Center for Contemplative Practice Workshop – Compassion 201: Boundaries as Self Compassion

The Center for Contemplative Practice invites you to register and attend the third in our fall 2022 “compassion in the workplace” series of workshops, titled, Compassion 201: Boundaries as Self Compassion. 

This workshop is being held on Friday, November 18th, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in CM332 on the Annandale Campus. You can register for this event by clicking on the title of the workshop above.

What is this workshop about? This is the workshop in which we practice the art, and skill, of saying, “No.” Bartleby, the Scrivener, is immortalized in literary history, not for what he did, but for how he stated his refusal: “I would prefer not to,” he so boldly told his employer in reply to a request. What arises in you when you imagine offering a refusal in your own workplace setting?

Navigating challenging conversations requires a specific set of compassion-related tools! Whether you’re trying to say “no” to an opportunity, to deliver uncomfortable news to a student, to navigate a misunderstanding, or something else altogether, the framework for compassionate communication can be pushed to its edges when discomfort, fear, uncertainty, and/or anger are alive in us or those with whom we’re communicating. In this workshop, we explore ways to navigate these occasions.

Building on what it means to imagine all circumstances without judgment, this workshop offers opportunities for participants to practice hearing the needs and feelings of others, while holding boundaries and managing one’s own inclination to react rather than to respond with a caring and present disposition. In doing so, we work to rediscover and renew the joy that brings us to the institution where we are called to serve.

Register for this event here.

Do you need accommodations to participate in this event? Send requests for accommodations to the host of this event at pfitzgerald@nvcc.edu, or cspiegel@nvcc.edu.

A vegetarian boxed lunch will be provided to all participants.

Submitted by:
Paul Fitzgerald, pfitzgerald@nvcc.edu