Compassion and the Brain – Shifting from surviving to thriving - Episode 2 - Season 2
Our mindful compassion season continues with an exploration of how the evolutionary development of our brain can mean we are actually wired for surviving rather than thriving and how mindful compassio...
5 Mar 202441min
What is Mindful Compassion? Episode 1 Season 2
We begin our mindful compassion season with an interview with Erik van den Brink, codeveloper of the internationally recognised Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living course. We talk about how mindful...
20 Feb 20241h 3min
Mindfulness for life - Episode 10
We focus on Mindfulness for life as we reach the milestone finale of Season One of the podcast. It’s a perfect opportunity to reflect on the journey so far, as we have explored the themes of an 8-week...
14 Des 202348min
Caring for ourselves - Episode 9
We focus on caring for ourselves, with a deep dive into mindful movement, during episode 9 of the podcast. Together we explore why movement practices are an integral part of the 8-week course and how ...
7 Des 202347min
Kindness and compassion - Episode 8
Kindness and compassion are underpinning attitudes of mindfulness. In fact, mindful awareness and compassion have been described as 2 wings of a bird – just as a bird needs 2 wings to fly, our mindful...
30 Nov 202333min
Being with what’s here - Episode 7
When we allow difficult feelings to held in awareness, it means that, rather than reacting on auto pilot with habitual patterns, we register their presence and have the space and possibility to make a...
23 Nov 202327min
Responding skillfully - Episode 6
Mindfulness not only helps us to pause and recognise moments of reactivity, as we explored together in the previous episode, It opens up ways of being to help us respond skillfully. One of the ways it...
16 Nov 202341min
Recognising Reactivity - Episode 5
In Episode 5 we begin to explore some of our very human habits around reactivity and look at how Mindfulness can help us shift from habitual reactions to a wiser and kinder way of responding. We build...
9 Nov 202322min
