Desire. This may seem like a strange place to start a blog post designed to address the categories of compassion and empathy, but in order to join this conversation in a meaningful way, I believe desire is where the conversation must begin and end. In my recent post on self-care, I referenced the purpose of […]
Yesterday, after having spent a substantial part of the morning and afternoon in the kitchen, my 24-year-old son walked in. “Are you making a pie?” he asked. “Well, yeah,” I replied. As if, of course I would be making a pie. This would be the fourth pie I had baked in our less than 6- […]
This past fall at The Seattle School, I had the privilege of teaching two disciplines close to my heart—Critical Social Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods. As part of their work in the course, students were asked to ground their learning by choosing a concrete, contemporary issue that was important to them and to which they could […]
We all have a depth to us that is not simply our own. We each come from a time and place that is other than where we are right now. And yet, life requires us to live in a now that seems to beckon to a self that is required to be conscious of who […]
On this episode of text.soul.culture, Dr. J. Derek McNeil, Acting President and Provost, talks with Dr. Roy Barsness, Professor of Counseling Psychology, about his experience as a therapist and what has led to his development of a unique, relationally focused modality of psychodynamic therapy. When Dr. Barsness first began practicing, he was eager to try […]
On this episode of text.soul.culture, Dr J. Derek McNeil, Acting President and Provost, sits down with Abby Wong-Heffter (MA in Counseling Psychology, ‘07) for a conversation that leads them to discussing the realities of trauma and the hope to live a more integrated life. Abby: “So many of the people I interact with are desperate […]
Dr. J. Derek McNeil talks with Dr. Esther Lightcap Meek about delight in a traumatized world, how we know what we know, and why it matters.
Dr. Doug Shirley writes about the ease of hiding our vulnerability and need for care behind things that appear important or beautiful.
All this month, we’re exploring how to open ourselves to the nurture required to live as embodied people committed to the movement of hope and healing.
Doug Shirley writes about the tendency to wield clinical distance and professional jargon as a shield against the risk of vulnerability between lovers.
Dr. Roy Barsness challenges us to consider love as a primary category in the work of psychotherapy and the ongoing healing process.
In this video from The Seattle School’s Symposia 2018, Jay Stringer argues that we need to change the conversation about engaging unwanted sexual behavior.