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Week 1 – Oct 17, 2019

Welcome to the course community.

Meditation on Natural Communication System (Awake Body, Tender Heart, Open Mind)

Talk topic: “The Green Light”

• Green Light and Self-Trust
• Green Light and Genuine Pleasure

Also: overview of Green Zones, the Book, Online Discussion Groups, Attendance

Week 2 – Oct 24, 2019

Special Session with Susan Chapman on “Collective Trauma and the Five Keys.”

Susan’s helpful lecture notes can be found here.

Week 3 – Oct 31, 2019

Opening Circle – Why did we go beyond the basics and take the advanced course?

• The Creation of Duality
• Creating “Realms”
• Feedback – when we put out Red Light energy, we get it back
• “Stop When the Light is Red”

Still Face Video

Week 4 – Nov 5, 2019

• Yellow Light
• Liminal States (“between this and that”)
• The Raw Energy of Anxiety
  • don’t have a story to channel energy into
• The Roots of Self-Attack
  • no container for the experience
  • first storyline reflexively includes (attacks) ourselves
• bringing Green Zone to Yellow Light to return our confidence/agency
  • allowing the Yellow Light to really speak and be held
  • the way back to self-connection and self-confidence

• refusal – experience should never be this strong
• stillness-bias – calmness is always the goal/ disruption is ‘problem’
• irritation – solidifying the ‘source’ of unwelcome experience
• shutting down – suppressing awareness

Week 5 – Nov 14, 2019

• Practice – 5min Nat Comm Sys
• Yellow Light conversation
  • what is the Yellow Light really
• Mindfulness and Awareness
  • Masculine/Feminine Principles
  • Three Places to Bring our Mindfulness (Outer, Inner, Secret)
• Discussion of Green Zone Schedule

Week 6 – Nov 21, 2019

• What Do We Know That’s Not From the Body?
• “Psychosomatic body”
• Going Beyond Hesitation with the Body

• “Refusal” – experience should never be this strong
  • Interruption: Spacious Body
• Stillness Bias – calmness is always the goal, disruption is ‘problem’
  • Interruption: Spacious Heart
• Irritation: solidifying the ‘source’ of unwelcome experience
  • Interruption: Spacious Mind
• Shutting Down: Suppressing Awareness
  • Interruption: Atmosphere of Awareness

Week 7 – Nov 28, 2019

• Meditation
• Discussion of Innocence and Bravery
• Awareness of Tender Heart
  • Some skeptical of tender heart
  • Natural flicker between parts of nat comm sys
  • The Green/Yellow/Red Lights of Naming Our Emotions
  • Listening with the Heart: story of Colleen

Week 8 – Dec 5, 2019

• guided meditation on mental contents
• duality between “concept” and “non-concept”
• “mudra” – Finger pointing to the moon
  • Concept that points to non-concept
• even “breath” is a concept

Week 9 – Dec 12, 2019

• Mindful Listening – “bringing out the gold”
  • The “Pure Gold” of Basic Goodness
• Like a Mountain
• Unapologetic Living
• opera of experience (Pagliacci video)
• mindfulness of life
• 360 circle??
• Total Gratitude
  • guided meditation on total gratitude

Week 10 – Jan 2, 2020

• Dualistic concepts of worth
  • vs. unconditional worth
• Four Stages of Contempt (Red Light pattern)
  • exercise where Greg demonstrates arrogance/contempt
  • overview of Four Stages

Week 11 – Jan 9, 2020

• Leadership: Lids vs. Flowers approach to mentoring
• “Encouragement” as remedy for Yellow Light crisis

Week 12 – Jan 16, 2020

• Positive Interruptions
• Interruptions to Four Stages of Contempt
• News about Green Zone Institute (“Healing the Inner Climate Crisis”)

Week 13 (no class previous week) – Jan 30, 2020

clarifying the Three Lights in group conversation

Week 14 – Feb 6, 2020

The Three Lights, moment by moment.

Week 15 – Feb 13, 2020

• Truth as Medicine
  • “Speaking Truth, Neither Exaggerating Nor Suppressing”
  • Practice – simple truth of body, heart, mind, world
  • Speaking in a way that can be heard
    • why talk if nobody can understand?
  • Seeing Boundaries = Peaceful
  • Exercise: dyad on something in your life that’s too big to fix, where you there only option is patience, acceptance, sadness
    • • esp patterns where truth isn’t being acknowledged

Week 16 – February 20, 2020

Week 17 – February 27, 2020

Teacher Training in the Fall

Meditation on Truth of Pain

• using Yellow Light, Red Light, Green Light narratives

Feedback Loop of Red Lights/Green Lights

Genuineness of Green Light

Mirroring

• with exercise re: Greg’s complaint about L.A. drivers

Week 18 – March 5, 2020

• The Interruptions to The Four Stages of Heartlessness
  • Awake Body as antidote for Complaint/Silencing
    • awkward posture with gong
  • Tender Heart as antidote for Divisiveness
    • list of generalizations/categories
  • Open Mind as antidote for Blaming
    • extending/embracing
  • An Awake Attitude Towards “Peace & Reconciliation” (antidote to Retaliation)
    • have human societies healed?

Week 19 – March 12, 2020

• The Living “Mirage” of Relationship
• The Floating World…
• Relationship and Discernment
• Becoming a “Connoisseur” of Connection

Week 20 – March 19, 2020

• Check in about Coronavirus
• Pragmatics of Running Green Zones
• Mandala of the Yellow Lights Fears (“I’m afraid that I’m…”)
• The Four Stages of Mindless Heart
  • Emotional hunger
  • Disconnect
  • Freezing an Object of Joy
  • Manipulation/Dependent Strategies

Week 21 – March 26, 2020

• Green Zones
  • checklist for Talking Circles
• When the Light is Red Stop
  • Role Playing Practice for Mindless Heart with Mary
• All relationship starts with space
• Feeling connection vs. manufacturing connection
• Feeling Closeness Includes Feeling Distance
• Boundaries vs. Barriers in terms of intimacy

Week 22 – April 2, 2020

• Healthcare workers
• Mary’s adapting to my red light – when I escalated further into Red
• Interruptions to The Four Stages of Mindless Heart
  • Interruption to Emotional hunger
    • Awake Body: experiment with creating pleasure (touching the forearm) with Nina Simone music
  • Interruption to Disconnect
    • Tender Heart – Partner Skit: “I feel so connected to you because…”
  • Freezing an Object of Joy – objectification
    • Open Mind: does securing sources of pleasure produce happiness?
  • Manipulation – must secure resources
    • Falling in Love with Reality

Week 23 – April 9, 2020

• when Green Zone is not working, take it back to basics
• also: reawaken intentions of group
• Red Light in green zones

Week 24 – April 16, 2020