ONLINE LEARNING
Relationships are messy! They're not for the faint-hearted and they require maturity and skillfulness in order to be healthy, nurturing and enduring.
This course delivers immediately practical communications skills over 3 zoom sessions. A link will be emailed to registrants a few days prior to the course along with handout materials. Sessions will be recorded and made available for a limited time to registrants. Prices are per person. If 2 people plan to share a screen, please register for 2 people.
THREE SATURDAYS:
May 7, 14, 21 | 10am - NOON (PDT zone)
Tuition: $150CDN per person (applicable taxes added at checkout )
Seats are non-refundable but transferable to another person
About the technology: This course requires full participation. Since the course revolves primarily around increasing our ability to communicate effectively, participants are asked to treat the session as they would a workshop space where everyone is seated in the room together. This means videos on so that we can see each other and generate a more cohesive sense of togetherness.
Main stream culture teaches us to see life primarily in terms of "resources". There are profound consequences to seeing life in this way, many of which accrue directly to our relationships. Most of us need to unlearn and retrain in order to overcome well established enculturation habits that tragically normalize alienating and "power over" ways of relating with each other.
In this course participants explore a revolutionary approach to speaking up, establishing rapport and resolving differences. Radically shift your experience of communication with this liberating, transformational and dynamic practice rooted in spiritual and emotional intelligence. Break through limiting thought and speech patterns established through social conditioning, and replace them with a powerful way of communicating that is deeply satisfying, life honouring and creatively liberating.
Come with an open mind so you can experience the power of life centred connection with those you love, those you don't love, and the living world that sustains you.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ..
be able to approach conflict and important conversations in a more open, grounded and confident manner?
develop a deeper understanding of interpersonal dynamics and what to track in your conversations?
increase your objectivity, sensitivity, authenticity, awareness and resourcefulness?
DO ANY OF THESE APPLY TO YOU?
You feel stuck in your life
You feel stuck in your primary relationship
Your kids won't listen to you
Your partner won't listen to you
You don't have the guts to speak up
You say things you regret
You feel resentful
You handle conflict poorly (freeze/fight/flight)
You feel anger/despair about the world
You're convinced something's missing but you're not sure what
You're disillusioned with life and/or relationships
You're disillusioned with healing, personal growth and self-help
You feel disempowered in your relationships or within the "system"
You're ready to deeply examine your communication
You want to become a more effective leader
You want to change the world (yep, still a noble pursuit)
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOT FOR YOU IF:
You're not open to deeply examining how you communicate
You're not willing to stretch your perspective and consider different ways of seeing
You're not willing to feel some discomfort as you replace old habits with new skills
TOPICS:
Alienating thinking and language (our cultural inheritance)
You don't need to be "healed" .. identifying the "trauma" of our times
Speaking with compelling honesty and moxy
Understanding the mechanics of defensiveness
When "safety" and "non-judgement" become a trap and a rap
Addressing interpersonal tension skillfully and constructively
Balancing clear intention/direction with openness and flexibility
Empathy that liberates versus empathy that stifles
Mourning and Gratitude as essential anchors
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This workshop is for all who speak. It is intended for anyone willing to do the work to significantly enhance and transform personal and professional relationships. It is intended for all possessed by a longing to learn how to speak their way towards a better day. It is for artists, dreamers, lovers, couples, creatives, educators, counsellors, leaders, managers, parents, mediators and those committed to personal and social change.
MY PROMISE TO YOU:
I will shake up your existing paradigm around communication (a good thing because the dominant paradigm generates problems for us)
I will challenge you to think waaaaaaay outside the box (key to making breakthroughs)
You will develop skills that you can implement straight away with immediate results
You will acquire a more clear-eyed way of seeing yourself, your relationships and the world than through the cultural lens that has informed you for most of your life
Your ability to think critically will be strengthened as will your capacity to respond compassionately
You'll have a much clearer understanding of the mechanics of conflict and learn to lean into it with sensitivity, ingenuity and creativity
You'll be moved to tears (in a good way)
You'll laugh (levity is good medicine)
YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Rachelle Lamb has worked in the field of interpersonal relating and conflict resolution for over two decades. She brings an earthy, practical yet innovative wisdom earned over decades of study and practice concentrated on Language, Relationships and Conflict through several diverse lenses: Cultural Anthropology, Spirituality, Nonviolent Communication℠, Mythology, Poetry, Storytelling, Deep Ecology and Social Activism. She is a speaker, writer, spiritual activist, certified NVC Trainer and ‘relationship whisperer’ and has shown thousands how to courageously and skillfully navigate interpersonal conflict and challenges, leading to profound breakthroughs.
"Engaging, dynamic, transformational, liberating … a must attend!"
"A workshop that truly speaks to the heart!! A wonderful opportunity for anyone who wants to explore an alternate way of being! An opportunity that speaks to our essence."
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Seating is limited for this venue. Early sign-up recommended.
To speak eloquently, directly and courageously when the stakes are high does not come naturally. It is a learned skill. And if you haven't learned it, which is close to guaranteed in a culture that doesn't teach it, you probably already know that when you need it most is precisely when it becomes painfully clear just how impoverished our culture is in this regard and that you have inherited this same poverty. And in a culture that prides itself on "progress" and "individualism", you can be sure that the stakes will be even higher when it comes to your relationships. The cost of alienation will likely be far greater than what your heart can bear.