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Stages of Emotional Maturity

Trainer Tip • 1 - 2 minutes
Beginner Skill level
Trainer Tip
1 - 2 minutes

Trainer Tip: Here are four Stages of Emotional Maturity, also known as Stages of Emotional Liberation. Be aware of what stage of emotional maturity you are in today. And, celebrate it.


How do you deal with triggers as a facilitator?

Video • 3 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Video
3 minutes

When a participant disagrees, corrects you, or offers a suggestion for improvement, how do you respond? As a facilitator, you need to make decisions in the moment of what you will choose to respond to and what you choose to let go of. In this video, Mary offers her insight into how she chooses to respond in these situations. 


Healing And Dissolving Chronic Anger

Practice Exercise • 4 - 6 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Practice Exercise
4 - 6 minutes

It can seem like anger protects you. But it's your ability to name your needs, honor your range of feelings, and act on your needs that keeps you healthy and safe. When you remain present for an emotion and allow it to flow, it'll last just over a minute and dissolve, making room for the next layer of experience. Practice noticing any anger you have, without resistance. Set up self-empathy or space be heard empathically.


Working With Perceptions Of Abandonment

Practice Exercise • 3 - 5 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Practice Exercise
3 - 5 minutes

When you hear yourself saying that you are being abandoned, turn toward your experience with compassion and curiosity. Check in with your interpretations, feelings, and needs. Reach out for support. This can help dissolve feelings of reactivity and allow perspective. You are then able to make requests of yourself about what you’d like to do differently in the future to honor for your needs when making a choice.


Boundaries For Healthy Differentiation

Practice Exercise • 6-9 minutes
All Skill Levels
Practice Exercise
6-9 minutes

Differentiation means you can access both autonomy and intimacy in relationships. When you're unafraid to lose yourself or be controlled, you can feel deeply connected and affected, while standing strong in yourself. Differentiation also means ability to tolerate disharmony and differences, self-soothe, offer compassion, and set boundaries. Here, we'll focus on setting boundaries with monitoring eye contact and physical interaction, and interrupt our "helping".


Functional Empathy that Supports Connection and Efficiency

Video • 1 min

Video
1 min

Have you ever been in a meeting where the agenda is full and someone gets triggered? Did you get stuck in an empathy spiral and a never ending meeting? Roxy Manning shares the difference between healing empathy functional empathy.


Helping With Difficult Emotions

Practice Exercise • 3 - 5 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Practice Exercise
3 - 5 minutes

If you want to support someone in distress offer a menu of ways you can contribute. Often a person in distress can’t articulate what they need but can recognize it when they hear it. Move fluidly among these 11 options to offer what’s truly helpful, rather than offering something out habit or based on what you think they should have. Remember that you can ask, “Is this helpful?” to support collaboration.


Becoming Regenerative

Trainer Tip • 3-4 minutes
All Skill Levels
Trainer Tip
3-4 minutes

The regeneration movement employs practices for healing our planet from damage, and boosting Earth sustainability. Environmental and social degradation is deeply connected -- as it comes from the same extractive, exploitive mindset of economic and related systems. Connecting with universal consciousness and needs underlying conflicts, we connect with commonality of all planetary life. This helps tap new abilities for working together. This can contain power to regenerate and heal ourselves and Earth.


Navigating Conflict And The Hero/Heroine’s Journey

Trainer Tip • 3-5 minutes
Advanced Skill Level
Trainer Tip
3-5 minutes

The hero/heroine’s journey is a narrative arc and universal archetype at the heart of humanity’s most popular stories. Here, we can connect with the immense power of meaning, purpose, and inspiration, moving us to feel profound emotion, accomplish, and persevere through seemingly impossible challenges. In our polarized world we can think about responding to conflicts from this mythic narrative of facing and transcending adversity.


Create Choiceful Listening

Practice Exercise • 2-3 minutes
Beginner Skill Level
Practice Exercise
2-3 minutes

Often, honoring someone’s choice supports more connection. Thus, checking in with someone’s choice to listen or not (offering autonomy) sets the stage for being heard more fully. On the other hand, when someone has the perception that you are talking to them without considering their choice, resentful listening might result. Here are ways to mindfully check in about choiceful listening before starting a conversation.


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