Finding Peace

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.

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