INTENTIONAL PRESENCE
TESTIMONIALS
Articles
INTENTIONAL PRESENCE
INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES
You're welcome to read the following writings on intentional presence:
Introductory articles:
An Overview of Intentional Presence
Parts Overview #1: Understanding Parts and How they Affect Your Behavior
Parts Overview #2: The Information Parts Communicate (And Why It's Important to Listen)
Articles on our friendship and support skills:
What Is Presence-Centered Friendship?
Helping Habits That Aren't Always Helpful
Supporting People to Speak What's Here
We're touched by the humility, heart, and open-mindedness that the writers below bring to their work. Each of them discuss important principles that intentional presence also embraces.)
Ron Kurtz
The Healing Process and Loving Presence
With humor and grace, Ron discusses the power of presence to heal our wounds and connect us more deeply with ourselves and others. (Ron is pictured above with Rhonda Mattern, co-founder of intentional presence.)
Richard C. Schwartz
No Contest: How a Therapist Learned to Listen
Though geared to psychotherapists, this article is a wonderful reminder to all of us about the humility, open-mindedness, curiosity, and respect needed to approach lost and wounded parts of ourselves.
John Welwood
Embodying Your Realization: Psychological Work in Service of Spiritual Realization
This article warns of the dangers of using spiritual teachings to bypass our emotions.
Articles written for the learning lab--a small group of longtime practitioners of intentional presence--tend to address more subtle aspects of practicing presence, including challenges the group encounters as it experiments with new frontiers. The articles below will give you a feel for the kinds of edges we've been exploring in recent years.
Practicing Mindfulness and Presence
Becoming One with Another Person's Experience
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Future articles and e-books:
We plan to publish a series of e-books on different topics related to intentional presence including:
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A "Parts Overview"article series
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A "Consciousness Shifting Skills" article series
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A "Presence-Centered Friendship" article series
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An e-book on the importance of universal self-awareness education (and steps we might take to get there)
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INTENTIONAL PRESENCE
LEARNING LAB ARTICLES
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