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- Learn how the elements of presence, attunement, resonance, and trust (PART) can be applied for healing and positive growth in the therapeutic relationship
- Hear a moving story that illustrates how PART allowed Dr. Siegel to help a 90 year old client “learn to feel” and experience the joy of an integrated life
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Thank you Dan and Clarissa from deep in my heart for this fascinating talk. You have opened my mind to so many new concepts, understandings and ideas. All my appreciation to you!!!
Brilliant! Many thanks to Dan and Clarissa.
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I absolutely loved this lecture. I remember reading Dr. Siegel’s work, “The Mindful Therapist” in my pre-practicum class. My whole class got very confused with his writing and “jargon” as I heard other people describe this lecture below. I remember defending his work and every week coming in so, so excited to talk about his book, while most of my other class talked about how confusing it was. I ended up spending my time talking about the book after class with my professor. I still smile at the memories I have with her, feeling like she felt and understood the joy I had in reading Dr. Siegel’s text. I love how you shared the story of your client feeling felt and seen. What a basic human desire to feel felt and seen and truly deeply understood in someone else’s mind!
Dr. Siegel, I really appreciate how your mind works and I love that he doesn’t try to change or fit the mold, but you stay purely yourself. I think this allows others who maybe don’t think in the “typical” way to feel safer to be themselves so that they can also feel deeply understood and seen and “felt” in other people’s minds.
I am a huge fan of Dr. Siegel. I totally get having not a linear way of thinking and seeing all the complicated webs and maybe not explaining your thoughts in a linear or perfectly “direct or concise” way. I also appreciate how he allowed himself to take steps back before answering the brilliant questions at hand. I loved how he allowed himself to take a step back before answering Dr. Cigrand’s questions so that he could answer her question to the best of his ability.
Dr. Cigrand, WOW, I loved your way of interviewing, and the questions you asked were so on point!! I am so thankful you did this interview because you really asked all the questions I was hoping would be asked. Thank you so much!
I was curious what Dr. Siegel meant by “where is differentiation blocked, and linkage blocked” and while I understand what those words mean, I am curious how Dr. Siegel makes sense of those words, specifically the word “linkage.” It would have been helpful for me and my career if that was explored in a little bit more detail.
That said, it was so validating and helpful to get a definition of the word “mind” as an “emergent self-organizing in body and relational process that is regulating energy and information.” (I hope I got that right). It is so sad how as mental professionals, we do not get a clear-cut definition of “mental” or “health.” I think it adds to the imposter syndrome that is so common in our field. So, getting a clear definition of what the mind is definitely helping my confidence in the field and to understand exactly what I am doing and why it is helping clients.
Dr. Siegel, your work has helped me feel more confident in the work I am doing, as you really give me a scientific explanation of why therapy works. Thank you, Dr. Siegel and Dr. Cigrand, for contributing so much brilliance to our field!
Mind blowing, beautiful, cannot thank you enough for communicating your incredible work so articulately and generously.
Thank you for a very compassionate and thoughtful talk. I really appreciated your openness. You have helped me deepen my understanding of presence and its contribution to the therapeutic process.
Such a powerful integration of Dan’s work. This session is a must for all who work with people.
Si , yes 👍 I here doesn’t feel comfortable like with Kriss for example , as you Dr Siegel seems to me too much sapient and secure…toto much …you doesn’t show any vulnerability and this don’t make me feel well.
thank you so much. I’m deeply moved.
actually, the way you describe how you attune with your clients/patients, is how I often work with my doula clients (pregnant people) in pregnancy and birth. To hear this explained in a scientific way, is mind opening and deeply affirmative of the work that I do. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for a wonderful and informative talk integrating so many different aspects of what it is to be human. I was touched by your compassion and inspired by your knowledge and wisdom.
Dan Siegel is so stuck in his jargon he is unintelligible. He neither listened to the questions nor answered them and was unashamedly patronising. Won’t be buying his new book!!
I will be exploring Dan’s books as such a brilliant mind and compassionate heart
Phenomenal discussion! Dr. Siegel is brilliant and Dr. Cigrand such an insightful interviewer. I now have another 5 books to add to my reading list. Just the
What are the names of the five books.
What a wonderful and insightful man! Gratitude for these words of wisdom!
Thank you Dr Siegel for being a self-proclaimed “weirdo” and challenging others to think outside the box. We can see a brain on an MRI but how do we see the mind or the self? I appreciate the value of evidence based practices but they leave me with so many more questions that can’t be quantified. We have such a long way to go in understanding the complexities of humans and other animals, and I feel your work has been monumental in trying to map it out more clearly. Feeling so lucky to be a part of this summit!
Wow, wow, wow! Absolutely loved this presentation!! Thank you!
Thank you Dan Siegel. Wish my parents had heard that lecture 88 years ago–or that I had heard that talk 65 years ago. Alas!
Such a mind-blowing, inspiring conversation. Thank you so much!
What an excellent presentation!
This has helped me to conceptualise the process of therapeutic change across many levels of explanation. What a game changer!
Thank you so much. Really saw the power of presence from a different perspective.
Inspiring story .. there is no time limits for change
Excellent presentation and interesting subject
Pity there has not been a further pure example of practice examples since MINDSIGHT…..
where attention goes ，neural fire flows ，and neural connection grows.
Loved your last story about the 90 year old gentleman and his final integration from issues related to his early childhood experiences. This is the goal for a clinician, to integrate to a full life of experiences. That was a great finale to your presentation. Your warmth coupled with your scientific way of thinking helps to bring it to life in those human stories since I have been listeing to you and reading your books in this last decade in the field. You have a warmth thru all the science that helps my integration.. Thanks and please keep that gentle spirit you use so professionally in your communications.
It is so wonderful to listen. Thank you. I am a German.. so…I would like to ask you .when you say it is a great question..what does it mean to you? Would it be helpful to say like( Marshal Rosenberg) it matches my needs of beeing curious coming deeper. ? If it is a compliment to the other person would it be wonderful to know what my question does to you to say “great question.”.to valide the sameness in the difference?
Excellent presentation, and beyond other interesting issues and approaches presented here, (such as the science of relationality, attachment research, interpersonal integration, reflective function, attunement, monitoring process etc.), it is the presenters’ openness and willingness to listen that becomes the best way for further research and collaboration -and also the proof of the higher motives and ideals of people involved in the Mindsight Institute.
Following Dalai Lama’s ideas, I think there are more than enough “smart” and “successful” people in the world; it’s about time to move to the Wisdom level -in research and clinical practice- and Dan becomes and serves as the ideal and truly productive role model for the rest of us, researchers-clinicians or not. On a different level, we can see the intrinsic and extrinsic properties and powers of various Integrations demonstrated in this presentation. Excellent questions and inquiries about healing and clinical practices and inevitably, I will have to ask now: what healing is all about, in terms of what do we really heal in personal relationships, in clinical practice and elsewhere (social events/behaviors)? Beyond the necessary neurobiological processes involved, isn’t the healing process extended on various other existential levels, let’s say on the concept/definition of that elusive Self (beyond the old constructs and definition in Psychology and Psychiatry), the deconstruction of the illusive/False Self, and then ultimately in the emergence of a more Authentic Self -beyond the pathological and needy Ego and everything that comes along that?
Thank you Dan and Clarissa for the awesome presentation. Yes, we appreciate the sophistication and the depth in the subject matter and material presented. Food for thought and challenge for further inquiry/research and clinical application, especially the idea of mind as an emerging and interacting “entity” from energy flow -than just being a mere brain function side effect in strictly brain functioning terms (just info) without additional *meaning* (and meaningful relationships), attached to it!
For humans, isn’t *meaning* and meaningful relationships exactly the results of various person-ality and energy differentiations and integrations in biological, cultural, and historical contexts/semiotics?
What is the role of Synchronicity in causal terms in the dynamics and processes involved and then in the qualitive results (forms and formations, awareness and consciousness, meaning and meaningful relation-ships in various planes of possibilities and various modes of existence and co-existence)?
What is the role and value of Transcendence in such and other integrations and in relating with one’s own Self and others?
On a different level, and after listening this presentation, I think Dr. Siegel successfully answered the following old mind-blowing and challenging question:
“Why do almost all theories about depersonalization, reification, splitting,
denial, tend themselves to exhibit the symptoms they attempt to describe?”
-R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
I really enjoyed!
Excellent discussion with Dr Dan Seigel and the questions asked🙏🙏
Great interview. Wonderful and important work!
How to cultivate a healing presence? We ask “What’s the PART we play in relationships (therapeutic or in general)?”
P=Presence (Goal of therapy)
A=Attunement
R=Resonance
T=Trust
Presence is how “Integration” is achieved. Attunement is how we focus inwardly on the other person and how that can sit inside us (while still being separate individuals). Attunement allows for Resonance. Resonance is that which allows the patient to not feel alone, and thus is the healing process. This all builds Trust to continue the work further.
I had to watch this lecture twice and that’s the basic idea I was able to get to! Hopefully, I got some of that right! 🙂
First time “meeting” Dr. Siegel and Dr. Cigrand and I love them!
I am Carlene Shultz, a psychologist in Salem Oregon, long term mindfulness, yoga and Tai Chi practitioner, working with CPTSD