Podcast

Willem Kuyken Willem Kuyken joins us to speak about The ASPIRE Project, focused on accessibility of MBCT in the U.K. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, or MBCT, has promising results in studies of its efficacy as a prevention of recurrence of major depressive episodes. One of the challenges, however, isn’t so much with the program, but accessibility…

Amy Saltzman Dr. Amy Saltzman joins us to speak about A Still Quiet Place for Teens: A Mindfulness Workbook to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions. If memory serves, being a teenager can be kinda challenging. Going through that may occur before one is introduced to any kind of contemplative practice, but more and more, a…

David Victorson David Victorson joins us to speak about True North Treks, which does mindfulness trips for teens and young adults with cancer. Take a moment and think about how mindfulness has influenced your life. What was that like for you, how has it changed things? If you’re like me, you probably encountered the practice…

Linda Lehrhaupt, PhD Linda Lehrhaupt joins us to speak about her book, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program for Enhancing Health and Vitality. If you’ve taken an MBSR program, you likely learned a lot from your teachers and especially your fellow participants. And you may have been exposed to a lot more that you weren’t…

Stephen Schettini Mindfulness teacher Stephen Schettini joins us to speak about his Mindful Lives Podcast. Mindfulness can have a lot of meanings. In some traditional contexts, there is a long standing history of what it meant once upon a time and still does today… within those religious institutions. But as mindfulness goes mainstream, the meaning…

Nicole Franklin Nicole Franklin joins us to speak about the incorporation of mindfulness into the Better Emotional and Social Times or B.E.S.T. program run by the Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region. Think back to what it was like being a kid in school. Some days good, some days perhaps more challenging. And as I…

George Mumford George Mumford speaks with us about The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Peak Performance. I remember being not so good at sports growing up, to put it kindly. “Psyching myself out” was what we called at least part of that, over thinking things which took me out of the moment, strangling any flow of…

Rose Pavlov As mindfulness becomes more common in contemporary society, so is its acceptance as a part of public and private school systems. Children are learning how to observe their outer environment and inner experience, widening the gap between stimulus and response, and making more intentional choices in their words and actions. Along the way,…

Mark Coleman Mindfulness teacher Mark Coleman joins us to speak about his book Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic. How many times has that voice inside, that inner critic, spoken louder to you than the people sitting next to you? What does the critic say,…

Rebecca Crane Rebecca Crane returns to the podcast to speak with us about the new paper What defines mindfulness-based programs? The warp and the weft. With the proliferation of programs using the word mindfulness in their title, there comes a valid question: how does the consumer know this really is a mindfulness program? And how…