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The Vortex of Submission

Access this complete 9 session course Tired of the power struggles, just caving in, or giving up on the relationship? Join Jori and Jim in an explanation of how gratitude can enable you to remain more present moment to moment thus enabling you to flourish in your life! Whether at work, at home, or at play, the power dynamics of coercion and submitting to others can suck the joy right out of...
An Introduction to Self-Compassion

Access this complete 10 session course In this course recording, discover a new level of self-acceptance that can lead to profound emotional healing and a deeper spiritual presence. The heart of self-compassion is coming to an inner knowing of how we can regard ourselves with complete and total allowing. By relaxing the part of us that feels that we so desperately need to improve ourselves, we...
Navigating Conflict

Access this complete 6 session course Use Nonviolent Communication and mediation skills to transform conflict into connection. This course recording is ideal for anyone who wants to contribute to mutual co-operation and effectiveness with adults and children, in business or with family and friends. Lessons cover the essential elements needed to weave connection during conflict, including:...
Connecting When Worldviews Conflict

Access this complete 4 session course In this four session course recording, examine the ways in which people’s worldviews can be different and why this often creates conflict. John and Matt use a number of tools to support your learning, including mediation maps developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater and tools from Spiral Dynamics and the emerging field of integral studies. The following...
Parenting from Your Heart - Q&A

Please join us as we pause and remember the work and life of Inbal Kashtan, a beloved trainer, who died on Saturday, September 6, after seven years of living with ovarian cancer.As a way of honoring Inbal, we're offering her last training with us free to anyone. She offered this Q&A session in our 2013 Parenting Conference. At the time, Inbal was in the throes of her cancer treatments and it...
Transforming Limiting Beliefs About Sex Using Neurobiology

This is an opportunity to explore/transform a limiting belief you have about yourself using what science is discovering about neurobiology. A limiting belief is simply an idea or thought we have about ourselves/life that we or others have affirmed over and over again – these ideas usually get in the way of living life fully. Write out any limiting ideas you have about sex then pick one you’d...
4 Steps to Effective Feedback

Most of us like to see ourselves as empowered and direct—able to speak up and be honest about what matters to us. Yet many of us also have at least some times where we struggle to speak up or give feedback. We may censor what’s true for us - and, as a result, not get our needs met or lose trust and connection with others and ourselves. What gets in the way of speaking up? We'll explore the...
The Zero Step

Jori and Jim Manske offer a process they call "The Zero Step," encompassing the characteristics of warmth toward self and other, care for the vitality of both yourself and other(s), wonder/interest, vulnerability(scary honesty) and empathy, which leads directly to connection requests and an openness to outcome. This recording is from the Taste of Compassionate Leadership monthly...
Diving Deeper Into the Spiral of Life

Access this complete 6 session course Benefits of this course: Increase your capacity for self-compassion and unconditional self-acceptance Reclaim your passion for living authentically with compassion, creativity, love and clarity Strengthen your ability to be naturally open-hearted towards pain and mourning Learn to meet life with vulnerability and strength, together Deepen your spiritual...
Can Needs Be Harmful?

Please join me in a visualization. Take a minute to imagine that you are a baby panda bear. You live in a zoo in an enclosure designed to resemble the panda bear's natural habitat in the wild. Bamboo, the mainstay of your diet, is flown in regularly for you and your panda relatives to eat. You are a few days old and every care is being given to ensure that you thrive. You are not aware of the...