In this episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar and contemplative educator and researcher Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Brendan has been studying and teaching mindfulness and compassion for over a decade, and has lately been focusing on integrating trauma-informed and embodied practices into his work. This conversation covers many topics, including:
- his interest in contemplation (and an introduction to the Japanese practice of Naikan);
- adapting contemplative training to a variety of settings;
- the capacity of young people for compassion, mindfulness, and conceptual frames;
- what's missing in contemplative research;
- empathy/compassion as something that arises between people;
- the embeddedness of researchers in the systems they study;
- the SEE Learning program;
- trauma in the body & nervous system regulation;
- understanding different forms of trauma;
- healing and forgiveness;
- barriers to compassion, misunderstandings about the meaning of compassion;
- how the world is built on compassion;
- and new teaching endeavors with experiential learning.
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