyond his books...

20 min. Maureen aces test to be a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.   Maureen counterbalances the negative in the DSM with 'strengths counseling, merging the fields of 'mind, body, spiritual health' with traditional mental health counseling.   Enjoy this discussion of frontiers in mental health counseling. Maureen and Pierre talk about how human beings relate to and behave toward one another, how...

20 min Maureen introduces Pierre to another mind-body resource, Kelly Starret and his wife, Juliet Start, who recently created The Ready State Podcast.  https://thereadystate.com/podcasts/ Mind body resources explored - this focuses on the body piece, but we see in these resources the overlap of body, mind, spirit.   Learn about tools for finding your inner tools. What can a foam roller do for you...

60 min A deep dive discussion into how fields of human behavior are beginning to overlap and converse with each.  SNAP:  Learning conversation - you mean it's happening?  It's happening indeed. The basis of this podcast is a Jordan Peterson interview with Andrew Huberman. This is Maureen's adorkable dream conversation linking psychology with the humanities and spirituality, all backed by hard scie...

20 min Maureen and Pierre talk about how much they love Sam Harris' Waking Up app! What is meditation? What is it not? Sam Harris demystifies a mystical subject and practice.  Less soothing sounds, rustling wind, harmonic bowls, this app is more of a philosophy course that will liberate you from the control your thinking mind most likely has over you. Waking Up introduces practical steps in establ...

5 min Faith - leap of. Leaping into the future. Having faith in oneself and making choices. Spirituality. Thomas Aquinas- faith beyond reason. Letting go of needing answers, evidence, certainty. Every day leaps, big overarching life leaps. What's the role of faith in your life? Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to...