Words That Come From Depths

Why do this work?

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• To create greater compassion, connection, openness, clarity, and authenticity in all of your human relationships, including those with colleagues, friends, family, and intimate partnerships. 

• To learn to clearly communicate your own needs, preferences, and boundaries in your relationships without anxiety. To cease suppressing these needs, which ultimately leads to resentment and isolation.  

• To learn to speak in ways that are kind, honest, and helpful.

• To understand those around you better by learning how to listen more deeply. 

• To learn to have difficult conversations with greater equanimity, presence, and effectiveness. And to learn to stay connected, even when you disagree. 

• To develop the skills of "small talk" and an understanding of how "small talk" can be an inroad to something deeper.

This course is for you if

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• You want to learn how to more effectively communicate and be heard, especially in difficult situations.

• You ruminate endlessly over what you want to say to someone, exactly how to say it, or what you might have said wrong to someone.

• You rarely share your true thoughts and feelings with people.

• You communicate indirectly, requiring others to interpret what you mean.

• You over-explain your needs or perspective to avoid being misunderstood.

• You often receive feedback that you aren't hearing what someone is saying. 

• You communicate passive aggressively because you're afraid to communicate your dissatisfactions directly.

• You can't stand small talk, and don't know how to engage with it as a path to more meaningful conversation.

• Setting boundaries doesn't feel graceful. The boundaries you set either feel like an iron wall or you don't set them at all.

• You want to be held in a positive learning space with kind, like-minded people in these unstable times.

• There's a relationship you want to improve with more effective, direct, and compassionate communication. (This course is extremely valuable for couples, siblings, adult children and their parents, and other family pairs to attend together.)

• You want to help mend the world through deeper understanding and conflict resolution skills. 

How this course works

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• We'll meet on a live Zoom call on Sundays July 12, 19, 26, August 02 and 09, from 9-10:30am PT. (Convert your time zone here.) The calls are recorded so it's no problem if you miss any of them.
  
  
• The teachings in this course will be given live via Zoom, with clear practices given each week to help you truly embody and understand the teachings. We'll do some live role-playing together and have fruitful group discussions to work through the fears and resistance you may feel about communicating from a more heartfelt, authentic place in ways that are appropriate for all settings.
  
  
• Our curriculum will be as follows:
  Week 01: A new way of looking at communication. And the inner work required to be a compassionate, authentic, and effective communicator.
  Week 02: How to listen to understand the other person more deeply. What to do when you feel defensive, angry, and hear the other person share misperceptions you want to correct. And the positive impacts this capacity has on the understanding and trust between two people.
  Week 03: Frameworks, specific tools, and language to help you communicate more deeply and authentically, especially when there is tension. Some time will be spent workshopping practical scenarios.
  Week 04: Additional practical tools and workshopping.
  Week 05: How to apply what you've learned to our suffering world, and the far-reaching benefits to yourself and others of communicating in the ways you've learned.