Using Organic Intelligence To Help Pediatric Hospital Patients
My work with children using an Organic Intelligence® approach began in a pediatric hospital setting. While the child’s journey toward healing didn’t end with our time together, the hope I held, and continue to hold, is that their system received what it needed in those first moments to allow for processing and integration with greater […]
Orientation: A Way To Come Back
“To come into the present is to stop the war.” — Jack Kornfield This is a personal account of my direct experiences with Orientation, as an incredible gift to ourselves, and to those who come to us seeking relief and solace from their inner storms. When I was in my last year of training with […]
Disaster Relief and Positive Engagement
As I complete the final edit for this blog post in late April of 2016, there are stories about the recent earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan. This last week also brought the announcement of Kathryn Schulz winning the Pulitzer Prize for her New Yorker article “The Really Big One,” about the 10-30% likelihood of a […]
Organic Intelligence and Spiritual Life
“Oh tangle of matter and ghost!” – Leonard Cohen I stand at my desk, document open, and begin to orient toward the state of mind I call “writing”. The title of the blog, “Organic Intelligence® and Spiritual Life” hovers in a field of white, with soft-edged italic letters, off center on the black-framed screen. I […]
Organic Intelligence and Complex Family Systems
Complex Family Systems: in reality each of our psychobiological systems is complex in and of itself. Therefore, each relational system we create is bound to be complex and multifaceted. The complex family systems that I will address in this blog post, are families with one or more of the following issues present: • Poverty • […]
My Understanding of Organic Intelligence Continues to Expand
Over the years, I have had a fascination with the physiological theories underlying activation and deactivation, fight, fight, and freeze states and social engagement (thank you Stephen Porges!). Intellectually, I could tell you how these theories offer a map for sessions, yet something was missing. It felt as if all of the information I’d learned […]
Somatic Self-Similarity: The Fractal Nature of Body & Mind (OI Tenet #2)
OI Tenet #2: The importance of somatic psychology for mapping the phases of the nervous system, providing a clinical approach unique to Organic Intelligence. Somatic psychology claims a clinical and intellectual lineage from many sources, including the legacy of psychodynamics from Reich, Freud, etc. In fact, this young field has grown to the point of documenting its source materials, i.e. […]
