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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This course will help you create healthy relationships and relate to yourself and others from authenticity and compassion.

When you have a strong sense of healthy differentiation, you can access a new sense of both autonomy and intimacy in your relationships.

You would like to take things less personally. You want to trust others more easily and take in their care for you.

You want the confidence that any rupture in a relationship can be addressed and repaired.

This course series is designed for anyone wanting to meet others with compassion and empathy while staying grounded in yourself.

Learn a teachable system that helps assess and describe stuck places along with specific and concrete tools to get unstuck

This course is for anyone who wants to live an intentional life that reflects your values and truly supports you.

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.

You want the confidence that any rupture in a relationship can be addressed and repaired.

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.

You would like to learn and practice the consciousness and skills of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue in the context of dating.

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.

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.

Recognizing reactivity means freedom. The moment you can recognize that reactivity has appeared, you can be free from its grip on you.

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.

This course is for anyone who would like to cultivate a grounded sense of confidence using concrete tools.

You can set clear boundaries with a compassionate heart. Life-serving boundaries help you care for what's most important in a skillful way.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In this workshop, you will be introduced to Life-serving boundaries and how they apply in the context of offering or receiving empathy.

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.

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.