Building Balanced Empathy is a workshop designed to explore empathy, vulnerability and emotional resilience. We explore what causes you to feel emotionally overwhelmed and conversely makes you emotionally disconnect from others. You will learn techniques empowering you to relate to others in a healthy and more balanced way.
“I learned I have a lot of misplaced or misguided empathy. I realize how much of a communication issue is not necessarily an issue with feeling. I realized just how deep my need to fix everything goes.”
- Linda, course participant, May 2019
With our varied learning materials and fun interactive exercises, you will learn how to empathize from your heart and from your head. We explore how to genuinely feel and understand the experiences and emotions of other people, allowing for more compassion towards oneself and others. You will be able to integrate these techniques afterwards using a series of audio meditations available from our website.
This course will help you to develop:
a calmer more focused mind
better self-understanding and therefore real empathy for others
identifying what pushes us out of balance allowing the space for wiser choices
stronger emotional resilience
closer, more nurturing relationships with family, friends and co-workers
more compassion for ourselves and others
The Facilitators are Silvie Walraven and Annelies van der Heijden
Silvie lives in the Netherlands and is an accredited facilitator for 16 Guidelines Level 1 and Building Balanced Empathy. Annelies is a registered FPMT teacher and accredited Building Balanced Empathy facilitator based in the Netherlands. Both offer workshops in Dutch and English
Cost & Booking
Donation towards costs € 35, including handouts. For both Saturday and Sunday € 55. Students and city pass holders € 20 per day or € 30 for both days.
Please register before February 29 by writing to: amsterdam@maitreya.nl
In case less then 6 participants register then the workshop will be cancelled. We will inform everyone involved at the latest on March 3.
