Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Embodied Learning
In this episode, Wendy speaks with Buddhist scholar and contemplative educator and researcher Brendan Ozawa-de Silva. Brendan has been studying and teaching mindfulness and compassion for over a decade, and has lately been focusing on integrating trauma-informed and embodied practices into his work. This conversation covers many topics, including:\nhis interest in contemplation (and an introduction to the Japanese practice of Naikan);\nadapting contemplative training to a variety of settings;\nthe capacity of young people for compassion, mindfulness, and conceptual frames;\nwhat's missing in contemplative research;\nempathy/compassion as something that arises between people;\nthe embeddedness of researchers in the systems they study;\nthe SEE Learning program;\ntrauma in the body & nervous system regulation;\nunderstanding different forms of trauma;\nhealing and forgiveness;\nbarriers to compassion, misunderstandings about the meaning of compassion;\nhow the world is built on compassion;\nand new teaching endeavors with experiential learning.\nFull show notes and resources