29 Jan 2024 | Mindfulness

A Taste of Ongo

A Taste of Ongo: Everyday Nonviolence – the first three weeks of the program written by Catherine Cadden and Jesse Wiens Chu – outline foundational practices for speaking and listening with compassion, care and wisdom. I am too much! I am not enough! I am alone. I am scared of…

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25 Nov 2023 | Ongo and NVC

Tenderness and Grace

Ongo: Everyday Nonviolence. Starting January 2024.  Registrations open soon! Tenderness as the Nurturing of Grace You see, when the world becomes too solid for nuance, when it hardens up and crystallizes into a binary that forces you to pick a side, compelling you to become intelligible to the hardness that…

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Convergent Facilitation

18 Dec 2022 | Ongo and NVC

Convergent Facilitation

One of the many things I love about Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is the people. I studied Convergent Facilitation (CF) with NVC trainer Miki Kashtan and she is nothing short of a powerhouse of courage, vulnerability and a woman of straight-talking and action. Convergent Facilitation is a means whereby people come…

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Loving Kindness

31 Oct 2022 | Mindfulness

Loving kindness one breath at a time

“Close your eyes or simply let them soften. Take a few deep breaths and then it fall into a comfortable rhythm… Turn your attention to the energy of loving kindness that lives in you. Offering this energy of loving kindness to yourself, say, in the quiet of your own heart. May…

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