Is this you?
You are dedicated to living an authentic life with compassion for yourself and others, and you want the practical skills to create better relationships. You know you want more tools to manage reactivity, listen deeply, ask for what you need, and negotiate with others. You are willing to practice mindfulness and relationship skills in a safe environment that includes vulnerability and self-reflection.
This yearlong program is for anyone wanting to live and relate to others with skill, compassion, and equanimity. You will learn practical communication skills and enjoy consistent support from workshop facilitators and a community of students. When you register for the yearlong program, you receive a 10% price discount as well as the opportunity to:
Ask course questions outside of class via email.
Build connections with a cohort group throughout the year.
Work with a study buddy throughout the year.
What is it all about?
Mindful Compassionate Dialogue (MCD) naturally supports you in creating the relationships you want by integrating the wisdom and skills of three powerful modalities: Hakomi, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and mindfulness.
Each modality contributes something unique to the process. Hakomi offers clarity about reactivity and healing. NVC provides a method for achieving self-responsibility, skillful communication, and agency. And mindfulness adds the stable attention and clear focus needed to continuously refine your understanding and skills.
MCD is a system meant to provide access to agency, compassion, and wisdom. Personal transformation is achieved through practice with the 12 Relationship Competencies and Nine Foundations, which arise from a central, life-serving intention.
This yearlong series will include one 90 minute workshop per month, working with each of the 12 Relationship Competencies of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue in order. Every workshop will occur on the last Thursday of the month (with the exception of November) from 11:30am to 1:00pm Pacific Standard time in 2021. You can also register for each workshop individually. Click on the hyperlink for the name of that workshop to do so. They are scheduled as follows:
Appreciation - January 28
Empathy - February 25
Honest Expression - March 25
Self-Empathy - April 29
Recognizing Reactivity - May 27
Managing Reactivity - June 24
Needs-based Negotiation - July 29
Life-serving Boundaries - August 26
Thriving & Resilience - September 30
Relationship Repair - October 28
Emotional Security - November 18
Healthy Differentiation - December 30
What to expect:
You will engage in conceptual learning, group discussion, experiential learning, and skills practice. Practice exercises will be done individually, in pairs, and in small groups. You can apply examples from your own life that you choose in the exercises.
You will have the opportunity to be paired with an empathy buddy for practice outside of class time.
Understanding the Online Format:
Students will be signing in to the workshop simultaneously in real time from their own locations, using Zoom. We will be able to see and hear each other. For visibility, it’s important to have a light in front of you, not behind you. The technology allows for breaking up into pairs or small groups, which the trainers can visit and check in with just as would happen in an in-person course.
You will be able to review a recording of the workshop for a full week after it ends. Students won’t be shown on the recording, but can be heard. You can participate in discussions via chat if you don’t want your voice recorded. Courses may be sold later as a pre-recorded course.
You can also opt to take the series only through the recording.
Asking for a study buddy to do exercises with is especially recommended for this option.
You will receive a detailed handout as a part of the workshop.
Details:
Live attendance means:
Arriving on time to the workshop (11:30am, the last Thursday of the month PDT).
Attending and participating for the duration of the class (11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m., with a 5-minute break in the middle). It is very disruptive to come in and out of the workshop; please plan to attend by recording if you cannot stay for the full two hours of the workshop.
Access to the video recording for a full week following the workshop.
Receiving a detailed handout
The opportunity to be assigned an study buddy
Consistent access to internet speeds and connectivity that support video conferencing (600kbps/1.2Mbps (up/down) for HQ video; 1.5Mbps/1.5Mbps (up/down) for gallery view).
Facility with using the Zoom video conferencing system. For more technical information about zoom, you can go here.
Self-paced attendance means:
Access to the video recording for a full week following the workshop.
Receiving a detailed handout
The opportunity to be assigned an study buddy
Trainers: LaShelle Lowe-Chardé , assisted by Jean McElhaney
When: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (GMT-8, PST), (7:30pm for GMT/UTC +0), the last Thursday of the month (Except November)
Where: Online Video Conference Course
Cost $238.00
Register:
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