Gina will be offering an 11 teleclass series on Inner Relationship Focusing and NVC beginning Feb 14, 2012. The class will be every other Tuesday evening from 7-9pm ET.
If you are interested, email Gina at embodyingempathy@gmail.com
August 5-9, 2012 we will have a 5 day residential retreat combining NVC with Belief Work and Inner Relationship Focusing. We will gather and stay at Tucker House, a beautiful old farmhouse where we sleep in shared rooms and prepare our own meals for a low cost residential retreat.
The 1 day French Language workshop entitled Conscious Communication originally scheduled for January 21, 2012 in Sutton, Quebec (Eastern Townships) has been rescheduled as a 1-1/2 day workshop March 24-25, 2012.
For information about the workshop, go to: www.sunshinecentre.ca 450-538-1111
The same program as the English language 5 month Program with much more time together – a whole 17 days of retreats – so we can go more deeply into Belief work and do the whole 4 levels of Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF), working on the parts of our psyche that are tangled and enmeshed in pain, stopping our movement forward in the world and inside of ourselves. This is the most in depth program, combining the deep teachings of Non duality with Inquiry, IRF and Wholebody Focusing, the Enneagram, Song and movement, and working with themes such as:
Gina is the only certified IRF teacher and NVC trainer in North America. She has offered years of both IRF and NVC together and individually to groups and individuals in aiding us to heal and transform our consciousness to enable us to live in the paradigm of collaboration, needs based consciousness and wholeness that NVC invites us to. Working professionally with individuals and groups for over 20 years, she has combined the wisdom teachings of non dual awareness, (she has studied with Adyashanti, Eckhart Tollé, A. H. Almaas, Pema Chödrön and other Buddhist teachers) Investigative Inquiry of all kinds (including Byron Katie’s The Work process) Wholebody and Inner Relationship Focusing, and learning to transition from scarcity, competition, contraction into fullness, freedom and deep meaning. Through 30 years of ongoing vipassana and mindfulness practice, as well as different methods of Bodywork, Parts work, Body Psychotherapy, and different group healing practices,
She also has focused on her own deep healing of many PTSD symptoms and trauma related illnesses, and with others who have the tracks of trauma in their psyche’s to release and move forward into life. She believes everyone has a certain level of trauma due to the way we live, interact, educate and treat ourselves and each other in this culture. A lot of her work is a process of unlearning, and of coming to our original nature. She uses the human voice through song, movement, art, and nature reconnection to aid us in stepping fully into our True Nature.
This program goes deeply into the individual healing we all need in order to live collectively in a way that promotes wholeness and unity. Click here for the flyer….
Gina has co led over 35 different year long programs in the last 9 years. In Québec, in French, with Marcelle Bélanger and Robert Bouchard she has co designed and led 1st year, 2nd and 3rd year programs, all spanning 17 days over a year long period. These programs are designed to fully integrate and share NVC. Themes for these retreats are:
In 2012 we are beginning our 9th year together, working with these very active, passionate and dedicated NVCer’s, inquiring how to make life more wonderful together. Gina is very grateful for this deep enriching work together, and how it has benefitted her life from all angles. There are currently 5-7 ongoing Yearlong programs in Québec, and the NVC community here is flourishing and is one of the strongest in the world. Gina is in the process of certifying those interested in working with the CNVC this year, and there are many others sharing NVC who are not choosing to be on that path at this time. What a deep celebration of life to live in a place where there is so much engagement and involvement in making life more wonderful in this way!
I am grateful for the many circle processes I have been deeply
involved in during my life – community building circles, peace maker circles, aboriginal circles, singing and dance circles to name a few. Now, having immersed myself in the Restorative Circles process, I am grateful to be offering two upcoming opportunities for all of us to deepen our understanding and experience of Restorative Circles. Duke Duchscherer and I will once again be offering our understanding and experience of Dominic Barter’s process of RC.
Gina Cenciose
The paradigm (or framework in which we place our understanding of reality) we’re currently living in makes assumptions, that most of us consciously and unconsciously live from. Some of these are beliefs in scarcity and lack, that someone needs to lose for us to win, that we have to use coercion, convincing, reason, manipulation or people pleasing to meet our needs and feel happy and fulfilled, for example. . These largely unconscious programs inform every aspect of our lives, and how we are interacting with ourselves, our families & friends, and the larger systems that we are embedded in.
To really transform our selves and society, I believe personal inner work and work towards societal change go hand in hand. If I am learning to embrace and transform my inner wounds, and transforming my thinking into a more life serving one, I naturally have more energy and motivation to contribute that energy to the structures that I live within. If I am looking at myself as disconnected from the whole, with my own unique brand of personal dysfunction instead of looking at the bigger picture of myself as part of the whole and as my individual symptoms as a sign of a much larger societal dysfunction, then I believe I have more inquiry and empathy to discover and experience. My experience is that when I look deeply at my thinking and my actions, I can see where I am still living from the program that I was raised with based on fear, shame and scarcity. When I notice myself justifying my actions or words, when I see myself abandoning my inner integrity to distract myself from suffering, when I see myself drift into my old habits of seeking comfort and security, I now know to inquire deeply into what I am assuming in the moment and feel grateful to move into a closer intimacy with the parts of my experience that I am fencing off.
I feel sad when I fall into thinking there is something wrong with me personally for acting in ways that do not fully honour who I am, instead of connecting to the knowing that I am a product of my civilization, therefore part of the whole.. I want to use my energy to transform my own self of course and that work gives me the energy to want to share my inner freedom with others and the systems we interact with, support and contribute to, everyday. We each have a lot of power to direct our energies towards lasting inner and outer change by transforming our thought systems that are largely based on our societal mass conditioning. In my experience, the support of a group of like- minded individuals or a whole community is a precious asset in going about transforming our automatic responses to responses based on choice and inner wisdom.
In my practice of NVC, I work with core belief inquiry and transformation to help me look at the root cause of my suffering, which is often in my conscious or sub conscious thinking processes, and I have often followed these thoughts down to the roots unconscious assumptions or beliefs. There are different ways to go about this, we can use transformative role-plays to access parts of ourselves that are holding pain in relation to a specific relationship, or event in the past.
Join Gina Cenciose (CNVC Certified Trainer and Assessor and Certified Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher) and Shulamit Day Berlevtov (NVC Facilitator and Certified Focusing Teacher and guide) for a 6-month telecourse to learn the basics of Inner Relationship Focusing and how to integrate it in your NVC practice. You will learn to experience yourself, your inner voices of criticism, judgment, shame and blame and your needs – freshly and from a more holistic angle.
Here is a description of what you can expect in the full 12-session NVC and Focusing Telecourse to be held bimonthly from 01/31/12 – 07/03/12:
Not certain NVC and Focusing is for you? Join Shulamit and Gina on January 24, 2012 to ask your questions and learn how NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing potentiate one another. You will also get a sense of the lived experiences you can look forward to in the full 12-session NVC and Focusing Telecourse as you witness an NVC-Focusing process live, in which the practitioner is supported in offering herself the same compassionate presence she would receive from her favorite empathy buddy.
What People Are Saying About This Course
“Learning the Inner Relationship Focusing process has enhanced my practice of self compassion. The specific steps of the process help me to slow down rather than resist or neutralize uncomfortable feelings. Gina and Shulamit ‘s classes blended learning and experience and they provided generous support materials. I’m very grateful for their guidance and help in developing new skills that support my NVC and inner work.”
— R.G., Cornville, AZ, USA
