Ken Silvestri
@ksilvestri46.bsky.social
Systemic Psychotherapist, black belt in Aikido, Certified homeopath, interested in creating a wider lens through communication that is ecological www.drkennethsilvestri.com
Here is my current Autumn Psychology Today Blog that I want to share with you, that is my sense of the importance of "noticing."
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Noticing What Appears to be Hidden in Your Life
"Noticing" is recognizing that nothing is hidden in our subconscious. Yet, much is unseen and emerges when we go beyond our everyday "looking."
www.psychologytoday.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Here is my current Autumn Psychology Today Blog that I want to share with you, that is my sense of the importance of "noticing."
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
My recent Substack post on "Where is your Individuality?"
Give it a read, comments and dialogue welcomed,🙏
Give it a read, comments and dialogue welcomed,🙏
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My recent Substack post on "Where is your Individuality?"
Give it a read, comments and dialogue welcomed,🙏
Give it a read, comments and dialogue welcomed,🙏
Unfortunately, recent surveys have indicated a drastic increase in fear. It is vital to acknowledge that we are wired for relationships and are inherently interconnected. We need to celebrate and advocate our interdendency.
My new Psychology Today Blog
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
My new Psychology Today Blog
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Reframing Fear, Embracing Empowerment
Our nervous system is crucial and has served our species well. The problem, however, is that the nervous system is autonomic and can remain stuck in a state of fear and stress.
www.psychologytoday.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Unfortunately, recent surveys have indicated a drastic increase in fear. It is vital to acknowledge that we are wired for relationships and are inherently interconnected. We need to celebrate and advocate our interdendency.
My new Psychology Today Blog
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
My new Psychology Today Blog
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Reposted by Ken Silvestri
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
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My thoughts (still!) on why it's supposed to be Congress and not a president who makes these decisions...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105954...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105954...
Drift by Rachel Maddow: 9780307460998 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My thoughts (still!) on why it's supposed to be Congress and not a president who makes these decisions...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105954...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/105954...
Reposted by Ken Silvestri
Reposted by Ken Silvestri
How to Sustain Happiness | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
How to Sustain Happiness
Celebrating our interdependency as a source for happiness
www.psychologytoday.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
How to Sustain Happiness | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
How to Sustain and Improve Empathy | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
How to Sustain and Improve Empathy
There is little disagreement that empathy has a positive effect on us; however, is it used enough and consistently?
www.psychologytoday.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
How to Sustain and Improve Empathy | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Empathy supports the parasympathetic calm part of our Nervous System and enhances the vagus nerve, the nerve that monitors security and compassion. There is little disagreement that empathy has a positive effect on us; however, is it used enough and consistently?
June 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Empathy supports the parasympathetic calm part of our Nervous System and enhances the vagus nerve, the nerve that monitors security and compassion. There is little disagreement that empathy has a positive effect on us; however, is it used enough and consistently?
It is what those who blindly follow Trump need to understand:
"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
Nelson Mandela
"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
Nelson Mandela
April 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It is what those who blindly follow Trump need to understand:
"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
Nelson Mandela
"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
Nelson Mandela
James Baldwin’s timeless reminder is that “the poets… are finally the only people who know the truth about us.”
April 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
James Baldwin’s timeless reminder is that “the poets… are finally the only people who know the truth about us.”
We are constantly evolving and learning to learn. That is where poetry shines. It speaks from the heart, goes beyond the confines of acceptable grammar, and gives credence to being open to new possibilities.
April 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We are constantly evolving and learning to learn. That is where poetry shines. It speaks from the heart, goes beyond the confines of acceptable grammar, and gives credence to being open to new possibilities.
Reposted by Ken Silvestri
The paradox of joy (which is our moral obligation in a world rife with reasons for despair), lensed through a Nick Cave song and a Lisel Mueller poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/09/05/j...
April 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The paradox of joy (which is our moral obligation in a world rife with reasons for despair), lensed through a Nick Cave song and a Lisel Mueller poem www.themarginalian.org/2024/09/05/j...
Responding with aggression only ends in a feeling of despair, a dangerous consequence leading to health problems on many interpersonal levels as well as sabotaging your nervous system. Assertively hissing, on the other hand, allows for relational possibilities that can produce mutual learning...
March 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Responding with aggression only ends in a feeling of despair, a dangerous consequence leading to health problems on many interpersonal levels as well as sabotaging your nervous system. Assertively hissing, on the other hand, allows for relational possibilities that can produce mutual learning...
It is a time to create a collaborative voice to make a difference that is a difference to imposed polarization. We need a collective intimacy, of synchronized relationships that will be contagious and flourish supporting our interdependency and so on...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
How to Cope with Social Polarization
These are challenging times with much at stake. Social anxiety is at its highest level in years. The question is how to diminish polarization's barrage and psychological consequences.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It is a time to create a collaborative voice to make a difference that is a difference to imposed polarization. We need a collective intimacy, of synchronized relationships that will be contagious and flourish supporting our interdependency and so on...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Expanding our relationships offers a sustainable path to a more extensive definition of mutuality and interdependence through understanding that much is hidden but not unspoken.
Here is my current blog on Expanding Our Relationships:
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/a-...
Here is my current blog on Expanding Our Relationships:
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/a-...
How to Expand Our Relationships
Expanding our relationships offers a sustainable path to a more extensive definition of mutuality and interdependence through understanding that much is hidden but not unspoken.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Expanding our relationships offers a sustainable path to a more extensive definition of mutuality and interdependence through understanding that much is hidden but not unspoken.
Here is my current blog on Expanding Our Relationships:
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/a-...
Here is my current blog on Expanding Our Relationships:
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/a-...
Dear Friends,
I was honored to read my poem yesterday "Every Sunday" at the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in historical Paterson , NJ amongst many incredible poets.
Thank you as always to Maria Mazziotti Gillan , Editor of the Paterson Literally Review
youtube.com/shorts/S1Xgo...
I was honored to read my poem yesterday "Every Sunday" at the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in historical Paterson , NJ amongst many incredible poets.
Thank you as always to Maria Mazziotti Gillan , Editor of the Paterson Literally Review
youtube.com/shorts/S1Xgo...
February 1, 2025 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
YouTube video by Kenneth Silvestri
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February 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Dear Friends,
I was honored to read my poem yesterday "Every Sunday" at the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in historical Paterson , NJ amongst many incredible poets.
Thank you as always to Maria Mazziotti Gillan , Editor of the Paterson Literally Review
youtube.com/shorts/S1Xgo...
I was honored to read my poem yesterday "Every Sunday" at the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards in historical Paterson , NJ amongst many incredible poets.
Thank you as always to Maria Mazziotti Gillan , Editor of the Paterson Literally Review
youtube.com/shorts/S1Xgo...
Reposted by Ken Silvestri
An antidote to helplessness and disorientation from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
“Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
An antidote to helplessness and disorientation from the great humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm
Reposted by Ken Silvestri
"The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be."
David Byrne's illustrated history of the possible future
David Byrne's illustrated history of the possible future
David Byrne’s Illustrated History of the Possible Future
“The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"The way things were, the way we made things, it turns out, none of it was inevitable — none of it is the way things have to be."
David Byrne's illustrated history of the possible future
David Byrne's illustrated history of the possible future
Dear Friends,
Having been trained in cultural anthropology to look at how change comes about, I have “learned to learn” how to help recognize the tipping point or readiness to make a difference I. Relationships..
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Having been trained in cultural anthropology to look at how change comes about, I have “learned to learn” how to help recognize the tipping point or readiness to make a difference I. Relationships..
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
What It Takes to Sustain Significant Relationships
It takes two to know one and knowing ourselves is an expression of all that is between us.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Dear Friends,
Having been trained in cultural anthropology to look at how change comes about, I have “learned to learn” how to help recognize the tipping point or readiness to make a difference I. Relationships..
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Having been trained in cultural anthropology to look at how change comes about, I have “learned to learn” how to help recognize the tipping point or readiness to make a difference I. Relationships..
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-wi...
Dear Friends,
As we strive to move beyond polarization, consider what we can learn from Aikido, the martial art of harmony which can be attained by weathering opposing views.
As we strive to move beyond polarization, consider what we can learn from Aikido, the martial art of harmony which can be attained by weathering opposing views.
January 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Dear Friends,
As we strive to move beyond polarization, consider what we can learn from Aikido, the martial art of harmony which can be attained by weathering opposing views.
As we strive to move beyond polarization, consider what we can learn from Aikido, the martial art of harmony which can be attained by weathering opposing views.