Mirjam Luthe
on Gratitude, Family Rituals,
and the Natural World
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This week, we speak to Mirjam Luthe about the importance of gratitude, appreciation, deep listening, and connecting to the natural world. She also shares about rituals and strategies she has used with her children to develop skills of listening and appreciation at home. We also explore the historical roots of trauma, cultural healing, and the deliberate choices she has made to help herself and her family cope during the pandemic.
Mirjam Luthe has a masters degree in International Cultural & Business Studies and spent most of her career engaged in consulting before beginning to teach mindfulness-based interventions in 2008. She is a Certified mindful self-compassion, mindfulness based stress reduction, and yoga teacher as well as an “Awake in the Wild” Nature Meditation Teacher. She is also trained in the Mindful Schools Curriculum, and continuously explores Council Practice and contemplative dialog.
Mirjam has taught Mindful Self-Compassion in Germany, Italy, Vietnam and the United States. Since its founding in 2012, she is on the core team of the European Network for Grateful Living founded by Brother David Steindl-Rast. She currently lives with her three teenage children in Freiburg, Germany.
Key Takeaways
- Learning to be a guest, cultivating courage, trust, and curiosity about other cultures through travel
- Her quest to find meaning in the loss of a child and other family challenges
- How to start practicing gratitude and appreciation by connecting to your own embodied experience and taking care of your environment
- The power of nature to help us get out of thinking and doing modes
- Rituals that can work at home to develop well-being in our children and families
- How practices in the family can help us learn to be more capable to act in the world
- How feeling gratitude, appreciation, and connecting to nature, can help us improve justice, equality, and reduce hierarchy
- Taking a bigger perspective on the historical roots of trauma and current struggles, and how to create spaces where deep listening can help us heal as communities
- How she has helped her family cope during the pandemic through deliberate choices about media engagement, use of rituals, engaging with nature, music, and movement
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Katherine King, PsyD
Katherine King, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and assistant professor of psychology at William James College. She was trained in evidence-based treatments within the Veterans’ Administration and has a private practice specializing in geropsychology. She is also a member of the Boston Shambhala Center Board of Directors, a vajrayana student of Buddhism, and has practiced meditation for over 20 years. Learn more about Kate at www.drkateking.com.
Alex Gokce, MSW
Alex Gokce, MSW has a master’s degree in social work from Salem State University and an undergraduate degree in Comparative Government from Harvard University. He has led psychotherapy groups on topics including mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and mind-body approaches to pain management. He has co-led programs at the Boston Shambhala Center on the topics of trauma and self-compassion. His personal and professional interests center around the individual, societal and intergenerational impacts of trauma, as well as the sociocultural roots of interpersonal harm.
Disclaimer: Please note that the information shared in this podcast is strictly for educational purposes only, and is not intended as psychological treatment or consultation of any kind.
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