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Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
Comment to recent LA Times Post: “Incorporating mindfulness practices in psychotherapy interventions makes good sense and makes a big difference when the objective is to minimize symptoms associated with mood dysregulation. An added twist, however, is that the speciic mindfulness strategies psychotherapy clients are taught to employ can unintentially encourage disengagement from relationships with other
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Do You Mind?
Mindfulness is a practice of minding our breath, our feelings, our thoughts and the flow of consciousness that binds us to each other. To be mindful is to engage with compassion, to savor our experience without hoarding it. Minding does not transcend the body; it honors the body. See why The Relational Center advocates engaged
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A New Curriculum
Visit The Relational Center’s Education site to find out more about our new curriculum to support our “Skills for Engagement” initiative. Our newest project will develop a broad public education vision, bringing support and resources to communities of all kinds to build social resiliency, enrich relationship networks and confront the effects of isolation. The Relational
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It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
In the spirit of the recent wave of encouraging videos (literally, intending to bestow “courage”) of credible speakers offering a vision of a hopeful future to LGBTQ youth who experience daily torture at the hands of bullies, I would like to make a slightly different remark. In my experience (which includes daily torture, usually witnessed
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Conference – March 2011: “The Relational Turn”
Join us along with our Conversation Host, Gordon Wheeler, and a team of distinguished international conversation leaders as we gather in Los Angeles, March 18-20, 2011, for an unprecedented conference experience. Visit the conference website.
Loneliness Links to Illness
John T. Cacioppo’s research looks at the connections between the social and neural mechanisms underlying human behavior. He investigates how societal influences and personal relationships affect cognition and emotions…
RSA Critique of Individualism
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead
Social Support and Recovery
Social isolation worsens cardiac arrest effects on heart regulation A new study in mice shows how social support can help minimize some of the worst physical damages to the brain caused by a heart attack.
