Mindful U at Naropa University
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Displaying all 3 Episode of Mindful U at Naropa University with the tag “psychedelic therapy”.
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83.Travis Cox: Ecopsychology and Psychedelics
February 16th, 2022 | 58 mins 27 secs
ecopsychology, environmentalism, green living, psychedelic therapy, psychedelics, social change, sustainability, trauma healing
Ecopsychology is a field whose goal is to bridge our cultures' long-standing historical gulf between the psychological and the ecological to see the needs of the planet and the person as a continuum. Transpersonal ecopsychology is the evolving exploration expression and embodied practice of the inter-dependence of humans in the more than human world, which tends towards to the health balance and optimal well-being of all. A change in our internal landscapes might change our relationships with the land in a way that includes extending social ethics to the land and an examination of our loyalties, affections, and convictions.
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81. Jamie Beachy: Psychedelic Chaplaincy
September 29th, 2021 | 55 mins 33 secs
buddhism, chaplaincy, contemplative studies, naropa university, plant medicine, psychedelic therapy
"When we’re with people who are reviewing the end of their life or saying goodbye to a loved one, there’s this heightened sense of connection and awareness, a lot of times in crisis and sometimes difficulty. Psychedelic journeys can be — not always be easy and expansive, sometimes they’re challenging. And so there's a lot of our training, I think crosses over well into psychedelic therapies. And in particular, chaplains have this capacity to help assess the spiritual and religious landscape for a person before they go into a psychedelic experience. Because what can happen is, you can have a very powerful existential, you know, awareness of like the presence of a being or maybe a feeling of connection and — and then it becomes important to integrate that with your understanding of the cosmos and your religious and spiritual commitments. So people can go into some degree of existential crisis or just transition — it’s a very creative space. And chaplains are good at navigating those spaces as they’re unfolding. So that’s what chaplains I think, have to bring to the field, but at the same time, there are a lot of religious taboos and a lot of teachings within the religious traditions that encourage staying away from psychedelic medicines. And so that conversation is very much happening in the field right now and among religious leaders and professionals and chaplains and it’s — it’s an interesting conversation that’s taking place you know about the right use of these medicines and plants and how we can also do that without harming the communities that they come from."
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82. Dr. Sara Lewis - Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
September 29th, 2021 | 53 mins 34 secs
alternative therapy, buddhism, contemplative studies, plant medicine, psychedelic therapy
Join Dr. Sara Lewis, Associate Professor and Chair of the Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University to discuss psychedelics and therapy in an academic setting with an interdisciplinary approach.