From Flipping Your Lid to Flipping the Script
Audio
1 hour
Join Jim Manske for practice exercises that will help you navigate away from reactivity toward a more compassionate way of being in the world, and learn to express vulnerable honesty(scary honesty} .
Working With Our Mixed “Yes”
Practice Exercise
1-2 minutes
For this exercise choose a situation in which you have said a “yes” to someone‛s request but you didn't experience your “yes” as given freely or joyfully. Then explore judgements, feelings, needs, and alternate strategies that come up in relation to your “yes”, your “no”, and in relation to what the other person might be experiencing.
Exercise In Self Compassion
Practice Exercise
1- 3 minutes
With this exercise you'll choose an experience you had with someone where your needs were not met. You'll work with the related feelings, judgements, values, and feeling the fullness of the need even though it was not met, plus any sadness that may arise.
Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning
Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning
Integrating Our Relationship To Gratitude And Mourning
Practice Exercise
3 -5 minutes
Integrating a full living involves grief/mourning and gratitude. Here we'll more deeply integrate inner and outer dimensions of gratitude and grief. In any experience there's the outer aspect, an event that occurs in life. And there's the inner response to the outer event. When we judge the outer positively or negatively we're in tension or resistance to our experience. Here we'll explore a more integrated mode of experiencing.
Working With “No” To Deepen Self-Connection
Practice Exercise
1 - 2 minutes
Use this exercise to stay in dialogue and connect to needs while facing a “no”. Identify a situation where you have low confidence that you'll get your needs met, and it'll be hard hearing a “no” to your request. Explore your response to the “no” by working with feelings, needs, request and alternate strategies. Thus you can work towards meeting your needs while also releasing the idea that your needs “have to” be met.
Exploring Your Connection To Life And To Your Life Purpose
Exploring Your Connection To Life And To Your Life Purpose
Exploring Your Connection To Life And To Your Life Purpose
Practice Exercise
1 - 2 minutes
Here are some questions to support you in exploring your connection to life, your life purpose. Here we briefly touch upon what blocks you, your gratitude, strengths, passions, and what you’re committed to.
W.A.I.T: Practices For Presence And Patience
Practice Exercise
2 - 3 minutes
Maximizing Success With Your Sustainability Plan
Practice Exercise
1- 2 minutes
Use this exercise to increase your likelihood of successful follow-through with your sustainability plan, by releasing fear energy and developing support structures that help you carry out your plan. Here you'll engage the goals that pertain to money, meaning and self care.
Help For The Cycle Of Overwhelm And Withdrawal
Practice Exercise
3-5 minutes
If withdrawal is your stress pattern, you likely want to belong and yet have habits of expression that others find uninviting. Instead, soften, relax, and open your posture and energy. Find something that will bring you to smile. Engage with others -- make eye contact, smile, walk towards others, say hello, and sit in an open posture. Let others know that you're a bit overwhelmed, but want to connect and are glad to be here.
Needs-Based Negotiation: 3 Stages Of Dialogue And 3 Types Of Reactivity
Needs-Based Negotiation: 3 Stages Of Dialogue And 3 Types Of Reactivity
Needs-Based Negotiation: 3 Stages Of Dialogue And 3 Types Of Reactivity
Practice Exercise
6 - 9 minutes
When there's quality connection then collaboration and creativity generosity of heart can come. Then strategies honoring everyone’s needs are easier. This requires us to trust connection, hear needs, brainstorm, experiment, prepare, and hold confidence that everyone’s needs can be met. Needs-based negotiation starts there. What derails this? Feeling urgency, listening from our (dis)likes or opinions, and dire predictions.