Episodes
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Grounding In Nature Guided Meditation • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Grounding In Nature Guided Meditation • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaven
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Body Appreciation Meditation • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
A guided meditation by David Treleaven on appreciating the body.
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Episode 28 | A Final TSM Podcast Episode
In this solo episode, David speaks about the reasons he’s stepping back from TSM and three of the most important lessons he learned over the years: the importance of practicality, the inability to meet everyone’s needs, and the pros and cons of focusing on safety in trauma-sensitive work. David...
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Episode 27 | Mindful Education, Trauma, and Social Emotional Learning
In this episode David speaks with Meena Srinivasan, an expert in the field of mindful education and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). They discuss the relationship between SEL and mindful education, the mental-health crisis of Covid and the particular forms of stress that educators are facing in...
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Episode 26 | Mindfulness, Trauma, and Psychedelic Therapies
In this episode, David speaks with Joe Flanders and Andrew Rose, two leaders in the field of psychedelic-assisted treatment. They discuss the current movement around psychedelic treatment, conditions that support healing and transformation in psychedelic therapy (including mindfulness), working...
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Episode 25 | Eating Disorders and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
In this episode David speaks with Katherine Metzelaar about the relationship between mindfulness, trauma, and disordered eating. They discuss the prevalence of eating disorders, the ways undernourishment can impact our capacity to be mindful, how the spectrum of eating disorders connects to…
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Episode 24 | Mindfulness and Trauma in South Africa
In this episode, David speaks with Simon Whitesman about mindfulness and trauma in the context of South Africa. They discuss how mindfulness practice can increase the capacity to face historical trauma, the importance of elderhood in contemplative and trauma-healing spaces, the power of...
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Episode 23 | The Risks of Meditation
In this episode David speaks with Willoughby Britton and Jared Lindahl, co-authors of the Varieties of Contemplative Experience (VCE) study—a landmark investigation into the nature of meditation-related difficulties, including trauma. They are two of the world’s experts in studying the…
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Episode 22 | Resilience, Mindfulness, and Healing Trauma
In this episode, David speaks with Anjuli Sherin, author of the book Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World. They discuss the relationship between trauma and resilience in clinical and contemplative practice, the way resilience can be a...
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Episode 21 | The Joy of Mindfulness Teaching and Practice
In this episode David speaks with mindfulness author, speaker, and educator Diana Winston. Diana is Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center, founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, and teaches meditation worldwide. They...
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Episode 20 | The Window of Tolerance and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
In this episode, David speaks with writer and educator Dan Siegel. Dan is Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA Medical School, founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, and author of a number of books including The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain. They discuss...
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Episode 19 | Trauma and Transformative Conflict
In this episode, David speaks with Kai Cheng Thom, an award winning writer, social worker, and meditation teacher who teaches about trauma and conflict resolution. They discuss the impact of trauma on groups, the role of mindfulness in conflict resolution, and a meditation practice for working…
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Episode 18 | Healing Collective Trauma
In this episode David speaks with Thomas Hübl—teacher, facilitator, and author of the book "Healing Collective Trauma." They discuss the ways that mindful attention and attunement can support groups in a trauma healing process, the connection between personal and social change, and what Thomas...
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Episode 17 | Trauma and Mindful Communication
In this episode, David speaks with Oren Jay Sofer, a meditation instructor and trauma professional who also teachers Nonviolent Communication—a process of interpersonal communication designed to help navigate conflict. In their conversation, Oren and David discuss the philosophical roots of...
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Episode 16 | Lovingkindness and Social Change
In this episode, David speaks with renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg. They discuss Sharon's conceptualization of trauma and how this informs her meditation teaching, the role lovingkindness can play in trauma recovery, how to help people find agency in the face of distress, and the...
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Episode 15 | Mindfulness and Social Justice
A conversation with Mushim Patricia Ikeda. In this episode, David interviews Mushim Patricia Ikeda—a poet, Buddhist teacher, and social change activist. Mushim teaches at the East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) in Oakland, California, where she leads an award-winning yearlong mindfulness program...
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Episode 14 | Widening the Window of Tolerance
A conversation with Liz Stanley. This episode's guest is Elizabeth Stanley, a professor at Georgetown University and author of the book "Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma." Liz is a U.S. Army veteran who came to practice (in part) to…
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Episode 13 | Self-Compassion and Trauma Recovery
A conversation with Sydney Spears. This episode features Sydney Spears, a trauma-sensitive mindfulness and yoga teacher, clinical social work, and trauma-sensitive care. Sydney teaches Mindful Self-Compassion with a particular focus on diversity, oppression, and trauma. In their conversation…
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Episode 12 | Politics of Trauma
A conversation with Staci Haines. This episode's guest is Staci Haines, is co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial organization that offers somatics, embodied leadership and trauma healing to social and environmental justice organizers. She is also the founder of generationFIVE, an...
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Episdoe 11 | How to Cultivating Inner-Resources
A conversation with Rick Hanson. This episode's guest is Rick Hanson, a psychologist, a Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and a New York Times best-selling author. In their conversation, David and Rick talk about what resilience means and its connection to...
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Episode 10 | Trauma-Informed Yoga for Survivors of Sexual Assault
A conversation with Zabie Yamasaki. Zabie Yamasaki is the Program Director of Trauma-Informed Yoga Programs at UCLA, and created a trauma-informed yoga program that’s being used at over 20 college campuses in the US. In this episode, David and Zabie discuss the difference between observing and...
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Episode 9 | Gun Violence, Mass Shootings, and Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
A conversation with Shelly Tygielski. This episode's guest is Shelly Tygielski, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, who's also deeply involved in offering trauma-informed mindfulness programs to communities who have been affected by gun violence and mass shootings in the US. In their...
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Episode 8 | What Makes a Mindfulness Program a Mindfulness Program?
A conversation with Rebecca Crane. This episode's guest is Rebecca Crane, a teacher passionate about mindfulness teacher competencies—particularly "who" we need to become in order to offer mindfulness to others. In the episode, David and Rebecca delve into the questions: What makes a mindfulness...
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Episode 7 | Year In Review
A solo podcast by David Treleaven. In this special podcast, as opposed to interviewing a particular leader in the field, David interviews, well... himself! After a brief opening practice he discusses: The way our own healing needs to be at the center of TSM; the reason David thinks of trauma as...
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Episode 6 | Trauma-Sensitive Body Scans
A conversation with Paula Ramírez. In this episode, David interviews Paula Ramírez, a mindfulness teacher currently working with humanitarian workers and trauma survivors at the United Nations. Paula and David discuss her adaptations of mindful body scans when working with differently abled…
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Episode 5 | A Mindfulness Education Movement and Trauma-Informed Practice
A conversation with Daniel Rechtshaffen. In this episode, David interviews Daniel Rechtshaffen, mindfulness educator and author of the book The Way of Mindful Education. They discuss the connection between mindfulness and ecology, being in right relationship with our natural environment, and the...
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Episode 4 | Inward-Bound: Offer Trauma-Informed Mindfulness to Youth
A conversation with Jessica Morey and Charisse Minerva (iBme). In this episode of the TSM podcast, David interviews Jessica Morey and Charisse Minerva, Guiding Teachers at Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme), a nonprofit organization that offers trauma-informed mindfulness programs to youth...
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Episode 3 | Trauma-Informed Mindfulness with Teens
A conversation with Sam Himelstein. In this episode of the TSM podcast, David interviews Sam Himelstein — a psychologist, educator, and author of the book Trauma-Informed Mindfulness with Teens (Norton, 2019). Sam details how he builds trust with youth when teaching mindfulness, and the most...
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Episode 2 | The Inner-Work of Racial Justice
A conversation with Rhonda Magee. This month's guest is Rhonda Magee, a powerful teacher and thought-leader focused on integrating mindfulness into higher education, law, and social justice. Rhonda discusses racial justice as an aspect of living mindfully, and how to bring, in her words,...
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Episode 1 | Mindfulness, Trauma, and Contemporary Buddhism
A conversation with Will Kabat-Zinn. In this inaugural podcast, David sits down with meditation teacher Will Kabat-Zinn to discuss his thoughts and insights about trauma-sensitive mindfulness. Will Kabat-Zinn has practiced Insight Meditation for over 15 years. He has taught mindfulness and...