so well writ! who's mind-ing the store? thinking of mind as a verb makes so much sense; it "allows" us to see past the binary "training wheels" of our edu-cage-tion & into the fuller story!
Hi Mike, thanks for the insightful and resonant reply. I first encountered Siegel’s work during a coach training course titled Happiness On Purpose. One of his theoretical touchstones is narrative. He says the process of Minding is self organizing. In other words, the brain is a sense-making organ. So, as I learned more about his research and theories, they just seemed to provide the best explanations, even for the most severe dysfunction. His book Mindsight, describes a wide range of therapy examples of how he helped patients improve using his contemplative tools, including trauma sufferers. I appreciate that he recognizes that our beliefs and strategies are based in childhood experiences, and that we can examine them with increasing equanimity to heal ourselves.
You definitely have expanded my mind with this essay! Thank you.
so well writ! who's mind-ing the store? thinking of mind as a verb makes so much sense; it "allows" us to see past the binary "training wheels" of our edu-cage-tion & into the fuller story!
Hi Mike, thanks for the insightful and resonant reply. I first encountered Siegel’s work during a coach training course titled Happiness On Purpose. One of his theoretical touchstones is narrative. He says the process of Minding is self organizing. In other words, the brain is a sense-making organ. So, as I learned more about his research and theories, they just seemed to provide the best explanations, even for the most severe dysfunction. His book Mindsight, describes a wide range of therapy examples of how he helped patients improve using his contemplative tools, including trauma sufferers. I appreciate that he recognizes that our beliefs and strategies are based in childhood experiences, and that we can examine them with increasing equanimity to heal ourselves.