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The Power of Empathy

Locality: Gold Coast, Queensland

Phone: +61 412 766 299

Address: Ecovillage Currumbin Valley 4223 Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Website: http://compassionlounge.com

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24.01.2022 I'm hearing of a lot of friends and people in my extended community who are struggling - struggling in their relationships, their friendships, with their families and neighbours, their work, trying to find their purpose. I've been there too. At 40 (I'm now 47), I hit burnout and became depressed. After trying to work things out logically with my head and doing some therapy with a psychologist and a psychotherapist, I gave up. Then, I signed up for a Compassionate Communicati...on workshop because I didn't like the way my son was communicating and I realised a lot of it was coming from me. That was nearly 4 years ago and it has been LIFE-CHANGING. I cannot stress enough how deeply and fundamentally powerful and empowering this work is. We don't need therapists for this kind of stuff. This is empowering because we can become the Conductors of our own lives. This work is about growing strong, deep and loving relationships with ourselves, our partners, our children, our friends, our families and our communities. When our connections are thriving and healthy, the rest is much easier to cope with. It's hard to give up a whole weekend in our busy busy lives but it is worth the investment. This workshop gives you simple take-home tools that you can apply to every area of your life. It does take practice and commitment but if you put the effort in, I promise you the rewards are incredible. I am now happier than I have been my whole life. I can feel feelings I never let myself feel before and it seems, the more I feel the "unpleasant" feelings, the more I seem to experience the joyful feelings. I've been with my partner for 25 years and we're happier together now than we've ever been and it just keeps getting better. My kids are much happier and more resilient. I'm experiencing the best friendships of my life. I've found purpose and meaning - things I had almost given up on finding. I could go on and on. Think about it....

21.01.2022 Final date change as my lovely co-host Annette Lewington was not available and the venue (Annette's house) would not be the same without her there. Please join me for a day of Deepening NVC consciousness on Saturday September 9th. Contribution is now $50 (early bird price, book before Sep 1st). Annette and I have been exploring Compassion and Self-Compassion rather intensively in recent months and have developed some exercises and practices. At this workshop we will focus on the flow of compassion, embodiment of NVC consciousness, review the NVC dance floor by working through some real life examples together and practise naturalising our language so that we can really speak from our hearts in our own ways.

19.01.2022 This short animation video of Brene Brown talking about blame is very clear and to the point. Are you a blamer? I'm a recovering blamer that's for sure! Compassionate Communication has helped me be more accountable for my blaming thoughts.

19.01.2022 Two wonderful NVC trainers together in one Australian retreat.

18.01.2022 Feeling gratitude stimulates the parts of the brain associated with empathy, also with regulating emotion and supporting stress relief. Gratitude changes our br...ain structures and grows our capacity for happiness. For me, I need to really feel the feeling if gratitude to feel any different. I find it more powerful when I connect with what needs of mine were met by someone's actions. Eg, support, mattering, love, care, etc. When I reflect on these I am then filled with positive feelings that I associate with gratitude and appreciation. See more

16.01.2022 How to stop being bullied: "It’s a radical notion that involves bringing in self-compassion, and changing your view of what a thought actually is."

14.01.2022 Empathy isn’t an inborn trait, but rather one that must be learned preferably during early childhood.

12.01.2022 Empathy is a willingness to offer curiosity and compassionate presence for another person's experience without trying to fix them or insert your own agenda.

08.01.2022 Would you like to live more peacefully with yourself and with the people around you? If you answered yes, then we would like to invite you to The Nonviolent Com...munication Online Training Course. http://bit.ly/2NvOa2N Nonviolent Communication helps you resolve your deepest conflicts within yourself and with others through the power of empathy. There are times when we find ourselves resorting to criticism, insult, and blame when trying to resolve conflicts, which only leaves everyone hurting, angry, or depressed. By joining The Nonviolent Communication Online Training Course, you can finally transform yourself and difficult situations positively by learning how to focus more on treating people with a more profound respect. http://bit.ly/2NvOa2N

08.01.2022 Would you like to improve your communication? Perhaps people don't receive you in the way you would like to be heard? Or maybe you find yourself reacting to the way someone in your life is communicating with you? Compassionate Communication is a model of communication that focuses on universal human needs - the needs that connect us all as humans. When we focus on needs (both ours and others), the barriers and differences drop away, and creative solutions that lead to win-win outcomes flow. Compassionate Communication is about Connection. How can we listen to another, even when they are communicating in a way we do not enjoy and feel the human behind the words? How can we listen to ourselves without judgement and criticism and connect with what we are truly longing for?

06.01.2022 So excited to have mapped out a series of workshops on Compassionate Communication after last weekend's Introductory session. Next one is July 21st and we will be focusing on Self Compassion. For me, learning to treat myself with warmth and understanding has made such a huge difference to my life and I now believe that our relationship with ourselves underpins everything. Please join me for an afternoon of befriending ourselves....

05.01.2022 "In essence, communication is willingness to be influenced. Only when I honestly lean towards you in order to hear your heart and to let your heart touch mine, only when I open enough for my heart to be altered by you, only then am I empathically listening and connecting with you. And when my heart will have been touched and changed by you, I will be changed, my world will be bigger and my reality will gain another dimension. Yet another voice will be added to the universal choir of life that I have been listening to." - Robert kržišnik

03.01.2022 "an increasing body of research is finding, it’s better to be maudlin, morose, or melancholy rather than to just feel bad.........the brain, outside of your conscious awareness, constructs your emotional states, drawing, in a very real way, on your vocabulary of emotional concepts."