Is this you?
You understand that creating healthy relationships and relating to yourself and others from authenticity and compassion requires mindfulness and practical skills. You are willing to practice mindfulness and relationship skills in a safe environment that includes vulnerability and self-reflection. You are ready to transform and learn more in the following areas:
Making Requests: Empowered Communication Jan 10-Feb 28
Building Confidence and Managing Reactivity: practicing with anchors and cultivating emotional security, April 3 - May 22
Needs-based Negotiation: staying grounded in conflict and making effective agreements, July 10 - August 28
Family of Origin: addressing boundaries, differentiation, healing, and other essential issues with your family or origin, Oct. 2 - Nov. 20
What is it all about?
Mindful Compassionate Dialogue naturally supports you in learning and transformation by integrating the wisdom and skills of three powerful modalities: Hakomi, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and Mindfulness.
Hakomi offers clarity about reactivity and healing, NVC offers a means for self-responsibility, skillful communication, and agency, and Mindfulness allows you to cultivate the stable attention and the clear focus needed to continuously refine your ability to access wisdom and compassion.
Teaching and learning are experientially focused. LaShelle will introduce a concept and skill and then you will take time in a structured exercise in a small group or pair to practice and integrate what you are learning (if you attend the self-paced course it's helpful to have someone taking the course with you). You will learn using examples that you choose from your own life.
You will have an opportunity to be paired with an empathy buddy for practice outside class time.
Courses can be attended live or via receiving the recordings & materials. Live participants will not be shown on the video recordings, only LaShelle will be shown in the video recording. Group discussion is heard in the recording. In addition to class discussion in real-time, questions can be sent via email during the series. See more details below.
When registering for the year-long program you receive a 15% discount compared to registering for one series at a time.
FAQ
How long are the lessons available online?
These courses are hosted on a Learning Management System. You will have access to the recordings for eight weeks after the course ends.
Is the fee due all at one time or can payments be made?
The fee can be divided into payments.
Course List - An eight-week course is offered once every quarter on Fridays from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm U.S, pacific coast time. The four eight-week courses include:
Making Requests: Empowered Communication
Emotional Security & Healthy Differentiation: Practicing with anchors and cultivating a secure sense of self.
Needs-based Negotiation: Stay grounded in conflict and making effective agreements
Family of Origin: addressing boundaries, differentiation, healing, and other essential issues with your family or origin
What to expect:
You will enter into a safe and supportive environment to learn and practice. You will have the opportunity to come together with a group of others who share your values and commitment to growth. You will notice that when a whole group brings this clear intention and dedication, a synergistic field is created which makes it easier for you to do the work you want to do.
You will work with examples from your own life. This means you get to decide the level of vulnerability you will bring to each exercise. The exercises are structured so that you are challenging yourself and at the same time can maintain mindfulness and learning.
For each class, there will be an introduction to concepts and skills, practice time in structured exercises in pairs or small groups, and then whole group questions and discussion time.
Class size ranges from 8 - 14 students. Each class contains students completely new to Wise Heart and students that know each other and LaShelle from previous classes.
How it works:
For live attendance of each class, we will begin with five minutes of guided meditation. I will present a particular concept and skill. There will be an opportunity for questions or requests. Then you will practice the skill in a short structured exercise in either pairs or a small group or within the whole group. Students will be signing in from their own location in real-time, at the same time. Exercises can be modified to give you more or less challenge depending on your learning edge. You may also engage in role plays. There will be an opportunity for debrief and questions after each exercise.
We will be able to see and hear each other in little boxes on the screen. It's important to have a light in front of you not behind you. The video conferencing technology allows for breaking up into to pairs or small groups that I can visit and check-in with just as I would do in an in-person course.
It's okay to miss one or two classes in a series. You will receive a recording of the class and be asked to view it and do the corresponding exercises before the next class. Students won't be shown on the recording.
You can also opt to take the series only through the recording and participate in the discussion via the online format. I recommend you find someone to do the course exercises with if you are receiving the recording.
You will receive a detailed workbook as a part of the class that you will need to have with you for each class. This workbook is dense with information and also contains instructions for each experiential exercise.
Details:
Live attendance means:
Attending at least six of the eight classes.
Arriving on time to each class (2:00 p.m. PDT).
Attending and participating for the duration of the class (2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m., with a 10-minute break in the middle). It is very disruptive to come in and out of a single class session; please plan to attend by recording if you cannot stay for the full two hours of the class.
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 using the Zoom video conferencing system. Please ask to consult with one of the staff members at Wise Heart if you are unsure about this aspect of your attendance.
Logging in each week using the initial instructions and meeting ID # you received before the start of the course.
Optional participation in the weekly online discussion with all students enrolled in the course.
Self-paced attendance means:
As self-paced participants, you will receive an extensive workbook as well as access to the video recordings of each session within 24 hours of the end of the session (4:30 p.m. PDT).
You can ask to be assigned an empathy buddy to work with if you like.
Questions regarding the material, recordings, and practice each week will be answered by LaShelle via email correspondence. Please place the word QUESTION in all caps in the subject line so that we can track them and respond in a timely manner.
Optional participation in the weekly online discussion with all students enrolled in the course.
For more technical information about zoom, you can go here.
Trainer: LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Prerequisites: None
When: An eight-week course is offered once every quarter on Fridays from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm U.S, pacific coast time.
Making Requests: being empowered in communication (Jan. 10th to Feb. 28th)
Building Confidence and Managing Reactivity: practicing with anchors and cultivating emotional security (April 3rd to May 22nd)
Needs-based Negotiation: staying grounded in conflict and making effective agreements (July 10th to August 28th)
Family of Origin: addressing boundaries, differentiation, healing, and other essential issues with your family or origin (Oct. 2nd to Nov. 20th)
Where: Online Video Conference Course
Cost $850.00 (Participants can opt to pay a $250 deposit to register, and pay the remaining balance on or before the first day of the workshop, or in two, three, or four installments.)
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