ACTIVE PAUSE - Key Persons
David I. Rome is a teacher, writer and editor focusing on applications of contemplative methods in personal and social change. He has directed development of the Garrison Institute's Transforming Trauma initiative as well as programs applying contemplative methods in K-12 education and environmental change work. Earlier, he was senior vice president for planning and development at Greyston Foundation, the pioneering Buddhist-inspired inner-city community development group, and before that president of Schocken Books in New York City.
David is the developer of Mindful Focusing, a contemplative technique integrating Focusing and Buddhist mindfulness-awareness practices, a Certifying Coordinator with the Focusing Institute, and a meditation instruction trainer for Shambhala International. He is the author of the newly-published book Your Body Knows the Answer; Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change and Liberate Creativity (Shambhala Publications, 2014). See his website.
Dr. Marjorie Schuman is a clinical psychologist who teaches, writes about, and practices mindful psychodynamic psychotherapy. Serge Prengel is the editor of Active Pause.
Job Titles:
- Lopez: Sensing into Life As a Musical Improvisation
We talk about metaphors that Salvador Moreno-López uses to understand and orient interaction in psychotherapy and daily life, such as the music of the speech and a jazz duo.
Judyth O. Weaver was a modern dancer in NYC and SF when, in 1965, she went to Japan where she studied Kabuki and Noh and other forms of movement and then entered a Zen Buddhist monastery. Upon her return to the U.S. in 1968 she studied T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Sensory Awareness, becoming certified to teach both. She earned her Ph.D. in Reichian Therapy in 1979.
She is also certified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and in Prenatal and Birth Therapy. She is a Rosen Method practitioner and senior teacher. Judyth was professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies for 25 years; is co-founder of Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and creator of its Somatic Psychology doctoral program; she has developed her own integrated manner of working which she calls ‘Somatic Reclaiming.' She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, and teaches internationally. See: JudythWeaver.com
Richard Gillett is the author of It's A Freakin Mess: How to thrive in divisive times. Here, we talk about how personal and social divisiveness manifests and its huge costs to our physical and mental well-being. We talk about how to change the pain of polarization, and how we feel so much better and become so much more effective when we do so.
Physician, psychiatrist, keynote speaker, and author Richard Gillett received his medical degree from Cambridge University, England, and is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. His work is based on a lifelong personal and professional quest-what does it take for a human being to lead the best possible life, even if circumstances are rough? This quest took him all over the world-he has lived on four continents-and led him to settle in New York State in 1991, where he was granted residency as a "professional of extraordinary ability" before he naturalized as a U.S. citizen. He came to the understanding that much of our suffering is created by a common habit-divisiveness-a mindset that is relatively easy for us to change once we see how we're doing it. He wrote the book: "It's A Freakin' Mess: How to thrive in divisive times." See website.