Steps Towards Meaningful Action
with
Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
We're in difficult times - possibly at the brink of extinction. What can we do in response? Some nonlinear steps: A.) Notice what isn't working; B.) Mourn so that we can move "towards" from an expanded space inside; C.) Analyze to bring a fuller understanding of what's happening and what's needed; D.) Reframe our inner and outer narratives; E.) Discern what we can contribute; F.) Care; and G.) Bring in support for more resilience and creativity.
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Angry and Taken Advantage of
with
LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4-6 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4-6 minutes
Finding your power in seemingly powerless situations doesn't mean denying what happened, your feelings, your needs, nor the behavior of others that didn't meet needs. It does mean reexamining those situations with the intention to compassionately look for your contribution and for clues to your hidden perceptual biases. Read on to learn about about finding these clues, and more.
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Connected Decision Making
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LaShelle Lowe-Chardé
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 2-3 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 2-3 minutes
If you're stuck when making a decision with someone, it's likely that you've skipped hearing and connecting to one another's needs. Slow down and listen for what's really important underneath the content. This allows you to make decisions that are more fulfilling and harmonious.
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The Heart of the Matter: Connecting More Deeply to Your Feelings and Needs
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Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 02:21 hours:minutes
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Intermediate Skill Level • Audio • 02:21 hours:minutes
Do you want to increase your capacity to identify and connect with feelings and needs? Would you like to enhance your ability to translate judgments? Join Miki for this deep dive into feelings and needs.
Calling Out / Calling In
with
Roxy Manning
Advanced Skill Level • Article • Read time: 12 - 18 minutes
Advanced Skill Level • Article • Read time: 12 - 18 minutes
When someone's in immense pain and uses words that are hard to hear, see if you can bring in as much compassion as you would to someone who was cut with a sword. Focusing on what's important to them, and not so much on how it was said. This may support greater understanding and healing. Otherwise, we risk prioritizing needs, norms, and inequities of the dominant culture, over caring for people who bear the invisible brunt of such norms.
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Dialogues with Our Shame
with
Giorgos Tsitsirigkos
Beginner Skill Level • Video • 45 minutes
Beginner Skill Level • Video • 45 minutes
During this session, Giorgos will walk you through a series of short, meditative practices and exercises designed to help you practice noticing, experiencing, and bringing shame to light — transforming it from a burden to a playful fellow as well as a portal to self-knowledge and internal freedom. You'll discover how the deep power of human connectedness can dilute the fogginess of sensitive issues, bringing them higher into your consciousness, and enabling the flow of life to pass right through them!
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Invisible Power & Privilege - Part 2
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Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 3 - 5 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 3 - 5 minutes
How do we address historical and present challenges regarding the invisibility of privilege and power? What can we do, especially if we are people with privilege, to transform these conditions? However challenging these kinds of situations are, and whatever our position, we can move towards more inclusivity by learning and doing significant inner and outer work.
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Invisible Power & Privilege - Part 1
with
Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
In groups, relationships and society we may not want to dominate or take away from others’ access to power, to choice, to participation in decisions, nor to shaping the vision and direction of the dynamic. And yet how do we do it anyway without knowing it? Discover how privilege operates on a societal level and becomes so invisible in groups. Learn why the conversation is usually excruciating for members of both privileged and under privileged.
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Privilege and Needs - Part 2
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Miki Kashtan
All Skill Levels • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
All Skill Levels • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
What is it that we are taught we can’t have, and what is it that we are encouraged to pursue instead? This guide could help you see through what's hidden behind the curtain of our societal conditioning.
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Privilege and Needs - Part 1
with
Miki Kashtan
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
Intermediate Skill Level • Article • Read time: 4 - 6 minutes
There's the real need. And then there's the privilege that’s offered as a substitute for it. Privilege substitutes support the existing structure of society. It can look to us as if giving up the privilege would amount to giving up everything -- if we don't believe the real needs can even be experienced. If we connected directly to the needs, we could become subversive, agents of change.
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