Course Recordings Now Available!
Course Dates: August 23 - October 18, 2016
This course is over, but you can still purchase the session recordings and get the handouts!
Come. Let us journey together into our own authentic Life force:
the essential living energy that permeates all of our lives.
"There is a basic life current or impulse resonating in and through us as a yearning of the heart, this current and yearning manifests as human needs and values."
– R. Gonzales
"The essence of any expression, no matter how hard it is to hear, is actually life itself - life calling for life. When I experience this, not as a mental concept, but in a fully felt, bodily-relaxed stance - it is the living essence of nonviolence and of real compassion."
– R. Gonzales
Your journey will begin at the center: with the divine / life force, or soul force.
This fundamental life energy is the tender expression of your inner being, or soul. It unfolds through the heart as your deepest longings, which manifest themselves in all forms of human needs and values. When you live from the energies of compassion, creativity, love, and clarity – while remaining wholly grounded and aware of needs and values – then you are living your passion… You are living the Self-In-Life.
When you're unable to live in that rich fullness of your completely authentic essence, you suffer.
What you'll learn in this videoconference will increase your capacity for self-compassion and unconditional self-acceptance, even in the most trying circumstances. Your ability to come openly to your pain in the natural open-heartedness of mourning will be deepened and strengthened. Meeting life with full vulnerability will also become increasingly available to your innermost self as we explore mutuality via inner – and outer – relational space experiences.
Participants will experience:
- Augmented practices designed to help you retain connection to your authentic essence;
- Deepened capacity for self-acceptance and self-compassion;
- Practical tips for bringing greater compassion to your relationships;
- Increased capacity for vulnerability and mourning;
- Clarified sense of your own spirituality; and
- Enhanced sense of trusting your own place in life, as well as your purpose.
Finally, spirituality is your relationship to the divine / life force, where beauty is the central essence of your heart. Our practice time together will be comprised of integrating and living with both – and always from a place of wholeness.
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Purchase Course Recordings
$206.25
25% off original course fee of $275.00
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Dates & Times
August 23: 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific (California) Time 
August 30: 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific (California) Time September 20: 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific (California) Time September 27: 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific (California) Time October 11: 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific (California) Time October 18: 10:00am-12:00pm Pacific (California) Time What Happens After I Purchase Recordings?
When you register, you will receive an email with complete instructions on how to access the recordings.
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What Happens After I Purchase Recordings?
When you register, you will receive an email with complete instructions on how to access the recordings.
About Robert Gonzales
Robert's passion is in the spirituality of compassionate communication. He sees compassionate communication as a process that helps us connect authentically with ourselves and with others, and as both a spiritual practice and way of living.
Originally trained and licensed as a psychotherapist, Robert received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989, teaching psychology, counseling and communication at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona.
Robert met Marshall Rosenberg and Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in 1985, and has been offering NVC training in some form since 1986 at community colleges, high schools and churches – to social workers, psychologists, mediators, teenagers and public groups.
In June 2000, he established the Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication. Ten years later he relocated to Portland, Oregon and changed the organization's name to Center for Living Compassion.
Robert is past President of the board of directors for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. He is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication and a trainer at many NVC Intensive International Trainings. He is also a former assessor in North America for certifying NVC Trainers.