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‘We Are . . . . Earth. Solving the Problem Together’ Preview KEW Episode 97: New World View

A lot of people may have an issue with this Episode. I really don’t have a feel for how many people believe we are all connected. KEW Episode 10 focused on the idea of Connectedness, but I don’t know if it is a popular concept.

To me it is obvious that we are both individuals and also connected. Call it the dual nature of humans. Or dualism. Or individualism AND communism. Any kind of ism. Or schism.

My point is that we are BOTH individual people AND necessarily and obligatively connected to each other and the universe. It can’t be avoided. This is a top level assumption or tenet governing all of my thinking.

As always, I’m happy for you to provide information (politely) to potentially change my mind, but for now, here I am.

So this Episode will be an exploration of the question, “what if we expand our individual personal values to define some group level values”. Is something like that even possible? Is it insane?

Are there planet level values that can ‘govern’ us all? Is this what the ten commandments are/are supposed to be?

The way I see it, to change the world we have to change ourselves first. But then we have to do something at a higher organizational level, right?

Full Episode Friday.

Preview KEW Episode 83: Awareness, Attention, and Meditation

What are your thoughts on meditation?

Do you think it’s some hokey mumbo-jumbo?

Do you think it’s too hard to find time but that there may be something to it?

Are you a regular cushion-sitter?

As a human, you’re likely to fall in there somewhere. And if you are reading, listening to, or watching Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom you’re probably at least a little curious about meditation.

Meditation has been called the single best thing you can do for your mental health.

It’s considered an incredibly valuable tool for combating things like anxiety and many forms of limiting beliefs or irrational thinking.

It’s been around for at least 3500 years – and that’s quite a testament given our short attention spans these days.

In short, the information suggests meditation can be helpful to most anyone.

Yet most of us don’t really know what meditation is.

This week I’ll try to make some sense of that. And dispel some of the myths about what meditation ISN’T.

Full episode this Friday at Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom.

https://videopress.com/v/9cPhzCGG?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata

Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom Featured on ‘Intelligent Conversations’ Podcast

I’ll admit I reached out to Josh Baker at The Intelligent Conversations podcast. I wanted to be a part of what he was doing.

But I didn’t realize he was going to verify and validate one of my latest suspicions.

That an almost 50 year old dude (me) and a 19 year old guy (Josh) have a lot more in common than they might think.

In fact, Josh and I illustrate quite well my ‘bimodal distribution’ theory.

I think there are at least two key points in our lives; when we ‘leave the nest’ in our late teens, and then again around ‘midlife’.

During these peaks we experience a heightened awareness of our souls. Our selves. Our Ares.

I hope you enjoy our talk and open your own mind to erase the perceived differences we often ascribe to age. It’s just a number. . . .

https://www.intelligentconvos.com

KEW The Are vs Should Interview Series: Stephanie Mitchell

If you follow Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom you will be familiar with IFS. If you are not familiar, Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapy model used to heal past trauma.

In IFS, we view ourselves as being comprised of ‘parts’ that resemble siblings in a big family. These parts have taken on roles over time that we continue to implement as they all serve some purpose in our internal ‘family’.

The process of working with IFS is to help these parts figure out why they do what they do and offer them new roles that might better serve the family. Through this process, parts become aware of each other, learn to interact, and learn to trust a central figure referred to as Self with a capital S.

Stephanie Mitchell is an Australian dynamo who specializes in using IFS to heal people with significant psychological issues including schizophrenia. She is well known and runs a practice with many supporting staff.

She lives and breathes IFS because she strongly believes in the utility of the model. She has seen it work in extreme cases and, especially, with herself.

Anyone interested in personal growth, therapy, or coaching will enjoy this interview. You get insight about how IFS works both in therapy and in a day-to-day practice. You’ll learn about some typical parts and how they interact and heal. And you’ll get the gospel straight from the source.

I am proud to present this interview and hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Links to information about Stephanie Mitchell; the first is her webpage:

https://www.ifsconnections.com.au

https://ifs-institute.com/practitioners/all/63770

http://www.internalfamilysystemstrainingaustralia.com.au/person/stephanie-mitchell/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-mitchell-ifs/?originalSubdomain=au

You can download the podcast audio direct to your computer: https://pdcn.co/e/https://chtbl.com/track/CGDA9D/www.buzzsprout.com/530563/9868800-kew-the-are-vs-should-interview-series-stephanie-mitchell.mp3?download=true

But please subscribe to Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom wherever you get your podcasts.

You can also link to the KEW YouTube channel and watch there: https://youtu.be/pW8StIWUWqA

Here’s a short video from the interview featuring Stephanie talking about her own parts using the IFS model:

https://videopress.com/v/sOyyHLMq?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata