This 5-day course is an active learning experience where you can:
Breathe, feel, share, think and play your way toward a more mindful, equanimous, and holistic sense of your self and your world.
Increase your ability to stay connected with yourself and relate to others through mindful observation and deep empathy, especially in challenging or uncomfortable situations.
Appreciate the diversity of human experience and deepen your relationship to your own sensual, sexual, and spiritual selves.
Move toward full acceptance of your authentic emotional and erotic selves.
Workshop Highlights
Shift our relationships to emotions toward a mindful, equanimous, and wholistic literacy
Increase our emotional skills and relationship to self
Increase our ability to relate to others through mindful observation and deep empathy, especially in challenging or uncomfortable situations
Appreciate the diversity of human sexuality and be curious about our own relationships to it
Move toward full acceptance of our authentic emotional and erotic selves
Workshop Instructor
Karen BK Chan
Karen BK Chan has been a practicing sex and emotional literacy educator for 23 years in Canada and the USA. She is trained in Creative Facilitation, Productive Thinking, and Non-Violent Communication. Developing emotional and erotic intelligences has changed her life. Her practices enabled her to face challenging life situations with ease and courage, to remain connected to herself and loved ones. Her teaching style prioritizes experience, play and humour, and supportive risk-taking. By incorporating different modes of learning – mindful practice, discussion, reflection, and embodied games – BK supports her students to stretch and thrive at their own pace. http://www.fluidexchange.org
About the Workshop
The course is divided into 7 parts, mirroring the components of emotional intelligence, and how they intersect with mindfulness practice.
Awareness
Embodiment
Expression
Empathy
Resilience
Authenticity
Diversity of human experience
Through experience, theory, practice, reflection, and synthesis, participants are guided through a framework to become aware of, accept, regulate, and thrive with their changing emotional landscapes. Risk-taking and trust-building are intrinsic to the process.
Workshop Program
Arrival and departure
The workshop will begin Monday, Feb 10, 2020.
9am session opens for registered participants.
Daily Schedule
6:15/6:30 Yoga/Meditation
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Community Morning Meeting End of Noble Silence
9:30 – 11.30 Working Meditation
12:30 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Retreat/Workshop
16:30 – 17:30 Yoga/Meditation
17:00 – 18:00 Silent Steam Bath
18:30 Dinner
19:45 – 21:00 Evening Activity
21:30 Noble Silence (until Community Morning Meeting/8:30 next day)
February 10, 2020