Live Offerings
Train Your Attention to Notice What Works: Appreciation - 8 Week Series
Two Saturdays each month, March 11-June 24, 10:00pm-12:00pm PST
Appreciation is a form of positive feedback that uses clear and specific terms to give attention to and keenly observe what is life-serving.
Be Yourself in Relationship: Healthy Differentiation - 8 Week Series
You want to trust that you will stay true to yourself in any relationship and you are ready to build a solid ground to stand on.
4 Cornerstones of Thriving in Relationships: An Introduction to Mindful Compassionate Dialogue - Offered through the framework of Gift Economy
You respect the complexity and subtlety of transformation and emotional-spiritual growth. You recognize that transformation and the integration of new skills requires both a shift in how you perceive and what you believe.
Responding to Overwhelm and Stress (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
In this six-week series, you will have the opportunity to learn and practice skills most useful for finding equanimity and groundedness in the face of stress on a personal and global scale.
Thursdays 6:30 - 8:00pm PST beginning June 9th, 2022
Transform Challenging Relationships: (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
Navigating interpersonal relationships in a way that is consistently fulfilling requires a subtle understanding, practical skills, and support. Join us to learn and integrate the consciousness and competencies that will support you.
Learn the basics: An introduction to Mindful Compassionate Dialogue (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This course will help you create healthy relationships and relate to yourself and others from authenticity and compassion.
Healthy Differentiation: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 12 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
When you have a strong sense of healthy differentiation, you can access a new sense of both autonomy and intimacy in your relationships.
Emotional Security: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 11 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You would like to take things less personally. You want to trust others more easily and take in their care for you.
Relationship Repair: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 10 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You want the confidence that any rupture in a relationship can be addressed and repaired.
8 Week Series: Empathic Listening (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This course series is designed for anyone wanting to meet others with compassion and empathy while staying grounded in yourself.
Support Your Clients With MCD: A Mentoring Group for Mental Health Therapists, Relationship Coaches and Spiritual Directors (Video Conferencing) - 8 Week Series
Learn a teachable system that helps assess and describe stuck places along with specific and concrete tools to get unstuck
Thriving & Resilience: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 9 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This course is for anyone who wants to live an intentional life that reflects your values and truly supports you.
MCD as a Clinical Map and Toolbox: An Introductory Workshop for Mental Health Therapists (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You trust the work you do with clients and you would like a clear way to map your work for both you and the client.
8 Week Series: Relationship Repair (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You want the confidence that any rupture in a relationship can be addressed and repaired.
Life-serving Boundaries: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 8 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You want to be generous and kind, yet find that you are giving yourself away. You are ready to get clear about how to say yes when you mean yes and no when you mean no.
Dating with Skill and Discernment (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You would like to learn and practice the consciousness and skills of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue in the context of dating.
Needs-based Negotiation: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 7 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
Learning needs-based negotiation will give you a sense of ease and creativity as you face the most difficult situations in life. You will be able to enter into challenging dialogues with a confidence that all needs can be honored.
Learn to Manage Reactivity: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 6 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
When you learn to manage reactivity effectively, a whole world of possibility opens up for you and your relationships. You find it is safe to be yourself in your relationships.
Learn to Recognize Reactivity: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 5 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
Recognizing reactivity means freedom. The moment you can recognize that reactivity has appeared, you can be free from its grip on you.
MCD as a Clinical Map and Toolbox: An Introductory Workshop for Mental Health Therapists
You trust the work you do with clients and you would like a clear way to map your work for both you and the client.
Practical Tools for Self-compassion: Self-empathy: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 4 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This course is for anyone who would like to cultivate a grounded sense of confidence using concrete tools.
8 Week Series: Offering Compassion with Healthy Boundaries (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You can set clear boundaries with a compassionate heart. Life-serving boundaries help you care for what's most important in a skillful way.
Learn to Speak from Authenticity and Self-Responsibility - Honest Expression: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 3 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This workshop is designed for anyone who wants better communication skills and to express themselves from a place of greater self-awareness and self-responsibility.
Empathic Listening - Empathy: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 2 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
As you learn and integrate the relationship competency of empathy, you will find that you are less likely to take things personally and more able to hear someone’s message regardless of the words they use.
Learn to Communicate What Works! Appreciation: Mindful Compassionate Dialogue Relationship Competency 1 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
Appreciation practice lays a foundation for collaborative and vibrant relationships. It supports the ability to meet challenges with skill and grace and contributes to resilience
How to Create a Thriving Relationship with Yourself and Others - Monthly Series for 2021 - Introduction to the 12 Relationship Competencies (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This yearlong program is for anyone wanting to live and relate to others with skill, compassion, and equanimity. You will learn practical communication skills and enjoy consistent support from workshop facilitators and a community of students. When you register for the yearlong program, you receive a 10% price discount as well as the opportunity to:
Ask course questions outside of class via email.
Build connections with a cohort group throughout the year.
Work with a study buddy throughout the year.
Healing Responses for Chronic Reactivity - 8 Week Series (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
This series is for anyone who has completed the Wise Heart series called “Transforming Chronic Reactivity” or completed professional training in character theory from the Hakomi framework.
Empathy and Life-serving Boundaries On December 3rd, 2020 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
In this workshop, you will be introduced to Life-serving boundaries and how they apply in the context of offering or receiving empathy.
10 Ways to Identify Your Needs On October 29, 2020 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
In this workshop, you will be introduced to 10 ways to identify and connect with universal needs. You will have the opportunity to deepen your understanding and build skill through experiential learning.
Family of Origin: Healing & Communicating Eight-Week Series Starting October 2, 2020 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)
You have been practicing Mindful Compassionate Dialogue or Nonviolent Communication long enough to know that it’s not easy to put into practice, especially with your family of origin. In this series, you will enter a safe space to learn and practice with challenges in these relationships.