Wed February 5, 2014
Self-Empowerment Workshop, Especially for Singles
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at Impact HUB Oakland
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Cultural messages suggest that we’ll be happier, healthier, and wealthier if only we could find that “special someone.” These messages lead us to downplay the importance of our other relationships. Putting all of our energy into one relationship can leave that relationship strained by overly high expectations. It can also leave us rather lonely and isolated, especially if this coupled relationship ends. And it can leave us feeling like second-class citizens if we remain single.
This workshop is designed to empower people to look beyond pervasive cultural messages that tell us that the only way to complete our happiness is through a romantic coupled relationship. It helps us learn to enrich our lives through cultivating all of our relationships, thus increasing resilience by deepening our friendships with compassion and raised awareness.
In this 2-hour workshop, we will:
➢ Take a closer look at the cultural messages around coupling and singlehood,
➢ Learn about two newly researched stereotypes: Singlism and couplemania, and
➢ Practice powerful tools to counteract those stereotypes by separating our needs from our strategies.
Participants will leave this workshop with:
➢ Renewed confidence to create happiness in their lives,
➢ The courage to design relationships as diverse as they are,
➢ Greater awareness of cultural messages that contribute to distress, and
➢ More compassion in their life directed toward self and others.
Rachel A. Buddeberg specializes in empowering people to create lives and relationships as unique as they are and free themselves from cultural norms that prevent them from thriving. She works as an empowerment coach, writer, and dancer. She offers one-on-one coaching and workshops to guide participants through an iterative design process. This allows them to build sustainability and fun into their relationships, no matter what their level of intimacy, and to build a life that they love. She combines training in compassionate communication (NVC), philosophy, social psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology to provide powerful tools and guidance to support change. Everything she teaches she first implemented in her own life, so her methods are well tested in the real world. To find out more about her work, please check out https://www.yourlifeisagarden.com.
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This workshop is designed to empower people to look beyond pervasive cultural messages that tell us that the only way to complete our happiness is through a romantic coupled relationship. It helps us learn to enrich our lives through cultivating all of our relationships, thus increasing resilience by deepening our friendships with compassion and raised awareness.
In this 2-hour workshop, we will:
➢ Take a closer look at the cultural messages around coupling and singlehood,
➢ Learn about two newly researched stereotypes: Singlism and couplemania, and
➢ Practice powerful tools to counteract those stereotypes by separating our needs from our strategies.
Participants will leave this workshop with:
➢ Renewed confidence to create happiness in their lives,
➢ The courage to design relationships as diverse as they are,
➢ Greater awareness of cultural messages that contribute to distress, and
➢ More compassion in their life directed toward self and others.
Rachel A. Buddeberg specializes in empowering people to create lives and relationships as unique as they are and free themselves from cultural norms that prevent them from thriving. She works as an empowerment coach, writer, and dancer. She offers one-on-one coaching and workshops to guide participants through an iterative design process. This allows them to build sustainability and fun into their relationships, no matter what their level of intimacy, and to build a life that they love. She combines training in compassionate communication (NVC), philosophy, social psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology to provide powerful tools and guidance to support change. Everything she teaches she first implemented in her own life, so her methods are well tested in the real world. To find out more about her work, please check out https://www.yourlifeisagarden.com.
Cultural messages suggest that we’ll be happier, healthier, and wealthier if only we could find that “special someone.” These messages lead us to downplay the importance of our other relationships. Putting all of our energy into one relationship can leave that relationship strained by overly high expectations. It can also leave us rather lonely and isolated, especially if this coupled relationship ends. And it can leave us feeling like second-class citizens if we remain single.
This workshop is designed to empower people to look beyond pervasive cultural messages that tell us that the only way to complete our happiness is through a romantic coupled relationship. It helps us learn to enrich our lives through cultivating all of our relationships, thus increasing resilience by deepening our friendships with compassion and raised awareness.
In this 2-hour workshop, we will:
➢ Take a closer look at the cultural messages around coupling and singlehood,
➢ Learn about two newly researched stereotypes: Singlism and couplemania, and
➢ Practice powerful tools to counteract those stereotypes by separating our needs from our strategies.
Participants will leave this workshop with:
➢ Renewed confidence to create happiness in their lives,
➢ The courage to design relationships as diverse as they are,
➢ Greater awareness of cultural messages that contribute to distress, and
➢ More compassion in their life directed toward self and others.
Rachel A. Buddeberg specializes in empowering people to create lives and relationships as unique as they are and free themselves from cultural norms that prevent them from thriving. She works as an empowerment coach, writer, and dancer. She offers one-on-one coaching and workshops to guide participants through an iterative design process. This allows them to build sustainability and fun into their relationships, no matter what their level of intimacy, and to build a life that they love. She combines training in compassionate communication (NVC), philosophy, social psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology to provide powerful tools and guidance to support change. Everything she teaches she first implemented in her own life, so her methods are well tested in the real world. To find out more about her work, please check out https://www.yourlifeisagarden.com.
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This workshop is designed to empower people to look beyond pervasive cultural messages that tell us that the only way to complete our happiness is through a romantic coupled relationship. It helps us learn to enrich our lives through cultivating all of our relationships, thus increasing resilience by deepening our friendships with compassion and raised awareness.
In this 2-hour workshop, we will:
➢ Take a closer look at the cultural messages around coupling and singlehood,
➢ Learn about two newly researched stereotypes: Singlism and couplemania, and
➢ Practice powerful tools to counteract those stereotypes by separating our needs from our strategies.
Participants will leave this workshop with:
➢ Renewed confidence to create happiness in their lives,
➢ The courage to design relationships as diverse as they are,
➢ Greater awareness of cultural messages that contribute to distress, and
➢ More compassion in their life directed toward self and others.
Rachel A. Buddeberg specializes in empowering people to create lives and relationships as unique as they are and free themselves from cultural norms that prevent them from thriving. She works as an empowerment coach, writer, and dancer. She offers one-on-one coaching and workshops to guide participants through an iterative design process. This allows them to build sustainability and fun into their relationships, no matter what their level of intimacy, and to build a life that they love. She combines training in compassionate communication (NVC), philosophy, social psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology to provide powerful tools and guidance to support change. Everything she teaches she first implemented in her own life, so her methods are well tested in the real world. To find out more about her work, please check out https://www.yourlifeisagarden.com.
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