E44| Co-Creation, Understanding, and the Unification of Psychology, with Gregg Henriques & Tim Adalin

How can we participate in movements of understanding? What is it to open frames and co-create together? What is the relationship between psychology and metaphysics?

And how can we gather together in this time, grounded in a unified sense of what the process of reality is, so that we might make choices that dignify the loving potentiality of our lives, lives to come, and life itself?

These are grand questions, and joining Tim for this dialogue is a man of profound learning and willing participation to share insight regarding some of the most important questions of our time.

Read more about Dr. Gregg Henriques below.

Conversation waypoints

1. What is going on, how do you make sense of life in this moment?
2. How the lens of clinical psychology and metaphysics informs Gregg’s intuitive sense of this moment and the impact on people’s lives
3. The hopefulness of a more coherent metaphysics in this time of kairos
4. Connecting the heart and mind in right relationship through diologos
5. Movements of understanding
6. Fragmentation
7. How do we invite participation in movements of understanding
8. The problem with present institutions
9. The importance of creating meta-cognitive awareness of this game that we’re playing
10. Self-knowledge and the awareness of frame-making
11. How can we create frames that dignify the participatory capacity of all?
12. Integrated pluralism – a metamodern principle as synthesis of modernism and postmodernism
13. Meta-cultural values
14. Dignity, Wellbeing, Integrity
15. Relating to our own dissonance
16. The problems of psychology
17. Assimilating the value of behaviourism and Skinner (the function of the operant) – the operant is the thing that the organism is operating on and the contingencies of that operation that it produces
18. Nervous system as an investment value system, behaviour systems as an energy economic system
19. Relational value and social influence
20. Transformation and informational interface between mediums
21. How levels of behavioural complexity interface
22. Integrating perspectives in the study of behaviour from the level of the nervous system up
23. Phenomenal consciousness and epistemic / ontological gaps
24. Relating back to the crises of our time and this time between worlds
25. The Tree of Knowledge as an unfolding wave of behavioural complexity
26. Joint points of transformation and the 5th joint point in the 21st century
27. A nod to meta-reality and the mystical
28. Where to from here
29. CALM – MO a framework for understanding psychological mindfulness

People mentioned

Jordan Hall, Nora Bateson, John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, Jordan Peterson, Kant, Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, Heidegger, Marshall McLuhan, E.O. Wilson, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Roy Bhaskar, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Aristotle, Yuval Noah Harari, Jean-Paul Sartre

Dr. Gregg Henriques is Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University in the Combined-Integrated Doctoral Program in Clinical and School Psychology.

Dr. Henriques received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Vermont and did his post-doctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Dr. Aaron T. Beck. Dr. Henriques’ primary area of scholarly interest is in developing a “unified framework” for both the science and practice of psychology.

Toward that end he has authored the book, A New Unified Theory of Psychology and developed a popular blog on Psychology Today, Theory of Knowledge, where he has authored over 350 essays on psychology, philosophy, politics, and mental health. He also launched and leads the Theory of Knowledge academic society.

He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, has won numerous awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, and published dozens of articles in leading academic journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, American Psychologist, and Review of General Psychology.

He teaches doctoral courses on psychotherapy integration, personality theory, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and engages in clinical supervision. He has expertise in theoretical psychology, unified approaches to psychotherapy, psychological well-being, personality functioning, depression, and suicidal behavior. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia.

Homepage: gregghenriques.com

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