Learning Conversation

5 min.

Today's word is:  Kindness

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 Learnin…

25 min.  

Maureen and Pierre both had a bad night and are cranky.  Well actually sad.  It involves dogs.  Both need a little stress relief.

Segue to Andrew Huberman’s podcast on meditation. What form…

11 min.  Small practices lead to BIG things!

Maureen and Pierre start off with new words - preppy slang, millennial slang -  samezies, prezzies, rezzies.  Have you heard the word:  adorkable?  Yup:  …

5 min.  Maureen and Pierre practice conversation discussing the word:   black.   

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, without forethought of the word…

5 min.   Maureen and Pierre discuss the nuanced word:  jaded.

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

12 min. 

Maureen and Pierre talk about talking.  Reflecting on prior podcasts, we’re learning conversation (small "L" small "C").

Inevitably we judge ourselves.  The ummms, the likes, the spacer word…

5 min.     Maureen chooses the word "listen." 

Listen. 

How do we train our mind / body to pause in a physiological state of self-regulation opening ourselves to listen to another human being, genuin…

25 min.  Pierre and Maureen reflect on Thanksgiving and gratitude,  how it changes a person's brain and perspective allowing life to be savored.

Maureen comments on the positive feelings created when…

14 min.   Maureen reflects on Kathy Kain's book Nurturing Resilience.  Kathy Kain is a resource in learning about trauma and social interactions, which Maureen sees as important for helping clinician…

5 min.  Let's talk about death, orgasms, and comedy, shall we?

Maureen and Pierre discuss the word:  Be & Bee.  (No, not the cordial / liquor!)

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation abou…

5 min.  Let's talk about death, orgasms, and comedy, shall we?

Maureen and Pierre discuss the word:  Altruism. 

Learning Practice features a 3-minute conversation about a single word.  Unrehearsed, w…

40 min.   Fasten your seat belts, Maureen and Pierre discuss food. 

What is love of food?  How does food become a connection between two people, within a family, and more broadly create social fabric…

30 min.  Maureen and Pierre discuss forgiveness.  

Forgiveness begins with Shakespeare.  Well, that is overstated.  This podcast on forgiveness begins with Shakespeare.  Not Portia’s speech from the …

12 min.   Maureen and Pierre bring forward Alan Watts as a classical mind body resource.  An icon of the 1960's, Alan Watts was an Episcopalian priest who is known for bringing Buddhism to the west. …

17 mins. Learning about simple and personal applied strategies for grounded living after having spent decades looking for answers in the self-help aisles of bookstores.  

The quickest way to meditate…

6 min.  Maureen and Pierre unpack the word "unfairness" in this 3 minute drill that spills over at the end.  Snap:  Pierre gives the word and Maureen spins the table.  Wait. What?  You can do that?  

35 min. Sadhguru baffles Joe Rogan (and the rest of us) with the REAL definition of soil, yoga, and the limits of our intellect to know who we are. Yoga is everything.  What? Yoga is everything? Expl…

10 min. Pierre and Maureen take on a BIG subject in 5 minutes.  Well, no, actually 10 minutes. Check it out.

Pierre relates the best explanation he's ever heard of why good triumphs over evil.  Maure…

11 min.  Maureen and Pierre riff on play.  Yeah, that thing we did as kids.  Now we're reading about it as 'exercises' for healing stress. 

Maureen and Pierre reflect on their own lives where sports …

11 min.  Maureen and Pierre discuss Peter Levine's Healing Trauma resource for understanding trauma as somatic experience. A resource not only for the traumatized, but for all of us who may learn to …