Who am I?
Linda Kantor is a registered Health Psychologist, Yoga and Meditation Teacher. She is also the co-director of the Cape Town Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic.
Her unique approach blends creative techniques and mindfulness, ensuring participants receive a fresh opportunity to deepen self-awareness, and creatively explore new ways of being.
Contact: lindi@isoft.co.za
What do I do?
MINDFULNESS-BASED RELATING
“Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, diagnose – to think and communicate in terms of what is right and wrong with people. At best, the habitual ways we think and speak hinder communication, and create misunderstanding and frustration in others and in ourselves. And still worse, they cause anger and pain and may lead to violence. Without wanting to, even people with the best of intentions generate needless conflict”. Marshall Rosenberg.
Using Marshall Rosenberg’s non-violent communication, and mindfulness meditation, we will discover how when we move deeper inside of ourselves we can discover what is alive and vital within us, and learn better to communicate our needs. This allows for more fulfilling relationships and deeper connection with others and ourselves.
It is not always easy to free ourselves from the effects of our histories, and cultural conditioning. However with more awareness is it possible to work more skilfully with patterns of thought that can lead to conflict, anger and depression. By learning to communicate more effectively, we can create relationships that are based on cooperation and compassion as opposed to competition and aggression.
In this workshop, we will learn how to:
Observe without evaluating
Identify and express feelings
Take responsibility for our feelings
Request that would enrich life
Utilize the power of empathy
Connect compassionately with ourselves
Express anger safely
What is Non-Violent Communication?
Simply put, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a way of relating to ourselves and others, moment to moment, free of past reactions. By learning to identify your needs and express them powerfully, as well as to bring understanding to the needs of others, you can stay connected to what is alive in you and create a life that is more fulfilling.
The intention in NVC is to:
- Create human connections that empower compassionate giving and receiving.
- Create governmental and corporate structures that support compassionate giving and receiving.
- NVC involves both communication skills that foster compassionate relating and consciousness of the interdependence of our well-being and using power with others to work together to meet the needs of all concerned.
silvia sandri
Dear Linda, I live near Rome and am a patient of Lucilla Ricottini. I am writing to you because my sister lives in Cape Town and Lucilla thinks you may know someone that is an expert on Kinesiology. My sister and I both suffer from a hormone related anxiety/depression disorder but whereas I have cured myself very well with homeopathy and diet, my sister is on a number of different anti-depressants, which are not helping her at all. Now she is trying to get weened off of the antidepressants and start alternative medicine, but we really only have “one shot” at the diagnosis. I am almost sure that she has a problem with her receptors, like me, and so nothing comes out on the blood tests. With Kinseiology I came out needing prolactin, progesterone and serotonin. My sister might also have a food intollerance. I really hope you can help because my sister has been suffering for many years now. Thank-you and God Bless, Silvia