Workshops and Retreats
EMOTIONAL DISCIPLINE
Allow the surprise – and be ready for it!
Emotional Discipline is a series of experiential exercises, all designed to provide practical tools for accepting and understanding my feelings, as well as making them available in a relationship. These tools include basic methods for self-awareness, and enhanced methods for going deeper.
The practice of Emotional Discipline enables you to: Discover the inner strength that comes with honoring your feelings. Learn how to experience rather than avoid difficult emotions. Find the way to allow your feelings to connect you with others. Explore your history with specific empowering emotions. Realize how experiencing your feelings puts unfinished business to rest. Allow conscious breathing to enhance awareness of what you are feeling. Focus the meaning in your feelings to clarify which choice best serves you.
You are the work of art!
Your feelings are the medium with which you work.
Feel the value of your creation!
Date / Saturday, November 23, 2013
Time /
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location / Claret Center Hyde Park / 5536 S. Everett Ave., Chicago
Facilitator / Allan Schnarr, M.Div., PhD. (Questions: 773-564-9172)
Cost / $125.00 (limited scholarships)
Registration / Call Alma at 773.643.6259
EMOTIONAL DISCIPLINE FEEDBACK
- The workshop put me on a path of life and liberation. I learned feelings are a gift. Now I am underway to restore relations with people in the past who have frustrated me.
- I never expect a workshop to make this much difference. I experienced real discovery today. I have an understanding of a major life issue, and a method for working with it.
- For me what really helped me was the sharing with the partner, being open to sharing without being afraid of being judged.
- I loved the Lifeline exercise: it helped me to see how “shame” has played a significant role in my life and that I still need to process it.
- What you shared about your journey really confirmed my journey to find ways of caring for my soul, to be true to myself and others.
- You set an excellent tone for the day, defining boundaries so as to open a space of trust and freedom to share what was comfortable. At no point did I feel judged, and at no point did I feel the need to judge others.
- Today will provide me with a framework and vocabulary for much of my work as I continue in therapy. Invaluable!
- The music was helpful, provided a meditative environment. I found no distractions in it.
- I’m grateful for all that went into developing the skills so well detailed in the manual. I plan to continue using them regularly to continue what’s opened up for me today.
- The Breathing a Feeling exercise has had a powerful impact in my daily life – it was just what I was looking for but couldn’t yet name.
- In the past I thought that feelings come and go so ignore them. Now I learn that they are important and we can learn from them.
- I really appreciate all the thought, care, tenderness, and wisdom that went into the preparation of the workshop, including the opening ritual, decorations and music, and the wise guidance of the flow of the day.
- I appreciate the bucketful of colorful tools with which to cultivate my awareness and deepen my relationships with self, others, and the divine.
- As a man one can be looked down upon to show emotion. I found the Breathing a Feeling exercise to be lifegiving. I will continue to use it.
- Your responses to questions demonstrated a depth of knowledge and experience that gave me confidence if opening myself up to experience the workshop.
- Thank you very much for creating such a lifechanging manual and seminar that can be applied cross-culturally and understood in so many different languages.
- I found the Processing a Feeling exercise most useful. It brought me a lot of clarity, and it also felt good just sharing my experience with the group.
- I live in a world of very little emotion and I am a very emotional person. I found today to be a great opportunity to feel many different feelings.
- This workshop helped me to get in touch with feelings that I was holding somewhere in my body, but was not aware of. It is now very clear to me how feelings are in my body.
- The ideas presented are profound, but your core elements were presented in such a simple way that they are easy to take with us and use in our own lives.