
MINDFUL RELATING AND COMMUNICATION
What this course offers:
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Works towards understanding and transforming our patterns of communication and expression
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Assists in breaking through unhealthy patterns of venting and teaches us how to powerfully express our needs
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Allows us to understand and transform harmful ways or relating
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Creates the space for us to get truthful about the kind of relationship we really want
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Nurtures compassion in relationships
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Enables people to deepen their relationship with themselves and others
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Strengthens one's ability to create common ground and alliance
For more information and or to register please call Natalie at 99.488091 or book online. For the dates and times of each class please see our calendar.
MINDFUL RELATING AND COMMUNICATION - COURSE SESSION BY SESSION
PART A- MINDFUL RELATING
Session 1: What is relationship? Being mindful in relationships and the cause of suffering in relationships
Session 2: Our state of relationships
Session 3: Being true about relationships
Session 4: Being straight about the level at which we relate
Session 5: Our response to failure in relationships
Session 6: Taking full responsibility for and in our relationships - Part A
Session 7: Taking full responsibility for and in our relationships - Part B
Session 8: Discovering our 5 primary motives
Session 9: Our 5 primary motives in relationship with our primary fears
Session 10: Dealing with our in-authentic fears
Session 11: Our 5 primary motives in relationship with our true values
Session 12: Creating Compassion/ Taking responsibility for however we are listened to
Session 13: Being integral and aligned/ Connecting to our truth
Session 14: Discovering our unwillingness to be intimate - Part A (Healing the Past)
Session 15: Discovering our unwillingness to be intimate - Part B (Our protective pretenses)
Session 16: Discovering our unwillingness to be intimate - Part C (You, I, It Should)
Session 17: Creating Intimacy
Session 18: What is love?
Session 19: Creating Happiness Vs. Pleasure
Session 20: Creating Freedom in Relationships (Setting Boundaries)
Session 21: Creating Romance
Session 22: Expanding our view of Self
Session 23: What is it all for?
PART B- MINDFUL COMMUNICATION
Session 1: Introduction/ What does it mean to communicate mindfully
Session 2: Developing the capacity to pause/ Discovering the motivation behind our speaking
Session 3: Identifying ours and others' needs
Session 4: Automatic ways of harmful speaking/ How we use words that imply blame
Session 5: Listening to needs/ Speaking from needs
Session 6: Creating Empathy towards others
Session 7: Why we resits being Empathetic in relationships/ Unconcealing our perceived threats
Session 8: Recreating in Conversations
Session 9: Leading the dance of Conversation
Session 10: Knowing when to lead and when to follow - Part A
Session 11: Knowing when to lead and when to follow - Part B
Session 12: Are we really Communicating?
Session 13: Authentic Vs. Inauthentic Feelings
Session 14: Unconcealing our fundamental, automatic, underlying concern
Session 15: Observing vs evaluating and judging
Session 16: Distinguishing requests from demands. Communicating requests
Session 17: Making Agreements
Session 18: Transforming complaints/ Committed evaluations
Session 19: Transcending our automatic reaction to hearing a 'No'
Session 20: Dealing with Anger - Creating Compassion
Session 21: Dealing with Challenging communications