Nonviolent Communication is a spiritual social change process in which the words that we choose are rooted in the heart so as to express what we care for and love. We speak in such a way as to inspire the other to respond with compassion. Internal Family Systems is a process that invites the letting go of the wall of pain and defensiveness that lies between who we really are and how we show up.

Next Workshop Sunday 23rd November 10-5pm

Cae Lal LL57 4BY. 1mile behind Bangor Tesco (follow sat nav)

I am asking a sliding scale of £20 – £50, giving more supports this event to be sustainable and enables me to offer less to those with low finacial capacity. Included in this payment is a contribution to Bethan and Adam for the hire of the space. If this is a stretch for you, please get in touch. Please email me at Rik@RikMidgley.co.uk to register your interest, and bring some vegetarian food to share.

I am offering a series of participatory workshops to explore how compassionate awareness can nurture personal empowerment through the understanding and befriending of what is tangibly alive in the body. It is a process of learning and finding acceptance for who we are by connecting with the underlying life enriching reason that drives our thoughts, speech and actions. This is founded in the core principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which recognises that everything everyone does is driven by human needs that are universal for everyone. Both in relationship and with ourselves, we can use words to connect deeper to what is of value and to support us to move towards an outcome that we would love. At the heart of this work is the invitation for you to step up into your own power through the learning, familiarisation and loving of yourself so as to enable you to make life choices that are more fulfilling of your own needs as well as the needs others in your life.

Somatics and therapeutic methods such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) will be used to explore how our present moment’s awareness has been impacted by our history. We carry pain because of our natural healthy response to ‘unnatural’ events in our past. Our every thought, word and action may be coloured by such past experiences, and as such, we risk projecting this old pain onto present day events. When the torch of compassionate awareness is shone upon how we are showing up, it can be used to understand the beautiful, perhaps life saving reason we originally chose to take on this behaviour onboard. With this loving acceptance of how we are comes a step on the journey to return to our natural wholeness.

It is our hierarchical patriarchal culture that has resulted in so much pain and suffering today. The cultural pain that we carry has come through relationship. Our foundational care is for other people in our lives, and it is through relationship with others we will find healing. This work is about taking responsibility for our thoughts, words and actions by connecting with what is of underlying value to us. Other people are at the heart of this. We are not individuals. We are part of community, part of nature. This act of love and compassion is a social change movement in which we empower ourselves to think, talk and act in way that invites peace in the world.

Rik Midgley is an Internationally Certified Facilitator of Nonviolent Communication, a Level 2 Practitioner of IFS, and has 35 years of practical Somatic experience.

Rwy’n cynnig cyfres o weithdai cyfranogol i archwilio sut y gall ymwybyddiaeth dosturiol feithrin grymuso personol trwy ddeall a chyfeillio â’r hyn sy’n fyw yn y corff. Mae’n broses o ddysgu a dod o hyd i dderbyniad am bwy ydym ni trwy gysylltu â’r rheswm sylfaenol sy’n cyfoethogi bywyd ac sy’n gyrru ein meddyliau, ein lleferydd a’n gweithredoedd. Mae hyn wedi’i seilio ar egwyddorion craidd Cyfathrebu Di-drais (NVC) sy’n cydnabod bod popeth y mae pawb yn ei wneud yn cael ei yrru gan anghenion dynol sy’n gyffredinol i bawb. Bydd dulliau somatig a therapiwtig fel Systemau Teulu Mewnol (IFS) yn cael eu defnyddio i archwilio sut mae ymwybyddiaeth ein moment presennol wedi’i heffeithio gan ein hanes.

Rwy’n edrych i greu grŵp gyda’r nos a/neu brynhawn yn dibynnu ar y galw. Bydd sesiynau’n 2 awr gyda rhodd hyblyg o £20-£50. Anfonwch e-bost ataf yn Rik@RikMidgley.co.uk i gofrestru eich diddordeb fel y gallwn gynllunio amseroedd a lleoliadau, a fydd yn ardal Bethesda neu Fangor.

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Mae Rik Midgley yn Hwylusydd Cyfathrebu Di-drais Ardystiedig yn Rhyngwladol, yn Ymarferydd Lefel 2 o IFS, ac mae ganddo 35 mlynedd o ymarfer Somatig.