Learner Experiences
“More than anything, what using the model highlights for me, is that when I go back to my old patterns, I now see how destructive and hurtful they are...I can see the costs for myself and my partner. Now I sometimes take the opportunity to hear the feelings and needs behind what my partner is saying. Since I’ve had some success using the model with my partner, I definately feel encouragement to continue learning and practicing it.”,
—Araya Hansen, Life Coach, Sun Dance Life Coaching
Level
I Basic Compassionate Communication Course
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Brief
Description
An 8 week experiential course designed for individuals
and couples who want to transform their communication skills. Participants
will learn to speak in a way that fosters a deeper connection with
themselves and others. Out of that deeper connection, a space is
created for both people’s needs to be met.
This Course is highly interactive and is directly applicable to
relationship challenges encountered in daily life. It includes
interactive group sessions, private coaching, and experiential
exercises. This Course does not require a partner to attend to
be effective. The Course is designed so you can apply it to your
partner relationship or any other life situations or circumstances
where communication is pivotal. People who take the Course have
improved relationships in these areas of their life:
- Spouse
(partner or romantic relationships)
- Parents
- Children
- Friends & Siblings
- Business
Associates and Co workers
- Internally
With One’s Self
- Spiritual
Connections
Course Benefits
When you think about it, there is not a conflict that
doesn’t
have communication as part of the reason or solution for
the problem. Realizing this can be a huge
wake up call for the need to learn to communicate in a life-serving,
honest, yet compassionate way.
Specifically This Course will help you:
- Cultivate
more respectful, empowering connections with yourself and
others
- Transform
judgment and criticism into understanding and connection
- Improved
sense of emotional and physical intimacy with your partner
- Listen
in a way so others are really heard
- Get
what you want more often without using demands, guilt or
shame
- Hear
the needs behind whatever anyone does or says
- Move
beyond power struggles to cooperation and trust
- Create
a quality of connection that embodies unconditional love
- Improved
your confidence in your own assertiveness by using non-
confrontational communication
that is clear, non-blaming
and expressed straight from
the heart
Course
Content You'll
Learn:
- typical
ways we all respond to others that block compassion and connect
with how you might do this unconsciously or out
of habit.
- to
distinguish between a pure observation from an observation
loaded with evaluations. This means you
can tell people
exactly what was
upsetting you without making
judgments. Judgments tend to cause disconnection and
defensiveness and a breakdown in communication.
- to
differentiate between feelings, thoughts and interpretations
and build your
feeling vocabulary so you can connect
with what you are feeling
and
what the
other person is feeling.
- to
look deeper and connect with your own needs/wants and the other
person’s
needs/wants. A need-based connection gives both a
greater chance of getting them met in a mutually satisfying
way.
- to
make requests of the other that are specific, connecting
and compassionate.
- to
give empathy to others and learn to hear the real messages
under the judgments and evaluations.
- to
deal compassionately with anger: both express your anger
compassionately and to hear the needs
under your
the other’s
anger.
- to
translate dream-killing language like “I should” or “I
have to” into empowering language
of choice.
- to
express and hear gratitude: translating
positive judgments into clear expressions
of gratitude that
can fuel the relationship
for
a lifetime.
Course Structure and Cost
-
A
group will come together over an 8 week period once a week
for 2 hours.
In
these group sessions,
people will
get first hand
experience
learning
and using
the model before they
apply it in their daily life.
-
Each
participant will receive a workbook
that includes many
experiential exercises to do outside
the group
work. This helps
you apply the
knowledge and skills
to your life.
-
Group
members will partner with other class members to
practice a minimum 1 hour a week.
-
Three
30 minute private coaching sessions
will be scheduled
to answer
questions, to address
your concerns
that
might be
of a private nature.
This allows
the course to even further fit your own unique
challenges.
- All
this for only $275.
Registration We are limiting the group size.
It will be on first come first serve basis. Don't put it off, reserve
your spot now. You can download and fill out
an online Register
Form.