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TOPIC’S IN PARENTING WITH COMPASSION AND EMPATHY ~ Nonviolence Literacy Series
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‘Unity is beyond…..
‘Unity is a space of unison beyond comparing into being with another’s experience at the level of humanity each of you values’ Renee Lindstrom
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Parenting with Empathy series notes:
New parenting series began yesterday p.m. in James Bay. In 2007 I organized 7 day live in retreat on the topic of getting intimate with living, speaking and sharing common values. Gregg Kendrick was one of the weeks 3 trainers and it was here he introduced me to the concept of being in the center of a relationship and balancing my personal needs to be more available to meet the other persons. This was a concept more advanced than the normal concept being introduced in 2007 of how to speak your values while hearing the other persons. This concept went into the unconscious structure of your position in the relationship!
This concept is one I have incorporated into having parents reflect the structure of their own family dynamics. As I suspected, a concept unfamiliar yet at evenings end the feedback was that of recognizing the benefits.
This will be a great workshop series as the parents have children from 3 to 28! This will meet my needs for learning, not unlike an awareness through movement lesson designed by Moshe Feldenkrais. His focus was on the person as an individual – no prescriptions of one fits all! This workshop is going to demand that each family be seen individually! This will be an interactive and reflective workshop, I can tell.
Still time to join if you feel inspired to check in and find out if the structure of your family dynamics is meeting yours, your partners and your children’s needs mutually. Catching up at the second part of the series isn’t too difficult and I will be there 20 minutes before next week to catch up some of those that came late last night and missed first part. Don’t hesitate to join and come early to find out what you missed! Click link for more info!
Parenting with Empathy series notes:
New parenting series began yesterday p.m. in James Bay. In 2007 I organized 7 day live in retreat on the topic of getting intimate with living, speaking and sharing common values. Gregg Kendrick was one of the weeks 3 trainers and it was here he introduced me to the concept of being in the center of a relationship and balancing my personal needs to be more available to meet the other persons. This was a concept more advanced than the normal concept being introduced in 2007 of how to speak your values while hearing the other persons. This concept went into the unconscious structure of your position in the relationship!
This concept is one I have incorporated into having parents reflect the structure of their own family dynamics. As I suspected, a concept unfamiliar yet at evenings end the feedback was that of recognizing the benefits.
This will be a great workshop series as the parents have children from 3 to 28! This will meet my needs for learning, not unlike an awareness through movement lesson designed by Moshe Feldenkrais. His focus was on the person as an individual – no prescriptions of one fits all! This workshop is going to demand that each family be seen individually! This will be an interactive and reflective workshop, I can tell.
Still time to join if you feel inspired to check in and find out if the structure of your family dynamics is meeting yours, your partners and your children’s needs mutually. Catching up at the second part of the series isn’t too difficult and I will be there 20 minutes before next week to catch up some of those that came late last night and missed first part. Don’t hesitate to join and come early to find out what you missed! Click link for more info!
Empty Mind in Action ~ Growing Relationships
Chogum Trungpa Rinpoche, originally from Tibet, taught North Americans a structure to experience mindfulness in meditation. A structure to occupy the mind and body with focus of attention in a particular way to encourage the mind to slow down to have freedom from thought driven action.
The structure in meditation is particular. You enter into a room with reverence, sit on a cushion that has a mat between it and floor. You have a choice of sitting in two or three positions. When you sit you notice your thoughts and practice labeling them, “thinking.” You follow your breath outwards counting for cycles of 10 breathes. As you sit you notice when your thoughts wander off and then as soon as you notice this you simply bring yourself back to the pattern of breathing and observing your breath. Your eyes are aimed 6 feet in front of you down towards the floor and an you begin to sense the environment. Sitting begins at a cycle of 20 minutes, walking mediation for 10 and back to sitting for 20 minutes. For a retreat the 20 minutes stretches into longer periods of time. The purpose is to begin to have an experience of empty space between the thoughts. An experience quite unlike a mind driven experience.
Sharing Awareness through Communication workshops based on world recognized models for communicating and development, a dawning realization is for the need of a similar structure. Chogyam was sharing that the mind needs attention and a structured system of focusing it to participate, not dominate. Our series of classes has evolved into realizing this same need for structure with a purpose of giving the mind space between thoughts and allowing it room for participating, not dominating. This then deepens the quality. Therefore it isn’t the quantity of thoughts and filling up the silence that matters, it’s the quality that becomes recognizable. Therefore a growing mindfulness can come from learning while developing a lite quality of curiosity in studying one’s own behavior.
A recent comment, “When I hold onto the thoughts in my mind that want to jump out and only share back what I am hearing from my friend, my friend shares more. I am getting to know more about this person and I thought I already knew everything about them. They are also speaking from a deeper place.”
Learning opportunities to discover for yourself how to improve your relationships with clarity and developing mindfulness, western style, are available. For more explore the classes listed, inquire about presentations, workshops and coaching. There are organized group classes, classes designed with your needs in mind, online classes and private sessions for coaching and improving your relationships.
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The Influence of Posture
A great video on expressions of power and dominance
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 