[This program was originally scheduled to begin Sept. 23, 2010. However, in order to make it possible for more participants to attend, the start date has been pushed 6 months out. The program will now start April 14-17 with the 2nd retreat being scheduled approx 6 months later (exact dates are still being negotiated). Dates will be posted here once those dates are established.]
6 Month NVC AND TRANSFORMATION OF
CONSCIOUSNESS PROGRAM with Gina Cenciose
This program is created for all of us who are living with passion
and humour - the deep change of paradigm that NVC calls us
towards. The very source of NVC, at its core, is to inspire us to
investigate all parts of our humanity. It calls us to not just live from
our socially-conditioned familiar parts, but to explore and grow into
what we most enjoy and value about life: to actually become or
embody those qualities (what we call needs) of love, awareness,
community, meaning and intimacy that fill us with aliveness while
radically embracing other parts of us that seem to create pain and
separation.
NVC is a way of embodying our ideals - both within ourselves
and how we are in the world. This way of being weaves into the very
fabric of our social structures; if we are not the same people we were
when we created the social structures, then the structures themselves
gradually change to reflect our own growth.
As a participant in this program, you have the opportunity to
deepen your understanding and experience of NVC and Focusing
processes for healing and transformation. You will be empowered to
grasp, get a “felt sense of “and broaden your capacity to accompany
life inside yourself and within others with Empathic Presence and the
tools of Inner Relationship Focusing.
The three wings of this program:
In my own mind and heart, one of the paths to freedom and
healing lies in the recognition of our essential nature. When we
glimpse who we really are, beyond the stories and the conditioning,
our problems begin to loosen their grip and we naturally start to feel
happier, more peaceful, and more loving.
Our work together will focus on supporting each other to have
more and more glimpses of our true nature by allowing us to
experience the depth of who we really are behind all shame,
negativity, guilt, beliefs, etc. and to know unequivocally that we are
the silent aware presence beyond the mind. At the same time, we will
help each other engage our “problems” stories and especially
BELIEFS by learning to welcome and explore our experience exactly
as it is, including seemingly difficult emotions and mind states. Often
the beliefs and stories that emerge reveal deeper layers that may feel
threatening such as fear, grief, shame, rage, aloneness, or insecurity.
As we gently and compassionately open to these feelings in the
intimacy of our shared awareness, they tend to naturally release,
making more energy available for joyful, spontaneous living. As the
light of awareness illuminates the unconscious patterns that limit us,
we naturally orient toward greater awareness, openness, clarity,
freedom, and love.
Being present to meeting ourselves with unconditional positive
regard and loving-kindness is gradual. Patience, presence, and a
repeated willingness to pause, go inside and be still with what is, all
throughout the day and not just when it is stormy inside, are the keys
to a deeper and deeper inner relationship with self and others.
Sometimes when we are allowing and flowing with what is
there, we connect to a place that holds resistance to loving kindness
for ourselves, and at these times the embodied presence of love needs
to be even more present to the parts that are resisting. Transforming
our lack/scarcity thinking and actions and ripening into living
moment by moment from the fullness of the quality of needs, is a
major focus for us during our time together.
Embodying the "the delicate flower of presence", (Eckhart
Tolle in the Power of Now), alone and with the embodied
presence of others, is healing and transformative.
This very act of clear awareness combined with the deep loving
presence of our being changes our experience which can then be
tracked and noticed, facilitating cohesion and leading safely to deeper
opening and awareness. The act of gently bringing awareness to
something and simply noticing also provides an island of safety that
can be returned to time and again. It is from a place of restored
connection to this part of ourselves, our essence, that we are best able
to be with the more wounded parts of ourselves and process any
blocked or frozen parts that need integration.
BELIEF WORK
From the NVC perspective of Needs Consciousness, we will
explore how that Consciousness is affected by our thoughts
and beliefs. We will use several methods of inquiry to
investigate our beliefs. One very deep and transformative
approach that we will focus on is Byron Katie’s “The Work”.
When done with Empathic Presence (NVC), “The Work” has
a way of adjusting perspective inside of us that is powerfully
transformative. Prepare yourself to change.
(Note: Belief work has been the base of all of Gina’s healing work for 15 years and
she has been doing Byron Katie’s “THE WORK” since 2005. Gina has been with
Byron Katie on many occasions and appreciates all that she helps her to
remember about herself, about life, etc.)
Whole body consciousness will be at the root of all of our
work. Exercises taken from Wholebody Focusing will be
practiced daily to support presence and awareness in the
body.
We will use the body as our main guide through this awareness work
combining Wholebody Focusing and Inner Relationship Focusing.
You will receive an introduction to Inner Relationship Focusing,
proven method for inner growth and awareness, popularized by
world-renowned Focusing trainer, Ann Weiser Cornell.
Together we will:
Focusing offers everything we need to encourage and
sustain all that is emerging and wanting attention within us
and others in a clear, easy, and structured way.
(Note: Gina is in the Certification Program for Inner Relationship
Focusing; she has been IR Focusing daily for the past 5 years and
bringing it to groups for the past 2 years. Ann Weiser Cornell is her
teacher and mentor.)
For more info about focusing please go to www.focusing.org
Inner Relationship focusing www.focusingresources.com
Wholebody focusing does not yet have a website, even if it is very popular in the U.S. here is some
info to read about it: http://www.focusing.org.uk/wholebody_focusing.html
For more information about Byron Katie and “The Work” go to
http://www.thework.com/index.asp
The Center for NonViolent Communication http://www.cnvc.org
Gina’s website www.embodyingempathy.com
FORMAT and LOGISTICS:
1st Session:
April 14-17, 2011 (4 day Retreat) at Pumpkin Hollow
Retreat Center, Craryville, New York (15 minutes from Mass)
www.pumpkinhollow.org
For the first session we request a TUITION fee of $525.00, which
includes a DVD of Inner Relationship focusing, the retreat itself and 6
monthly teleclasses. Lodging and accommodation fees are included in
the registration form below.
2nd session:
Approx. six months later (4 day Retreat), dates TBD, at same location.
For this session we request a TUITION fee of $475.00. Lodging and
accommodation fees are below in the registration form.
Activities between Retreats:
REGISTRATION
For a registration form and other information, contact Lynne [at] lynnehutchinson [dot] com (click dots for full address) 207 667-0188.