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Do you want to transform judgment and live more compassionately?
Expand
your emotional intelligence by understanding what really motivates
people. You’ll learn new ways to foster awareness, deepen your
connections, and respond empathically, even when you are triggered.
Heighten your awareness of feelings and needs, so you can instantly
recognize people’s needs in every moment. Discover new ways to be
present and connect to your core aliveness, so that you speak from the
heart. This workshop is based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg, author
of Nonviolent Communication.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Gandhi
You’ll learn to take the lead in your relationships, using the LEAD model:
Love –
Connecting with life-giving forces; Holding unconditional positive
regard; Expanding trust, openness, vulnerability; Enjoying radiance,
magnificence, individuality; Embracing openheartedness and curiosity;
Appreciating uniqueness, gifts, talents, creativity, resourcefulness.
Empathy
– Listening with full compassion; Reflecting range of feelings and
emotions; Honoring needs and values; Connecting energetically; Engaging
heart, soul and spirit; Creating space for authentic expression;
Embracing polarities and desire for wholeness; Connecting with what
matters most.
Awareness
– Reading body language, voice, affect, non-verbals; Riding the waves
of energy; Resonating with aliveness, life force, power; Tapping
intuition, inner knowing, multiple sources of wisdom; Staying with what
is present, here and now; Engaging fully with the process; Awakening to
whatever is evolving.
Desire
– Exploring natural openings; Paying attention to shift, insights,
movement; Recognizing full range of choices in every moment; Creating
from state of expansion, resourcefulness and prosperity; Listening for
emergence and transformation; Generating spaciousness for growth,
development and evolution: Making requests
- Stay self connected during challenging conversations
- Attune to life-giving forces and create strategies that work for everyone
- Distinguish between observations and evaluations; feelings and thoughts; needs and strategies; requests and demands
- Choose from four ways of listening, translating habitual reactions into the language of compassion
- Create closer relationships by transforming judgment and blame into mutual understanding
- Use the empathy labyrinth to foster self awareness and heal old wounds
