8-Week Course with Sarah Peyton & John Kinyon

Description

Healing Inner Barriers to Empathic Presence in Helping Others Through Conflict and Challenges
Starts Tuesday, June 16 through August 4, 2026
2-4pm Pacific Time for 8 weeks

The structure of each class is: brief self-connection practice and group connection, presentation, demonstration with participants from the class, breakout practice in dyads and triads, group sharing and Q&A.

Week 1: Inner Barriers to Empathic Presence and “3rd Chair” Empathic, Resonant Awareness

Sarah presents on inner barriers, and John presents the 3Chair Model of Mediate Your Life. John and Sarah offer guided meditations and breakout sharing.

Week 2: The Neuroscience of Understanding and Connection, and a 5-Step Mediation Process

Sarah presents on the neuroscience of key aspects of NVC-based mediation, and John presents and demonstrates his mediation process, followed by breakout practice in triads.

Week 3: Triad Practice and Putting Inner Barriers in the Mediation Chairs

The practice begins with interpersonal mediation, and then shifts to mediating with inner barriers.

Week 4: More Practice with Emotional Barriers

Week 5: Warmth, Self-Warmth, and the Broken Mother Field in Mediation

Week 6: How Accessing the Field of Constellations Work (Family, Society, Ancestral) Can Support Interpersonal Mediation

Week 7: The Neuroscience of “I-You-We” Language in the 3 Chairs of Mediation

Week 8: Review, Integration, Next Steps, and Closing Sharing