What? Choices for Well-Being: self-connection and staying "in choice" around eating, weight, and related issues where we have habits that aren't serving our health and well-being.
When? Wednesdays 6:45 - 8:45 p.m October 26, November 9, November 30, December 14.
Where? Meeting at Green Hedges School, Vienna, Virginia.
Self-awareness is a key to changing habits. In this series, we'll explore ways to become more self-aware, without judgment, of the choices we've traditionally made or are currently making around food and weight, of the needs for self-nurture that we've likely been trying to meet through those choices (comfort? ease? belonging? acceptance? even love?) -- and also becoming more self-aware of how those choices are often undermining us actually getting our needs for self-nurture met.
We'll draw from the ideas of compassionate communication (also known as "communication for connection" and rooted in Nonviolent Communication/NVC as developed by Marshall Rosenberg) as well as from current state of knowledge about our minds and brains.
Sessions are led by Jone Johnson Lewis who has developed this series from her own experience with compassionate communication and weight/fitness/food choices and from insights from the work of Sylvia Haskvitz, Susan Skye and Sarah Peyton.
For those who'd like to continue after this basic series, there may be interest in a continuing group.
Cost: We invite participants to contribute in the range of $25 to $100 for the series, as you are able to do with joy and ease, payable before the first session and refundable until that date. This amount helps cover the costs involved in providing the space and materials and leadership for the sessions.
Register online -- we'll email you some handouts to read before the first session:
