A conflict resolution Labyrinth walk? Yes of course! Shared a creative afternoon yesterday exploring why early communities (pre-religion) would have walked a labyrinth. A hot question on the minds of the participants as the day started and answered only after a guided and experiential journey of labyrinth patterns. An answer was not given in the traditional teaching way, but integrated through a personal exploration, in the safety of a group. An experience that started with strangers (disconnected from each other) and ended in a calm, centered, meaningful and grounded group connection. As the underlying intention was to answer this community question they had a growing realization of the power of walking this pattern before meetings. The purpose: to have the participants walk it together prior to the business meeting to reintegrate community and expand acceptance of each others differences through the pattern of movement. This is what I describe as Green Behavior and love the implications. Can you imagine different outcomes with exploring labyrinth walks for conflict resolution?
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A pattern of movement for conflict resolution process?
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Tagged #Labyirnth, Centering, Community, Conflict Resolution, Green Behavior, Grounding, Movement, Renee Lindstrom
Conscious Dialogue will change the world, one conversation at a time……
Fruition is appearing through those struggling through learning and as it pops up for those in my circle of learning – amazing connection of understanding and for me, gratification for contributing I am in the afterglow of three celebrations yesterday in three separate teaching moments that makes my heart sing! Each of the three completely different, couple, single, parent, yet all struggling with the pain of unconscious behaviour of their own and those around them. In the A-ha moments, the prior distress of waking up – gone! The one I would like to share is the feedback of one who recognized the value of getting ego out of the way to work mutually towards the good of the common goal! Wow, I have purposely not used the language of the dharma (ego) even tho having the recognition of these steps as the potential to actually create this experience. Going beyond our habit and learning how to be in a dialogue with understanding is amazing in my opinion!
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Tagged awareness, Community, Conscious Dialogue, Ego, getting InTouch, opinion
Is your learning style the same as your partners? your children? your bosses? Or are you aware that each of us has a different learning style?
Will you be surprised to read the learning styles follow our senses and abilities for reasoning and making sound? Did you know that we will have one primary characteristic combined with varying percentages of the others? Each of us different.
How then do we communicate to connect if we our base learning style is feeling/touch and our partner is logic? We would like to talk about our feelings and our partner would like to analyse them! Connection?, possibly not!
- Sight
- Sound
- Hearing
- Feeling/Touch
- Logic
I wonder then about taste! Is it time to begin considering this as a learning style? It is an unconscious form of teaching in our culture today yet not recognized.
Add to this our own balance of social and solitary preferences into our relationships with our partners, children and at work. If you are doing a group project and not feeling comfortable in your group do you experience growing feelings that you don’t belong? Could understanding that you prefer to work alone change your behavior and those around you? What if you like to socialize and your partner doesn’t? At the beginning of the relationship you may meet their needs for being alone thinking it is romantic and not simply a preference to meet their needs, not yours. Without recognizing this, it could be the pattern in your future together! How long before you would become resentful? I imagine it starts even before the heat of the romance come down a few temperatures!
Learning styles was included in this weeks (Oct 17) Parenting with Compassion workshop series and will be included in Introducing Language of Empathy, Think, Speak, Act Series starting October 20th.
Still time to register for both ~ @ James Bay Community Center – 250 – 389 – 1470
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Tagged Community, Connecting, Education - Learning Styles, Feeling, getting InTouch, Hearing, Logic, people, Personal Development, Relationships, Senses, Sight, Sound, Taste
Somos el barco by Pete Seeger
A fellow Victorian, Denis Donnelly, has suggested this song as one to bring to our local Hands Across the Sands gathering at Willows Beach, August 4th. Denis is Director of Soundings and Co-founder of Gettin Higher Choir.
A Stirring song!
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Yo navego en ti, tu navegas en mi
We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me
The stream sings it to the river, the river sings it to the sea
The sea sings it to the boat that carries you and me
Chorus
The boat we are sailing in was built by many hands
And the sea we are sailing on, it touches every land
Chorus
So with our hopes we set the sails
And face the winds once more
And with our hearts we chart the waters never sailed before
Chorus
The voyage has been long and hard, and yet we’re sailing still
With a song to help us pull togeter, if we only will
Chorus:
Somos el barco, somos el mar,
Yo navego en ti, tu navegas en mi
We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me
The stream sings it to the river, the river sings it to the sea
The sea sings it to the boat that carries you and me
Chorus
The boat we are sailing in was built by many hands
And the sea we are sailing on, it touches every land
Chorus
So with our hopes we set the sails
And face the winds once more
And with our hearts we chart the waters never sailed before
Chorus
The voyage has been long and hard, and yet we’re sailing still
With a song to help us pull togeter, if we only will
Review for SOMOS EL BARCO Lyrics
—— Performed by Peter, Paul & Mary
Inside Awareness Center for Integrative Somatic Learning 