I'm so happy and delighted to share with you the latest episode of the Mediate Your Life podcast — a dialogue with Richard Schwartz, founder of the internationally renowned work of Internal Family Systems (IFS). For those of you who have been with me and MYL for a while, you know how central the relationship between IFS and the MYL work has been over the years. Getting to explore that relationship directly in conversation with Dick is a dream come true.
We cover a lot of ground: the surprisingly human story behind how IFS came to be and become what it is now, the deep resonances between “Self” in IFS and the empathic presence and needs consciousness at the heart of NVC and MYL, and how parts language can support the language of NVC. We also venture into territory that feels increasingly important in the world: spirituality, legacy trauma, and what it looks like to bring more Self-energy into the social and political world right now.
Dick is as humble and open as his reputation suggests. I think you'll find this conversation powerfully illuminating and nourishing.
— John
On the Mediate Your Life Podcast, John Kinyon has conversations with thought leaders about the power of conflict to create new and better possibilities for our lives and world, and the intersection of empathic communication (Nonviolent Communication/NVC), mediation/conflict transformation, mindfulness/consciousness, and trauma healing — individual, collective, ancestral.
One of the goals of Mediate Your Life is to not only bridge and heal differences between individuals in personal, organizational, and societal life, it is also to support sharing and integration within and across fields of study and practice of conflict resolution, management, transformation, reconciliation, peacebuilding, trauma healing, and socially engaged spirituality and change work.
On the show, John also guides some of his guests through real life challenges and conflicts with the MYL approach. Each conversation is a forum for learning and healing, not only for the guests, but also for the listener.