This DIY course is based on Eden’s book, Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connections with Ourselves, Each Other, and Our Planet, and an 8-week course based on this book.
Relational mindfulness:
cultivating presence, courage, collective awakening
AN IMMERSION IN RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Relational Mindfulness: Cultivating Presence, Courage, Collective Awakening is an experiential journey to deepen your embodiment of Relational Intelligence. This DIY Course explores the personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, societal, spiritual, ecological, and global impacts of Relational Intelligence. These 8+ recorded modules can be viewed and engaged in at your own pace. Scroll down to read more about the course modules and topics.
Relational mindfulness:
Cultivating presence, Courage, Collective awakening
AN IMMERSION IN RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
DIY Course
Every relationship we will ever have begins with the quality of our relationship with our self – not just small self, but the heart of our being. This workshop teaches the dharma of deep listening and relational intelligence. It offers the medicine of shared presence for personal and collective awakening.
Our capacity for genuine connection, clear seeing, intimacy, and collaboration ultimately stems from our willingness to meet life, moment by moment, from presence. Relational mindfulness offers training in how to use every moment, every conversation, and every relationship to deepen our embodiment presence. The foundation of relational mindfulness is understanding that attention is the most subtle form of Love. This experiential workshop will transform how you listen, how you love, and are loved. It will empower you to stay more fully present in the beautiful, messy, and dynamic field of human relating, and to use every aspect of life for awakening.
Stemming from Zen meditation, Relational Mindfulness offers 9 powerful principles and practices for remembering who we are: Intention, The Sacred Pause, Deep Listening, Mindful Inquiry and Clear Seeing, Transparency, Not Taking Personally, Taking Responsibility, Turning Towards Rather Than Away, and Compassionate Action. As we release the mind of separation, we come home to the heart of our being. As we let go of personal conditioning, we release systemic conditioning and can part in collective transformation.
STRUCTURE:
These 8+ recorded modules were recorded over 8 weeks, but can be viewed and engaged in at your own pace. All sessions include a guided practice, dharma teaching, and experiential learning. There are guided practices and exercises to do on your own in order to use daIly life as a laboratory for relational intelligence.
SUMMARY OF COURSE:
In this time of global change, there is an opportunity to remember and fully embody the relational intelligence, empathy, and WE consciousness that are our natural states. We all crave deeper connection, and at this moment in history, there is a great tear in the fabric of human relationship. This course teaches the dharma of relational intelligence and offers medicine for us individually and collectively.
Our capacity for genuine connection, understanding, intimacy, and collaboration ultimately stems from our willingness to meet life, moment by moment, from presence and courage. Relational mindfulness offers training in how to use every interaction and every relationship to deepen our capacity for presence. Through practicing deep listening, vulnerability, clear seeing, mindful inquiry, and curiosity, we wake up to our innate relational intelligence. The foundation of relational intelligence is knowing that our greatest strength is our sensitivity. Join me for an exploration that will transform how you listen, how you engage, how you love, and are loved. It will empower you to stay fully present in the beautiful and dynamic field of human relating, and to use every aspect of your life for awakening. It will also offer profound medicine for collective transformation in this time of global uncertainty.
Relational Mindfulness offers 9 powerful principles for finding freedom in how we relate. These practices stem from Zen meditation and were developed by Deborah Eden Tull during her transition from 7 years at a silent Zen Buddhist Monastery to life in the megatropolis of Los Angeles. Foundational to these teachings is the understanding that my welfare and your welfare is inextricably interlinked. The cultivation of WE conciseness is one of the most important realizations we can give ourselves to. As we release personal conditioning, we bring compassionate awareness to systemic conditioning and can take joyful responsibility for our part in collective transformation.
Realizing that people on the path of consciousness need a much clearer bridge for how to bring meditation to the realm of relationships, socializing, community, and human dynamics, she has created a powerful program and book to take people into deeper embodiment of practice. This series is based on Eden’s book, Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and The Planet (Wisdom Publications, May 2018).
All are welcome to this DIY course. This course is appropriate for seasoned meditators and those who are newer to practice. It is appropriate for those who are in relationship and those who are not. It is appropriate for people of all genders and for Buddhists and non-Buddhists, those who consider themselves deeply spiritual and those who identify as secular, introverts, and extroverts. The reality is that we all live every day of our lives in relationship to ourselves, each other, and our planet. These teachings meet us wherever we are and invite us to go deeper, to be freer, and to know that we are not alone.
In this course we will explore the 9 PRINCIPLES OF RELATIONAL MINDFULNESS.
THE INVITATION: 9 Principles for Love, Courage, Collective Awakening… What does presence have to do with relational intelligence? What does meditation have to teach us about fearless love and conscious courageous engagement?
Session 1 - INTENTION: Dissolving the Ego While Celebrating Relationship How do we get out of the way in order to allow connectedness to flow and sustain itself organically?
Session 2 - THE SACRED PAUSE: Learn How to Meditate All Day Long and Stay Fully Connected Within Through All Interactions
Session 3 - DEEP LISTENING WITHIN AND OUT: Attuning in a Way That Connects You to Deeper Guidance and to Each Other
Session 4 - MINDFUL INQUIRY & CLEAR SEEING: Learning to Perceive with the Heart and Learning to Step Back When We Get Triggered and as We Address Trauma
Session 5 - TRANSPARENCY: Find Your True Voice, Exercise Conscious Boundaries
Session 6 - TURNING TOWARDS, RATHER THAN AWAY: Our Greatest Strength is Our Vulnerability... Explore This in Relationship to Personal and Collective Pain
Session 7 - NOT TAKING PERSONALLY: How to Meet Life with Compassionate Neutrality
Session 8 - TAKING RESPONSIBILITY & COMPASSIONATE ACTION
In this course, you will learn:
How to make the shift from “I verses you” consciousness to “We” consciousness.
How to let go of the ego attachments that can arise in human interaction - such as seeking approval, attention, being right, being liked, or being in control.
How to speak from your true voice and practice skillful transparency in every situation The vital importance of owning and working with projection in all of our relationships, in order to invite healing through the field of relating.
How to wake up to your innate relational intelligence and understand the personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, and societal impacts of doing so.
What it means to slow down and balance productivity with attunement .
How to meet painful emotions, grief, and, shadows within yourself and the collective How to access the spaciousness within and out (even when you think it has disappeared).
How to invite others into spaciousness with you in order to experience greater intimacy and understanding How to surrender to intimacy even when your ego is resistant (and why).
How to be more generous with yourself in allowing for everyday ordinary life to be a meditation. How to access the joy stream of life through your meditation practice.
How to listen more subtly and with less effort, within and out, replacing shallow listening with deep listening.
How to release the habit of trying to fix or solve and instead receive true guidance The difference between trying to be “helpful” and being of genuine service How to use inquiry to take a step back each time you get triggered by others.
How to be yourself in every situation, and relax into being seen as you are.
How to cultivate genuine compassion and meet difficult emotions and trauma that gets triggered.
How to meet awkward or difficult moments in human relating as an invitation for deeper connection rather than disconnect How to stay open and present in those moments in relating when you habitually shut down or check out.
How to welcome difficulty and darkness - personal and collective - as a teacher rather than something to fear.
How to be more skillful discerning between true acceptance, resignation, and spiritual bypassing.
How to take responsibility by asking for support and help, thus affirming the field of reciprocity.
How to rest even more fully into the deep knowing that you are not alone… and that you are supported by the field of interconnection in every moment.
How to meet the state of the world from conscious response and relational intelligence.
How to cultivate an ever-deepening practice of releasing the lens of "other" and find strength in the principles of spiritual activism.
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