This workshop guides you, step-by-step, through a process that frees you from harmful emotional entanglements in relationships and conflicts. You can overcome relationship failures and remain peaceful when others (or your own inner critic) seem to be blaming, shaming, criticizing, grasping or being indifferent toward you. You’ll discover how to draw on your intuitive “knowing” wisdom to skillfully resolve such problems. In this self-guided program, you will break free from being the victim of your tumbling, ever-changing emotions.Connect with your innate ability to achieve creative freedom and contentment. This workshop will awaken your innate ability to relate to others from a posture of spacious open-heartedness and equanimity-allowing you to creatively interact with the world from a place of inner strength, confidence and joy. You will increase your capacity to do the right thing at the right time, and in the right way with ease — cultivating a natural intelligence that will guide you to successfully accomplish whatever you wish to achieve in your life.

Through an ancient Buddhist investigative questioning and listening method, you can access your direct intuitive knowing so that you are better able to release emotional stress; resolve relationship conflicts with friends, strangers and even enemies; and realize your highest creative potential.

Introduction

Topics covered in this session include:

• Getting to know Dr. Laura Greenwood
• About the workshop
• Goals and getting the most out of your sessions

Session 1 – Have You Suffered Enough?

Topics covered in this session include:

• Explore the nature of perception, emotional intelligence and change
• Emotional stress and the mind of equanimity
• Becoming your own therapist (an inner technology)
• Query meditation

Session 2 – Life Is Not Perfect: Change and Reactive Emotions

Topics covered in this session include:

• Managing emotional patterns
• Implementing change
• Emotional stress and the immune system
• The role of compassion and appreciation

Session 3 – The Friend and the Nature of Attachment

Topics covered in this session include:

• Attachment to others
• Opinions about your self
• Material possessions

Session 4 – The Enemy and the Nature of Anger

• Emotional costs of anger
• Expressing anger
• Tolerance – the antidote to anger

Session 5 – The Stranger and the Nature of Indifference

• Buddhist and Western definitions
• Recognizing interdependence – the antidote to indifference

Session 6 – Bringing It All Together

• Friend, enemy and stranger
• Equanimity
• Skillful practice and transformation