Wise Heart

MCD for Teams

Sat, 10 May 2025 15:00:03 -0000

More from Wise Heart here, including our Life-Serving Boundaries book 👉 https://wiseheartcommunity.org/

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Elia & Ava MCD Therapy

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:00:03 -0000

Check out the 2025 live online 2-hr workshop series for therapists facilitated by Elia & Ava: Introductions to the 12 Relationship Competencies 👉 https://mcdtherapy.com/2-hour-live-online-intros-to-relationship-competencies

Also, this special offering beginning April 11th! ✨ Online Mentoring & Consultation Group for Therapists 👉 https://mcdtherapy.com/consultation

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Now Is the Time

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 16:00:03 -0000

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Envision a Relationally Competent World: Bringing Together the Teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Mindful Compassionate Dialogue

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:00:03 -0000

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Groundedness and Practice in the Face of Political Tragedy

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:00:03 -0000

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What Is a Healthy Romantic Relationship?

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:00:03 -0000

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How to Listen to What Emerges

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:00:03 -0000

The new Life-Serving Boundaries book is here! Order now on the website https://wiseheartcommunity.org/

Healing from Betrayal

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:00:03 -0000

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Transaction vs Mutuality

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:00:03 -0000

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How to Interrupt People Pleasing

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:00:03 -0000

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The Power of Distinguishing Needs from Strategies

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 15:00:03 -0000

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How to Replace Disempowering Habits

Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:00:03 -0000

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4 Long Term Strategies for Interrupting Reactivity

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:00:03 -0000

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Differentiation and Joining as Energy for Change

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 15:00:03 -0000

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How Do We Dismantle Without Opposing or Going Against?

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:00:03 -0000

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5 Tools for Shifting Into an Expansive Perspective

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 15:00:03 -0000

www.wiseheartpdx.org

https://hakomiinstitute.com/Forum/Issue16-17/8_R_CS_tranform.pdf

Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles.

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Beyond Codependency: 3 Signs of Healthy Differentiation

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:00:03 -0000

What comes after all the work you’ve done to move out of codependence? Self empathy, care and generosity for the heart of another, and curiosity...

www.wiseheartpdx.org

Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles.

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Setting Aside Grief and Suffering for the World

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 15:00:03 -0000

The capacity to witness suffering and still maintain your own center.

3 aspects of practice: accepting and celebrating our humanity, how to allow grief, and turning towards practices that are immediately of service to life.

Transmuting grief and suffering into that which serves life and makes life better.

www.wiseheartpdx.org

Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles.

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Interview With Matt & Alona of We heal

Sat, 27 May 2023 15:00:03 -0000

LaShelle interviews Matt & Alona of We Heal about their new book, Wellness to Wonderful,_ _and more!

https://weheal.health/

www.wiseheartpdx.org

Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles.

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Deepening Appreciation and Dissolving Separation

Sat, 13 May 2023 15:00:03 -0000

LaShelle talks about what appreciation is in the framework of MCD, and offers a specific practice: empathy for appreciation.

www.wiseheartpdx.org

Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles.

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8 Ways of Understanding Gratitude

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:00:03 -0000

Gratitude practice: what it's not, eight ways to understand gratitude, and three specific practices.

www.wiseheartpdx.org

Thank you to Jeralyn Glass, who created and played this powerful crystalline music and to Crystal Cadence Temple of Alchemy and Sound Healing Studio, Los Angeles.

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Interview with Elia - Recognizing Reactivity: MCD Competency 5

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:00:03 -0000

Special episode ~ join Elia (FKA LaShelle) and guests!

💎 Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Recognizing Reactivity online course

💎 Matthew Lederman

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Meditation From Joyful Choice Rather Than From Lack

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 15:00:03 -0000

LaShelle offers 5 angles to this topic: compassion, consciousness, preferred experience, meditation and other foundational strategies, and a practice.

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How to Remain Grounded With Admiration

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:00:03 -0000

Remaining grounded when giving and receiving admiration. Specific ways of understanding and navigating this dynamic for maximum connection.

www.wiseheartpdx.org

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Spiritual Practice and the Power of Identity and Meaning

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 16:00:03 -0000

Enter into the realm of spiritual practice specifically as it relates to identity and meaning. LaShelle talks about attempting to remember who we are in every moment; that we are made from love, that in any moment we can choose to love, that we are great and powerful spirits engaging in this human experience. Reactivity is framed here as a type of forgetting this.

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Recognizing and Setting Boundaries with GaslIghting

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 16:00:03 -0000

Identify gaslighting, and its opposite: that which inside yourself and with others supports your access to wisdom and compassion. Possibilities for setting boundaries when you encounter gaslighting behavior.

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Examining the Relationship Between Dependence and Community

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 16:00:03 -0000

Are you willing to depend on someone else? Who depends on you? Who else are you willing to depend on? LaShelle explores the concept of depending upon one another in an essential way in terms of vulnerability, convenience and security, and strength and courage.

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Relationship to Resources: Finding Compassion and Taking Action

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:00:03 -0000

Re-igniting a sacred relationship to resources. Bringing compassion to the impact of our economy on you.

https://charleseisenstein.org/

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Cultivating the Gift of Feedback - With Matthew Lederman, MD

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 16:00:03 -0000

https://weheal.health/

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The Four Fruits of MCD #4 - Wise Action

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:00:03 -0000

The last episode in “The Four Fruits of MCD” series. LaShelle defines wise action, talks about the characteristics of wisdom, and gives the supportive conditions and central aspects of wisdom.

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The Four Fruits of MCD #3 - Access to Agency

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:00:03 -0000

The third episode in "The Four Fruits of MCD" series. Agency is a state of having the internal and external resources to act on your choice.

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The Four Fruits of MCD #2 - Compassionate Relating

Sat, 26 Nov 2022 16:00:03 -0000

"The Four Fruits of MCD" continued. LaShelle defines compassion, gives a key for balancing attention, and discusses compassion fatigue.

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Interview with Elia - Self Empathy: MCD Competency 4

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:00:03 -0000

Special episode ~ join Elia (FKA) LaShelle and guests!

Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Self Empathy online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/mcd-relationship-competency-4-self-empathy-90min-workshop

Matthew Lederman - https://weheal.health/

MCD Companions: https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/classes/2022/private-sessions-with-mcd-companions

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The Four Fruits of MCD #1 - Mindful Engagement

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:00:03 -0000

The importance of mindfulness for creating a new consciousness, a new world, a new way of living this life and caring for this earth. Without mindfulness, limiting conditioning keeps us making the same kinds of decisions that created the suffering that we see now.

www.wiseheartpdx.org

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Love as a Practice

Sat, 15 Oct 2022 15:00:03 -0000

A definition of love. Setting an intention, directing attention, offering compassion, and maintaining consistency.

Finding Rest

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 15:00:03 -0000

LaShelle talks about the importance of rest for living your relationships as a spiritual practice, and about what is created when we don’t have rest. Then, three aspects of rest.

Freedom From the Tyranny of Time

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:00:03 -0000

Considering time and time management, LaShelle addresses as an overarching theme the concept of time-- what it means for a sense of spiritual connection, and its impact on relationships. Critical concepts regarding time, the cost of becoming attached to the idea of time, and three practices for becoming free of tension around "watching the clock."

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Interview with Elia - Honest Expression: MCD Competency 3

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0000

Special episode ~ join Elia (FKA LaShelle) and guests!

Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Honest Expression online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/mcd-relationship-competency-3-honest-expression

Matthew Lederman - https://weheal.health/

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3 Keys for Relationship Repair

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:00:00 -0000

What repair means, and what is required for it to be effective. Repair is important for continuing to thrive in a relationship and for finding your way back to connection.

www.wiseheartpdx.org

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Help for "I Can't Be Myself in This Relationship"

Sat, 06 Aug 2022 16:35:44 -0000

Exploring what does it mean to "be yourself"? Examining limiting beliefs as an obstacle to being yourself. Practices to free yourself from limiting beliefs.

https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/

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Self-Warmth & Resonance With Sarah Peyton

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 15:00:45 -0000

A conversation between LaShelle Lowe-Chardé, founder of Wise Heart PDX, and Sarah Peyton, certified trainer of Noviolent Communication and specialist in relational neuroscience.

Wise Heart PDX https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/

Sarah Peyton https://sarahpeyton.com/ https://www.yourresonantself.com/

breathing animation: https://www.jessicawolfartofbreathing.com/

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Family "Power With" and Life-Serving Boundaries

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 15:00:00 -0000

Examples of "power with" that we might expect to see in a family, and three areas in which we could imagine that "power with" is translating into life-serving boundaries.

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Interview with Elia - Empathy: MCD Relationship Competency 2

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:00:04 -0000

Special episode ~ join Elia (FKA LaShelle) and guests!

Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min Empathy online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/empathy-mcd-relationship-competency-2

Wise Heart pre-recorded 8-week Empathy online course: https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/empathic-listening

Matthew Lederman - https://weheal.health/

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Part 2 - Spiritual Practice with Power Dynamics

Sat, 11 Jun 2022 14:00:00 -0000

Distinguishing between "power over" and "earned authority." Exploring earned authority and a "power with" consciousness.

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Part 1 - Spiritual Practice with Power Dynamics

Sat, 28 May 2022 15:00:54 -0000

How power dynamics effect your relationship with yourself and with others.

Defining terms regarding power dynamics, and anchoring those terms and understandings in a spiritual perspective.

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Acceptance as the Ground for Change

Sat, 14 May 2022 15:00:56 -0000

LaShelle defines acceptance and talks about its benefits, while also describing the opposite of acceptance: resistance. LaShelle also explains the cost of resistance, the signs and symptoms of resistance, and practices to cultivate for engaging the consciousness of acceptance.

An Empowered Response to Suffering and Violence

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:00:32 -0000

Acknowledging your experience and the experience of those around you. A practice of acceptance, and a practice for getting grounded and taking action.

https://www.wiseheartpdx.org/

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Interview with Elia - Appreciation: MCD Relationship Competency 1

Sat, 09 Apr 2022 15:00:00 -0000

Special episode ~ join Elia (FKA LaShelle) and guests!

Wise Heart pre-recorded 90-min course: Appreciation >> https://wiseheartpdx.thinkific.com/courses/appreciation-mcd-relationship-competency-1

Matthew Lederman >> https://weheal.health/

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A New Understanding of Forgiveness

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Reclaiming the word "forgiveness." LaShelle talks about replacing negative associations of forgiveness with more empowering ideas, and relates forgiveness to spiritual practice by naming three central elements of spiritual practice that forgiveness supports.

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Meeting Conflicts With Big Businesses

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:00:54 -0000

A unique episode focusing on relationship to interactions with others who are representing big businesses or corporations.

Setting Life-Serving Boundaries and Saying "No" With Care

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

LaShelle provides a definition of Life-Serving Boundaries relative to the framework of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue, connects Life-Serving Boundaries to spiritual practice, and identifies 8 key elements for saying no with care and connection.

A Precise Understanding of Listening

Sat, 12 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

LaShelle offers an understanding of listening, how to cultivate listening, and how to ask for listening.

3 Keys to Cultivating Emotional Security

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:00:37 -0000

LaShelle talks about how to understand the ways insecurity directs your behavior, offering security to others, and resources for anchoring and learning regarding emotional security. Emotional security might also be thought of as spiritual security.

Understanding Self-Responsibility and Responsibility for Others

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:00:59 -0000

LaShelle begins this episode by focusing on the foundations of love, growth and evolution, and contribution to life; and then talks about codependency, thriving, differentiation, care for others, responsibility for others, and responsibility for yourself.

Loving-Kindness: Simple Practices for Cultivating Presence

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:00:16 -0000

Anxiety, fear, overwhelm, despair, resentment, and any form of reactivity quickly blocks your ability to be present with yourself and those around you. Taking care of your relationships with others most centrally means taking care of your relationship with your own experience.

Spiritual Practice as You Gather with Family and Friends

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:09:11 -0000

The joy and challenges of gathering with family provide an opportunity to live your values in your most precious relationships.

The Practice of Grief & Mourning for Cultivating Presence

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 17:26:47 -0000

Creating internal spaciousness through the practice of allowing grief and mourning is a central aspect of the capacity to offer presence in relationships.

Presence - A Foundation for Thriving

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:00:00 -0000

LaShelle talks about presence as a foundation for thriving relationships.

A Common Trap of Spiritual Aspirations

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:00:00 -0000

LaShelle addresses a common trap with spiritual aspirations and wise wishes, and gives a specific and direct way to disentangle from that trap.

3 Ways to Direct Your Attention in Dialogue

Sat, 23 Oct 2021 19:13:27 -0000

LaShelle expands on last episode's topic, directing attention, and gives strategies for applying this skill in dialogue.

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Learn to Direct Your Attention

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 15:00:00 -0000

In this episode LaShelle shares 3 fundamental ways for directing attention to shape life in a way that is satisfying, meaningful, and supports your evolution.

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Relationships as Spiritual Practice

Sat, 25 Sep 2021 15:00:32 -0000

Episode Notes

In this episode LaShelle talks about transformation, and gives three categories to support remembering who you really are and what you care about, moment after moment and in the midst of challenge.

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Relationships as Spiritual Practice

Sat, 11 Sep 2021 15:00:00 -0000

Episode Notes

LaShelle Lowe-Chardé, founder of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue, shares the premise for this new podcast along with some of her journey and background in spirituality.

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