FREE Session 1. Free Yourself from Reactivity: 10-weeks to Emotional Liberation

Would you like...

• more self-control and ease in challenging situations?
• freedom from reacting to imaginary bullets coming at you?
• skills for getting back to fullness after being triggered?

Join us for a 10-week series focused on self-connection through Nonviolent Communication (NVC) practices. We're looking for 6 RSVPs to hold this event.

This is the first In-Person session of the 10 week series, where we'll lay the foundation, including an introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC), an overview of the series, Embodied Feelings, Self-Empathy.

The general structure of the sessions:

1. a lecture supported by a PowerPoint presentation,
2. a demonstration of the process being taught,
3. breakout/group practices, followed by
4. a harvesting debrief of the practices.

Testimonials (click here for more):

• As a homeschooling mom and working professional, I am constantly in the midst of high-demand situations. Reactivity was a huge issue for me, one that I felt hopeless to overcome. However, the tools that James empowered me with during the first half of the course have empowered me to free myself from reactivity for the last 6 weeks! James is very well organized with the content and the method of delivery... Ratika Dayaldasani

Benefits of 10-week Series:

• You will feel inner peace, contentment and happiness more often
• The frequency and intensity of your triggered reactions will diminish with practice
• You will learn tools to find and maintain self-connection, and to return more quickly when you're triggered
• Your community and peers will notice more stability in how you show up

About the 10-week Series:
We will meet as a group once a week for 1.5 - 2 hours. Sessions typically will start with self-connection practices, followed by breakout groups of 2-3 people for everyone to check-in. After re-connecting in the larger group, we'll dive into various self-connection practices based on NVC -- there's a combination of structured learning and improv learning through large group and small group practices. Finally, we close out the group with a "check-out" of how we're feeling after spending time together. After closing the core session, a smaller group spends another 30 minutes of unstructured discussions and questions.

• The presentation slide PDF is sent to series-registered participants before the session
• All series-registered participants will have the opportunity to practice independently with others through a rotating practice buddy system (1 or 2 calls per week for 30 minutes)
• Optional homework is assigned each week

Learning Objectives of 10-week Series:

• Cultivate wholeness practices (four facets of the self)
• Recognize when you're triggered into unconscious reactions
• Identify your types of unconscious reactions
• Discover strategies to interrupt reactions
• Make conscious choices to take personal responsibility of thoughts, judgments, feelings, needs
• Recognize and step out of your preferred role in the Karpman Drama Triangle
• Identify the stories, judgments, implicit bias that you hold
• Translate judgmental thoughts to uncover your personal truth
• Iterate through your experiences to identify core needs/values
• Transform regret into self-forgiveness and peace
• Develop awareness and fluency of your universal human needs/values
• Develop your own daily self-connection practice to free yourself from reactivity
• Tap into your natural curiosity, creativity and insight -- listen for strategies
• Create clear-doable strategies for meeting your needs/values

Series Weekly Agenda (each number is a different session)

1. Foundation for NVC Self-Empathy, Embodiment of Feelings
2. Cultivating Wholeness, Life Energy of Needs, Needs Flower
3. Enlightened Inner-Giraffe, Triggers
4. Observations, Power, Karpman Drama Triangle
5. Blaming Words, Transforming Judgments, Hard-to-hear Messages
6. Self-Acceptance, Warmth and Integration
7. Appeasement, The Vortex of Submission
8. Vortex of Submission Continued
9. Beneficial Regret (“Mourning in Giraffe”)
10. Guilt & Shame, Healing Honesty Role Plays

Closed/Drop-In Group: We'll close the group if at least 8 people register for the 10-week series -- otherwise, it will remain a drop-in group. Benefits of Closed Group:

• Receive slides PDF before the session
• Consistency creates community
• "opt-in" to a sliding empathy buddy schedule outside of class

Series Tuition: if interested in the full 10-wk series, please send money through Venmo @Jaime-L-Prieto-Jr, or Zelle through your bank "james.prieto@gmail.com" (phone ends in 2026) or least favorite because 3.5% fee PayPal @jamesprieto. Discounts available. No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Requested Tuition: $200