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Windhorse Journal Podcast
by Windhorse Community Services
The Windhorse Journal's mission is to inspire compassionate approaches to recovering sanity.We do this by creating an evolving forum dedicated to exploring contemplative psychotherapy and the creation of therapeutic environments for the wellbeing of all persons involved. We envision this to be a rich dialogue among people with lived experience, family members, psychology professionals, and anyone interested in whole person-mental health and the diverse expressions of human sanity.
Episodes
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Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 5
Dear Listeners, Welcome to today's podcast, the conclusion of our five-part series of Julia's first-person recovery story. By its nature, what's being told here is certainly unique, as each person's journey is completely individual. But in this case, the highly unusual nature of our series goes...
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Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 4
Hello friends and listeners, I am so glad that you are here, and I hope that you will enjoy today's podcast. Hopefully you have had the opportunity to watch the first 3 podcasts. I was very excited to have been given the opportunity to make these podcasts with Windhorse, and in particular with...
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Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 3
Dear Listeners, Welcome to today's podcast, a first-person recovery story which we believe is a unique contribution to the resources on extreme state psychology—particularly around the phenomenon of cutting. In Part Three of this five-part series, we again join the members of Julia's…
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Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 2
Dear Listeners, Welcome to today's podcast. In Part Two of this five-part series, we once again join the four members of Julia's long-standing Windhorse team as they continue to discuss their stark experiences and the realities of her recovery—particularly as this conversation takes them more...
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Could I Be A Voice For Those Still Suffering? Pt. 1
Welcome to today's podcast, a first-person recovery story which we believe is a unique contribution to the resources on extreme state psychology—particularly around the phenomenon of cutting. The arc of our story begins with Julia, who's lost in a hellish life predicament, feeling "intrinsically...
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Recovery is possible, no matter how disturbed a mind has become
Dear Listeners, In this podcast, four long-time Windhorse practitioners discuss the 4th (and last) principle of recovery: "No matter how disturbed a mind has become, recovery is possible." Gabrielle Bershen, Jack Gipple, and I (Marta Aarli) share our insights and experiences of working for over…
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Recovery is the path of discovering one's own health and sanity
Dear Listeners, Anyone who's considered the territory of recovery from extreme mental states knows this to be a vast and subtle topic. And if this is a concern of yours, it's also critical to reasonably understand—otherwise you may not recognize some of the key patterns as they're occurring. This...
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The Integration of Windhorse and Open Dialogue
Dear Listeners, Welcome to this podcast discussion that explores the integration of the Windhorse approach with Dialogical Process that derives from Finland's Open Dialogue treatment approach. We are also fortunate to publish here an original paper by Phoebe Walker, The Evolution of Dialogic...
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Co-Presence: The Legacy of RD Laing – Part 2
Dear Listeners, Welcome to this podcast, which is part 2 of Co-Presence: The Legacy of R.D. Laing. Again, our group of distinguished guests includes Nita Gage, Michael Thompson, Fritjof Capra, and Jeff Fortuna. If you've been fortunate to already hear part 1, you know you're in for another feast…
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Co-Presence: The Legacy Of RD Laing Part 1
Welcome to this podcast discussion of the life and times of RD Laing. Dr. Laing was an iconoclastic 20th century psychiatrist who was a noted author, teacher, social critic, philosopher, poet, and jazz pianist. You are about to experience the first half of a lively discussion among three of his...
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DON'T BE SO PREDICTABLE: A Conversation with Dungse Jampal Norbu on the Practice of Lojong
Welcome to an opportunity to listen to a spontaneous discussion about the Lojong slogan training with a wonderful teacher. In this discussion, Polly Banerjee Gallagher and I join Dungse Jampal Norbu to address a few of these slogans and how they may be of use in society today and in the Windhorse...
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Walking the Path of Healing Discipline – Part 2
Here is the second part of a discussion about Healing Discipline, published by the Windhorse Legacy Project. This new book is an edited collection of three seminars given by Dr. Ed Podvoll in the mid-eighties. My connection to this book is as the managing editor for the Windhorse Legacy Project....
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Walking the Path of Healing Discipline
I would like to thank you, dear listener-viewer, for finding your way to part 1 of this most recent podcast entry to the Windhorse Journal. Our panel discusses the book Healing Discipline, which has just been published as an e-book on the Windhorse Legacy Project website. The book is an edited...
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The Space Between: Opening Ourselves to Inclusion – Part 2
Dear Listeners, Welcome to the continuation of a conversation about Inclusion, moderated by Chuck Knapp. Participants Sorin Thomas, Anne Marie DiGiacomo, and Polly Banerjee Gallagher go deeper into the question of how and why some ways of being get marginalized. In a particularly poignant shift,...
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The Space Between: Opening Ourselves to Inclusion
Dear Listeners, Welcome to a conversation about Inclusion, moderated by Chuck Knapp. Participants Sorin Thomas, Anne Marie DiGiacomo, and Polly Banerjee Gallagher consider the fears and faulty premises that lead us to value some identities and marginalize others. Binaries blind us to the range of...
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Taking Care in Pandemic Part two
Dear Listeners, We are fast approaching six months since Windhorse Community Services altered the ways we function in our day to day lives due to COVID-19. The podcast Rinpoche recorded with myself, Jack Gipple, and Chuck Knapp as the moderator on March 13, 2020 remains not only relevant, but…
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Windhorse Leadership: Seeking Health, Sanity and Balance during COVID 19 pt. 2
Dear Listeners, This week, we return to part two of the discussion published on May 16th, Lungta in the Time of Corona: Leadership During a Crisis. This recording took place on the first of May, 2020. That day I sat in my kitchen, about a month into this new "sanitized and separated" way of life,...
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Community Programs during COVID part two: Nurturing Your Inner Hero
Dear Friends, Welcome to today's Journal entry, which begins with a heartfelt conversation among Windhorse Community Programs members—moderated by Chuck Knapp and JoAnn Burton—about coping with the pandemic from the perspective of the Hero's Journey, a notion made popular by Joseph Campbell. In...
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WCS Community Programs: Connection During COVID
Dear Listeners, Community Programs is, by its very nature, a place for Windhorse clients and staff to connect, learn, and celebrate together. When COVID-19 hit our hometown of Boulder in early March, and we all dispersed to our homes to protect our physical health and that of those around us,...
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Lungta in the Time of Corona: Leadership During a Crisis pt. 1
It has been 8 weeks since we began responding as an organization to the threat of COVID-19, with significant alterations to how we go about our work. At that time, an already-scheduled visit and podcast recording with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche proved to be auspicious. As a valued spiritual…
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Taking Care in Pandemic: Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche's Reflections on Our Mental Priorities
It's again our privilege to present another podcast with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. This finds him in a conversation with Polly Banerjee Gallagher and Jack Gipple, primarily focusing on how to work with our minds and relationships in this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Rinpoche had been scheduled…
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I AM WHAT I DO: A Conversation with Filmmaker Scott Klumb
It's a privilege to present this podcast, which displays a rare convergence of creativity with a remarkable recovery path. Scott Klumb, in dialogue with his psychotherapist Jon Garson, offers us a glimpse into his passion and creative process as a filmmaker. We also get to hear about his film,...
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The Everest Effect
In Joanne Greenberg's piece "In Praise of Not Knowing" she writes that while on the one hand, she would like to know what the future holds, on the other, it would rob her of essential qualities of life. "Not to know implies the need to learn more of what can be known, and that implies a struggle…
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Swimming Lessons
It's with great pleasure that we share these illuminating conversations with Joanne Greenberg. Though we'd felt a strong and warm connection with Joanne for many years, it wasn't until the focus and depth of these recording sessions that we really started to experience her profundity....
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Basic Goodness, Tsewa, Basic Sanity: a Conversation on a Deeper Understanding of Trauma
The topic of trauma is daunting to speak about in any kind of sweeping, all-encompassing way. Our intention is not to make such a claim as to assert that we have the solution to how to work with trauma. Our hope is that in hearing our contemplations on our personal experiences you may develop a...
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TRAINING OUR INNATE CARE & CONCERN – Part 3 of the dialogues on tsewa.
In 2018, Shambhala Publications released Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche's Training in Tenderness: Buddhist Teachings on TSEWA, the Radical Openness of Heart That Can Change the World. After spending some time with the book, we've concluded that the subtitle's bold-sounding claim is not at all…
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"Inseparable – A Second Principle"
In one of our earliest Journal entries, 005, we introduced the existence of four principles as the core of the Windhorse approach. That entry focused on the first principle: the notion of Basic Sanity—and any mental health challenge as an overlay to that sanity. In our most recent entry, #022 –...
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Taking "Faith" Apart – Part 1 of a dialogue with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
Because of our contemplative roots, we often seek out the wisdom of those who ardently pursue the spiritual path of Dharma (i.e. teachings of the Buddha) to provide inspiration for our work. This post features part 1 of a conversation about that word "faith"—the discomfort and misapprehension it...
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Managing Recovery Through the Camera Eye – A Filmmaker's Journey
In our previous Journal entry (#018 – "The History of Sanity"), we introduced Dr. Edward Podvoll's compelling notion that alongside anyone's mental health challenge is a history of sanity. Rather than dwelling on diagnoses of disorders and dissecting the origin of disturbance, it is useful for…
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Pathology of Madness, Psychology of Recovery – Part 2 of an exclusive Studs Terkel interview with Ed Podvoll
In a previous post—Journal Entry 015, "Dazzling Insights"—we presented Part 1 of a dynamic interview of Dr. Edward Podvoll, conducted in 1990 by author, historian, and broadcaster Studs Terkel. Terkel's radio program spanned more than 4 decades as he talked to some of the 20th century's most...
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"Dazzling Insights"- An Exclusive Interview with Studs Terkel and Ed Podvoll
Dear Friends, I am pleased to introduce this remarkable interview of Edward Podvoll, MD, by Studs Terkel, recorded on September 13, 1990, in Chicago. The first Windhorse Community in Boulder came late in this cultural revolution of alternative care, having thrived from 1981 to 1987. At the time…
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Mental Health Care & Spirituality Part 2 – Synchronizing with the Sacred
Now six months since our launch, one of the great surprises of being part of the Windhorse Journal team is listening to an earlier recording and realizing that something of real value was captured. Today's podcast is the second part of a rich dialogue between Dr. Ken Pargament, Windhorse…
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Hero's Journey part 2 – Our Heroic Progression
Welcome to Part Two of our Hero's Journey podcast, where we delve into the different stages of the journey, such as the call, refusal of the call, meeting mentors and allies, befriending the dragon, and bringing back the elixir. One of the most vital aspect of these classes is that students are...
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Hero's Journey part 1: Integrating Community Programs into Home-based Services & Windhorse Clinical Practice
There is strong research pointing to the effectiveness of meaningful activity, employment and social involvement in the recovery process of people with mental health challenges, and these aspects can be addressed and fostered within the Home-based services at Windhorse Community Services (WCS)as...
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Mental Health Care & Spirituality – Yearning for a Deeper Approach
Our last entry featured an excerpt from Dr. Ken Pargament's book, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy. Dr. Pargament was the featured presenter at a conference organized by the Interfaith Network On Mental Illness, held May 16 – 18 in Boulder, titled Sacred Matters: Spirituality as a Vital...
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The First of Four Principles
The following podcast is the first of a four-part series on the core principles of the Windhorse therapeutic approach. These principles were articulated by Chuck Knapp in a chapter from the book "Brilliant Sanity: Buddhist Approaches to Psychotherapy." Here, Chuck is joined by fellow...
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Introducing the Windhorse Journal Team
Windhorse is our innate ability to uplift ourselves and our environment by giving rise to a positive energy that is both relaxed and disciplined. Since 1981 Windhorse Community Services has integrated this understanding with modern, conventional therapies, meditation and contemplative traditions…
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Finding the Right Relationship
Dear Listeners, Please find the latest WCS Journal podcast here. We're delighted to be sharing the second part of a conversation we had about a year ago with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyal; a spiritual friend of Windhorse Community Services and gifted Buddhist teacher and author. Closely following the...
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Integrating the Personal Experience of Trauma
Dear Listeners, The following discussion on trauma captures only a small part of the story. It is the honest and heartfelt accounts of two individuals (and Windhorse clinicians)—Polly Banerjee Gallagher and myself. We were chosen to share our stories, not because we are special or that our…
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Attending Community
Welcome! In this podcast, Jamie Emery and I explore our connection to Windhorse Community Services, a community we have been members of for over three decades. Windhorse is an intentional community and clinical service that works with people who experience the complexity of extreme states. It is…
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Radical Self Acceptance: the Practice of Maitri Space Awareness, Pt 1
Dear Friends, Maitri Space Awareness practice, as described in this Podcast, has played a very significant role in my personal and professional life and development. I was first introduced to this view and practice at the (then) Naropa Institute in the summer of 1977. The class was taught by…
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Radical Self Acceptance: the Practice of Maitri Space Awareness, Pt 2
Dear Friends, We conclude a short series on the contemplative practice of Maitri Space Awareness with a podcast. This is the second half of a conversation among clinicians Kathy Emery, Anne Marie DiGiacomo, Daniel Green, and Jeremy Ellis. In it, they discuss how maitri—as "unlimited...
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Opportunities to Collaborate: Part One of a Discussion on the Role of Psychiatry in a Windhorse Therapeutic Environment
Dear Friends, I hope you enjoyed the previous journal entry about my experiences as a psychotherapist with clients as they navigate their journeys with psychiatrists and medications. Here, we present you with a podcast which continues to explore the subject of medications and the relationship...
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Medication, Observation and Collaboration: Part Two of a Discussion on the Role of Psychiatry in a Windhorse Therapeutic Environment
Dear Friends, In this podcast, we return to the conversation between Dr. Earle Shugerman and Windhorse senior clinicians Jeffrey Fortuna, Gretchen Kahre, and myself. Chuck Knapp hosts and facilitates the discussion. In Part One, Dr. Shugerman reflected on what it is like for him to work with...
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One Size Won't Fit All: Part 1 of a Discussion on the Role of Medication in a Windhorse Therapeutic Environment
Dear Friends! Today's podcast (part one of a two-part series) features the recording of an important conversation I recently participated in about the efficacy and pitfalls of using psychiatric medications. Joining me were members of the Windhorse community: Emily Ashley, Eugenie Morton, and Joe...
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Part 2 of a Discussion on the Role of Medication in a Windhorse Therapeutic Environment
Today's podcast, the last in an 8-part series on psychotropic medications, is an open-hearted conversation between Windhorse community members Emily Ashley, Joe Calcagno, Chris Emerson, and Eugenie Morton. Looking back, we initially didn't anticipate spending this much time on meds. But once...
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Tsewa – The Human Heart Connection
Dear Listeners, Welcome to this second entry of a two-part series featuring our dear heart friend, the Venerable Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. We will be listening once again to his teachings on tsewa—a Tibetan term which most closely translates in English to "love."… If love is an aspect of life in...
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Moral Injury Podcast: Searching For Wholeness Amidst Traumatic Grief
Dear Friends, In the last journal entry we offered a paper by Carrie Doehring, discussing the necessity for body- centered spiritual practices when searching for wholeness amidst traumatic grief. Now, for this journal entry—a podcast—she is joined in conversation by Alan Johnson, Bill Forbes…
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The Windhorse Journal's mission is to inspire compassionate approaches to recovering sanity.We do this by creating an evolving forum dedicated to exploring contemplative psychotherapy and the creation of therapeutic environments for the wellbeing of all persons involved. We envision this to be a rich dialogue among people with lived experience, family members, psychology professionals, and anyone interested in whole person-mental health and the diverse expressions of human sanity.
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Windhorse Community Services
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