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VIRTUAL – LONGING TO BE A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF IN RELATIONSHIPS

Sundays, January 13 – March 17,  2013 ~ 10:30 am to noon

Join Renee for a 10 Week Virtual Series designed as a  personal challenge for exploring how to become a better version of yourself in relationships.  Move beyond the pain and loneliness of disconnection.  Enjoy extraordinary connections and learn skills to stop experiencing guilt, resentment, obligation or trying to prove yourself.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Part one ~ Getting Started:
  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Relationships  – Types of Connecting
  • Types of Perception (Past, Present, Future)
  • Feelings and Emotional  Literacy
  • Taking responsibility for feelings
  • Culture of Needs

Part two

  • Enriching life and your relationships
  • Expressing honestly
  • Listening with Empathy
  • Self – Empathy
  • Empathy for Others

Part three

  • Empathy, Relationships and Behaviour
  • Staying connected in Conflict
  • Putting it together
  • Moving forward
  • Appreciation & Celebration
Includes course outline and reminders emailed in advance of course dates, practice suggestions for  in between classes and an on-line forum for discussion among participants and putting in questions for upcoming week.

10 Week Series – $200.00

REGISTRATION HERE 

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The value of choice is one of human’s greatest needs

Life Area:  Autonomy

It is this need that could be the source of all moralistic judgments and passive and aggressive violence.  If there is no choice, the options are to fight or give in.  Imagine a moment what feelings arise for you when you consider not having a choice.  Do you sense a fight, flight or fright moment? Learning self-empathy steps and those for empathetic listening of others will shift those in the conversation into an experience of choice.

Practice your empathy skills this week. 

Visions worthy of our attention for shifting focus towards Global Unity

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Poster supporting Global Visions created by Renee Lindstrom to feature and bring awareness to creating global change that begins with personal awareness.

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Embodiment of Abundance ~ Awareness in Thinking

Definition of Abundance: an extremely  plentiful over-sufficient quantity or supply, overflowing fullness, affluence; wealth.  Abundance is the noun of Abundant.

Embodiment of Abundance Consciousness:

  • Life is abundant
  • There is more than enough to go around.
  • I can have what I need and so can others.

Behavior of Abundance Consciousness:

  • Mutuality
  • Equal balance of giving and receiving,
  • Exclusivity of all regardless of age, rage, rank, male or female

How do you embody the qualities of Abundance?

Motivation:  Begin by considering your longing to live in a state of  abundance consciousness.  Connect to your original motivator to choose a shift towards abundant thinking.  What was the attraction?

Success:  If you have thought that by setting an intention for abundance with expectations of receiving it,  reflect on the success you have had of drawing abundance into your life and keeping it.

Integration:  Now consider how you have integrated the qualities of abundance into your experiences and relationships.  Has it been through ritual of writing out affirmations, gatherings for creating abundance visions or simply making statements to self and others.

We are hearing that we are what we think we are.  Simply replacing the story isn’t as easy as we would like it to be.  Thinking we are now going to be living a life of abundance doesn’t replace our earlier thoughts that we have learned since childhood, it simply adds more story.  It is the stories we have learned since childhood that we are habitually acting from.

The self reflection then becomes,  are you connecting and creating the same beauty in your relationships as what motivated you to set an intention to live as though life was abundant.  How are you and others  around you enjoying this world?

Some tips for checking in follow:

  • Thinking ~ Do your mind thoughts and their sentence structure  reflect abundance consciousness?
  • Behavior ~ Do you speak in sentences of abundance consciousness?
  • Action Beyond Self Image ~ Do you understand the relationship between thinking abundance and behaving abundance? (Behaving abundance in this sense it not    empathy of prayer, mediation and gathering together for a cause, it is about those praying, gathering and mediating and their ability to spontaneously  identify and shift their personal  judgement, blaming and demands in the moment while in every day one on one interactions.)

If you are interested in how to become more articulate in creating a shift of consciousness into an abundant one that starts with how to speak it to create the brain shift Renee offers personal coaching, private and organized group lessons.  Imagine if your partner, peers, employers/ees spoke from a place of abundance mentality.  Once of the greatest values that would be demonstrated would be respect for others and self!

Post by Renee Lindstrom, for Inside Awareness for Healthy Living October 30th, 2012

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‘Positions within relationships and the field you create ‘

I introduced a concept at yesterdays *workshop to bring awareness to the positions each of us hold in our  relationships.  Have you taken time to consider the unique individual  position you and yours have  and how these positions are separate and overlap to those around you?  After introducing this I led the participants through some awareness exercises to directly experience being in the center of their universe while in their conversations.  These exercises follow a  pattern  for both the speaker and listener to experience  and stay in the center of their universe.

In these dialogue exercises a field was created that was their direct experience and  felt by those around them.   Think about the following Rumi’s quote and consider,  if you are still in judgement thinking  of right and wrong what the field is that you are creating in your relationships.  What is your direct experience and that of others as they connect with you or share in the field around you?

 “Out beyond right doing and wrong doing there is a field, I will meet you there. ” 

*These workshops are designed with the intention  to  share how to turn disconnection into connection and to bring personal  awareness to how  ones personal communication habits impacts direct experiences.  For more information on how to take part go to link.

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!