Introduction to Mindful Compassionate Dialogue - 4 Week Series
Learn the basics of empathy, managing reactivity, and expressing yourself in a way that’s clear and authentic. Have new experience of what it means to truly engage with others in equity and fairness. This course was recorded in 2020.
10 Ways to Identify Your Needs - 90min Workshop
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.
Attachment Theory & Relationship Skills - 8 Week Series
This series will help you understand how the psychological system of attachment impacts your relationships and how you can take action to cultivate relationship skills that build emotional security in personal relationships.
Bringing Light to Shame - 4 Week Series
You are ready to gain confidence that you can work with shame when it comes up for you. You want to learn practical tools for moving through shame to the vulnerable feelings underneath and then identify and take action on your needs.
Bringing Light to Shame - 8 Week Series
You know shame sometimes lurks around in the dark corners of your consciousness and you are ready to shine a light there. In this series you will learn to bring shame fully into the light of consciousness and build a compassionate and skillful relationship to it.
Chronic Reactivity I: Introduction to Reactive Patterns - 8 Week Series
You value conscious compassionate relationships yet find yourself getting caught in your own reactive patterns and those of others. You want freedom and healing around past pain that comes up and gets projected onto the present. You would like to unhook yourself and stand up for for what you value and need.
Chronic Reactivity I (2020): Introduction to Reactive Patterns - 8 Week Series
You value conscious compassionate relationships yet find yourself getting caught in your own reactive patterns and those of others. You want to understand and find freedom past pain that comes up and gets projected onto the present.
Chronic Reactivity II: Integrating Reactive Patterns - 6 Week Series
We will be diving into more practice with these patterns of reactivity and studying them through various experiential exercises and role plays. This course is intended to help you feel confident that you can recognize each pattern.
Empathic Listening - 8 Week Series
This series will give you an opportunity to learn to listen from the heart. You will learn to connect to another's experience without losing yourself.
Empathy and Life-Serving Boundaries - 90min Workshop
In this workshop, you will be introduced to Life-serving boundaries and how they apply in the context of offering or receiving empathy.
Life-Serving Boundaries - 4 Week Series
Setting boundaries is about being firmly grounded what works for you. It means making conscious decisions about how you will relate to another or behave in a particular situation.
Life Serving Boundaries - 8 Week Series
Learning to set boundaries with yourself and others helps you create a life that is balanced and nourishing. Learn what Life Serving Boundaries are from the framework of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue.
Making Requests: Empowered Communication - 8 Week Series
You understand that living from authenticity and compassion requires mindfulness as well as practical skills. You are willing to practice mindfulness and relationship skills in a safe environment that includes vulnerability and self-reflection. You are ready for support in making specific and doable requests of yourself and others and entering into Needs-based negotiation.
MCD Relationship Competency 1 : Appreciation - Learn to Communicate What Works! - 90min Workshop
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.
MCD Relationship Competency 2 : Empathy - Empathic Listening - 90min Workshop
This workshop is designed for anyone wanting to meet others with compassion and empathy while maintaining life-serving boundaries.
MCD Relationship Competency 3 : Honest Expression - Learn to Speak from Authenticity and Self-Responsibility - 90min Workshop
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.
Needs-Based Negotiation: Staying Grounded In Conflict And Making Effective Agreements - 8 Week Series
Do you want confidence that you can engage in successful negotiation with others while staying connected to your own needs and respecting another's needs? Join us for this eight-week pre-recorded online series.
Practicing with Anger - 8 Week Series
Meeting anger—in yourself and in others—is an essential skill. If you are ready to learn more about anger and how to relate to it, join us for this pre-recorded series.
Self-Empathy: Living from a Kind and Centered Place in Yourself - 8 Week Series
You might find it easier to be more compassionate with others than with yourself. You can even name other's needs before identifying your own. You would like to make peace with your inner critics and be able consider your own needs as much as do those of others. This course is for anyone who would like to live from a centered and confident place.
Transforming Reactivity I - 4 Week Series
Learn specific and concrete tools for managing reactivity in yourself and meeting reactivity in others. Begin to transform your inner dialogue to one of inner clarity and self-compassion.