Learning Objectives & Outcomes
This course is a progression from the Six-Steps framework introduced in the book "Love-Connects." These Steps offer a guided approach to establishing profound soul-to-soul connections that promote healing.
Through this course, you will learn the Steps and gain a comprehensive understanding of "Why" these Steps are vital and "How" to implement them. Specifically, the course will equip you with the following insights:
- Understanding the "Steps" and their Significance: Discover why the Six Steps of Living-Connected hold the key to effectively "mourning with those who mourn" and facilitating soul-healing connections.
- Step-By-Step Engagement with Painful, Grieving, or Brokenhearted People: Gain practical, step-by-step guidance on how to approach, interact with, and connect with people who are hurting, and broken.
- Empowering Non-Reactive Listening: Learn how following the Steps discourages knee-jerk reactions of judgment or biases, enabling you to engage more thoughtfully and empathetically.
- Validating Pain and Being Heard: Understand how the Steps validate the pain and offer a pathway to mending fractured relationships and fostering emotional connections.
- Overcoming Fear in Connecting with Hurting People: Explore why the Steps eradicate the fear associated with engaging with grieving or hurting individuals, allowing you to be a source of genuine comfort. In other words, learn to run toward hurting people with confidence.
- Unlocking Healing Listening Through Curiosity: Recognize the pivotal role of curiosity in active listening, a foundational aspect of a soul-healing connection. Listening in a way that communicates "I'm interested in your painful story".
- Spiritual Connection: Learn why the Steps effectively lead to reconnecting disconnected individuals with the ultimate healer of the soul...God.
- Offering the "Gift" of Shared Suffering: Learn how to sensitively approach friends, family, and even strangers by sharing in their suffering, extending the invaluable gift of empathy.
- Enhancing Friends, Family, and Workplace Relations: Discover how the principles of Living-Connected can enhance your interactions with colleagues, fostering understanding, caring, and empathy.
- Empathy as a Healing Force: Understand the transformative power of empathy, as sharing someone's pain actively contributes to emotional healing.
Learning Outcomes: Upon genuinely engaging with this course, you will achieve the following
- Empowerment in Emotional Support: Feel empowered and equipped to respond to individuals in pain, grief, or heartbreak, moving beyond your fear and helplessness.
- Mastery of Soul-Level Connections: Grasp the process of establishing soul-to-soul connections that bring healing.
- Value of Shared Experience: Realize the profound value of offering the "gift" of shared experience to everyone you encounter.
- Heightened Emotional Intelligence: Learn to resist emotionally reacting in your relationships, becoming a more sensitive-attentive listener, and more compassionate communicator.
- Fostered Selflessness: Overcome conversational hijacking tendencies, moving towards a more others-focused approach.
- Embrace Empathy and Compassion: Shift towards a more empathetic, compassionate stance in your interactions.
- Conflict Resolution: Develop skills to be a peacemaker in conflicts, utilizing the principles of the Steps to bridge divides and conflicts.
- Guiding Spiritual Connection: Earn the right to guide others toward a deeper connection with God...The Ultimate Healer.
In essence, this course will empower you to authentically connect in a healing way with others in pain, conveying that you see them in pain, that you understand why they are in pain, that you share in their suffering, and then give them Hope.