Description
Tired of the Same Family Breakdowns? Ready for More Connection, Cooperation and Love?
Can’t it just be a little easier?
You work hard to keep your family happy.
But despite all the good work you do, somehow things aren’t meshing.
Little things creep in, and suddenly a good day transforms into unwelcome drama that drags you all down.
Is there any way to navigate the day which allows you all to thrive and enjoy each other?
The answer is yes, but it involves understanding how these family dramas get built out of simple emotional moments that most of us have been taught to mishandle.
How Can We Find Our Way Back?
The place to start is to identify when these moments are happening. Then we need to know what to do.
In this gentle, easy, prerecorded course, you’ll learn:
how to use your basic human nature to figure out what is happening
how to create a kind relationship with your own anxiety and negative tendencies
how to come to peace with your family as a changing, dynamic community
We promise: we won’t tell you rules you cannot keep, or demand you speak to each other with scripts you cannot remember. Instead, we’ll help you connect with your genuine heart so you can celebrate again — together.
Our Method is Well Tested
This workshop uses the approach presented in The Five Keys to Mindful Communication by retired Marriage and Family Therapist and senior Buddhist teacher Susan Gillis Chapman. Chapman developed this unique material by combining traditional wisdom teachings from Tibet and India with a modern Western psychological orientation.
This deep-but-simple approach allows you to more quickly and easily manage heightened emotions. It can also offer you a foundation of calm which can lead to more truthful, compassionate, and flexible relationships.
This easy recorded course is particularly important for families who:
✅ feel stuck in uncomfortable patterns
✅ don’t know how to talk to each other
✅ end up silent and shut down
✅ want to rediscover their love for each other
✅ wish there was a way to feel close again
✅ want to get through the day with less drama
✅ are managing different styles & personalities
✅ want all members to thrive and be happy
Length of Course
This pre-recorded course will take approximately 2hrs total, over a number of lessons which are about 15min each. Our aim is that this course should be workable in the midst of your normal, everyday life without much extra effort or stress.
Understanding the Relationship Traffic Light
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Imagine knowing exactly when to let something go and when to keep talking it through. -
Imagine feeling confident making healthy and strong rules and boundaries.
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Imagine creating the trust for everyone to be honest with each other.
The Three Lights is a fundamental model for relationships that is complex enough for life’s most complicated situations but easy enough that kids can use it.
Learning how to read a situation properly — including reading our own mind and emotions — allows us to know how to navigate complicated and changing dynamics.
Trying to work with your teenager’s moods? Your spouse’s stress? You own loss of heart? Your aging parents’ anxieties?
This simple, practical and yet profound model can help you on any day, in any situation.
Presenter
Gregory Heffron MFA
Executive Director, Senior Teacher
Greg is the Executive Director of the Green Light Communication and teaches Mindful Communication throughout North America and Europe.
“Through the years, I have been privileged to witness how effective Mindful Communication is — whether I’m teaching basic mindfulness to newcomers, or diving deep with advanced meditators and those in the helping professions. Everyone benefits.“
In addition to an array of introductory courses, Greg has developed and teaches Green Light Communication’s Advanced Certification and Teacher Training courses across three continents, and in countries with cultures as diverse as Ukraine, Canada, Austria, Chile, United States, Switzerland, Poland and Holland.
“For me, it has been humbling and inspiring teaching across cultures, feeling each person’s uniqueness and our shared humanity. Regardless of who we are, we ALL struggle with disconnection, and we ALL long to feel connected.“
“In my own life, I have experienced a groundswell in my capacity to navigate life’s communication challenges, and feel more and more connected to myself — and to humanity as a whole.”
