Help for Overwhelm
Article
3-5 minutes
11/2019
Reducing overwhelm requires you to reconnect with your authentic choice, be present and compassionate with what's happening, heal trauma, and interrupt the trauma response. Read on for ways that may help you reconnect with your choice, presence and more on trauma.
Empathy vs. Investigation
Article
4-6 minutes
12/2018
To tell the difference between empathy and investigation, watch for distinctions along four different dimensions: energy, subject, intention and trust. These distinctions can help us engage awareness and skill to meet your needs and respond to others’ needs in more direct ways. The more you meet your needs in conscious and direct ways, the more present you can be for others. Read on for more about how to do this.
Keeping Our Perspective
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes
02/13/2022
Trainer Tip: We all want to be valued in our totality, to be loved even when we make mistakes. Wouldn’t we also like to offer this to ourselves? Compassion is about seeing the humanness in everyone, including ourselves. One way to express compassion is to remember your entire relationship and history of love with someone as a whole, rather than focusing on one disappointing incident.
The Power of Authenticity + Care
Article
9 - 13 minutes
04/2019
When we're on the receiving end of pain-stimulating assumptions, a microaggression, or prejudice --when we're reactive and resultingly have self-doubt, guilt or shame in ourselves-- is it possible to be intensely authentic while holding care for everyone in the situation? Can we effectively do this even as a third party witnesses to these things? Self-empathy, empathy, and a commitment to authenticity have become essential tools I need to keep sharpened in my toolbox if I am to show up and do the work I value in this world.
Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has “No” for an Answer
Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has “No” for an Answer
Parenting Series: When Your Child Only Has “No” for an Answer
Video
8 minutes
2005
In this video download, expert parent trainer and author of Parenting From Your Heart, Inbal Kashtan responds to the age-old question: "Why do children do things to annoy parents?"
Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness
Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness
Self-Connection Exercise for Well Being and Interconnectedness
Audio
6 minutes
11/03/2010
Jim leads a self-connection exercise focused on how our lives are interwoven with people we love, acquaintances, people unknown to us, and even those who have come before us or will come after us.
Choice vs. Submission Or Rebellion
Trainer Tip
1 -2 minutes
1/29/2022
Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (8 Session Course)
Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (8 Session Course)
Cooperating with the Life Principle: Living the Heart of Life Unfolding (8 Session Course)
Video
6 hours
11/19/2014
If you're interested in learning specifically how and what you can do to live compassionately – with plenty of hands-on practice time – this course is for you. Observe actual demonstrations of Robert guiding participants through the transformational territory of healing and integration.
Daily Self-Empathy Practice
Audio
11 minutes
11/2/2016
Want to expand your needs vocabulary, and build your capacity to identify needs — even when you’ve been triggered? Check out Mary’s powerful teaching on Self-Empathy.
W.A.I.T: Practices For Presence And Patience
Practice Exercise
2 - 3 minutes
02/01/2022