Brendan Ozawa-de Silva Embodied Learning
b"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"