Relational Neuroscience, Spirituality & Inner Community - Dr Bonnie Badenoch

Bonnie is a psychotherapist, mentor, teacher and author, who has spent the last 15 years integrating the discoveries of relational neuroscience and the work of Iain McGilchrist into the art of therapy. In 2008, she co-founded the nonprofit agency Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind, which aims to cultivate spaces in which people can learn and heal, and foster supportive communities which practice presence together. She is the author of several books, including: The Heart of Trauma, The Brain-Savvy Therapist's Workbook, and Being a Brain-Wise Therapist.
In this free flowing conversation, we discuss:
- Iain McGilchrist’s hemisphere hypothesis and its relevance for therapeutic practice
- Interpersonal neurobiology, social baseline theory, and the research underpinning Bonnie’s radical approach to healing
- The power of having a “listening partner” and how you can set one up to foster more secure attachment in your world
And more.
You can learn more about Bonnie’s work by going to nurturingtheheart.com.
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Dr Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, is the co-founder of the Nurturing the Heart with the Brain in Mind, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering awareness of the brain, mind, and relationships in the service of creating a more awake and compassionate world. She is the author of Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology (W. W. Norton, 2008), and is an active member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). You can learn more about her work at www.nurturingtheheart.com.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Exploring Therapy and Healing
06:55 - Shaping Connections and Spreading Kindness
11:17 - Iain McGilchrist's Influence on Connection
15:51 - Left Hemisphere Dominance and Healing
19:48 - Secure Attachment and Vulnerability
24:32 - Listening Partnerships for Growth
27:02 - Therapy as a Spiritual Journey
32:36 - Grandfather's Gift and Life Lessons
35:03 - Mystery of Human Awareness
43:14 - Neurobiology of Empathy in Therapy
49:43 - Transforming Education Paradigm
54:12 - Dr Badenoch's Connections
56:11 - Dr Badenoch's Kindness Message
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Interview Links:
- Dr Badenoch’s website: www.nurturingtheheart.com/
- Dr Badenoch’s books: amzn.to/47Rbn4C

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  • @flisscook8934
    @flisscook89348 ай бұрын

    What an incredible inspiration this woman is. I had heard her name before, but this is my first experience of hearing and and seeing her speak. I would love to embody even a drop of her heart essence…. Thank you WU for this hour of enrichment!

  • @vickyp1732

    @vickyp1732

    8 ай бұрын

    Wonderful insight

  • @teres1523
    @teres15238 ай бұрын

    Love the respect, the grace and the honor that she grants to humans going throw human experiences with out pathologizing.

  • @tabula_rascal
    @tabula_rascal8 ай бұрын

    Holy moly. I have a new hero. Thanks Bonnie

  • @susanj5591
    @susanj55918 ай бұрын

    Yes yes yes Thank you For your open candid honesty. Your loving heart comes straight forward.

  • @bethanykindiger672
    @bethanykindiger6728 ай бұрын

    This video summed up my frustration with the amount of time I am required to perform in a left-brain world. I am not discounting what value there is in diagnosing or intervention-planning, but ever since I began my schooling to become a therapist I have felt as if I am not learning everything that Dr. Badenoch is speaking about. I understand I must operate within the system that exists, but the time, the money, which I feel is wasted on systems that seem largely in place to prevent liability....it is exhausting, but finding lessons like this gives me hope I can become the helping person I wish to be for others. Thank you both for making this available for a grad student.

  • @libracat
    @libracat7 ай бұрын

    This is great stuff~ I was just thinking about this today... Knowledge is the collection of information. Wisdom is the application of knowledge. In our current society, we are putting more weight on knowledge than wisdom. Story is what helps us make sense of the world and gives us motivation and purpose. With the gaining of knowledge, we tossed all the stories except for the story of self. If that premise is true, then perhaps our left hemisphere deals with knowledge (logic) and our right hemisphere deals with wisdom (stories or the configuration of knowledge)..

  • @rosyloveslearning3013
    @rosyloveslearning30138 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this great discussion. I had no “awareness” of Dr. Badenoch. ❤❤❤

  • @natgreen5903
    @natgreen59037 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much 😊❤❤

  • @maophantulaotkasmil44
    @maophantulaotkasmil448 ай бұрын

    Yes mam . . Lov'I'lov mam is for healthy healthy forte . . . Thank's much for info your are ready . . .

  • @sonyaparkin7841
    @sonyaparkin78418 ай бұрын

    Beautiful 💛🙏

  • @susanj5591
    @susanj55918 ай бұрын

    What you're saying is so insightful and I love the inner community, the imprinting that we do when we share with each other the unique connection that then goes on but PLEASE study JILL BOLTE TAYLOR Bolte Taylor's book; her original book a Stroke of INSIGHT and her second book; Whole BRAIN LIVING . 😂 As a brain neurologist she brings a unique and clear understanding of how things work inside ourselves. understand a little bit I think more clearly. where trauma is held it's not in the right part of the brain at all It's not the right emotional brain usually not some can I'm sure, but it's the left emotional brain the left hemisphere amigdala that is shaped by trauma Is that then triggers a defensive response.

  • @bonlevina5621
    @bonlevina56218 ай бұрын

    I feel privileged in that I had reasonable people at the helm in my elementary school, who never made us get under our desks. Instead, we saw movies of nuclear tests and learned the physics of not having a prayer.

  • @PeeGee85
    @PeeGee858 ай бұрын

    Love most of what she's saying. Slightly concerned about the emphasis on vulnerability rather than resilience, and the idea that the right hemisphere is wiser and so should be in charge. Seems like overcompensating in the opposite direction. Ideally, you shouldn't feel vulnerable when playing or conversing, because you've learned to be resilient and know how to handle boundaries. If you're vulnerable, you may become volatile and unreliable, and need to be protected and/or handled carefully. A child is vulnerable, an adult should be resilient. I worry that an emphasis on vulnerability may be infantilising. The last thing we should want to do is normalise emotional fragility in adults in public (such individuals require going back to a protected environment like parents or therapy to be raised into maturity before taking part in wider society). As for which hemisphere should lead, it seems to me that just like a conversation, the conversation partners exchange roles as is appropriate, depending on their area of expertise. It makes no sense to me to complain about a left-hemisphere dominant society, and then suggest as a solution a role reversal. That's not solving the problem, that's just having things your way, it seems to me. Both hemispheres are equally unwise without the other.

  • @PeeGee85

    @PeeGee85

    8 ай бұрын

    In terms of which hemisphere should be in charge. If we could simplify it to something like "family (home) vs company (work)". Then yes, it's true that family should come before work, but not always. It's context specific, and there are trade-offs.

  • @SQuinn-vc4dj

    @SQuinn-vc4dj

    8 ай бұрын

    When I watched another related video, it helped to look at the two hemispheres in the context of understanding and redefining trauma and memories to bring them into the useful, manageable present and as a duo for internal reliability and social success in the future. As someone who once relied heavily (like a recipe that could be applied) on my left-brained skills, it felt equally inadequate- but, initially necessary- to integrate the truths contained in vulnerability. Who can deny it takes a balance to thrive and live in confidence that we can adapt? There are situations I will never allow myself to enter into wearing my right-brained hat, just as I know when I want to connect and genuinely experience others, I can’t lean too much on knowledge and rationality. Still a challenge but I’m able to understand the why’s and consequences with this model. A start.

  • @susanj5591

    @susanj5591

    8 ай бұрын

    Please read Jill Bolte Taylor Her neuro anatomy Gives absolute clarity about the left hemisphere and right hemisphere how they coexist and how they are both needed. She puts into perspective what this wonderful woman is telling us from a psychology point of view. Let's learn to get along with the inner community within our own mind and brain.

  • @susanj5591

    @susanj5591

    8 ай бұрын

    Neuro Biology And Nuero Anatomy can work together to understand this and perhaps shorten the journey you call long. Please tead Jill Bolte Taylor's experience as a neurologist. MY Stroke of Insight.

  • @susanj5591
    @susanj55918 ай бұрын

    Please read Jill Bolt Taylor to understand the anatomy of the brain then you know what it's really means left hemisphere and right hemisphere please. AND HOW TO WORK WITH THE INNER COMMUNITY IN OUR OWN MIND/BRAIN AND SELF TALK..

  • @angeljewellery___
    @angeljewellery___8 ай бұрын

    Does Bonnie offer the course to non therapists?

  • @girlslikefood

    @girlslikefood

    8 ай бұрын

    anyone can take her courses

  • @kingfisher9553
    @kingfisher95538 ай бұрын

    If much of the empathic support is body to body, how does therapy work on Zoom?

  • @flisscook8934

    @flisscook8934

    8 ай бұрын

    Energetically, probably!

  • @raevenrises7595

    @raevenrises7595

    8 ай бұрын

    It doesn't. Not to nearly the same degree.

  • @JelMain

    @JelMain

    8 ай бұрын

    I was first part of a Nobel Prize-Winning team, putting the extra edge on the work, then Arshad Rather's private practice had a look and concluded that I was declining from a peak IQ in the mid-160s, and finally a wiccan aura-sensitive was categorical that I have a Reiki Master's aura, which was a complete surprise to me. I understand the former, my presence here is part of an effort to understand the second, and I took myself off to a Healer Sanctuary to investigate the third, successfully switching on the power of a non-practitioner across a room full of self-powered "grey" therapists. I was cautious not to infringe on privacy, firstly reading the room, all "greys", apart from one area where the power level was lower: I offered power to the area in general, it was taken, so I sat back and watched. A normal meditation session followed, ended normally, any questions? A hand shot up from the group of four where the power had been taken, "I've never come out of a meditation tingling before. Is this normal?" I broke in to explain, convening a meeting in private with the meditation leader and tingler, who then explained she'd paid for a hands-on power up, but nothing had taken. She was very happy at the gift, the Sanctuary Staffer at having a new student, and I at knowing the Wiccan was right. So, what happened from my side? Like Usui's circle, I'm a Peace-making diplomat - it was the 2012 Peace Prize. I'm a Zen Christian, the power behind the cutting edge of the Prize - can you imagine, going to the supermarket and coming home eight hours later with the completion of Gandhi's unfinished business in my pocket? - and as such, I'd used the metamorphic experience of being powered up by the Spirit at the behest of the Principal of the Church Army Seminary into becoming a seer medium to handle rather a lot of the more esoteric side such as the Gandhi experience, and finally, we had all investigated our meridians in the healing framework of acupuncture. The satori experience allowed me access to numinous power, the diplomatic long-distance empathy to reach across the room, and the meridian knowledge allied with that to switch the tingler on. This then guided me in testing the new Trauma Therapy for suitability for the NeuroDiverse to recognise another subclass of perception. The existing classes are all physical, essentially, and there was no home for perception of the intangible. Bruce Duncan Perry immediately applauded my recognition of Abraham Maslow's work on what he called the Transpersonal, the spiritual apex of the Pyramid of Aspiration, as being exactly this, and thus I've termed it Transception, perception of the intangible. Obviously, it appears all over the shop, but the biggest is where the empathic meets Third Sector Medicine, as described, on the one side, and the numinous on the other. The former, I hope you're at home with, and probably the second as well. I've used the term the numinous for the elephant in the room, which 12 blind sages of religion are all examining from what's in front of them. No, Buddhists, you don't know it all: why else should a Christian have completed the Mahatma's work with Muslims, and then sat back and watched India discover it was at peace a quarter of a century later? You killed him out of the hatred in your hearts, and it's still there. No, Christians, you don't have a monopoly of faith either: what you do have in repentant confession is a tool which clears the psychic channels wonderfully. I can go on, you have frauds and cheats, particularly in Organised Religion, creating atheism. So the short answer is that empathy is not necessarily at close quarters. Wendy d'Andrea's work on trauma in couples where one or both bears childhood trauma indicates interoception is not limited to the individual, both experience the other's as well. We can feel others at a distance. I could tell one of Prof Rather's team his deepest hidden secret, without touching him. It's a form of ESP that team diagnosed as hyperperception, having seen me accurately predict a strategic approach from the Gulf by six months. It's impressive to give them a comprehensive answer in six hours delay, and then come up with the country's top man to make it happen.

  • @flisscook8934

    @flisscook8934

    8 ай бұрын

    Just to add to my previous comment- I am a recipient of psychotherapy as well as being a certified practitioner myself. I have had both face to face and online therapy. If you are new to it, I would always advise face to face first, however, experience has shown me that online is just as powerful when with the right therapist.

  • @JelMain

    @JelMain

    8 ай бұрын

    @@flisscook8934 Entirely, but energetics at a distance are not recommended. What happens if the connection's lost? As a therapist, talk is one thing, but limbic therapy's not something to dabble with - it took my kinetic shift therapist around 20 minutes to drain the CPTSD swamp! We were both monitoring (I'm ND, so multitracked) and I still had to reiki the void left myself.

  • @psyfiles7351
    @psyfiles73518 ай бұрын

    How about Richard Schwartz?

  • @annaynely
    @annaynely8 ай бұрын

    Yes we are part of a collective insanity. Only ones that have hope are those that have had the support of their grandad's, many haven't had any only the epigenetic insanity of the horrific lives their ancestors have lived.

  • @learningenglishsrikanthaja858
    @learningenglishsrikanthaja8588 ай бұрын

    use received pronunciation as much as possible Sorry if I make a mistake

  • @annaynely
    @annaynely8 ай бұрын

    The subconscious mind holds billions of pieces of info, it is the conscious mind that is 3% while the subconscious is 97%.

  • @TheDjpdjp
    @TheDjpdjp8 ай бұрын

    omg "biden's openness:???? this interview was good up to that point. How has he ever displayed openess? what a shock that this woman could be so clear on some things and completely blind on other obvious things. very disappointing. Also why even touch on a political tender area. What is her real motive?

  • @ab78001

    @ab78001

    6 ай бұрын

    Sadly most people in the healing arts are ideologically captured by liberal politics. I just ignore their political views and focus on their core message.

  • @jackspicerisland

    @jackspicerisland

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you for demonstrating the quality and character of your own openness 🤍

  • @NowhereNonduality

    @NowhereNonduality

    6 ай бұрын

    Understandable comment. It’s natural to let personal perspectives, biases, and projections color our comments and reactions. These opinions are very rarely accurate, but very natural from the perspective of the mind.

  • @lls1.381
    @lls1.3813 ай бұрын

    Babies being born sinless and pure already is a thing. Islam teaches us this. Babies are touched by Satan when they are born and then they cry. Every baby has and will cry after being born. The only ones who didn't cry were Jesus and Mary (peace be upon them). Then we start sinning as we get older.