by mathew.mediterra | Thesis
For the sake of my friends, colleagues, and clients who have asked me to share my thesis I am publishing a series of articles as a summary, written in a more reader-friendly way, and will include content I was grieved to not have been able to fit in given the word...
by mathew.mediterra | Relationships
Let’s imagine two people (a couple perhaps) in a relationship. They have had a negative experience with each other recently, one that could be called a conflict, which revealed that they have a big difference between them in how they have interpreted and...
by mathew.mediterra | Learning
Some months ago I was leading a training with coaches on the skill-mastery process where I was discussing the critical role that success and failure have in the learning process with particular emphasis on the value of examining moments of failure. During that...
by mathew.mediterra | Self Regulation
I was listening to Deb Dana on Episode 100 of the AAMFT Podcast explain how we can apply Polyvagal Theory to the way we improve our relationships with ourselves and with others. At around minute 12:00 Deb says: The nervous system is at the heart of every lived...
by mathew.mediterra | Relationships
One of my clients brought up the topic of vulnerability and trust between people at work. He described how he felt pressured by his superior to be more vulnerable in the confrontation than the other was willing to be. As I processed our conversation later, I had some...
