New Courses

In July, I'm offering an introduction and a 4-session course on my Strong Kindness framework through the Center for Partnership Studies. It's been years in the making and I'm really looking forward to sharing these insights and skills with you. If you'd like to learn about this and future offerings, please sign up at the bottom of this page.

An Introduction to Strong Kindness: Skillful Responses to Dominating Behavior

1 Hour Introductory Event
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
10:00am-noon Pacific

Register here : https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/strongkindnesswebinar/

The Center for Partnership Studies is pleased to bring you Strong Kindness: Practicing Skillful Responses to Dominating Behavior, an online workshop. Four live online sessions July 29, Aug 5, 12, and 19, 2017. 10 am - 12 pm PDT.

Is your kindness taken for weakness? How can you get others to stop behaviors that are controlling, manipulative, or dominating – without adopting those behaviors yourself? Join me for these two special events full of skills and concepts to help you confidently engage in interpersonal encounters with dominating approaches, while remaining firmly in an ethos of partnership.

Many of us want to lead with kindness and want all our relationships to be based in care and equality. But what happens when we encounter others who use manipulation, control, coercion, and domination to try to accomplish their goals? Those of us who care deeply about not harming others can find it extremely difficult to confidently ask others to stop their controlling or dominating behaviors, and we too-often find ourselves emerging from these interactions feeling put down, hurt, ashamed or just plain ineffective.

At their worst, unskilled interactions with dominating approaches can even undermine our faith in using empathy and caring as our guiding stars.

If you err on the side of being kind…
If you’ve been in interactions where you felt you had to armor up, emotionally disengage, wear a ‘mask’, or just couldn’t be your full caring self because others were setting a hostile interaction…
If you want to learn to be effective in situations where you formerly felt shut down or not heard because you didn’t want to use and perpetuate the same tactics you didn’t like being used against you…

...then the tools, skills, and insights in Strong Kindness have been crafted especially for you.

1 Hour Introduction

An Introduction to Strong Kindness: Skillful Responses to Dominating Behavior
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
10:00am-noon Pacific

Register here : https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/strongkindnesswebinar

Strong Kindness: Practicing Skillful Responses to Dominating Behavior

4 Session Workshop
4 Saturdays: July 29, August 5, 12, 19
10:00am-noon Pacific

Register here : https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/strongkindnesswebinar/

In this course, developed especially for those that lead with their care, empathy, and kindness, Zuzana Žilková will guide you through her Strong Kindness framework to awaken new insights and introduce skills to help our values realign the interpersonal dynamics of conversations when we're confronted with dominating behavior.

This engaging and practice-based 4-session workshop will guide you to think anew about these interactions and find your sweet spot where you can feel effective without using ‘power over’ tactics yourself.

You’ll experience:
- 4 interactive online sessions full of new thinking, conversation and activities
- an online discussion space to continue the dialogue between sessions
- activities to integrate what you’re learning into how you live
- a community of like-minded people to connect and practice with

Whether the behaviors you’re encountering are within the realm of work, family, romantic relationships or elsewhere, you’ll learn reframes and tools that will be immediately useful to help shift interactions toward partnership and help you live more fully from your heart.

Each session incorporates new practical concepts, thoughtful conversation, and well-crafted exercises to help you more deeply integrate these new ways of being into your life. You’ll apply what you’re learning immediately and carry it with you into future interactions.

Please join us in a community of carers as we unlock understandings and skills to let our kindness shine through even in the face of strong winds.

4 Session Workshop

Strong Kindness: Practicing Skillful Responses to Dominating Behavior
4 Saturdays: July 29, August 5, 12, 19
10:00am-noon Pacific

Registration for both the introductory event and the workshop is here:

https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/strongkindnesswebinar/

Please sign up at the top of the page if you'd like to stay in touch and learn about future offerings.