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
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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.
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MINDFUL RELATING AND COMMUNICATION - COURSE SESSION BY SESSION
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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?
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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