When loved ones or friends are feeling distress, it can be very difficult for us to experience. We may feel unable to hang in with our loved ones, especially when we're stretched thin during difficult times. We may try and quickly name and fix others' distress in order to manage our own anxiety at witnessing it. We may simply turn away or shut down…

In this episode of the Relational Play Podcast, explore what we call the Conflict Game, a powerful tool for helping even very young children better understand and navigate disagreements. Our little ones can begin early differentiating between discussions, debates, disagreements, arguments and fights. Dr. Saliha Bava and Mark Greene, authors of The …

Co-hosts Dr. Saliha Bava and Mark Greene discuss the complex issues for families that are sheltering in place and how our natural human capacities for resilience can be noticed and leveraged to help sustain us during times of crisis. Saliha and Mark share their own family's experience of sheltering in place for over a month at the time of this reco…

What role does language play in defining our emotions for us? What happens when a feeling (a physical response to what is said or seen) is named for us before we have fully had time to sit with it or understand it? If we name a child's feelings as anxiety, when we might instead name them as excitement, what gets created? How we name our own feeling…

Dr. Saliha Bava and Mark Greene are the authors of The Relational Book for Parenting. Each episode of the Relational Play Podcast will explore a single relational practice, idea, or game designed to grow our capacity to form healthy, authentic personal and professional relationships. Episode #1 explores listening with curiosity, which invites us to…