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Cultivate Thriving and Resilience: Stay grounded in challenging times (Live Video conferencing or Self-paced)


  • 4312 Southeast Stark Street Portland, OR, 97215 United States (map)

Is this you?

You want to be able to stay present through challenges, both in your closest relationships and in our local and global community. You are ready to learn specific and concrete skills to help you stay grounded and maintain resilience, and consistently create conditions for thriving.

What is it all about?

A thriving and resilient life is an intentional life. Thriving means that you are able to be present with the needs of others and your own, and find flexible and creative strategies to care for them. Resilience rests on the capacity to access internal and external resources that allow you to maintain your center or quickly come back to center in the face of adversity.

When you care for  thriving and resilience, you can meet life’s challenges without being swept up in a roller coaster of reactivity.

Cultivating thriving and resilience means knowing the difference between what’s actually happening and your interpretations of it. It means learning to maintain equanimity through the ups and downs of life. It is the ability to process intense experiences with confidence. It includes effective self-care, gratitude practice, finding meaning, building community, and more.

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 eight week series, you will learn and practice the six skills of thriving and resilience. 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 that you choose in the exercises.

You will receive a detailed handout as a part of the workshop that you can download and keep for future reference.

Details

Trainer: LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

  • When: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm PST (7:30pm for GMT/UTC +0), April 27, May 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 15, 22; 2024

  • Where: Online Video Conference Course

  • Cost: $250.00 USD

Please contact us by email if you believe you would benefit from this course and payment is the only barrier - info@wiseheartpdx.org

Live attendance means:

  • Arriving on time to the workshop

  • Attending and participating for at least 6 of the 8 sessions

  • Access to the video recording for 8 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

Register

*** Registration closes 24 hours before the first session begins. ***

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