Moving Through Change
Our work together will revolve around developing three core proficiencies: mindfulness, compassion, and emotional acuity.
Mindfulness can be thought of as what we attend to. Following the Zen Buddhist tradition, we will be using our breath as our focal point through sitting meditation and ultimately in everything we do. This is where we bring our flow to our stillness and our stillness to our flow, allowing a finer grain of detail about ourselves to emerge.
The kind of compassion we will be working on is best exemplified by the spirit of nonviolent communication developed by Marshal Rosenberg, where we see ourselves and others as doing our best to meet our needs, which are, in turn, expressed through our feelings. Looked at this way, compassion is the ability to be with our own or others feelings and have the stamina to inquire into what they indicate about us.
Emotional acuity comes from mindfulness and compassion, along with tuning into the body through its felt sense, using a technique called focusing. Developed by Eugene Gendlin in the 1970’s, focusing uses the body as a source of knowledge by sensing a shift that comes from finding a word that expresses the felt sense accurately.
Working through what you are working through using mindfulness, compassion, and emotional acuity, you will develop these competencies, which will in turn help you get through the challenges.
Still and Flow 