Managing Conflict Compassionately with Tenzin Chogkyi
April 11 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Fridays, April11, 18, and 25, 10:30am – noon on ZOOM
This course is suited for anyone interested in gaining insight and practice in understanding and reducing conflict. Participants will gain a greater understanding of how conflict works, why it happens, and practical skills and steps we can use to address conflict using an informative, interactive, and fun process. The aim is to improve our capacity to listen without defensiveness, speak without offending, find common ground, and reach mutually satisfying solutions.
Participants will find that the skills learned in this training also greatly benefit their interactions at work, at home, and in the community.
This course will help you:
- Understand how and why we react to conflict
- Investigate your own conflict style
- Learn how to manage your own emotional reactions
- Review and practice active listening skills
- Express yourself clearly and confidently
- Find common ground and satisfying solutions
Class format: This class will be presented as three 90-minute sessions using the Zoom platform. Attendance and active participation in all three sessions is required. You must have a working camera and microphone to participate.
We are asking for a donation of $50 for this course. The donation will be shared by the teacher and Mindfulness | Meditation | Buddhism at All Souls. That said, no-one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Your motivation to do the course is what matters most. Class size is limited. To register, email Rebecca Izuchokwu at rebecca@allsoulsnyc.org
About the teacher: Tenzin Chogkyi (she/her/hers) is a teacher of workshops and programs that bridge the worlds of Buddhist thought, contemplative practice, mental and emotional cultivation, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. Tenzin first became interested in meditation in the early 1970s and then started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in early 1991 during a year she spent studying in
India and Nepal. She completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period and took monastic ordination with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, practicing as a monastic for nearly 20 years. Since 2006 she has been teaching in Buddhist centers around the world and taught in prisons for 15 years. Currently based on traditional Awaswas Ohlone land, in what is now known as Santa Cruz, CA, she teaches locally at Insight Santa Cruz and the Wisdom Center, is a regular visiting teacher for the San Francisco Dharma Collective, and Lion’s Roar Dharma Center in Sacramento.
She is also a certified teacher of Compassion Cultivation Training and the Cultivating Emotional Balance program. Tenzin is especially interested in bringing the wisdom of Buddhism into modern culture and into alignment with modern cultural values such as racial and gender justice and environmental awareness. She feels strongly that a genuine and meaningful spiritual path includes not only personal transformation, but social and cultural transformation as well.
She loves interfaith collaboration and is a volunteer for the Interfaith Speakers Bureau of the Islamic Networks Group in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and also volunteers for Second Harvest Food Bank and the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County. You can find her current teaching schedule as well as an archive of podcasts, audio, and video teachings at unlockingtruehappiness.org.