Learning Conversation

5 min

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  

If you wan…

25 min

Eckhart Tolle’s video:  Excess baggage.  How we think of life’s struggles causes unnecessary suffering.  The second arrow analogy in Buddhist tradition.

Tolle says life is one’s response to ci…

40 min

Maureen and Pierre revisit Eckhart Tolle to explore his life's story.  Follow-on conversation from the first podcast on Eckhart Tolle.

Before revisiting Tolle, Maureen mentions  people are act…

10 min.

Maureen wants to talk about Deb Dana.

Pierre and Maureen begin by laughing and laughing some more about their efforts to explain polyvagal theory.

A mind-body resource, Deb Dana, a psychologi…

20 min

Maureen and Pierre reflect on a year of podcasting trying to learn conversation.  Yes, ironically that’s the title of our podcast:  Learning Conversation.

Join us as we consider "the shit that…

15 min

After a weather report comparing morning temps in MA and CA, both 58 degrees, Maureen introduces Professor John Vervaeke as a Learning Conversation resource. He is an award winning lecturer at…

15 min

Maureen and Pierre share their daily weather report, and then pod their way into the subject of atttention.  Then, Maureen tells Pierre about the workshop she is giving on attention and love a…

13 min

Maureen talks about a course she took from a resource called:  Embodied Philosophy.  

Pierre, who knows nothing about polyvagal theory, plays the part of the ventriloquist dummy trying to un…

5 min

Today's word is:  resourceful.

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Lear…

13 minutes

Lately, Pierre's been obsessed with the title of our podcast, Learning Conversation - see prior Reflection podcasts. He is enjoying learning about learning through conversation, and improv…

20 min

After beginning with disclosures about their espresso fixations, Maureen and Pierre jump into a reflection on conversation. 

Going beyond reflections about their podcasting, this reflection co…

5 min.

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  

If you wa…

30 min

What started as a Resource podcast on Ido Portal, an Israeli therapist viewing life as flow and movement, turns into a Discussion podcast on non-movement, grounding and touch as contrasted to …

8 min

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  

Maureen's …

22 min

Maureen and Pierre are going to dive into a Learning Practice - the 3 minute drill talking about a single word.  But they don’t!  

They get into a Reflection on how the podcast started, and it…

4 min.

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversation.  

If you wa…

14 min

Pierre's off the slopes in Utah to talk about mindbody and spirit-focused podcasting with Maureen. 

In vacation mode, he and Maureen reflect on happy places - ski slopes and mountain tops, ten…

5 min.

Pay attention!

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word to be discussed, we practice the art of Learning Conversati…

15 min

Resource:  Tara Brach

Tara Brach and radical acceptance.  

Tara’s life’s trajectory in the ’60’s was to go from college and then spend 10 years in an ashram. 

She along with other resource fig…

25 min.

Jack Kornfield is one of those ‘cross-over’ figures from the 50’s and 60’s, that grew up in Western society and embraced Eastern wisdom.  

A Buddhist philosopher who started centers in the Un…