Green Zone Podcast
Green Zone Podcast ep.2 – The Rat Story with Susan Gillis Chapman
Susan tells a story of how — out of the blue — surprises can take us to the limit of our comfort zone. And even a little beyond.
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Green Zone Podcast, episode 1: “Anger and Creating Skillful Boundaries.”
Our founder, Buddhist teacher and author of The Five Keys to Mindful Communication Susan Gillis Chapman shines light on this important topic. How can we stay open and also maintain healthy boundaries?
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Susan’s Gillis Chapman on “An Organic Conversation”
Click here to listen The topic is listening as love. To me, this is the magic of mindful communication. Here’s a simple formula for this: Stop – Look – Listen. STOP: The first stage of mindful listening is to work with our speed and distraction. We need to simply stop, let go, Read more…
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CNN – Susan Chapman on Tech Addiction
Susan Chapman’s approach to mindful communication showed up recently on CNN’s website, in an article on Tech Addiction by Amanda Enayati: When someone’s tech addiction causes you stress “….Communication is the essence of human relationships, says Susan Gillis Chapman, author of the book The Five Keys to Mindful Communication. “She Read more…
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Susan Chapman: “Building a Green Zone Culture: Cooking Me into We”
This summer I performed two wedding ceremonies. Both couples were obviously in love and expressed their vows to each other with deep, tearful authenticity, witnessed by family and friends. My husband was there to give me a hand. He and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, still in Read more…
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The Problem with Cultivating Distractions
In The Five Keys To Mindful Communication, I write about the ‘positive interruptions’ that come from learning to pay attention to the messages from our environment, from our felt experiences and from the wonder of not knowing what will happen next. This story from the New Work Times is the Read more…
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“The Five Keys of Mindful Communication” published in German
Susan Chapman’s The Five Keys to Mindful Communication has finally been translated into German. Please pass word along to German speakers you know! Susan Chapman ist Die fünf Schlüssel zur achtsamen Kommunikation endlich ins Deutsche übersetzt worden. Bitte leiten Sie entlang zu Wort Deutsch sprechen Sie wissen!
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New Year’s Intention: A Mindful Heart
2013 dawned in Vancouver as a foggy morning that gradually dissolved into brilliant sunshine. After weeks of rain, people were smiling, practically dancing in the streets. I remembered a poem that friend gave me, the image of a mountain enshrouded in mist that slowly becomes clearer as the sun Read more…
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Letter to the Killer’s Mother
Dear Nancy, By now the whole world knows who you are, and maybe there are some, like me, who lie awake at night wondering how it was for you, those last few moments. Or perhaps it had been hours, days, weeks. You are–were– a single mother with an unusual child, Read more…
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Summer’s Tail
A sharpness is on the Summer’s tail, The healing breeze of Summer yields To the bitter wind of Wintertime. If this was a signal to you, bird, Then you would know the seasons not Themselves, but as a turning wheel*. The night before last, getting off my bicycle after Read more…