The Self-Connection Podcast

This is an interview between Tim Sitt and Linda Lucas, Program Director at the Satir Institute of the Pacific (SIP), about Tim’s work and experience with Virginia Satir’s work. We cover a variety of …

Victor Yalom, PhD, is the Founder, Director of Content and Resident Cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net. He maintained a full-time practice psychology practice in San Francisco for over 25 years, and cur…

I explore two metaphors to simultaneously hold a space for happiness in the temporary sense which occurs at the level of ego and roles and a related dimension of being, our roots, where the existenti…

In this podcast interview, I have the pleasure of speaking with both Sharon Loeschen and John Banmen. Two prominent leaders and teachers of the Satir Model.   Today we explore the topic of context.

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3:00 John Banmen begins by reflecting on Virginia’s use of the word ‘wholeness’. He describes feeling that there is more to what she meant with wholeness. David Bohm talks about a larger, universal w…

Leonie Flamand Gallant is Metis. she grew up in a small French rural community in Saskatchewan. Her mom was French from Montreal and her Dad was Cree and French from Manitoba . She is the 6 child in …

01:00 Laura describes the context of how Virginis’a family camps began

Several therapist were requesting that Virginia work with their families and the idea came to work in a camp setting with hiking.

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Here’s one quote from Laura Dodson:

“Transformation is a change in the entire way of being; how your relate to life. The transformation relate to changes in attitudes that live deep inside of us like:…

Howard Kahn is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine, where he teaches a yearly seminar in Family Therapy and supervises psychotherapy. He has also …

1:32 Jennifer leads us in a self-connecting meditation

5:21 Tim reads from Jennifer’s book and Jennifer reflects on the word “Grace”

What is helping me here at this moment right now? Can I notice my br…

1:33 John begins a meditation Connect to your breathing.

Can you experience your body? What is your body telling you right now?

Can you be aware of your feelings?

Can you watch your thoughts? Presently,…

Eva Wieprecht joins me again to discuss some strategies and ideas for coping with stress, fear and anxiety during the pandemic. She shares a tool using the acronym COACH which stands for Centering, …

2:00 heather provides some background about her music and the genre it is situated within. Southern country gothic. Tim shares about encountering Heather’s music and its impact on him.

6:20 Heather sh…

0:00 Sharon begins with a medtiation.

8:30 Our conversation begins focusing on community. Community is a coming together of people with like minded values. There is a sense of belonging, Sharon cites …

0:00 We begin with Laura leading us in a meditation for grounding and connecting to our Self.

3:00 We clarify what Laura means by Zap, to understand the transformational process and the process of con…

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A Zap of insight with Laura Dodson.

Laura Dodson, a former student and eventual colleague of Virginia Satir joins the podcast today. Laura shares her wisdom throug…

0:00 Meditation

5:30 What’s alive in you? This is a different way of asking “how are you feeling?” This allows for the exploration of other forms of consciousness which may not be feelings such as bel…

0:00 meditation connecting to feelings building awareness

5:00 We begin exploring definitions of feelings, how we work with them personally and professionally. Sharon talks about the idea of ‘listenin…

Show notes:

Today we continued our conversation about choice and hinted at a future topic of integration. Our choicemaking evolves from our ability to be aware and awareness requires a connection to w…

0:15 We start with a mediation that focuses on making choices and relaxing the body and appreciating oneself.

7:00 we begin discussing the topic for today of choices as an important resources with cop…