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Managing pressure, tension, fear & anger. Body-mind integration and compassionate communication with Aikido conscious conflict resolution.
What people say:
"No-risk common-man's Aikido."
“Simple, experiential exercises that are really fun to do.”
“It's not therapy, but you satisfied my need for it.”
“My intuitions clarified, became more accessible.”
“I learned to show up with my whole self.”
“Inspiring and full of wisdom.”
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ONLINE COURSE
This customized ten lesson course is customized and illustrated with photos & videos. It is available here to individuals and their families for less than $7 per lesson, and your satisfaction is guaranteed.
Online Course
Recipients of two-for-one offers may register here and share pursuant to the CourseLinks Terms after mailing your name and email to Greener Mediations, POB 72, Graton CA 95444.
Tuned in solutions to tensions and conflict in the home and at work.
TUNING IN to the Body
Emotional Aikido by Jerry Green
Including Aikido Walking with George Leonard
Introduction by Wendy Palmer
Greener Mediations now brings you the tools for mediating
mind and body wisdom, providing relief from pressures and
the ability to avoid arguments and disputes...without thinking.
Workshops, private sessions, and online courses (look left!)
When facing pressure, can you:
Show up fully?
Stay centered?
Speak your truth?
Listen compassionately?
Identify your core needs?
Access intuition reliably?
Research suggests that body language
may comprise most of our understanding of one another…. So why do we
fight over words? When we hear something that we disagree with, we are
predisposed to reply with contrary words that oppose and separate,
laying the groundwork for conflict. TUNING IN reveals common embodied
predispositions to responding to pressure that we all live with,
knowingly or not. Accessing body wisdom reveals new options that apply
also in word wars. It could take years to figure this out by arguing.
Tuning In is about playful response to all pressures.
Tuning In promotes breathing and encourages grace under pressure.
Tuning In teaches centering, grounding and extension.
Tuning In opens hearts… and it's fun!
TUNING IN provides a great opportunity for connection at gatherings of family, friends or business associates, folks who work together or regularly bounce off one another. If you run an office, you create pressure for others. This can help you address pressures in more satisfying ways. If your office handles the pressure of others, it will enable you to address pressures creatively. Private coaching sessions are available for individuals and couples. The online course is customized to address your own pre-disposed responses to pressure that you indentify in the first lessons.
The program is recognized as effective by management consultants. “I got more out of a two hour demonstration with Jerry that I got from the leading (and pricey) day-long program teaching Aikido principles for consumption in business.” Chance Massaro, Management Consultant, Santa Rosa
In March of 2007, a program was presented at a Northern California conference of lawyer and psychologist mediators (ARDNC) and has since been appreciated in several day long programs conducted for affiliate chapters. Jeff Goldfien, JD, LLM, ADRNC Board Member stated: “In this experiential and invigorating presentation we discovered that equanimity in the midst of the push and pull of conflict, and openness to the creative potential inherent in conflict have a felt basis in the body.”“This contributed to my work as a mediator and teacher of Compassionate Communication. Jerry gave me a felt sense of the importance of working somatically. I loved it.” Martine Algier
Peace Dojos International is a project of Aiki Extensions (www.aiki-extensions.org,) an organization dedi-cated to disseminating and applying Aikido principles and methods outside the traditional martial arts training situation. Greener Mediations is an active member of Peace Dojos International through which TUNING IN is made available around the globe. A Peace Dojo is a martial art school in which martial practice is explicitly oriented towards teaching aiki skills of non-violent conflict resolution and creative peacemaking.
See Wendy Palmer teach centering under pressure at work.
Editor of Mediate.com, John Ford, has published three writings by Jerry Green. You can access them at <http://www.mediate.com/people/personprofile.cfm?auid=829>
Here is John’s comments:
Where Do Mediators Go to Access Intuition:
Body-Wisdom Basics
Increasingly mediators are willing to embrace the
non-rationality of what they do. The question of how they sense and act, best
describe as intuition is the fascinating subject of this short article that
explores the wisdom of Aikido.
So Why Do We Fight Over Words?
Research suggests that body language may comprise most of our
understanding of one another... So why do we fight over words?
BRAINS IN THE BELLY Think twice under pressure.
If you are like me, pressures concerning family, money, time seem to evoke familiar responses every time, like maybe I’m hardwired. In some situations I resist, others I cave, but what’s interesting is my responses seem predisposed. I can trust them to pop up.
If this is true for you, and if you can recognize familiar patterns of responding to pressures, then you are half way to knowing how to access body wisdom to transform them for compassionate communication and peaceful resolution.
Read the rest of this blog at: <http://greenermediations.wordpress.com>
Sunday June 3 in Santa Rosa
Arlene Francis Center, 99 W. Sixth St.
2-5PM, $25 donation benefits AFC, Occupy
$30@door (space available.)
Practical skills for activism and everyday life...
WORKSHOP ENROLLMENT
 photo by Jerry Green |
The Language of the Heart and Hara
Aikido contains its own embodied compassionate communication that can enable greater intimacy with those we live and work with. Training teaches us to listen in three dimensions. We think, we feel and we intuit.... (read more)
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