The power of beneficent intention for Conflict Resolution: Embodying the power of compassion in your life

La puissance de la compassion pour la résolution des conflits: Ancrer la puissance de la compassion dans notre vie

Here is what the workshop will offer you :

• The practical and direct understanding of the power of 'compassion', 'love', 'joy for life' and/or beneficent intention as a practical inner state for conflict resolution, dealing with stress, be a leader and simply lead your life.
• A paradigm shift in how you see conflict resolution. From a struggle to an opportunity to improve the lives of all involved.
• The embodied understanding to skillfully resolve physical or non-physical conflict without violence or victimhood.
• Offer yourself the gift of discovering how your body can embody compassion and higher human values and how this inner state transforms conflicts.

Objectives of the workshop

The workshop objectives are :

• Discovering our natural body response to stress and conflict : attack back, shield or withdrawal.
• Experiencing practically how those responses don't usually bring a resolution but create more resistance or conflict.
• Learn how to sense when our survival mechanism kicks in and how it prevents us from adopting a peaceful resolution to conflicts or deal with challenges that are coming when we are under stress.
• Discover the power of connection and beneficent intention in conflict resolution.
• Learn how to train your body so that you can get access to more of your ressources during conflict and by-pass your emotional responses.
• Learn how to maintain connection during stressful situations.
• Learn how to embody beneficent intention or compassion during conflicts and how that truly works.
• Experience with the ability to connect in an authentic way with people even when things aren't working well.
• Discover 'Focusing' a BodyMind approach to tap into your body wisdom and generate personal insights and breakthroughs from this practice for your business and personal life.
• Get the gift of a new authentic way of conflict resolution for yourself.

Teaching approach

This workshop is going to be experiential and the learning happens through the body.

Simple movements (handshakes, light grabs or holds, walks forward) done in pairs like lets you discover how your body is behaving during stress or conflict and what prevents you from keeping compassion then.

Working at slow speed with safe levels of authentic moving forward energy, participants learn to quickly recognize their automatic defense responses. Then, using beneficent or benevolent intention, they will leaern how to transcend those automatic responses  to create flow or an harmonious resolution to the conflicting situation.

Role plays will also be used so participants can translate the physical situation into a business situation (responding in an benevolent or kind loving way when we are challenged, attacked verbally or in a conflict, learning to lead without using force). Repetition and precise teaching will ensure that the new behaviors can become embodied.

Time and space will be allocated to sense and reflect, to invite insights and have generative dialogues.

Related resources

• Kindness: The Suprising X Factor for Successful Leaders [link]
• Adam Kahane, Power and Love. [video]
• Paul Linden, Reach Out: Body Awareness Training for Peacemaking—Five Easy Lessons [link]
• Kanshu Sunadomari Shihan [link]

Schedule

• Saturday the 28th of May 2016
• from 9h30 to 12h30 and 14h30 to 17h30

Prerequisite

This workshop is open to all.

During this workshop, we will be exploring energetic Aikido principles through simple moves. There will be no going to the ground, no Aikido technique performed and no kimono to wear.

Language of the workshop

Praises for the workshop

"Thanks for having made this workshop possible. What happenend was extremely valuable to me. I am very glad to have met all the participants." (Fabienne, Leuven)

"An interested curiosity brought me to the workshop. As a focusing trainer it seemed for me to enter into a new world. It took me time to understand how this new kind of connection could take place, setting my focusing conditions apart. And then came the notion of 'benevolent intention'. It became clear for me that I could feel this 'intentional starting place' in my heart. Corky is a wonderful trainer, totally engaged with his work. I felt his strong enthusiasm about bringing peace and love through his Aikido teaching. The workshop brought a new kind of awareness to me, beside of my bodily focusing life. I am still letting it sink into my body. Thank you for this beautiful experience. (Lara, Borgloon)"

"Olivier Gourmet is a gifted group process facilitator.  He helped me to take in the workshop in a fuller BodyMind way as he safely and gently invites participants to process what is there for them in a whole body way.  Something surprising came for me despite my initial struggle to connect with the Aikido practise.  I discovered that the energy of aggression inside me is an agent for connection to others, not at all what I was expecting to discover!" (Karen, Canada)

Trainer & Facilitator :

 Corky's influences and inspirations include Wendy Palmer's Leadership Embodiment and the work of Paul Linden on Conflict Resolution ("Embodied Peacemaking: Body Awareness, Self-Regulation and Conflict Resolution"). He is also heavily influenced by the teachings of Kanshu Sunadomari Shihan (author of Enlightment through Aikido) who he met in Japan.

Place of the workshop

Liège (Luik, Lüttich) is centrally located in Europe (30 min. from Aachen or Maastricht and 2h30 from Paris by high speed train). It is well deserved by public transport, motorways and airports. Liège is located 1h15 from Brussels Airport or Brussels Chalerloi.

Send us a mail and we will mail you all the details to reach us and to find a suitable accomodation for your venue.

Price of the workshop

  Registration and payment early bird (before or on the 25th of May):

• 125 euro VAT included (103,31 VAT excl.) per person if you register with a colleague or friend.
• 150 euro VAT included (123,97 VAT excl.) per person if you register alone.
  

   Late registration or on the day (Cash only) :

• 150 euro VAT included (123,97 VAT excl.) per person if you register with a colleague or friend.
  
• 175 euro VAT included (144,63 VAT excl.) per person if you register alone.

The price includes the teaching and coffee-tea pastries breaks and drinks.

Registration and payment deadline: 25th of May 2016.

Registration

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After your subscription form and payment are received, we are going to send you a confirmation e-mail. Closer to the date of the workshop, you will receive detailed information on how to reach our training center.

Accomodation / Lodging

If you need a place to stay overnight, please have a look at the hotel "Le Cygne d'argent" which is located in a quiet street at a two minutes walk from our training center in Rue des Anges.