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Speak Your Truth, Listen Deeply

Teacher: Felicity Joan Hart
Cost: 2 days accommodation + R400 surcharge
Dates: Wednesday 05 March 2025 - Friday 07 March 2025

felicity joan hart “When you are busy judging people, you have no time to love them.” Marshall Rosenberg
Learn the life-enhancing practices of mindful awareness and non-violent communication with Felicity Joan Hart.
When interacting with others, we often find ourselves triggered and then communicate in ways that hurt or harm - ourselves, the other, or the relationship between. Our conditioned ideas of what it means to communicate, especially during times of conflict, frequently results in a loss of connection. Judgement and defence, as well as the strategies of criticism, insults, blame, or put-downs are commonly used in our attempt to be heard or to meet our need to be “right,” “good” or “winning.” Despite our best efforts and intentions, we habitually become “violent” with our words and then feel the pain of disconnection.

What to expect.

This retreat explores the principles and practices of mindfulness and non-violent communication (NVC), to foster connection and minimize the suffering of outmoded ways of engaging. You will practise both intra-personal and inter-personal mindfulness to cultivate skills of empathy, compassion, and a better understanding of yourself and others. Together, these practices will help you communicate more consciously so that you learn to be aware of your feelings and needs, make requests to meet these needs and stay open to the feelings and needs of others.

You can expect daily mindful meditation practice to support the empowering and enriching teachings of NVC and some down time for rest and relaxation.

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 Felicity Joan Hart is a teacher, mindfulness facilitator, wisdom keeper, Anam Ċara and coach whose work focuses on spirituality as it relates to all aspects of our lives and being. A dedicated practitioner of yoga, mindfulness, and meditation for almost 40 years, her work is very much informed by these modalities. She holds an Honours Degree in Psychology, a certification in Mindfulness-Based Interventions from the University of Stellenbosch, as well as international coaching qualifications. Felicity is an enthusiastic student and teacher of Non-Violent communication as developed by Dr Marshall Rosenberg.
Her teaching style.
“Felicity facilitates what is needed moment-by-moment, sometimes gentle, sometimes fierce and always with a humorous twinkle that invites the unexpected. She holds space for mindfulness, courageous action and for the disappointments that are inevitable when addressing deeply imprinted patterns of behaviour.” (LDC)
“As the facilitator, Felicity has the remarkable ability to be both intuitive, gentle, safe and compassionate, and at the same time assertive, forceful, fiercely supportive, and encouraging as needed.”(LB)