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:

• his interest in contemplation (and an introduction to the Japanese practice of Naikan);

• adapting contemplative training to a variety of settings;

• the capacity of young people for compassion, mindfulness, and conceptual frames;

• what's missing in contemplative research;

• empathy/compassion as something that arises between people;

• the embeddedness of researchers in the systems they study;

• the SEE Learning program;

• trauma in the body & nervous system regulation;

• understanding different forms of trauma;

• healing and forgiveness;

• barriers to compassion, misunderstandings about the meaning of compassion;

• how the world is built on compassion;

• and new teaching endeavors with experiential learning.

Full show notes and resources (podcast.mindandlife.org/brendan-ozawa-de-silva)