by Tony Zampella | Oct 17, 2022 | Practice, Spirituality
What is the cost of discarding the ethics and wisdom from mindfulness? Is there a way to restore the wisdom for lay practitioners or non-Buddhists? In Part 1 of this blog, I discussed the rise of McMindfulness that emerged from secular mindfulness techniques, which...
by Tony Zampella | Oct 10, 2022 | Practice, Spirituality
Mindfulness has become the elixir for all that ails us. Stress, performance, focus, anxiety—mindfulness is the remedy. However, recently, some have deemed mindfulness as damaging, unsettling, and even narcissistic. Yet these benefits and flaws are often taken out of...
by Tony Zampella | Oct 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is a sidebar to the following blog: Evolving Mindfulness, Part 1: The Rise of McMindfulness My journey began in 2000 when, working with my mentor Devorah Gilbert, I recognized the wisdom she had developed from her time in an Ashram. As a faculty member, coach,...
by Tony Zampella | Aug 15, 2022 | Practice
Lately, the act of bearing witness has occurred to me as sacred and momentous. In my work with coaches, bearing witness can be an important coaching practice. Kristi Pikiewicz, in Psychology Today, shares that bearing witness can “obtain empathy and support, lighten...
by Tony Zampella | Jul 11, 2022 | Communication, Spirituality
Language is the bridge between our intentions and our worlds. Our relationship to language determines how we wield words to bridge our worlds. We cultivate a generative relationship with words by embracing Wholeness, Truthfulness, and Freedom. A poor acronym (WTF), we...
