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All communication is a conversation. Our unique mindfulness-based training approach brings out our innate human capacities — allowing us to be clear, compassionate, genuine and effective. Our courses and retreats are based on The Five Keys to Mindful Communication by author and mindfulness teacher Susan Gillis Chapman and the work of mindfulness teacher and Executive Director Greg Heffron.
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You Deserve More Fulfilling Relationships! How to Truly Get Along with Your Partner, Family and Friends… Without Giving In or Giving Up
THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR THOSE NEW TO MINDFULNESS AND MINDFUL COMMUNICATION who want to improve the disconnection in their work lives, family lives, romantic lives, friendships and more.
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The Five Keys to Mindful Communication: 5 Week Online Course
THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE FOR ANYONE IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS OR EXPERIENCED MEDITATORS. Ideal for therapists, medical professionals, coaches, mediators or mindfulness trainers who want to apply their own mindfulness for a more truthful, compassionate, and flexible relationship with their clients, thereby making them more effective and helpful. Experienced meditators will also benefit from this deeper and richer exploration of …
Our Programs
Click for a unique guided meditation on our “Natural Communication System”
Green Zone Institute programs utilize mindfulness meditation and the techniques of Contemplative Psychology and the Contemplative Arts. Mindful Communication goes beyond communication skill building. While learning new skills is important, if we don’t identify and relate to the emotional states we inhabit during challenging communication, following “correct” rules or patterns will still produce harmful and ineffective results. In contrast, if we learn to recognize and take advantage of our natural open state of mind (‘The Green Light’), communication can be genuine, fresh and lively. This allows for creative and unexpected solutions with connection and precision, honesty and care.
Senior Instructor Greg Heffron interviewed by Lydia Greyheart for the radio show Love, Sex and Everything Between
Greg describes the natural state of open communication, and how by suppressing our innate mindfulness, we end up closing down.
Greg Heffron: What is Mindful Communication?
Greg Heffron — life’s constant communication
Susan Chapman: Open & Closed Communication
Susan Gillis Chapman explains how being open is our natural state
INTERVIEWS
Click to hear interviews with Susan Gillis Chapman and Greg Heffron (and others) about The Five Keys to Mindful Communication and the different programs we offer.
PUBLICATIONS
Learn about The Three Lights in Susan Gillis Chapman’s article in the Shambhala Sun’s Mindful Living.
