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Mindful Communication: Exploring Wise Speech
August 11, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Learn to hold your own while still hearing others- Integrate your spiritual practice into your relationships
- Develop more clarity and resilience
Daylong Workshop
Cost: By donation
Registration: No pre-registration required
Location: Nevada City Insight Center,
About the Daylong
The path of practice taught by the Buddha is meant to transform our thought, speech, and actions. How do we put these teachings into practice to make conversations more meaningful and effective? How can we use our spiritual practice to deepen our relationships personally and professionally?
Training ourselves to speak in a wise and non-harmful way is one of the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path. In this daylong workshop, we will explore the how to bring more mindfulness and care to our communication — our listening, our speaking, and even our thinking.
The tools shared will be a combination of the core guidelines for Wise Speech offered by the Buddhist tradition, as well as the contemporary discipline of Nonviolent Communication. These practices form a powerful foundation for cultivating insight, awareness, self-understanding and empathy. Through strengthening our capacity to stay present and to be more skillful in difficult situations, the pain and misunderstandings that come out of unwise and habitual speech can begin to ease, and our conversations and relationships can grow in meaningful, healthy ways.
This is event is by donation.
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About the Trainer
Oren Jay Sofer is a Collaborative Trainer with BayNVC and teaches communication and meditation both locally and nationally. He has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1997, holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University, and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma. Oren is also a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers’ Council, founder of Next Step Dharma, and the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication. www.OrenJaySofer.com
