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http://australiacounsellingcom.au Clinton Power speaks with art therapist and psychologist Rob Gray about what art therapy is and how it can be used to promote healing through accessing the unconscious.

Art Therapy: Tapping into the Unconscious to Promote Healing

http://australiacounselling.com.au In this podcast, I speak with Australia Counselling member Rob Gray about art therapy and how it can help people tap into the unconscious and promote healing.

In this interview, we ask Rob:

What is art therapy?
What types of issues can art therapy be effective for treating?
Why do you think art therapy is effective?
Is there any research into art therapy and its efficacy as a treatment approach?
What actually happens in an art therapy session?
What do you say to clients that say 'I'm not creative! I can't make art!’?
What are the different types of mediums for art therapy?
What differences do you see in the outcomes of your clients between talk therapy and art therapy?

Get the show notes at www.australiacounselling.com.au/session40

040: Art Therapy: Tapping Into the Unconscious to Promote Healing

This public lecture was recorded at Birkbeck College, University of London on 25 November, 2013, and was organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

For further details and audience Q&A, visit
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2013/11/slavoj-zizek-economy-the-vicious-cycle-of-capitalist-reproduction/

Slavoj Žižek - Economy: The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience. His voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-o-donohue-the-inner-landscape-beauty/203

John O'Donohue — Your Identity is Not Your Biography

John O'Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

We were made and set here, the writer Annie Dillard once wrote, "to give voice to our astonishments." Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist with a Quaker sensibility. And she’s found her astonishment in listening to two of the world’s most exotic creatures. She has decoded the language of elephants and was among the first scientists to discover that whales are composers of song.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/katy-payne-in-the-presence-of-elephants-and-whales/241

Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales

לגשר בין העולמות עם עו"ד יובל גיל - פרק 1



Ellen Langer is a social psychologist who some have dubbed “the mother of mindfulness.” But she defines mindfulness with counterintuitive simplicity: the simple act of actively noticing things — with a result of increased health, competence, and happiness. Her take on mindfulness has never involved contemplation or meditation or yoga. It comes straight out of her provocative, unconventional studies, which have been suggesting for decades what neuroscience is pointing at now: our experience of everything is formed by the words and ideas we attach to them. What makes a vacation a vacation is not only a change of scenery — but the fact that we let go of the mindless everyday illusion that we are in control. Ellen Langer has shown it’s possible to become physiologically younger through a changed frame of mind; to find joy in what was experienced as drudgery by renaming it as play; and to induce weight loss by substituting the label “exercise” for labor.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-langer-science-of-mindlessness-and-mindfulness/6332

Ellen Langer — Why Pay Twice?

Ellen Langer is a social psychologist who some have dubbed “the mother of mindfulness.” But she defines mindfulness with counterintuitive simplicity: the simple act of actively noticing things — with a result of increased health, competence, and happiness. Her take on mindfulness has never involved contemplation or meditation or yoga. It comes straight out of her provocative, unconventional studies, which have been suggesting for decades what neuroscience is pointing at now: our experience of everything is formed by the words and ideas we attach to them. What makes a vacation a vacation is not only a change of scenery — but the fact that we let go of the mindless everyday illusion that we are in control. Ellen Langer has shown it’s possible to become physiologically younger through a changed frame of mind; to find joy in what was experienced as drudgery by renaming it as play; and to induce weight loss by substituting the label “exercise” for labor.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/ellen-langer-science-of-mindlessness-and-mindfulness/6332


Ellen Langer — Science of Mindlessness and Mindfulness

The High Holy Days create an annual ritual of repentance, both individual and collective. Louis Newman, who has explored repentance as a ethicist and a person in recovery, opens this up as a refreshing practice for every life, even beyond the lifetime of those to whom we would make amends.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/louis-newman-the-refreshing-practice-of-repentance/7923

Louis Newman — The Refreshing Practice of Repentance

Shinzen Young leads a 25-minute guided meditation on how to focus on relaxation in your body. This represents a subset of the full Focus on Rest technique. Learn more at Basic Mindfulness Home Practice Program http://basicmindfulness.com.

Focus On Relaxation

The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations — from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to "The Good Book," in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.

See more at http://www.onbeing.org/program/adam-gopnik-practicing-doubt-redrawing-faith/8087

Adam Gopnik — Secular Ritual

Presentation at the Australian Anthropology Society Conference 2015 (Melbourne). Addresses the psychoanalytic approach to anthropology, the Jewish hitbodedut practice - "secluded meditative prayer", and more.

Meeting The God Object Within (AAS Talk 2015)

Actor Martin Sheen as you've never heard him before. He has appeared in over 100 films, including Apocalypse Now. He’s best known on television as President Bartlet in seven seasons of The West Wing. But Martin Sheen, born and still legally named Ramón Estévez, has had another lesser-known life as a spiritual seeker and activist. He returned to a deep and joyful Catholic faith after a crisis at the height of his fame in in mid-life. He’s been arrested over 60 times in vigils and protests. "Piety is something you do alone," he says. "True freedom, spirituality, can only be achieved in community."

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/martin-sheen-spirituality-of-imagination/8257

Martin Sheen — Spirituality of Imagination

In this episode I interview philosopher Evan Thompson, who is a Professor of Philosophy at University of British Columbia, mainly in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind and Phenomenology. He is the author of the book Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy. We discuss a wide range of topics, the aspects of consciousness in sleep and lucid dreaming, various scientific studies, meditation as well as get into some geeky philosophical pondering on dreams and the nature of the sense of self.

Links and show notes at: http://www.lucidsage.com/24

Ep 24 - Philosopher Evan Thompson

Stephen Batchelor is a teacher and writer. His books include "Buddhism Without Beliefs," "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist," and "The Faith to Doubt." His newest book is "After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Stephen Batchelor — The Limits of Belief, The Massiveness of the Questions." 

Find more at www.onbeing.org/program/stephen-batchelor-the-limits-of-belief-and-the-massiveness-of-the-questions/8347

Stephen Batchelor — The Limits of Belief, The Massiveness of the Questions

In this episode I interview Kelly Bulkeley, a dream researcher, author, and creator of  the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb). We discuss dream analysis, dreams in cultures, the experience realism of in dreams and more.

Links and show notes at http://www.lucidsage.com/25

Ep 25 - Dream Researcher Kelly Bulkeley

Nearly 1 in 10 people possess some form of personality disorder. Which means there’s a very good chance that you will encounter someone with this disorder at some point in your life, if you haven’t already. They might be your boss, your lover, your parent, your spiritual teacher, or even your presidential candidate. And while many suffer their condition quietly and without any major harm to themselves or the people around them, others can be tremendously dangerous — especially if they have achieved a position of power (and the more severe the disorder, the greater the tendency to seek these powerful positions.)

How can we engage these personalities with care and compassion, while remaining fully attentive to our own safety and personal boundaries? Listen to find out!

The Spectrum of Brokenness: What to Do When You're Dealing With a Personality Disorder

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's INEB Address

	Western Mass Jung Center Lecture Series 2012-2013.
Erica Lorentz: “Active imagination: Accessing our Creative Imagination.” Jung’s preferred method of working was active imagination-- a conscious dialogue with the unconscious. The Sufis call the imaginable realm intersecting us with the divine the Mundus Imaginalis. It is in this creative space that we find healing, inspiration, and a relationship to the source. This lecture will include discussion, case material, film clips, and a little of our own creativity. Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Jungian Analyst has a private practice in Northampton and Brattleboro, Vermont. She is on the training board of the Jung Institute of Boston where she is a training analyst and is president of the Western Mass Jung Center. Formerly an adjunct faculty member at Antioch New England, she has also taught throughout the U.S. and Canada. Presented by the Western Mass Jung Center www.westmassjung.org.

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