THE MINDFULNESS EXPERIENCE
Every two weeks, we delve into the world of Mindfulness Experience (MEx) concepts and explore their application in our daily lives. We comprehensively examine mindful experiences and their impact on neurology, physiology, biology, psychology, philosophy, and mythology. Our exploration of mindfulness considers how it affects the body, mind, spirit, food, sleep, environment, and relationships in a holistic bid to create a more balanced and fulfilling life. The areas we will strongly focus on include trauma, addiction, entheogens, empathogenic, and psychedelics. We recognize the powerful impact of these substances on individuals and society as a whole. By implementing mindfulness, we can better approach these experiences, heal from trauma, and battle addiction. Entering into empathic and psychedelic states through substances such as psilocybin can help to facilitate a transformational experience, leading to greater self-awareness and a more profound understanding of ourselves and the world around us. This show is produced and hosted by Keith W Fiveson. https://workmindfulness.com/about/about-me-2/
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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
On this podcast, Dave Shapiro, the Chief Operating Officer with Premier BPO, a global communications outsourcer for sales and customer service support services. shares his wisdom and leadership principles. Dave has spent over thirty years leading people in international organizations, helping them to be the best versions of themselves. He is a mindful leader focused on empowerment and performance and has incredible success and experience.
Dave has worked with people in the Philippines, South Africa, Australia, China, Pakistan, Panama, the UK, Canada, and the US. He understands the intricacies of communications, hiring, quality, and helping people be their best.
Dave is a highly knowledgeable and likable individual who knows the industry inside out. He has helped people find their personal best by teaching them how to be mindful, so they can live life with intentionality, which creates an empowering environment for all involved in this process.
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
On this podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Susan Gunar, a mystic and somatic trauma therapist that helps individuals reboot, reset and reframe their traumas by using micro-dosing plant medicines.
Susan is a self-described free explorer, a spirit having a human experience, who is passionate about self-agency. She focuses on meditation and learning and teaching about integration practices that can further facilitate a psychedelic renaissance allowing the emergence of holistic lifestyles. We had a great conversation about the current psychedelic renaissance and her unique approach to helping individuals and groups using plant medicines.
Susan is highly knowledgeable, and she has helped hundreds of people find their way through trauma and depression to gain insights through her work.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
David Whitesock, is the CEO of Commonly Well and the inventor of the Recovery Capital Index® (RCI). This is a quantified multi-dimensional survey tool that measures addiction and wellbeing.
David is a man who is s constantly curious and believes that everything connects. He believes that when we’re fully aware of what, where, and how things relate, we can understand the effects and modify the mechanisms in between for a greater good.
I had a delightful conversation with David about his work, its impact on the recovery field, and his perspectives on individual use, misuse, and the recovery space in general.
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
On this podcast, I spoke with Dr. Fred Muench, the President of Drug-Free.org,
Dr. Muench is a clinical psychologist who specializes in developing remote coaching and digital interventions to help individuals and families prevent and intervene in problematic substance use.
Fred is a fascinating individual who is helping to lead research and development to help individuals that are using or abusing substances, alcohol, and drugs.
He has held faculty appointments at NYU, Columbia University Medical Center, and the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and has been on numerous advisory boards to promote telehealth practices.
We talked about use, abuse, how individuals can use drugs to deal with problems, and issues, and how they might better manage themselves, through connections, technology, and other methods to better cope with life and the existential angst of our traumatic life.
I enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Muench, it was very insightful and it offers guidance to people to help regulate through breathwork, exercise, and cognitive reframing, using behavioral health interventions.
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
On this podcast, I spoke with Mark Leonard, who is the creator and designer of several mindfulness courses,
Mark's intriguing mind and personality, who offers an insightful and pragmatic view of applying mindfulness to make the world a better place.
Mark is a leading practitioner of 'social mindfulness,' which makes mindfulness a force for change.
He has developed his ideas by combining biological systems thinking with a contemporary understanding of mindfulness as cognitive therapy.
He helped to establish the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in 2008 and went on to adapt therapeutic mindfulness as a workplace training.
He saw that the social learning experience played a key role and developed a short mindfulness program as organizational development based on this insight.
The curriculum of this program, Mindfulness-Based Organizational Education, is the first program of its kind, recognized by the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches and the Dutch Mindfulness Teachers' Association.
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
On this podcast, I spoke with Laura Berland, who is the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Center for Compassionate Leadership.
I had a great time speaking with Laura as she shared the principles and practices of compassionate leadership She is a wise woman, who is a serial entrepreneur, who has worked with many Fortune 500 media/tech companies, as a meditation teacher, yoga therapist, executive mentor, and digital creator.
Laura is one of the most inspiring women that I’ve ever met. She stands for a world where compassionate leadership is the norm, not the exception. We spoke about The Center for Compassionate Leadership and how individuals and organizations can build awareness, resilience, trust, innovation, diversity, belonging, inclusion, courage, connection, and compassion.
I had a lot of fun talking with Laura about compassion, and mindfulness can make the world a better place.
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
On this show I had the pleasure of speaking with Sabina Erich, who is the Founder of Hatch Yoga, Author of The Art of Asana, and now focused on Somatic Coaching for individuals with Trauma.
Sabina is a lively, warm and gracious lady, who has deep, rich life experience. She provided me with insights into the nature of trauma and how the body's wisdom can help us look at and reframe trauma to help us live a more abundant life now.
Sabina is a student, teacher, and coach that helps people look at their lives, with a mindset that is both compassionate and wise, given her own experiences in Argentina, and with her clients in Canada.
Our conversation was personal, lively, and fun. It was rich with insights into trauma, its roots, causes, and cures. I was grateful for the opportunity to speak with her.
I really enjoyed the conversation and I hope you do too!
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
On this show, I had a fun conversation with Manjit Devgun, a mystic, mindfulness teacher, and hypnotist focused on the power of meditation, song, prayer, and sound therapy to rewire consciousness.
Manjit has a solid practice that includes a new mobile app that is used globally, along with her personal and corporate work that helps individuals alleviate negative habits and childhood traumas.
Manjit has powerful energy and light about her and our conversation was fun. I really hope you enjoy the conversation too!
Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
On this podcast, I spoke with Brett Hill, who is the Co-Founder of The Future is Mindful conference. Brett is a professional speaker, trainer, coach, and author, who specializes in mindful communications.
As the Host of the Language of Mindfulness podcast. I met Brett as a guest, and he interviewed me previously. Brett is an interesting man, who has distilled a lifetime of deep study and practice into mindful communications.
He has a degree in interpersonal communications and has taught meditation to many hundreds of people/ He founded the Quest Insitute mediation center in Dallas Texas. Brett has achieved a lot in his life, having launched several businesses, he also worked at Microsoft as a Sr. Technical Evangelist and Worldwide Technical Readiness Manager.
Now he focuses on helping professionals learn the power of conscious, and mindful communication. In all of his work, he offers several key skills that any person can study to improve their professional and personal lives -
He says "the limits of what we can achieve personally, professionally, and even as a people - is bounded by our ability to effectively communicate".
I totally enjoyed talking with Brett and resonated with his wisdom, insight, and ability to bridge the technical world, with the mindful world, to create a better world. I hope you enjoy the show.
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
On this podcast, I had a delightful and rich conversation with Dr. Miles Neale, a Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice, and author of Gradual Awakening, the Path of Becoming Fully Human. and Advances in Contemplative Psychotherapy.
Miles is the founder of the Contemplative Studies Program (CSP)The focus of the CSP is to pursue awakening along the Lam Rim, or Gradual Path of Tibetan Buddhism, which is over a thousand years old. The Lam Rim is the most comprehensive and systematic presentation of Buddhist teachings ever created. Enlightenment is not an all-or-nothing event, but rather an incremental process of unfolding.
Miles is a thought leader, who has brought together ancient wisdom, with clinical psychology to help individuals better understand the way that they can re-pattern their lives from the inside out and outside in, by looking at ancient wisdom, cosmology, and energetic patterns that confound and confuse.