Shows
Learning ConversationInterview: Jen Bleier38 min. Interview: Jen Bleier, Somatic Educator Maureen and Pierre interview Jen Bleier, friend and somatic educator. Trained in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Pilates, Somatic Experience practitioner, and small "d" dancer. Jen’s work spans different modalities, hence her self-description as a somatic educator. Jen said: “when you work with bodies, you can’t not work with emotions.” Maureen and Jen are on the same team - working to heal, working to educate, integrating Mind Body Spirit health. So what is Gyrotonic? Officially: the Gyrotonic Expansion System. Gyro - meaning rotating movement that heals - he...
2023-12-0826 min
Learning ConversationMaureen's Becoming Response-Able ProgramResponse-ability training is an online educational program to provide people with knowledge and skills to respond to their experiences, as opposed to merely reactiving and over-reacting chronically and unconscoiously. When you can respond to what life presents you with regulation and mindfulness, you save yourself from chronic stress which makes you better and your relationships with others better. The Becoming ResponseAble program is a foundation for learning about mental health as mindbody health and discovering inner resources and outer resources you may be unaware of!
2023-11-1512 min
Learning ConversationPractice: Happy5 min Today's word is: Happy Maureen references a documentry on Happy - 2012 movie. Is happy a good goal? Join the conversation. 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
2023-11-1304 min
Learning ConversationResource: Dr.Jordan B. PetersonResource: Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Maureen begins the pod energized having just taught a yoga class. With over 175 published podcasts on resources, practices, discussions, interviews, reflections, we've somehow not talked about Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Peterson is a pivotal figure in 'Learning Conversation,' not just for this podcast but for so many who have followed his lead in examining what words mean and how they can be used for good or harm. Peterson's opposition to Canada's speech legislation in Bill C-16, an amendment to the "Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code," catapulted him to a...
2023-11-1328 min
Learning ConversationDiscussion: Solitude vs. Isolation24 min Maureen and Pierre discuss spiritual traditions of solitude versus the disaffectation of anxiety and isolation. Spiritual practices include: Jesus in the desert for 40 days. Thoreau “On Walden Pond.” Meditative practices. John Francis - not talking for 17 years. Modern disaffection include recent school shootings, which is on Maureen's mind as a former school teacher, mother, person. It’s counter-intuitive or perhaps ‘unnatural’ that there are these traditions of finding integration into society by withdrawing from society. Because we are so society bound, its not usual for a person to take up spiritual practices of solitude.
2023-11-0623 min
Learning ConversationIntro To Crossfit15 min What does it mean to be fit? How do you stay fit? If you want to be fitter, how do you do that?What motivates you? Maureen found a gym that has been motivating her towards building strength and getting fitter. There are many elements in it and Pierre is curious. Maureen begins to explain Crossfit to Pierre, who starts to see the attraction of Crossfit in mind, body, and spirit training, with a work-out community supporting good each others good health. Maureen explains that Crossfit started with the c...
2023-10-1615 min
Learning ConversationResource: Jon Kabat Zin21 min Jon Kabat- Zinn is today’s resource. Kabat-Zinn is a professor emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He received a Ph.D. in molecular biology for MIT in 1971. He is one of the earlier people in the health field to recognize the adverse effects of stress on health. His book Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991) leads today’s conversation into this resource. Full Catastrophe Living - the title of his book, Pierre claims is the title of his...
2023-10-1021 min
Learning ConversationConversation Resource: Coleman Hughes15 min Today's Learning Conversation is about the death of conversation. Maureen and Pierre share thoughts on the value and importance of conversation for health and wellness in a democracy . The Death of Conversation is also the title of a podcast between Coleman Hughes and Jonathan Haidt which is resourced in this episode. Coleman Hughes is a black, African-American, intellectual with a podcast called Conversations with Coleman. Check him out. https://colemanhughes.org. Jonathan Haidt is a professor of moral philosophy, the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU Ste...
2023-10-0315 min
Learning ConversationResource: Swami Vivekenanda17 min Listen to Maureen and Pierre podcasting from their less than professional sound studios! Pierre introduces a resource that Maureen has not heard of, read about, or taught. Wow! Score one for Pierre. Pierre brings forward a resource: Vivekananda. Called the ‘Messenger of Indian Wisdom to the Western World,’ Vivekananda was the first person to come to America and teach yoga and Indian spiritual philosophy. Only in the United States for four years, Vivekananda had a profound effect on the trajectory of yoga and eastern philosophy in America. He was the first in a...
2023-09-1117 min
Learning ConversationPierre's exercising inquiry15 min Health and fitness questions from Pierre. Answers from Maureen. Or is it questions that answer from Maureen? This is a pretty hilarious account of Pierre’s inquiry into how to use a gym. Maureen knows gyms inside and out. Pierre’s set up to this podcast is classic Pierre mumbo jumbo, until Maureen sends the strike missile! Yup - laser guided question: why do you think you want to do this? What’s your motivation - strike missile is at the 7 min mark. Maureen explains the magic of Cross Fit. Maureen expl...
2023-08-2815 min
Learning ConversationSapiens18 min Pierre and Maureen introduce a resource: Yuval Noah Harari. Listen to the end of the podcast and find out why Pierre is so happy. :-) This podcast veers from Learning Conversation’s usual resources in physical, mental and spiritual health to consider human behavior from the beginning of time. Yup - big subject! Yuval Harari takes on the history of humans masterfully. A professor at Hebrew University, Harari received his PhD from Oxford University in history and social philosophy. Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind is a tour de fo...
2023-08-2118 min
Learning ConversationLP: Pushing5 min. Today's word from Maureen is: Pushing. Maureen wants to move away from nouns. Her word pushing, pushes Pierre right into Forumla 1. Push, push, push. Hilarious practice where Pierre speaks so fast to get in all he wants to say about F1, that he leaves Maureen with 9 seconds! Enjoy. 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 throug...
2023-07-3104 min
Learning ConversationNarrative25 min Maureen and Pierre wander a bit off the road of spiritual mind body health by discussing “narratives.” Pierre’s been wondering about the term “narrative.” He is a little hesitant to express himself, lest Learning Conversation lands in the quagmire of politics. His insight to the word narrative - stories with a moral, a teaching moment - considers moral stories previously emanating from trusted sources, like parents, grandparents, teachers - and they tended to shape lives for the better. Now narratives are employed ubiquitously in the press, social media, and other life shaping institu...
2023-07-3125 min
Learning ConversationDr. Peter Attia24 min Attia's newsletter and podcast is: The Drive. Dr. Peter Attia is a physician with degrees in engineering and mathematics. An authority on longevity and healthy lifestyles. Lifespan vs. Health span Maureen & Pierre discuss Attia's book, Outlive: the Science and Art of Longevity. In addition to the main themes in the book, Attia self-reveals his own drive and inability to self-care, which led him to crisis. Driven to point of working and almost missing his wife giving birth during a difficult pregnancy, only later does this imbalance in priorities bu...
2023-07-1524 min
Learning ConversationResource: Rich Roll8 min Rich Roll has an iconic intro sound to his podcast: a bicycle wheel freely spinning and clicking. An early podcaster, Roll's open question style where he lets guests freely spin their stories can be a beautiful thing to listen to. It's beautiful because his research is thorough, but he doesn't answer questions for guests, but leads with genuine curiosity and lets guests speak. Refreshing. Results are impactful when a guest, given the time, comfort and challenge of Roll's questions drops into a deep personal share. Roll's podcasts are a resource from which Maur...
2023-07-1508 min
Learning ConversationLeaving Maureen's Kids Alone10 min Maureen shares a very personal story about yoga teacher training. With 2 children in high school and twins in college, Maureen travels to Thailand for 9 weeks to become a yoga teacher. Pierre asks Maureen about leaving kids 'alone.' Maureen responds that her four children were raised as responsible children (response - able). In pursuing yoga teacher training in Thailand, Maureen also wanted to set an example that women, and specifically 'moms,' can be independent people. Maureen sensitively reflects on the balance of putting your children first, as moms and par...
2023-07-1510 min
Learning ConversationLPSmashed5 min Today's word is: smashed! An onamatopoeia!! Pierre and tennis (of course) come up. Maureen muses on the difference of whacked and smashed, and a discussion of words in different languages winds up the pod. 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 ...
2023-07-1004 min
Learning ConversationMaking "bad" podcasts33 min. Reflection: Making Good and Bad Podcasts Maureen and Pierre discuss their podcast journey. No editing. Cleaning up speech patterns. Sharing resources. Sharing dialogue with a friend. How did this adventure start? Pierre revisits the early beginnings when Maureen met Pierre at Bikram Teacher Training 2015, Khao Lak, Thailand at the 10 min mark. Yoga training was 9 weeks of transcendental hell camp. In this reflection, at different times Maureen and Pierre raise the need for our polarized society to remember conversational arts. Though a bit of a ramble, this pod explains how Learning Conversa...
2023-07-1033 min
Learning ConversationTough Mudder and Team Life18 min Maureen does a Tough Mudder. Don't you just love that name? The way it sounds? Tough Mudder. Ok, so what is a Tough Mudder? It's a national phenomenon now for some time where people challenge themselves with an obstacle course. And yes, the obstacles are "tough" and some involve mud. Maureen hits the podcast after teaching a 6:30 AM Bikram hot yoga class and munching on breakfast tells a hilarious story about the legacy of tough mudding she discovers. Worth a listen. Doing hard things with other humans is a way to thriv...
2023-06-2718 min
Learning ConversationLiving in a Cloud of Unknowing14 min Yes, you read that right. Today's resource podcast is "anonymous." Not just any anonymous, but a famous anonymous. Well as famous as an anonymous person can be. That is because, he - fairly certain of that gender - wrote a book of some fame. The book is titled: The Cloud of Unknowing. A resource podcast is where we pick a person, a podcast, a book and bring it forward for consideration as a mind, body, spirit health resource. This relatively obscure little book is today's resource. The book was published in the 14th ce...
2023-06-2713 min
Learning ConversationLP:Labor5 min Today's word is: Labor Labor is life, says Maureen. 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
2023-06-2004 min
Learning ConversationLP: ALERT5 min. Today's word is: alert. 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
2023-06-1204 min
Learning ConversationPierre's Anxiety over the existential therapist20 min Existential Humanist Psychology - well that’s a mouthful. Maureen is as geeky and deeply interested in psychology as anyone, says Pierre. The two of them go down a rabbit hole of discussion kicked off by Dr. David Puder’s podcast. A bit of a banter fest here. What was going to be a Resource pod on Dr. Puder's podcast crumbles into a discussion. Dr. Puder’s podcast with Dr. Kirk Schneider of the Existential-Humanist Institute, where he is a co-founder, launches this discussion pod, because the two experts Puder and Schn...
2023-06-1220 min
Learning ConversationLP: WATER5 min Today's word is: water. Pierre immediately goes to Jesus. Ut oh. Maureen sees Shirley Winters floating by in her nightmares. 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
2023-06-0504 min
Learning ConversationLP: SLOWLY5 min Today's word is: slowly. Maureen says: no more nouns, kids! Let's get action oriented! Ok, so the word is slowly?????? Yup, the word is slowly. Check out Maureen and Pierre practicing how to speak to one another. Check out "Learning Conversation." 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. Landscap...
2023-06-0505 min
Learning ConversationJames Clear's Atomic Habits15 min. James Clear, Atomic Habits, ducks Wikipedia. What? Maureen wants to talk about James Clear, Atomic Habits: Small Changes Make Big Differences. Pierre explains that there is no Wiki entry for James Clear. Has he somehow taken control of the Internet? Good for him! His book sold 10+ million copies. 3 key points in Atomic Habits, according to Maureen: Small changes make a big difference. Just 1% improvement compounding over days, months, years makes a big change. Forget about goals; focus on systems. Goals are about results; systems are about processes that lead to resu...
2023-06-0514 min
Learning ConversationLP: WOKE5 min Today's word is: woke 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
2023-05-3004 min
Learning ConversationLP: Virtue5 min Today's word is: virture 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
2023-05-3004 min
Learning ConversationJon Haidt33 min. Maureen wants to talk about Jonathan Haidt. He is a resource teaching about regulating nervous systems in the midst of social fragility and political brittleness. He's a guy who is in the forefront of calling out aspects of popular culture which he believes are well intentioned but misguided. Jonathan Haidt’s article in Atlantic Magazine, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” more or less went viral as a result of calling out teaching practices which insulate children, and young adults, from struggles and challenges in learning. Haidt’s written other books. The titles al...
2023-05-3033 min
Learning ConversationPracticing Yoga: On and Off the Mat33 min Fitting for a “Learning Conversation,” this discussion covers a lot of ground. Maybe it’s like your conversations? Those conversations when you are learning, listening, sharing, discovering? This podcast covers: Whoop (fitness bit) > 90-min hot yoga > strength training > spirit training > Hubbell telescope > science > out space > inner space > a cloud of unknowing > tolerance for ambiguity > self-regulating in challenging situations through mind body spirit disciplines / practices. Check it out. Our discussion starts with a dramatic fact statement: Maureen takes a 90-minute hot yoga class at 104-106 degrees, checks her Whoop fitness bit device and it...
2023-05-2233 min
Learning ConversationOMID SAFI20 min Hold the presses! Pierre knows what he’s talking about? Wait! What? Well, let’s qualify that. Pierre knows what he wants to talk about. We’re not saying Pierre actually knows what he is talking about. Let’s be clear about that! Pierre wants to talk about a book: Radical Love, by Omid Safi. The book was given to Pierre by his good friend Manish. Hat tip to Manish with a riff on his special friendship. The book, Radical Love, is a compilation of poems from Sufi mystics...
2023-05-1319 min
Learning ConversationLP: GENTLE5 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
2023-05-1304 min
Learning ConversationTalking About Tolle Video25 min Eckhart Tolle’s video: Excess baggage. How we think of life’s struggles causes unnecessary suffering. The second arrow analogy in Buddhist tradition. Tolle says life is one’s response to circumstances, not the collection of circumstances. Maureen and Pierre resource an outstanding light in the modern field of spiritual awakening: Eckhart Tolle. The assumption that people shouldn’t face difficulties or suffer is delusional. Struggling, suffering is one way to grow. Tolle calls thinking we should be free of struggle a dysfunctional use of mind. Maureen and Pierre spend a...
2023-05-0625 min
Learning ConversationEckardTolle40 min Maureen and Pierre revisit Eckhart Tolle to explore his life's story. Follow-on conversation from the first podcast on Eckhart Tolle. Before revisiting Tolle, Maureen mentions people are actually listening to these podcasts. Wait, what?! They are??? WOW! Cool! Maureen says someone mentioned liking ‘Pierre’s voice and playfulness.’ Pierre loves the playfulness comment, and riffs on his relationship with his voice. Many years ago in a used book store, Pierre found the book: Change Your Voice, Change Your Life, by Morton Cooper. It was indeed, a life-changing book. Speaking of life changing bo...
2023-05-0639 min
Learning ConversationDeb Dana's BefriendingYour Nervous System10 min. Maureen wants to talk about Deb Dana. Pierre and Maureen begin by laughing and laughing some more about their efforts to explain polyvagal theory. A mind-body resource, Deb Dana, a psychologist teaches people how to recognize their physiological states. If you understand the ladder of stress and relaxation, high regulation or low, she says there are 3 distinct states. Prior paradigms of physiological control focused on the mind controlling the body. But Deb Dana and Stephen Porges show through polyvagal theory that communication is a two-way street - body to...
2023-04-2410 min
Learning ConversationReflecting On Our Conversating20 min Maureen and Pierre reflect on a year of podcasting trying to learn conversation. Yes, ironically that’s the title of our podcast: Learning Conversation. Join us as we consider "the shit that comes out of our mouths." We skip over the structure of our podcasts, listed below, and dive into the speaking / listening duality. We consider Socratic dialogue. We explore having a 6th form of conversation. Maureen provides a 411 - information please - on Socratic dialogue. How does it work? We agree that in most conversations statements are made and...
2023-04-1720 min
Learning ConversationDr. John Vervaeke15 min After a weather report comparing morning temps in MA and CA, both 58 degrees, Maureen introduces Professor John Vervaeke as a Learning Conversation resource. He is an award winning lecturer at the University of Toronto in psychology, cognitive science and Buddhist psychology. Vervaeke’s academic interests include wisdom, mindfulness, meditation.... Wait, what? Pierre comments those subjects were not available when he went to school. How times have changed. A reason the Learning Conversation podcast started is the exploding amount of literature in the field of psychology, mindfulness, somatic health, meditation, yoga, and on and on...
2023-04-0914 min
Learning ConversationPaying Attention in Person15 min Maureen and Pierre share their daily weather report, and then pod their way into the subject of atttention. Then, Maureen tells Pierre about the workshop she is giving on attention and love at Yoga Studio Y in Danvers, MA, where Maureen has opened a Wellness Resource Center. The Wellness Center at Studio Y is designed to create community by expanding offerings of the yoga studio. Think of it as ‘yoga off the mat.’ Maureen explains she is giving a series of weekend lectures focused on the question: what is wellness? Illness, wellness and fitne...
2023-04-0915 min
Learning ConversationDr. Stephen Porges' PolyVagal Theory13 min Maureen talks about a course she took from a resource called: Embodied Philosophy. Pierre, who knows nothing about polyvagal theory, plays the part of the ventriloquist dummy trying to understand what polyvagal theory is all about. Maureen explains. Put on your safety belt for a zoom down the steep part of the roller coaster. Maureen recaps: Polyvagal Theory Neural Exercises for Safety and Connection. Dr. Stephen Porges who discovered an interesting medical fact / theory related to the polyvagal nerve explains what he found in the medical world. He is speak...
2023-04-0417 min
Learning ConversationLearning Practice: Resourceful5 min Today's word is: resourceful. 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
2023-04-0404 min
Learning ConversationMB Resource: Ragged Edge Silence13 minutes Lately, Pierre's been obsessed with the title of our podcast, Learning Conversation - see prior Reflection podcasts. He is enjoying learning about learning through conversation, and improving conversational skills. Wait, what? Listening is involved? Who knew? On that note, Maureen tells Pierre about a book she used with her students to teach the skill and importance of listening. The book emphasizes listening's role in creating authentic relationships. It's called Ragged Edge of Silence: Finding Peace in a Noisy World by John Francis. It's the latest MindBody Resource that we want listeners to know...
2023-03-2713 min
Learning ConversationRegulation for Humility and Listening20 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 brilliantly explains the negotiation of social meaning through dialogue. The process of making, confirming, changing, and passing on culture - norms, values, processes. The process of building relationships that in effect underly culture and functioning social interactions. Explor...
2023-03-2721 min
Learning ConversationMovement30 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 comments on gratitude. "I get to do what I do." Later dive into Ido Portal’s classic - worth the price of admission - response to Andrew Hu...
2023-03-2028 min
Learning ConversationLearning Practice: Skiing8 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
2023-03-1307 min
Learning ConversationLearning To Accept Messy When Podcasting22 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 early podcasts, we talked over one another. We were trying to figure out what to talk about, how to talk about it. Maureen’s...
2023-03-1322 min
Learning ConversationPodcasting about MindBody Resources14 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 - ski 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 podcast? What’s cool about podcasting? Before podcasting together, Maureen and Pierre talked about their post yoga training interests and Maureen introduced Pierre to 4 books that...
2023-03-0513 min
Learning ConversationMB Resource: Tara Brach15 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 have risen in our culture to be influencers. She has 3 million podcast downloads per month. Maureen and Pierre have about 3 podcasts downloads per month. B...
2023-02-2114 min
Learning ConversationA Wellness Resource Center13 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 personal experience to life coaching, counseling and making resources available to those around her, check out this new in-person feature of LFL - Landscapes for Learning. Enjoy!
2023-02-1313 min
Learning ConversationLosing a Friend25 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 room in our culture. It's also a subject that is ‘hard’ to manage. Difficult because it is...
2023-02-1324 min
Learning ConversationLFL's Local Wellness Resource CenterLandscapes 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 and grow the studio community by extending wellness education to the broader community and invite new members to engage in mindbody fitness-focused lifestyle. Maureen creates original content and delivers wellness education programs, l...
2023-02-1301 min
Learning ConversationLearning From Teaching Comics30 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 reflect on how they make meaning from images based on their conditioned life experiences and how to negotiate meaning socially, with their peers. This experience ultimately led Maureen to a career as a psychotherapist and wellness educator...
2023-02-0330 min
Learning ConversationObservingMichaelSinger22 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 suggests that Michael Singer’s Living from a Place of Surrender is one of the clearest explanations of meditation and what consciousness to be found. Singer being a tech entrepren...
2023-01-2922 min
Learning ConversationTuning Into Understand Each Other20 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 the nervous system is shaped early in life through attatchment and attunement. Alas, before any of us have any choice in the matter, our little bodies and brains are shaped by our early car...
2023-01-2020 min
Learning ConversationPsychology, Biology, I and We60 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 science with practical results for everyday people doing everyday living. For Maureen a humanities teacher and therapist, this conversation is a dream - as it is for many of us who have been want...
2023-01-1750 min
Learning ConversationThe Ready State Podcast20 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 your viscera - how is that related to emotional regulation Referenced in the podcast: Stacy Simms - Female Physiology and Nutrition Science. "Women are...
2023-01-1719 min
Learning ConversationThe Waking Up App20 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 establishing a meditation practice, while explaining its deep mystery. Check it out. About half way into the podcast, Pierre describes an experience of dropping into a...
2023-01-0718 min
Learning ConversationBeliefs That Cause Suffering12 min Happy New Year. Laugh along with us as we explore three 'mustabtory' life lessons for this year or any year. In this Resource pod, Maureen wants to introduce REBT (Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) by reading from a book. No seriously. And, Maureen tells Pierre: this will be funny. Pierre, ever the skeptic, is doubtful. Re-listening: it IS FUNNY. BTW: Pierre writing here, Maureen is right! Hehe. Do you like the word 'mustabatory?' Yes, read mastabatory, for three significant expectations people have that create suffering - all starting with the ways thing...
2022-12-3011 min
Learning ConversationLP: Resentment5 min Pierre gives the word today. It's: resentment. What is resentment? What makes resentment? Psychologically how does it develop? Maureen elucidates. Pierre chimes in, suggesting somewhere underneath resentment is narcissism and it might be intractable. Maureen calls BS on Pierre. Pierre thanks Maureen. WAIT! WHAT? YUP! Nobody's head explodes, nobody 'gets into it with the other person. It's conversation folks. Join us in listening. Join us in practicing. Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word. Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice...
2022-12-2405 min
Learning ConversationLP: Empath10 min Maureen puts the word "empath" up for an "LP" Learning Practice. The word is discussed a bit. What it means to be empathic. What labeling oneself or others with word does. Very soon thereafter, Pierre drops into a self-disclosure vortex, which you can hear him try to escape multiple times. Maureen plays gentle guide and a very interesting discussion emerges about difficulties experiencing emotions through art and entertainment vs. real life. Join us for a deep and self-disclosing Learning Practice as we travel the landscapes within before your ears. Le...
2022-12-2409 min
Learning ConversationWakeUptoTheStoicPath12 min Maureen and Pierre dive into Stoicism. Sam Harris's meditation app "Waking Up" has a section on the stoic path. It's a series of mini-pods, about 8-15 minutes long that take you down the path of this philosophy with a view towards a better life. Maureen picks up on that and introduces several resources from her studies of philosophy which are now overlapping modern interests in classical wisdom. Pierre chimes in and a bunch of resources are discussed. The book Pierre was trying to remember in the pod is: The Stoic Challenge, see below...
2022-12-2411 min
Learning ConversationDr. Phil & Moving Forward20 min. Work: I have to do this vs. I get to do this What is work? How does work work? Is it good? This podcast is about Dr. Phil? Maureen likes Dr. Phil. Pierre asks who’s Dr. Phil? Join Maureen and Pierre for an amazing journey in conversation from Dr. Phil, to children living in bedrooms, to rocks becoming organisms. No really, all in 20 minutes. You'll be AMAZED! Maureen brings up Dr. Phil’s observation that his show has changed over time because the issues that people in general are...
2022-12-1721 min
Learning ConversationLearning about Meditation25 min. Maureen and Pierre both had a bad night and are cranky. Well actually sad. It involves dogs. Both need a little stress relief. Segue to Andrew Huberman’s podcast on meditation. What forms of meditation are there? Are they different? What parts of the brain do they effect? How do they work? Can they help me? Check out the link to Huberman and listen to a discussion on meditation. Pierre references his meditation mentor: Xerxes Whitney - Learning Conversation's first interviewee. See links below. Demystifying meditation. Check it out as Maureen and...
2022-12-0826 min
Learning ConversationGenX Meditation Exposure?11 min. Small practices lead to BIG things! Maureen and Pierre start off with new words - preppy slang, millennial slang - samezies, prezzies, rezzies. Have you heard the word: adorkable? Yup: adorable and dorky. It's from the millennial generation. What generation are you from? Pierre and Maureen break it down and reveal. Conversation wanders into Chinese cup gardens, meditation practices, chakra levels, mini-practices, gifts from friends. Worth noting: practical entrees into deep practices. Can 5 minutes make a difference? Do you need to do yoga for 90 minutes, 1 hour? How about 3 minutes? Meditation, do you need to do...
2022-12-0811 min
Learning ConversationLearning Practice: Black5 min. Maureen and Pierre practice conversation discussing the word: black. 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
2022-11-3005 min
Learning ConversationLP: Jaded5 min. Maureen and Pierre discuss the nuanced word: jaded. 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
2022-11-3004 min
Learning ConversationReflecting on Learning Conversation12 min. Maureen and Pierre talk about talking. Reflecting on prior podcasts, we’re learning conversation (small "L" small "C"). Inevitably we judge ourselves. The ummms, the likes, the spacer words and sounds. We’re working on that! HA! Learning Conversation. Another part of Maureen and Pierre’s reflection centers on the unique nature of conversation, its meandering, its casualness, its contemporaneous, serendipitous connections between people. A beautiful art form, meant to be practiced. Maureen and Pierre also talk about how these pods (podcasts) are creating access to a growing library of thought and r...
2022-11-3012 min
Learning ConversationLP: Listening5 min. Maureen chooses the word "listen." Listen. How do we train our mind / body to pause in a physiological state of self-regulation opening ourselves to listen to another human being, genuinely taking in and considering what a person says? Join us in listening. Listen to a Learning Practice on the word "listen." 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 join...
2022-11-2404 min
Learning ConversationGiving Thanks for Getting to Be Here Now25 min. Pierre and Maureen reflect on Thanksgiving and gratitude, how it changes a person's brain and perspective allowing life to be savored. Maureen comments on the positive feelings created when a person experiences gratitude from someone else for their actions. This according to Andrew Huberman. Pierre comments on his weekly gratitude practice led by Xerxes Whitney, during Tuesday evening during guided meditation sessions. This Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to reflect on gratefulness. Whether times are difficult or terrific, remember we are here now. We are able to experience life. An ability to experienc...
2022-11-2425 min
Learning ConversationLearning Resource: Kathy Kain - Mo Solo14 min. Maureen reflects on Kathy Kain's book Nurturing Resilience. Kathy Kain is a resource in learning about trauma and social interactions, which Maureen sees as important for helping clinicians, but not just clinicians - teachers, social workers, parents, people. Understanding patterns of behavior rooted in trauma is enlightening. Why can this person or that person not see their 'self-interest' and act upon it? Why is this or that person 'reactive,' or to use another word 'triggered.' Understanding the why, where and how of embedded social interactions helps us with compassion. There is a spect...
2022-11-2013 min
Learning ConversationLearningPractice: BE & BEE5 min. Let's talk about death, orgasms, and comedy, shall we? Maureen and Pierre discuss the word: Be & Bee. (No, not the cordial / liquor!) 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
2022-11-1205 min
Learning ConversationLearning Practice: Altruism5 min. Let's talk about death, orgasms, and comedy, shall we? Maureen and Pierre discuss the word: Altruism. 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
2022-11-1205 min
Learning ConversationRelationships & Food40 min. Fasten your seat belts, Maureen and Pierre discuss food. What is love of food? How does food become a connection between two people, within a family, and more broadly create social fabric outside the home? How is culture manifested through food - shout out to Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist. What are people’s relationships with food? Pierre’s Italian / French family elevated the dinner experience to ritual. The Italian side of his family "Tucci" is, to put it mildly, food obsessed. Perhaps you’ve seen Pierre’s cousin on CNN and in the movies?
2022-11-1239 min
Learning ConversationThe Importance of Forgiveness30 min. Maureen and Pierre discuss forgiveness. Forgiveness begins with Shakespeare. Well, that is overstated. This podcast on forgiveness begins with Shakespeare. Not Portia’s speech from the Taming of the Shrew, where she says: “the quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven.” The podcast starts with Pierre randomly finding a book on Henry V on a picnic table a few days ago and writing about that in his weekly newspaper column. So that is the Shakespeare connection. On the topic of forgiveness, Maureen wants to discuss something Pier...
2022-11-0431 min
Learning ConversationAlanWatts12 min. Maureen and Pierre bring forward Alan Watts as a classical mind body resource. An icon of the 1960's, Alan Watts was an Episcopalian priest who is known for bringing Buddhism to the west. The double entendre of the interview is: Being in the Way. So often we spend our time trying to be somebody - the athlete, the business success, the well-liked person. Sometimes we forget to spend time being ourselves, or even finding out who we are. Join us for a brief conversation considering Being in the Way, a conversation between Ram Das...
2022-10-2811 min
Learning ConversationIronyofselfhelp17 mins. Learning about simple and personal applied strategies for grounded living after having spent decades looking for answers in the self-help aisles of bookstores. The quickest way to meditate is by focusing on one of the five senses. By focusing on the sense of touch, we elevate the body's signals of feelings over the mind's processing, and we ground to the present moment. When we are in the present moment, worries of the future mist over, regrets and burdens of the past fade. We can be grateful for the here and now. The Landscape for Learning is in yo...
2022-10-2117 min
Learning ConversationLearning Practice: Hypocrisy (long version)6 min. Maureen and Pierre unpack the word "unfairness" in this 3 minute drill that spills over at the end. Snap: Pierre gives the word and Maureen spins the table. Wait. What? You can do that? So, Pierre gives the word and starts in talking. Interesting conversation about "learning conversation" and how we understand words differently. Both Maureen and Pierre view hypocrisy as a higher form of 'bad behavior' - but each comes at it a little differently. Interesting spill over conversation in Learning Practice.
2022-10-2107 min
Learning ConversationLearning Resource: Sadhguru35 min. Sadhguru baffles Joe Rogan (and the rest of us) with the REAL definition of soil, yoga, and the limits of our intellect to know who we are. Yoga is everything. What? Yoga is everything? Explain. Both Maureen and Pierre comment on Joe Rogan's curiosity and difficulty in wrapping his (Joe's) mind around Sadhguru's explanations on life. Although promoting healthy soil for the earth as a life mission, Sadhguru schools Joe on yoga. Maureen and Pierre dive into the deeper elements of yoga - a way of being not an exercise class.
2022-10-1334 minLearning ConversationGood And Evil In 5 Minutes10 min. Pierre and Maureen take on a BIG subject in 5 minutes. Well, no, actually 10 minutes. Check it out. Pierre relates the best explanation he's ever heard of why good triumphs over evil. Maureen and Pierre rid on good and evil in Learning Conversation - volleying concepts and thoughts back and forth is a way of learning and exploring. In this episode: Chögyam Trungpa Rimpoche, Pema Chodron, Bikram Choudary. The concept of Basic Goodness comes from Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa "If we are willing to take an unbias...
2022-10-0210 minLearning ConversationPlaying with Stress11 min. Maureen and Pierre riff on play. Yeah, that thing we did as kids. Now we're reading about it as 'exercises' for healing stress. Maureen and Pierre reflect on their own lives where sports played a big role in counter-balancing the stresses of growing up - fairly normal stuff. Fast forward to therapeutic modalities and play, bodily movement, repetitive and intentional activities are recommended to relieve conditions of stress. Exploring the somatic component of stress in a short podcast, recounting personal experience and Aha moments of seeing the natural healing that takes place when we listen...
2022-09-2910 min
Learning ConversationTrauma & Healing11 min. Maureen and Pierre discuss Peter Levine's Healing Trauma resource for understanding trauma as somatic experience. A resource not only for the traumatized, but for all of us who may learn to spot symptoms of trauma in others and be more compassionate. Maureen is actually reading this book and recording her voice so patients without resources will have access to Peter's wisdom. Dr. Levine is a pioneer in the field of trauma studies, recognizing that trauma comes in many forms and lodges in the body. The mind reacts to the body's incorporation of the unresolved event. Che...
2022-09-2911 minLearning ConversationMr. Brightside7 min. Maureen and Pierre tease each other about their default personality traits. Rain's pitter patter is backdrop to short exchange on the power of connection. Reflections on 2 years of sheltering-in-place under circumstances and rules designed to lessen pandemic effects. Upsides and downsides of social media. Mr. Brightside switches on Ms. Sunshine. Join us for another morning Learning Conversation. Coffee anyone?
2022-09-0411 minLearning ConversationDystopian Dilemma11 min. WOW - Maureen and Pierre actually decide in advance what to talk about. Wait what? They did? Yup. Ok. So? Now that most of social media's memetic vocabulary words are are out there, just what are Maureen and Pierre talking about this morning? Pierre is on a roll. Social Dilemma? He ups the ante to Dystopian Dilemma. Social isn't really social at a variety of levels. Listen to this discussion on social media trends and effects through this social media podcast outlet. When will Maureen and Pierre discuss the word: ...
2022-08-2911 minLearning ConversationUncomfortable Exposure20 min. Discussion: Being Uncomfortable Brings Growth Maureen and Pierre talk how going to the edge of comfortableness helps growth. Facing fears rather than running from them allows you to relive difficulties and heal. How does ‘feel good’ culture work against? Where do we find threats in our environment? How do we respond to stress? How do we fix fritzzelled internal operating systems in humans when they become overwhelmed. Maureen and Pierre discuss small doses of uncomfortable leading the way towards healing.
2022-08-2820 minLearning ConversationLearning Practice: Grace5 min. Grace is a word you may not hear everyday. And yet what a lovely word. Jim McCammon our interviewee who spoke about his work with the homeless prompts Maureen and Pierre for this Learning Practice with the word "grace." Jim, Maureen and Pierre discuss: Grace. 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. Landsca...
2022-08-2707 minLearning ConversationMind Body Resource: Johan Hari 222 min. Is there a pandemic crisis in attention control? Johan Hari says there is. It’s a perfect storm of new technologies rapidly grabbing control of our attention. Cell phone culture, streaming entertainment, work paradigms on-line, they all compete for our attention. Maureen and Pierre discuss the crisis of attention disorder / control, possible solutions and new perspectives leading to optimism in the midst of crisis. If there is a crisis and we acknowledge that, how do we change ourselves? How do we change our culture. How do we take collective action? Very interesting questio...
2022-08-2622 minLearning ConversationLearning Practice: Mortality5 min. Let's talk about death, orgasms, and comedy, shall we? Maureen and Pierre discuss the word: Mortality. 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
2022-08-0204 minLearning ConversationReflections on Learning Conversations #430 min. Reflections around content podcasts. Maureen starts with self-observation and self-criticism. Isn’t that something we all do? Especially when we are observing ourselves in sound or video? Why do we do that? Maureen and Pierre comment on respective linguistic habits and conclude we are “learning conversation.” Pun intended and accomplished! This Reflection episode covers practice sessions on: Opinion and Politics and Maureen and Pierre discuss their respective books. Pierre elucidates a new word: Upinion – feelings you feel compelled to say and no one wants to listen to. Later in the podcast, Maureen ref...
2022-08-0232 min
Learning ConversationMarjon Robati: Shiva Shakti UniteMarjon Robati visits with Pierre and Maureen reflecting on their shared experience of 500 hours in yoga teacher training in the jungles of South Thailand, two hours south of Phuket. Discussion evolves to how yoga training changed lives. Marjon a CPA by profession immersed herself in yoga teaching, traveling to different yoga studios, and going deeper into more subtle yogic arts of obtaining mind body and spiritual unity. Marjon is the founder and creator Shiva Shakti Unite. Check her out on Instagram, and her website: https://www.shivashaktiunite.com A cancer survivor at the ten...
2022-08-0159 minLearning ConversationA Day in the Life Discussion25 min. Daily Schedule Discussion. A follow-up discussion after exchanging schedules. Pierre and Maureen discuss lifestyle diseases. Maureen suggests people might have too many priorities. She references: Mark Manson: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Pierre expresses empathy for everyone experiencing the pressures of society, which puts many lesser goals in front of health and loving connection. How does our culture affect our choices? Maureen calls bullshit on not being able to make choices around environmental conditioning, citing the prevalence of excuse making, or simply not paying attention. We have choices. We are privileged. We should b...
2022-08-0126 minLearning ConversationA Day in Maureen & Pierre's Life45 min. A Day With Maureen & Pierre After discussing Johann Hari’s book, Attention, Maureen tells Pierre that she has her patients write down their daily schedule in hour increments in order for them to see and review where they direct their attention. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, so Maureen and Pierre decide to share their daily schedules with each other, and with you, dear listener. Sort of a day in the life of… Being real, authentic and letting you know a bit more about who these people are through what they a...
2022-07-3142 minLearning ConversationMind Body Resource: Johann Hari14 min. Mind Body Resource: Johann Hari The opposite of addition is connection, so says Johann Hari. Author of books about Addiction and Attention, Pierre tells Maureen about a podcast where Rich Roll interviews Johann Hari. Pierre focuses more on the Hari / Roll conversation than on the subject matter of Attention, so we might have to return to this. Johann Hari interviews experts around the world and brings powerful insights into subject matter. In his latest book on Attention, he traveled the world for 3 years speaking with experts. Then took 3 months off and spent it in Provinc...
2022-07-2713 minLearning ConversationMind Body Resource: Helen Keller25 min. Maureen & Pierre spend another few minutes laughing about the start of their podcast never knowing what they are talking about. M & P issue a disclaimer: This is the Internet kids. If you think Pierre and Maureen know what they are talking about: beware, hehe. In other words, Maureen & Pierre are ordinary people discussing ordinary topics in the mind body space, sharing resources. Discussion begins around Helen Keller's quote: the most beautiful things cannot be seen, or even touched. They must be experienced with the heart. Maureen brings up the Chinese word for heart, whi...
2022-07-2626 minLearning ConversationMind Body Resource: Carl Rogers10 min. Maureen & Pierre laugh about the opening line of their podcast: What are we talking about today???!!! Pierre and Maureen discuss acceptance and change in the context of a quote from Carl Rogers. Maureen helps Pierre distinguish Carl Rogers from the 'pyramid dude' (Abraham Maslow) and asks about a paradox which Rogers thought held deep meaning. The paradox and quote: the more a person becomes themself, the more they see themself, and others around them, change. Discussion revolves around the importance of stillness in understanding. How change in humans is realized. Podcast finishes up with a...
2022-07-2525 minLearning ConversationJim McCammon: Homeless Not HelplessJim McCammon talks about unhoused persons in a small affluent Northern California community. Working at "Reach For Home," Jim goes out into the field and meets unhoused, at risk, people where they are. He has been doing this day after day for years. A pastor in a previous professional career, Jim recounts Jesus' words: 'the poor will always be with us.' From this statement, Jim deduces that we may never find 'a solution' to poverty and unhoused people nonetheless, we must attend to them bringing comfort and connection - much as any humanitarian will do. Inside a cha...
2022-07-2355 minLearning ConversationLearning Practice: Power5 min. Marjon, Maureen and Pierre discuss the word: Power. 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 Shiva Shakti
2022-07-1307 minLearning ConversationMB Resource: Widen the Window25 min. Maureen and Pierre discuss Elizabeth Stanley's book, Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma. Long title and long book, about 450 pages. Bessel van der Kolk writes the forward and pays Elizabeth Stanley an astounding tribute saying: "I don't think I've ever read a book that paints as complex and accurate a landscape of what it's like to live with the legacy of trauma as this book does, while offering a comprehensive approach to healing." WOW. Maureen and Pierre take a deep dive into this important resourc...
2022-07-1025 minLearning ConversationMB Resource: The Body Keeps the Score22 min. Maureen and Pierre introduce Bessel van der Kolk's book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. A watershed book in establishing a diagnosis around trauma and its healing. Scientific yet accessible, it was on the NYTimes bestseller list for 141 weeks - almost 3 years. Maureen relates how the book is useful as a parent, teacher and clinician / therapist. It's relevant in understanding humanity, not just traumatized individuals, but understanding how the body copes with stress - positively and negatively. Maureen and Pierre unpack a quote relating to agenc...
2022-07-1022 minLearning ConversationMind Body Resource: Amir Levine15 min. Maureen and Pierre open up the podcast with a discussion about 'love.' Somewhere in this podcast Barry White, Eddie Murphy, the Little Rascals, Alfred E. Newman, and Forrest Gump make appearances. More to point: Amir Levine and Rachel Heller's book: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love is discussed. Popular self-help title, but real research from a Columbia University professor, Amir Levine, and co-author, Rachel Heller. Basically, great science behind a goofy title. Very accessible book propounding powerful math around adult dating probabil...
2022-07-0525 minLearning ConversationApplying Resources17 min. Maureen & Pierre discuss the paradox of having resources and not availing ourselves of these aides. Why? Self-esteem? Fear? Comfort in the known? Pierre suggests care of children necessitates taking care of oneself. Maureen suggests the importance of learning how to be a person before learning how to be a 'personality.' A general discussion of raising and educating healthy children ensues. Later in the podcast, Maureen and Pierre touch on PTSD, trauma and rehabilitating the nervous system, and how that is different from rehabbing our skeletal muscle system.
2022-07-0520 minLearning ConversationMBResource: Huberman Lab Podcast12 min. Maureen and Pierre create content discussing resources in mind body and spiritual health. They introduce and discuss Andrew Huberman's podcast, called The Huberman Lab. Huberman is a Stamford PhD and not your average podcaster. He goes deep into scientific information with the goal of making sense of it, and making it available to average people - for free. Free is good. Learning Conversation highlights resources, including books, podcasts, practices, that assist in learning journeys towards self-realization, a practice of working out within. Find Huberman's newsletter and podcasts on his website, YouTube, Spotify, or ApplePodcasts. https...
2022-07-0420 min