What skills do we most need to build sustainable, heart centered community? Join Play Ashram and Clear Creek Schoolhouse for the first in an ongoing series of community building conversations, workshops and events. This week, we begin our journey in the East - home to the element of Air and the space between us - with an introduction to Compassionate Communication.
These days it seems that everyone is talking about practical skills. Skills that can help us be less dependent on systems and structures that are not aligned with our values and ideals. Skills that may help us adapt to a world that is changing rapidly and a planet that, along with her inhabitants, faces numerous threats. Skills like plumbing, electrical work, permaculture, even ancestral skills like hunting and foraging: all of these are important and it is promising to see that they are, more and more, being taught and shared widely. But perhaps the most critical skill -- the absence of which can hobble even the most resource-rich communities -- is that of Compassionate and Conscious Communication.
How would our lives and our communities look if we all communicated better – with clarity, precision and compassion?
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AN EXPLORATION & PRACTICE OF COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION
Discussion & Workshop 2pm-4pm
Play Ashram @ Clear Creek Schoolhouse
1882 Hammonds Fork Road
Disputanta, KY 40456
The purpose of Compassionate Communication (or Non-violent Communication) is to become more aware of the language we are using in order to accurately express what really matters to us, and also to hear what really matters to others. It involves empathic communication whereby we can attune ourselves to both our own and other people's true feelings and needs.
This will be a fun and connecting exploration that may help you communicate with more clarity, understanding and ease – it might just change your life!
We will explore and practice:
non-judgemental observation
empathic and reflective listening
accurately identifying feelings and needs
making specific requests
Make it “a day on the farm” if you like…
10am - Clear Creek Coffee Social
(happens every Sunday at 10am, rain or shine!)
Consider coming early to enjoy exploring and connecting with the land and the people.
2-4pm Communication Workshop
5pm Potluck
(bring a dish to share)
6:30pm Play Ashram Fire Puja
(experience the ancient vedic fire ceremony that we end each day in ashram with)
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This week’s Workshop is offered on gift economy; meaning there is no set fee but contributions are gladly accepted, appreciated and ensure we can organize more events like this in the future.
Registration is not required for this week’s workshop, however, if you intend to come, kindly email info@playashram.com. Let us know your planned arrival time and if you will be staying for the potluck and puja. That will help us plan.