Mindful U at Naropa University
Thoughts and Instruction on Mindfulness in Higher Education
Displaying 3 items of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag "mental health".
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111. The Power of the Body: A Look at Somatic Counseling and Dance/Movement Therapy
November 20th, 2025 | 48 mins 56 secs
counseling, dance therapy, healing, mental health, movement therapy, naropa, somatic, somatic counseling, somatic therapy, transpersonal
In this episode, Heather Sutton, MA, LPC—somatic counselor, Dance/Movement Therapist, and chair of Naropa’s Somatic Counseling program—joins us to explore the healing intelligence of the body through somatic therapy and dance/movement counseling.
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101. Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire
November 9th, 2023 | 54 mins 39 secs
art, art therapy, healing, mental health, midlife, midlife crisis, midlife emergence, midlife transition, transpersonal counseling
Naropa Alumnx, Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR shares about the tipping point in her career from corporate world to a master's in transpersonal counseling and art therapy and how that allowed her real passions to lead her life. She shares her journey of coming out as queer in midlife and what it looked like to alchemize her midlife transition into a Midlife Emergence of true authentic living—all detailed in her new book Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire.
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14. Joy Redstone: Compassionate Therapy, Counseling, and Poverty.
February 20th, 2018 | 29 mins 13 secs
compassion, mental health, naropa community counseling center, poverty
A person has the right answer for themselves, and to express and ask for their needs to be met. It may not look like the answer that, ideally as a therapist, I might think would be best for them. But they have their own answers within, and every time we can be a conduit or a guide to helping them understand what their internal answers are and to actualize them, that's the gift we have to offer people.