Is this you?
You have been practicing Mindful Compassionate Dialogue and engaged in Wise Heart offerings long enough to know that it’s not easy to put into practice. You value the consciousness, principles, and skills and would like to trust that you can reliably communicate in accordance with them. You are especially interested in how to bring this consciousness and set of skills to relationships in your family of origin.
You want to be able to manage reactivity in yourself and meet it in others while staying grounded. You are ready to reflect on relationship dynamics in your family of origin. You want to learn and practice the consciousness and skills that will help you create connection, set boundaries, and relate from healthy differentiation.
You recognize that engaging in transformation and skill building in the context of your family of origin is often the most challenging personal work you will do. It requires vulnerability and the ability to be present with discomfort, hurt, grief, and challenges to your sense of self. You trust that the group structure we offer and your own resources will allow you to meet these challenges in our class series.
What's it all about?
Mindful Compassionate Dialogue 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.
Hakomi offers clarity about reactivity and healing, NVC offers a means for self-responsibility, skillful communication, and agency, and Mindfulness adds the stable attention and the clear focus needed to continuously refine your understanding and skills.
MCD is a system meant to provide access to agency, compassion, and wisdom through transformation and practice with 12 Relationship Competencies, nine foundations, and the intention to connect.
As we dive into being with you and your experiences with your family of origin, we will integrate your understanding of how these competencies and foundations play out in that context. Specifically, we will organize our reflection and practice around these four themes that tend to be central to these relationships:
Differentiation and Intimacy
Setting Life-serving Boundaries
Anger and Forgiveness
Grief and Acceptance
What to expect:
You will interact with other students who are grounded in the values of mindfulness and compassion and bring a strong intention for growth and transformation. 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 will apply examples that you choose from your own life in each exercise.
Wise Heart has many dedicated students. In any given class series there will be a mix of students who are new to Wise Heart and students who know LaShelle and each other from previous courses.
Understanding the online format
Students who opt in for the live video conferencing will be signing in from their own location in real time, at the same time. We will be able to see and hear each other in little boxes on the screen. The technology allows for breaking up into pairs or small groups, which LaShelle can visit and check in with just as an in-person course.
It's okay to miss one or two classes in a series. You will receive a recording of the class and be asked to view it and do the corresponding exercises before the next class. Students won't be shown on the recording, but can be heard. If you want to ask questions or make comments that are not recorded you can use the chat function.
You can also opt to take the series only through the recording and to participate in discussion via the online format. This is called self-paced.
With the online format you can participate in a weekly discussion with all students. I recommend that you find someone to do the course exercises with if you are receiving the recording.You will receive a detailed workbook as a part of the class, which you will need to have with you for each class. This workbook is packed with information and contains instructions for each experiential exercise.
Details:
Live attendance means:
Prerequisite for attending live via video conferencing: you have significant experience with attending workshops for personal growth and have attended at least two Wise Heart courses.
Attending at least six of the eight classes.
Arriving on time to each class.
Attending and participating for the duration of the class. It is very disruptive to come in and out of a single class session; please plan to attend by recording if you cannot stay for the full two hours of the class.
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. Please ask to consult with one of the staff members at Wise Heart if you are unsure about this aspect of your attendance.
Logging in each week using the initial instructions, meeting ID, and password you received before the start of the course.
Optional participation in the weekly online discussion with all students enrolled in the course.
You agree to have your voice recorded or use the chat if you do not want this.
You understand that this course might be sold as pre-recorded course in the future.
Self-paced attendance means:
As self-paced participants, you will receive an extensive workbook as well as access to the video recordings of each session within 24 hours of the end of the session.
You can ask to be assigned a study buddy to work with if you like.
Questions regarding the material, recordings, and practice each week will be answered by LaShelle via email correspondence. Please place the word QUESTION in all caps in the subject line so that we can track them and respond in a timely manner.
Optional participation in the weekly online discussion with all students enrolled in the course.
For more technical information about zoom, you can go here.
Trainer: LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Prerequisite for attending live via video conferencing: you have devoted at least two years of consistent study and practice to Mindful Compassionate Dialogue or Nonviolent Communication (NVC). If you do not meet this pre-requisite, you may attend via self-paced.
When: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. PDT, eight consecutive weekly meetings from October 2 - November 20, 2020
Where: Online Video Conference Course
Cost $260.00 (Participants can opt to pay a $99 deposit to register, and pay the remaining balance on or before the first day of the workshop.)
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