Mindfulness
The Two Ingredients for Deepening Love
What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Partnership and Its ChallengesTo love another, it's important to get a sense of how you see, hear, and feel, so you can recognize your subjective picture or story of your partner and... Read more
Developing Racial Literacy
How to Confront Our Unconscious TaboosHoward Stevenson’s program promotes “racial literacy” through skills that help us confront unconscious taboos and more effectively read and resolve... Read more
Therapy and the Limitations of Mindfulness
When a Technique Becomes a GoalSurprisingly, the bestselling Buddhist author and therapist Mark Epstein doesn't believe that mindfulness is a panacea. Read more
What Really Heals and Awakens - Symposium
Highlights from Symposium 2018Weaving together Buddhist philosophy and storytelling, clinical psychologist and spiritual teacher Jack Kornfield explored the nature of therapeutic... Read more
VIDEO: Tara Brach on Awakening from the Cybertrance
Dealing with the Challenges to Mindfulness in a Digital WorldIt should come as no surprise that, in our culture, immersion in cyber activities far outpace the interest in mindfulness. But how do you deal with the... Read more
A push to make mindfulness practices more racially sensitive. Read more
VIDEO: Dan Siegel on the Therapist's Mission in the Modern Age
Attending to How We Relate to Each Other and the PlanetIn this video clip from his 2015 Networker Symposium Keynote address, "Healing and Hope in the Human Age," psychiatrist and bestselling author Dan Siegel... Read more
VIDEO: Richard Schwartz on Being a Compassionate Witness to Yourself
How Internal Family Systems Gives Traumatized Clients Their Power BackAccording to Richard Schwartz, the originator of Internal Family Systems therapy, the natural state of the mind is to be subdivided into parts, which carry the... Read more
Tips for Living the Life You Want
Think Your Greatest Success is Out of Reach? Think AgainIn this second part of a three-part series adapted from the upcoming book Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy... Read more
Bringing Dreams into the Consulting Room
Helping Clients Awaken More Fully to the Life Around ThemBy Richard Handler - Throughout history, humans have tried to make sense of the baffling, nonlinear fleetingness of dreams. In A History of Last Night's... Read more
Ten Best-Ever Anxiety-Management Techniques
There are Effective Alternatives to MedicationThe sensations of doom or dread or panic felt by anxiety sufferers are truly overwhelming. The very same sensations, in fact, that a person would feel if the... Read more
VIDEO: Moving Forward When Treatment Seems to Make a Problem Worse
Chris Germer on shifting the focus from fixing a problem to embracing it with compassionWhat someone resists persists. It’s a paradoxical dynamic that you’ve probably seen in the course of your own clinical work. In this video, Chris explains... Read more
VIDEO: The Mindful Path Out Of Depression
Zindel Segal on Helping Clients Take The First StepWhat’s happening when a client suffering from symptoms of depression is willing to follow the therapist’s voice with eyes closed? According to Zindel... Read more
Therapists are far more impressed with clinical fads than they should be. Read more
Seven Myths about Meditation
A One-Size Approach Doesn’t Fit AllSeven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder. Read more
The Power of Commitment
Mindfulness Is Only the BeginningDespite its popularity among therapists, mindfulness is only a beginning in the process of change. Read more
Meditation for Slow Learners
Mindfulness Goes Big TimeOver several thousand years, different cultures around the world have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity for mentally stepping... Read more
Editor's Note - January/February 2015
Nurturing the seed of the specifically human capacity.Over several thousand years, different cultures have discovered how to nurture the seed of a specifically human capacity—a saving grace, as it were—for... Read more
The Mindfulness Explosion
The Perils of Mainstream AcceptanceBy replacing the exotic aura of spirituality with the language of science and a down-to-earth self-help approach, mindfulness has brought practices once... Read more
VIDEO: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Your Practice
Exploring Sensations with Mindfulness TechniquesClients who struggle with PTSD, depression, and other stress-related conditions may have a tough time staying engaged in the consulting room. No matter how... Read more
Practicing Meditation Against All Odds
Zindel Segal on the Three-Minute Breathing SpaceZin Segal discusses how clients can achieve mindful awareness of their emotional states in just three minutes. Read more
Bringing Stressed Clients Into The Present Moment
Elisha Goldstein On The “Mindful Check-In”Psychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks with Elisha Goldstein on the meditative technique he calls a "mindful check-in." Read more
Going Beyond Meditation with IFS
How to Move from Acceptance to HealingMeditation supports clients in being more present and accepting. But if it’s transformation they want, IFS can help them take the next step. Read more
Editor's Note: September/October 2011
The Mindfulness Binge/Minding MindfulnessI first became aware that there was such a thing as meditation as part of my immersion in the cascade of mind-body-spirit esoterica unleashed by the human... Read more
West Meets East
Creating a New Wisdom TraditionAs mindfulness practices work their way into the psychotherapeutic mainstream, we’re starting to ask more clinically sophisticated questions: Who needs what... Read more
Suggesting Mindfulness
Awakening the Hypnotist WithinAs a clinical intervention, mindfulness is best understood by stripping away its aura of mystical spirituality and understanding the crucial role suggestion... Read more
Shadow Side Of Meditation
Getting Stuck in the Present MomentA Zen teacher describes the benefits and limitations of traditional meditation practice. Read more
Relational Meditation
Moving from Conflict to AttunementWhile meditation is usually considered solitary, two therapists discover that the couples intervention they’ve been using for over 20 years is actually a... Read more
In Search of a Lost Self
Reclaiming Our Missing ExperiencesA primer on the specifics of incorporating mindfulness into therapeutic practice. Read more
The Mindful Internet User
It's About Knowing When to StopHow mindfulness can reduce the stress of multitasking and information overload. Read more