Is this you?
You are dedicated to living an authentic life, cultivating compassion for yourself and others, and building the practical skills to create better relationships. You know you want more tools to manage reactivity, listen deeply, ask for what you need, and negotiate with others. You are willing to practice mindfulness and relationship skills in a safe environment that includes vulnerability and self-reflection.
You have already been practicing mindfulness, MCD, and other skills to cultivate groundedness, life-serving boundaries, and care in your relationships. You are ready to look at the foundations that support you in accessing your skills and maintaining your center in the face of a challenge.
What is it all about?
This course will focus on the 9 Foundations of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue.
The 9 Foundations (attunement, warmth, security, awareness, health, regulation, equanimity, clarity, and concentration) are the key to working with obstacles to learning and transformation. Cultivating the 9 Foundations allows you to access skills when you need them most and count on them as your natural response. They are the foundation of your well-being; core parts of every person's emotional, psychological, and physical experience. They are places that any therapist, spiritual director, or naturopath would look to help you heal, transform, and grow. When cultivated and strengthened, the 9 Foundations support a resilient and confident sense of self and allow you to move forward and master the 12 Relationship Competencies.
About Mindful Compassionate Dialogue
Mindful Compassionate Dialogue (MCD) naturally supports you in creating the relationships you want by integrating the wisdom and skills of three powerful modalities: Hakomi, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and mindfulness.
Each modality contributes something unique to the process. Hakomi offers clarity about reactivity and healing. NVC provides a method for achieving self-responsibility, skillful communication, and agency. And mindfulness adds the stable attention and clear focus needed to continuously refine your understanding and skills.
MCD is a system meant to provide access to agency, compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom. Personal transformation is achieved through practice with the 12 Relationship Competencies and 9 Foundations, which arise from a central, life-serving intention.
What to expect
In this nine week series, we will address a unique foundation. You will engage in conceptual learning, group discussion, experiential learning, and skills practice. Practice exercises will be done individually, in pairs, and in small groups. You can apply examples from your own life in the exercises.
Understanding the online format
Students will be signing in to the workshop simultaneously in real time from their own locations, using Zoom. We will be able to see and hear each other. For visibility, it’s important to have a light in front of you, not behind you. The technology allows for breaking up into pairs or small groups, which the trainers can check in with just as would happen in an in-person course.
You will be able to review a recording of the workshop for a full week after it ends. Students won't be shown on the recording, but can be heard. You can participate in discussions via chat if you don’t want your voice recorded. This course may be sold later as a pre-recorded course.
You can also opt to take the series only through the recording
Having someone in your life available to do the exercises with you is recommended for this option.
You will receive a detailed handout as a part of the workshop that you can download and keep for future reference.
Details
Live attendance means:
Arriving on time to the workshop
Attending and participating for at least 7 of the 9 sessions
Access to the video recording for 9 weeks following the workshop
Receiving a detailed handout that you can download and keep for later reference.
The opportunity to be assigned a study buddy
Ensuring you have consistent access to internet speeds and connectivity that support video conferencing (600kbps/1.2Mbps (up/down) for HQ video; 1.5Mbps/1.5Mbps (up/down) for gallery view)
Facility with using the Zoom video conferencing system. For more technical information about zoom, you can go here.
Self-paced attendance means:
Access to the video recording for eight weeks following the series
Receiving a detailed handout that you can download and keep for later reference
The opportunity to be assigned a study buddy
Trainer: LaShelle Lowe-Chardé assisted by Violaine Felten de Arredondo
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm PDT&PST (UTC/GMT - 8), September 2, 9, 16, 30, October 7, 14, 21, November 11, 18
Where: Online Video Conference Course
Cost $270.00 USD - Please contact us by email if you believe you would benefit from this course and payment is the only barrier - info@wiseheartpdx.org
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*** Registration closes 24 hours before the first session begins. ***