Is this you?
You want to become intimately familiar with the experience of cultivating a thriving relationship. You want better communication skills and more fulfilling relationships. You are ready to learn four key concepts and practices.
You are dedicated to living an authentic life with compassion for yourself and others. You understand that creating healthy relationships and relating to yourself and others from authenticity and compassion requires mindfulness and practical skills. You are ready and willing to practice mindfulness and concrete skills in a safe environment that includes vulnerability and self-reflection.
You respect the complexity and subtlety of transformation and emotional-spiritual growth. You recognize that transformation and the integration of new skills requires both a shift in how you perceive and what you believe.
You would like to live with a solid confidence that you can navigate relationships with yourself, others, and something greater in a way that serves life and keeps you connected to love, wisdom and compassion.
What to expect?
In this four week series, 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.
The course will be divided into four weeks relative to the four fruits of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue: Mindful Engagement, Compassionate Relating, Access to Agency, and Wise Action. Below are a few questions we will address for each:
Mindful Engagement: Week 1
What does it really mean to be mindfully engaging with life?
How can you cultivate mindfulness?
What’s most important to be mindful of when cultivating healthy relationships?
How does spontaneity fit in with mindfulness?
How does mindful engagement prevent escalation of reactivity?
How does mindful engagement help with conflict resolution?
Compassionate Relating: Week 2
What is compassion?
How can you prevent compassion fatigue?
How do you practice self-compassion?
How can you maintain compassion and still set life-serving boundaries?
Access to Agency: Week 3
How is agency different from choice and empowerment?
How does agency depend on societal systems and how does this affect your relationships?
How can you be yourself in every relationship?
How can you maintain your autonomy while considering the needs of others?
How can you negotiate mutually beneficial decisions while maintaining your agency?
Wise Action: Week 4
What is wisdom and how do you know you are acting from it?
What helps you discern whether a decision is coming from habits, unconscious conditioning, reactivity or wisdom?
What concrete strategies help you access wisdom?
How can you support and respect the wisdom of others?
What are some basic practices in relationships that support wise decision making?
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
Trainer: Elia Paz Lowe-Chardé
When: 10:00am-12:00pm PDT Saturdays, September 21 / October 5 & 19 / November 2
Where: Live Video Conferencing or Self-Paced
Contribution: $195.00
Please contact us by email if you believe you would benefit from this course and payment is the only barrier to attending - info@wiseheartpdx.org. You can read more about how we operate with gratitude economy here.