Practical skills for creating thriving relationships and opening a new way forward
Let’s come together and share a space of deep intention, co-regulation, learning and transformation.
Now more than ever, it is essential that we gather together to support each other in learning to live from authenticity and care.
This workshop is for you if:
You seek to live from a consciousness of care and connection
You want practical and specific skills to live your relationships with compassion and wisdom
You want to develop a ground of consciousness that naturally opens the door to a new way forward.
What are the consciousness and skills we will practice?
Connection to life is the ground of consciousness we will seek to cultivate. Connection, as we define here, includes a felt-sense of being in flow, which offers access to curiosity, creativity, compassion, kindness, and wise discernment.
Cultivation of this consciousness means developing the capacity to notice the quality of connection in various dimensions of experience as well as maintaining connection from the you that observes all of your experiences with warmth and acceptance - the compassionate witness.
Your body is the most reliable source of information about the quality of connection you are experiencing in a given moment. You will learn practices and skills to track contraction and expansion at subtle corporeal levels.
Tracking emotional connection also has its own nuanced practice. You will learn about emotions that are invariably linked to reactive thoughts and how to remain expansive in the face of any emotion. In addition, you will learn a basic emotional vocabulary that will support you in being present to what you feel without being swept away.
Tending to your energy is often a less familiar realm for most. You find that learning to sense and care for your energy can be done in surprisingly simple and powerful ways.
Your mind, thoughts, and words can also be supported to more consistently move toward connection. There are very specific habits of thought and speaking that when changed open up the doors to connection.
Two, important aspects of cultivating the consciousness of connection are, one, learning to recognize and manage reactivity; and two, learning to direct your resources consistently towards what is life-serving. We call this second set of practices Life-Serving Boundaries.
Here are some key skills for recognizing and managing reactivity:
Identify the signs of reactivity the moment it arises.
Acknowledge that the causes for reactivity are internal and name what that looks like for you
Identify your own “tender needs”* and potential healing experiences related to these needs.
Practice with regulation strategies an anchor
Shift to empathy or self-empathy the moment reactivity is identified
Here are some key skills for Life-Serving Boundaries*:
When saying “no” to someone’s request, identify the needs to which you are saying “yes”
Identify 3 types of useful boundaries
Identify current limiting beliefs that interfere with boundary setting and the expansive beliefs that will support boundary setting
Identify the signs and symptoms of behavior in yourself or others that don’t support boundaries
What to expect?
In this one-day workshop, 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 in the exercises.
About Mindful Compassionate Dialogue
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, mindfulness, and wisdom. Personal transformation is achieved through practice with the 12 Relationship Competencies and 9 Foundations, which arise from a central, life-serving intention.
Details
Trainers: Elia Paz
When: 10:00am - 5:00pm, November 8, 2025
Where: Rome, Italy
Contribution: $125.00 USD
Please email us at info@wiseheartcommunity.org if financial contribution is the only thing preventing you from joining us.
*You can read more about Life-Serving Boundaries in our new book: https://wiseheartcommunity.org/boundaries-book