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Training Staff at a Buddhist Retreat Center in France
In 2015, Greg Heffron trained the staff at Dechen Choling Buddhist Retreat Center near Limoges, France. ...
Influencing our Relationships and Future Through Mindful Communication
Greg Heffron’s interview on Meditation Freedom: “The easiest way to understand it is that we’re already ...
5-week Interactive Video Course – Oct 15, 2016
If you’ve studied the book and want to go deeper with a cohort of other ...
Compassion is a Relationship of Equals
The Green Light: being vulnerable ourselves, we understand directly the vulnerability of others. ...
“Playfulness” Creates Custom Hospital Gowns
The fifth key to Mindful Communication is “Playfulness” (or “Responsiveness”). It’s the fruition of the ...
NOT Telling Someone that They’re Shut Down
Telling someone that they’re in the Red Light (of communication shut down) is pretty much ...
A TV Journalist Feels Sad
To feel sadness — to deeply feel real sadness that comes from compassion — is ...
We Forget to Stay Mad When Something Interrupts
We can’t choose to get ourselves out of our Red Light shutdown. By the time ...
Loss is Real
Green Light anger is possible, but rage is not that. Rage is just smoke and ...
Being Sent to the “Mindful Moment Room”
“When a student is referred to the Mindful Moment Room, he goes through breathing and ...
Being Awake Means All the Way Until the End of Life
Being Awake means that we’re in relationship with our world and everyone in it, even ...
The Psychology of Why Americans Are Afraid of Historically Low Crime Levels
When we work to suppress the “Yellow Light” experience of our human uncertainty, anxiety and ...