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2 Cents Critic#229 – The Babadook | Directed by Jennifer Kent (with Mama D of Petals of Support)Tune in as Mama D (Petals of Support) returns to the program for a breakdown of The Babadook, the 2014 horror movie about the supernatural terror that a widowed single mother and her six-year-old son contend with after reading a children’s pop-up book about a top hat-wearing monster. Reading Samuel as autistic, the burdens of motherhood, children preventing their parents from getting a restful sleep, and the thematic connections between The Babadook and “The Murmuring” from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities make up some of the talking points for this episode.Written and dire...
2025-10-152h 56
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Steve BanksHow 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 psychosynthesis over 20 years ago and how Psychosynthesis and Ken Wilber's Integral Theory influenced and inspired his creation of Blue Pearl. We...
2021-12-221h 18
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Karen RandallHow 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 as an unexpected path to life coaching, sharing her insights into the world o...
2021-12-081h 01
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Leyza TosteHow 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 transpersonal perspective can help us become allies by increasing our own education, including a valuable exercise on these themes, for coa...
2021-11-2454 min
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Alan C. HarasHow 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 working with the ego to allow Self-expression, and the quality of consciousness he finds necessary for teaching. About Alan C. Haras:
2021-11-101h 27
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Wim VerbeekHow 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 process" of our own unfolding. Wim al...
2021-10-271h 08
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Sara VatoreHow 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 us regulate our own nervous systems during a time when we are all being asked to manage signif...
2021-10-131h 10
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Molly Young BrownHow 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 she discovered Psychosynthesis, studied with Roberto Assagioli and delved more deeply into systems th...
2021-09-291h 04
What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Tom Yeomans 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 Process of Soul Awakening," and how we can learn to become more se...
2021-09-151h 21What Matters: ConversationsWhat Matters Conversations with Didi FirmanHow 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 recorded on 01.13.2021About our guest: Dr Dorothy...
2021-09-0141 minWhat Matters: ConversationsIntroduction to Psychosynthesis and "What Matters Conversations"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 esoteric wisdom." Join Craig and Christina as they bring more light to this unique approach to human potential through conversations with dedicated and diverse practitioners who are bring...
2021-08-1826 min
Equity Foundation PodcastMindfulness with Craig BehennaMindfulness with Craig Behenna: Actors don't always get the support they need on and off camera to keep themselves grounded and together. It can be easy to take on beliefs about yourself and your acting based on the structures and power dynamics of the business. In this session we'll take time to work with meditation practices that help you make inner space in moments of tension and which help you to see that you are more than the thoughts and stories. We’ll explore how a mindfulness practice can help you separate from unhelpful stories and feelings you may have ab...
2021-07-271h 00
Liberty Never SleepsReversals of Fortune 05/07/19 Vol. 6-- #81Reversals of Fortune 05/07/19 Vol. 6-- #81On today's show, Tom rants about some of the ridiculous things liberals try and sell us, and how people are now catching on to their nonsense narrative.*Met Gala*Letters of Complaints*Behenna and War*A Million Species to Go*Idiot JoePodcast Bumper Music:Do It Again- The Beach BoysYou're Only Human- Billy JoelYoung Americans- David BowieI Want To What Love Is- ForeignerClosing Music on podcastYou Want it Darker...
2019-05-0758 min
Another Aussie in LA#80 - Craig BehennaWriter and actor Craig Behenna has just returned to Adelaide - yup, we're in Radelaide, folks! - after a epic five month trip that culminated in his film ONE EYED GIRL taking out the Jury Prize at Austin Film Festival. We soldier through our respective jet lags to discuss writing, writing and more writing. Whether it be overwriting to find the gold, writing as a conversation with an audience or how screenwriting is like a Beethoven string quartet or a puzzle - no metaphor is left unturned or underused! But here's my take away - Find your people and s...
2014-12-0151 min