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Winter into Spring 2012  heartwisdom offerings




Heart-Centered Communication

Learn how to communicate from your heart where intentions for meeting what is present both within you and within the other will lead to clarity, warmth, understanding and the authenticity of mutuality in your connection. 

Heart-centered communication will teach you how to:

  • know your heart and your intentions for connecting with others
  • increase awareness through observation that is free of judgment and evaluation
  • be attentive to the life of your feelings and sensations and what stimulates them
  • express yourself honestly and authentically
  • discover the beauty of universal needs that you share in common with everyone
  • offer invitations/requests of yourself or others to meet needs that are important to you without “demand” energy

 NOTE: Participants are encouraged to bring snacks or a bag lunch with them. 


Dates: January 28, February 25, March 24
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
 
Location: Winona Community Education Class
To be held at Winona Middle School Media Center
 
Cost: $72 for whole series, all 3 sessions (FYI: 12 hours total @ $6/hr)
 
To Register: Contact Winona Community Education at 507-494-0900 to register by credit card
or sign up through their fall brochure coming out in August.
Community Education, 317 Market Street, Winona, MN 55987
Visit Winona Community Education online at: www.winona.k12.mn.us/communityed
 


Practicing Compassionate Communication
 
This practice group is intended for anyone who has had some exposure to compassionate or nonviolent communication. It is an opportunity to deepen your learning and to practice the language of life.
Please join us if you are interested in deepening their awareness of compassionate communication and practicing the language of the connection through:
  • Empathic listening
  • Observing without evaluating
  • Identifying and expressing feelings
  • Tapping into the beauty of our needs/values
  • Making requests that will enrich life

Jean Lauer and Barb Kruse will rotate facilitation of the sessions.

Jean is a spiritual director and retreat leader offering workshops and trainings in compassionate communication and integrative spiritual practices. She has participated in over 500 hours of training in Nonviolent Communication. Jean also writes “from the heart,” a blog on living compassionately. (http://heartwisdomjean.wordpress.com)

Barb is on staff at the Franciscan Spirituality Center and began learning about Non-Violent Communication in 2008. She continues to study and offer programs and presentations on this language of the heart.
 

Dates: 2 evenings per month, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays

Will be offered again beginning March 20, 2012
 
Location: Franciscan Spirituality Center, 912 Market St., LaCrosse, WI
 
Cost: $10 per session
 

To Register:   Contact the Franciscan Spirituality Center at 608-791-5295 or fscenter@fspa.org

PLEASE NOTE:  If you are interested in being a part of this group, contact Jean at 507-453-0576 or Barb at the Franciscan Spirituality Center.  More details will also follow in the Franciscan Spirituality Center's current newsletter/program guide.

 



Coming to Our Senses: Inner & Outer Ways of Knowing Body, Soul & Spirit

Awaken to your senses as nourishment for the content of your thoughts, stimulation for the sensations of your feelings and supportive ground for the power of your actions. Together we will come to recognize our twelve senses as “well-springs” serving human needs. Sense experience leads inwardly toward self and outwardly toward others. Being present to our senses invites the intentionality of attentiveness and the deepening of awareness that can transform how we relate to one another and contribute to the world.

Dates & Time:  9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on third Saturday of the month
February 18: Body Awareness through the Physical Senses
March 17: Meeting the World through the Senses of the Soul
April 21: Inner Knowing through the Spiritual Senses
May 19: Consciousness & the Wisdom of the Senses


Location:  
WomanWell: A Place for Spirituality & Healing
1784 Lacrosse Avenue
St Paul, MN 55119

Cost: $120 if paid in full by registration deadline.  Participants may also opt to pay $35 per session due at the start of each class. Registration and payment option is required by February 10. To register, contact facilitator of the course, Jean Lauer at heartwisdom.jean@gmail.com or 507-313-1263.