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The Trauma Therapist

Episode 297: Zen & Healing Trauma. Joseph Bobrow

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Health & Fitness, Education, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.5581 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Bobrow is a Zen Roshi, psychoanalyst, and author, who has long been integrating Buddhist practice with depth psychology to create relational settings in which individual and collective anguish can be transformed. Most recently he developed reintegration retreats that helped thousands of veterans, their families, and their caregivers transform the traumas of war and find peace. Joseph and his team at Coming Home Project (http://www.cominghomeproject.net/), a service of Deep Streams Zen Institute (http://deepstreams.org/) dedicated to alleviating debilitating trauma, discovered a process called Turning Ghosts into Ancestors; published research (http://cominghomeproject.net/about#research) demonstrates how it facilitates post-traumatic growth. Coming Home Project now offers consultation and training to create optimal environments for healing, learning, and individual and social change. Joseph tells the story of his integrative work and its contemporary applications to building peace in Waking Up From War: A Better Way Home For Veterans And Nations (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1634310322/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wescoatrapro-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1634310322&linkId=cfcb357be51447a981a2d13d634f6af4), with a Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Joseph’s first book was Zen And Psychotherapy: Partners In Liberation (https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Psychotherapy-Liberation-Joseph-Bobrow/dp/039370579X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499452360&sr=1-1&keywords=Zen+And+Psychotherapy%3A+Partners+In+Liberation), with comments by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh. After Midnight: Selected Poems (https://fisherkingpress.com/n/product/after-midnight-selected-poems), Joseph’s first collection of poems, was published in February 2017 by Fisher King Press. Joseph lives in Los Angeles, CA. and teaches widely.

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Traumortherapist, episode 297.

1:37.0

Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast.

1:39.2

My name is Guy McPherson.

1:40.8

My mission is to raise awareness of trauma and to help support and inspire new trauma

1:45.3

workers through this podcast and my membership community Trauma Therapist 2.0. Thanks so much for

1:51.5

joining me today and here we go.

1:57.9

Alright folks, welcome back to the trauma therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson, and I am very excited and honor to have as my guest today, Joseph Bobrow. Joseph, welcome.

2:09.7

It's great to be with you, Guy.

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