The Art of Mindful Communication: Bringing Harmony to Relationships

Six-Week Series, with Lhasha Tizer, MS

Monday evenings from 6:15 to 7:45 February 3, 17, 24 & March 3, 10 ,17 

$180.00 * Sol Member discount applicable

Our ability to speak wisely and skillfully is based on our ability to listen fully and deeply, to ourselves and others. When we take time to look carefully at how we behave toward ourselves and others, we can see how our words and actions create both workable and un-workable relationships. Mindful communication is a process-oriented way of being with a willingness to engage our life just as it is.

For most of us the main way we communicate is through speech, the words we use and the emotional tone of these words. The patterns through which we engage in conversation determine, primarily, the quality of our lives.  With mindful intention, you can feel clearer, calmer, more confident and authentic in your communication.

This six week class series consists of training in mindfulness, meditation, Dharma talks, group discussion, and interactive dyad exercises.  From this teaching and training you will learn how to bring:

• Mindfulness and Communication into your life through pausing and meditation
• Ethical, non-harming speech to all your conversations
• The ability to listen to oneself as a form of present moment awareness
• Actualizing listening to others as a gateway to understanding and connection
• Speaking with intention as a way to “say what you mean”
• Presence as a way to bring harmonious communication to all aspects of your life

Lhasha Tizer, MS. is a certified Community Dharma Leader trained in Insight Meditation through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a long time practitioner and teacher of meditation and mindfulness, studying for 46 years, and has been teaching Buddhist Studies since 2010. Through Desert Insight Meditation, her teaching community, she offers classes, book groups, and retreats at Tucson Community Meditation Center and beyond. In her private practice, The Mindfulness Path, Lhasha guides, consults and provides individual instruction in mindful living, meditation practices, and mindful inquiry. Lhasha has a diverse background with a teaching certificate in “Chado”, The Japanese Way of Tea, with roots in Zen Buddhism. She has practiced as a Holistic Health Counselor, a Holistic nutritionist specializing in tea nutrition, and is a co-author of the book Tea Here Now. She is devoted to sharing the benefits of her personal studies and practices through her teachings with others, to enrich their lives with caring, non-harming, love, well-being, peace, and happiness.