Category Archives: Personal Growth

humanistic psychology, personal development, human potential, etc.

#249 – Buddha’s Brain: The Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, & Wisdom with Rick Hanson

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he teaches at universities and meditation centers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His work has been featured on the BBC and in Consumer Reports Health, U.S. News and World Report, [...]

#240 – Unconscious Mental Factors in HIV Infection with Peter B. Todd

Peter B. Todd B.A. (Honors, Psychology), MAPS graduated from Sydney University in 1968, becoming a member of the Australian Psychological Society in 1975. He started to work as a post graduate research psychologist at the School of Surgery, St. George Hospital (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) after his undergraduate degree in 1973. This [...]

#239 – Awakening Joy with James Baraz

#235 – Using Alchemical Archetypes in Jungian Analysis with Monika Wikman, PhD

Monica Wikman, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness (2005) and various articles in Jungian psychology journals. Monika obtained her BA from UC San Diego and her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, where her research took her deep into the [...]

#232 – Mindfulness and The Art of Choice with Karen Sherman, PhD

Karen Sherman, Ph.D. a licensed psychologist in New York, has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her focus is relationships/marriage and helping people achieve their greatest potential. Karen is the author of “Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life” which enables people to let go of conditioned responses and empower them [...]

#230 – 101 Exercises For The Soul with Bernie Siegel, MD

#229 – A Jungian View of The Unlived Life with Jerry Ruhl PhD

#228 – Positive Psychology Coaching with John Schinnerer

John Schinnerer, Ph.D. is in private practice helping individuals learn happiness by mitigating destructive emotions and fostering constructive emotions. Using positive psychology, he helps clients achieve happy, thriving, meaningful lives.

#227 – Reclaiming Your Real Self with Rick Johnson

#226 – Dream Sight with Jane Teresa Anderson

Jane Teresa Anderson is the author of six books including Dream Alchemy and 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, a regular guest on Australian television, and an accomplished radio dream talk-back expert, interpreting callers’ dreams on more than 1,500 shows. She also hosts her own weekly podcast series, The Dream Show.

#224 – Trekking Alone in The Wilderness with J.R. Harris

J. Robert (“J.R.”) Harris is one of my market research colleagues who is also an adventurer and explorer. His resume includes more than 40 wilderness expeditions over the past 30 years to remote places such as Alaska, Tasmania, Iceland, Patagonia, Lapland, the Australian Outback, Greenland and Tanzania. Many of these treks were solo. In recognition [...]

#223 – Seeking Wisdom in Extreme Solitude with Robert Kull

Robert Kull, Ph.D. teaches through an online university and is author of the 2009 book, Solitutde: Seeking Wisdom in Extremes. Transcript Years after a motorcycle accident left him with one leg, Bob Kull traveled to a remote island in the Patagonia wilderness with supplies to live completely alone for a year. He sought to explore [...]

#222 – Wise Mind Open MInd with Ron Alexander, PhD

#221 – Secrets of The Bulletproof Spirit with Azim Khamisa

#220- Healing and Transformation Through Imagery with Leslie Davenport

Leslie Davenport, M.A., MFT is a pioneer in the role of guided imagery in psychotherapy and integrative medicine, and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with Master’s Degrees in both the arts and psychology. Leslie is also an ordained minister in an interfaith Sufi tradition. Her unique background and creative work has been influential [...]

#219 – More Archetypal Dreamwork with Rodger Kamenetz

Rodger Kamenetz, Ph.D. is an award-winning poet and author of nine books, including the landmark international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus and the National Jewish Book Award-winning Stalking Elijah. His latest book, The History of Last Night’s Dream:Discovering The Hidden Path to The Soul, was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Series.

#218 – Matrix Meditations with Victor and Kooch Daniels

Victor Daniels, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University and co-author, along with his wife Kooch Daniels, M.A. of the 2009 book, Matrix Meditations: A 16-Week Program For Developing the Mind-Heart Connection. Victor was the first director of its India Studies program and is a past Chair of the Psychology Department. Zen Master [...]

#217 – Happiness and Health with Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. received his BA in Psychology and Sociology from UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and his PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 1989. After a post-doc at UCSF with Paul Ekman, in 1992 he took his first academic job, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and then returned to Berkeley’s Psychology Department [...]

#215 – Archetypal Work with Inner-City Youth with Kwame Scruggs

G. Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D. is the founder and executive director of Alchemy, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Akron, Ohio, that he established in 2003 to assist urban male youth to develop a sense of personal purpose in life, while utilizing strategies to successfully function as members of a family, school, community and the [...]

#214 – Focusing with Ann Weiser Cornell

Transcript Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph.D., for more than 30 years, has been refining an approach to personal change that she calls “Inner Relationship Focusing.” Ann was getting her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Chicago when she met and worked with Dr. Eugene Gendlin, the originator of Focusing, as one of his earliest students. [...]

#212 – Archetypal Dreamwork with Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster

Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster are co-directors of The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Marc Bregman founded Archetypal Dreamwork in 1973 and is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Marc is a master Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist, in practice since 1973, a teacher and a trainer of teachers.

#206 – The Yoga of Self-Acceptance with Tony Wolff

#205 – Healing Troubled Relationships with David Burns, MD

#204 – Nightmares As A Tool for Personal Growth with Anne Hill

#203 – The Feminine Face of God with Sherry Ruth Anderson

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