William Pullen is a psychotherapist and lives in London and developed a specific type of psychotherapy which is a fusion of running and psychotherapy.

I connected with William after seeing his TEDx talk earlier this year and wanted to learn more about how this can help you get more than 1% Better.

Using Integrative Psychotherapy, William aims to facilitate wholeness between the feeling, behavioural, cognitive, and physiological levels of functioning – in other words the whole person. This is done in part through looking at aspects of the self that you may be unaware of and making them conscious.

A full summary of our broad ranging conversation includes:
•William hitting a low point in his career working in TV and Advertising
•Feeling disconnected in this world that was superficial
•The Fast life style was too much and it led to a meltdown
•Depression and sitting at home turning 40!
•Starting out running and taking incremental movement
•Ambitions early in life – always wanting to work with young people
•A nicer kinder William and a more aggressive ego driven William
•Sport and the ability to move is hotwired into people for healing
•Trigger points leading to the meltdown – the warning signs were there!
•A toxic relationship forcing many changes of shape and form!
•Love and the struggle that comes with it!
•The cultural change and how it’s impacted love!
•The survivor mentality and learning how to look after yourself
•The goal and driving force to the lifestyle
•Managing to control urges and using running
•Creating a running therapy program
•Empathy Runs emerging from couple counselling training
•The Empathy Muscle – making space for someone else’s opinion
•Agreeing to share the stage of life with others is at the heart of Empathy
•Relationship Counselling and learning how to create a dialogue to escape the tit for tat game
•Active listening & Empathy

How to do an Empathy Run?
•Find someone you trust and like
•Arrange to meet
•Decide who goes first & who listens
•At the end the listener repeats back what they heard!
•Giving someone the freedom to talk about whatever they want to talk about!
•And swap roles
•Running helps you get into a narrative flow
•There is no sense that you are trying to resolve something – it’s never the job of the listener to solve or resolve things!
•There are no expectations – that’s key!
•The importance of pausing – 0.4 seconds is the normal gap!
•How to develop the pause – and the challenge of doing it!
•Practicing the Pause!
•Feedback on Empathy Runs!
•Writing a Book – the story about this!
•Approaching Penguin and a program combined with this
•Living a more authentic life and writing a book about this – being uncomfortable about authenticity as writing about it!
•Authenticity & Authentometer!!

Book – Run for Live – https://amzn.to/2FzJEts

Book – DRT - https://amzn.to/2X2k770

TEDx Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq6393AreD4
Website – http://dynamicrunningtherapy.co.uk/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/williampullen/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/pullentherapy