In the run-up to end-of-the-year celebrations, we sometimes tend to get nervous or apprehensive. Will I get heard? Will I manage to let them express themselves fully while keeping my heart open? The one-day workshop I offer on 14th December is an opportunity to practice just this. All eager practitioners of Life's language - welcome!
Do you know the feeling of coming so close to yourself that everything feels soft, tender and vibrant at the same time? This is something I call 'Coming home'. I am offering a one-day workshop of practices to come home to the magical intimate space of who you are: on 24th August 2019, in Bern. Get in touch if you feel called to join!
On Saturday 15th June 2019, I am offering a workshop with my friend Cornelia Weber. Our intention is to support participants in experimenting an intimate connection to themselves that supports smoother connection to others.
My favourite activity ever is supporting people in finding what I call their 'way home'. It starts by putting attention to the body and listening to one’s feelings, body sensations and perceptions. At the beginning, when one is not yet used to listen, one hears little more than whispers and sometimes says things like ‘I can’t hear anything’, ‘I don’t feel anything’. Like everything else, deeply listening to what’s alive in you requires some practice.
End of 2017, I got introduced to the Bern-based Co-Community. It was described to me as a local community of people who know each other "in the real world” and are interested in experimenting with a non-monetary economy model. The group is called “Co-" from the Latin prefix for "together / mutually / in common”.
Jeff Foster shares Awareness through poems and texts posted on Facebook, books available in many languages and live seminars. His write-ups are a powerful source of daily inspiration for me.
The precision and luminous simplicity of his language, the space from where he writes often instantly reconnect me to myself.
Miki Kashtan is a Centre for NonViolent Communication-certified trainer. She is the co-founder of BayNVC, an organisation that shares NVC in the San Francisco area. For years, she has been publishing articles on NVC on her blog The fearless heart. In 2015, Miki published two books where she shares her vision of a nonviolent world.
A French Centre for NonViolent Communication-certified trainer, Isabelle Padovani dedicates her life to sharing NonViolent Communication and keys for a compassionate life in action. I have been doing individual sessions with her since 2010.
Since 2014, I have also been intensively training in NVC for individual support with Isabelle and her team.
I am deeply grateful to Isabelle for her generosity and her great sense of humour, her rare ability to model and share her practice, and for her tireless guidance. Her website and videos are till date only available in French: isabellepadovani.com