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Living Compassion in Challenging Times

Access this complete 6 session course Self-compassion is essential for healing trauma and restoring your wholeness. It is also an antidote to reactivity and separation, allowing presence to emerge. In developing presence, you can become what the world needs most in these times of intensity and chaos. This work can strengthen your skills to be more fully in relationship with all that life offers...
Learning How to Listen

Listening is a cornerstone of dialogue and a powerful metaphor for spiritual practice. When we’re willing and able to listen, we open a conduit that allows connection and understanding to happen. Read this article This article was originally published on Oren's Website: https://www.orenjaysofer.com Keywords: listening intention presence defensiveness receptivity dialogue conversation...
Self-Empathy for Self-Evolution

Access this complete 6 session course Support for you in learning about: Becoming “Trigger Happy” (Happy for the healing and evolution empathy creates when we are triggered) Using Empathy to create the inner connection, from which flows the outer direction of your life Empathy beyond the empty, lacking, absence of unmet needs and into the powerful, passionate, presence of the desire! Empathy...
The Murky Waters of Asymmetric Relationships

Lately there has been, in our global trainers’ community, a conversation about how to deal with instances of trainers having sex with participants, at the trainings or immediately after. And many questions started to be presented into the field, some of them made me shook my head in puzzlement. One of the most typical questions I hear is: “Why singling out sex as something dirty, wrong, almost...
VIVENCIA

Access this complete 8 session course In this course recording, you'll learn to differentiate between cerebral empathy and intuitive empathic listening. Awaken your sensitivity towards body sensations and inner feelings to recognize the clear inner clues to your empathic connection. Key points covered in this course: How trying to feel and not to feel confuses the system. What is your Vivencia...
Rooms in the Same House

help you stay true to shared values such as mindfulness, compassion, nonviolence, acceptance and loving kindness. You will use the lens of each to help you find ways to stay in tune with your spirituality as you experience interactions with others and become aware of your own inner dialog. What You Can Expect: Easier and steadier access to presence, awareness and self-connection in relationships...
Can NVC Be Learned Without Learning Observation, Feeling, Need and Request?

learning Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR). The conversation naturally meanders as the trainers grapple with the question, eventually covering a wide-range of topics including the spirituality and true essence of NVC. Keywords: consciousness feelings needs observation requests intention Bridget Belgrave Jeff Brown Mary Mackenzie
The Unconquerable Virus Of Cult

Even groups and organizations with noblest visions can slide into cult-like swamps. The reasons that bring people together are irrelevant; whether it's politics, spirituality, activism, art… a hidden hierarchy, plus dominance and submission dynamic can sprout, and beliefs that “we, our leader, and our path is better than others, we have all the answers”. As a member it can be hard to see. Here...
What’s Important to You?

For me this exercise is most often the first activity in a beginning level workshop after the usual logistics/history/check-in. I experience it as wonderfully alive. It's also an opportunity for people to build connection with one another. It has worked well for a variety of different groups, whatever the age level, history or current life challenges. I usually use a flipchart or a whiteboard....
Speaking Classical Giraffe

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I have been practicing and integrating NVC into my life in a focused way for the past three years or so and have found the benefits of it truly transformative. At one point in my practice, it was brought to my attention that some people find the use of "formal NVC" off-putting, that it sounds phony, contrived, or mechanical. In asking a trainer about this, I was...