10 Ways to Identify Your Needs On October 29, 2020 (Video Conferencing or Self-Paced)

Thursday, October 29, 2020
6:00 PM 8:00 PM

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Is this for you?

You have started learning Mindful Compassionate Dialogue or Nonviolent Communication and realize that it can be challenging to identify universal needs.You would like to be able to identify your needs and offer empathy for the needs of others with more ease and confidence. You would like to have a better understanding of universal needs.

What's it all about?

Mindful Compassionate Dialogue 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.

Hakomi offers clarity about reactivity and healing, NVC offers a means for self-responsibility, skillful communication, and agency, and Mindfulness adds the stable attention and the clear focus needed to continuously refine your understanding and skills.

MCD is a system meant to provide access to agency, compassion, and wisdom through transformation and practice with 12 Relationship Competencies, nine foundations, and the intention to connect.

Overview

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 skills through experiential learning.

Specifically the exercises will focus on your relationship to needs. Everyone has the same needs that arise and fall relative to a given situation. One person doesn’t have more of a particular need than another person. What changes from person to person is the ability to meet a need in a consistent way and an individual’s relationship to a particular need.

When you have an accepting and confident relationship with a need, you likely experience ease in having it fulfilled. When you believe some needs are invalid or are difficult to meet, you likely experience chronic depletion around that need, thus it seems like you have more of it or are more “needy.”

You will have an opportunity to examine your relationship to needs as well as how identifying met needs can serve to deepen connection and fulfillment and provide access to empowerment.

What to expect:

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 will apply examples that you choose from your own life in each exercise.

Wise Heart has many dedicated students. Any given class series will be a mix of students who are new to Wise Heart and students who know the trainers and each other from previous courses.

Understanding the online format

Students will be signing in from their own location in real time, at the same time. We will be able to see and hear each other in little boxes on the screen. 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 I can visit and check in with just as I would do 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.

You can also opt to take the series only through the recording.

You will receive a detailed handout as a part of the workshop.

Details:

Live attendance means:

Arriving on time to the workshop (6:00 p.m. PDT).

Attending and participating for the duration of the class (6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., with a 5-minute break in the middle). It is very disruptive to come in and out of the workshop; please plan to attend by recording if you cannot stay for the full two hours of the workshop.

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).