Connectedness as the key to a fulfilled life - honest sharing is both a way and a goal.
Connectedness as the key to a fulfilled life - honest sharing is both a way and a goal. The Institute for Compassion offers the opportunity to participate in "honest sharing" (according to Gopal Norbert Klein, 2019) as part of a self-help group.
Through our autonomic nervous system, we humans, like all other mammals, have the ability to be in a beneficial and relaxed contact with other humans and to enter into nurturing connections. However, our living conditions often contribute in one way or another to the fact that we cannot develop this ability in a healthy form, usually without being aware of it. As a result, our systems remain in a certain degree of tension and lead to relationship and behavior patterns from which we can suffer or even become ill.
Honest Sharing is a self-help method to bring individuals or groups of people into a relaxed and regulated state without a therapist. The participants exchange their inner movements within the framework of a simple but fixed structure:
1. Each participant speaks for 5 - 10 minutes, depending on the group size, without being interrupted, about the content of their thoughts, feelings and body sensations that are perceptible at that moment.
2. The group offers a protected framework in which all other participants give the speaker their full attention and listen respectfully and openly.
3. However, the group leader makes sure that the structure is adhered to, ensuring that no one intervenes, and that the speaker does not drift into "storytelling", for example, and that the time is kept. The leader takes part in the process just like the participants and has the same amount of time to share.
The effectiveness of this program is to be recorded as part of a scientific evaluation. In a first pilot study, significant improvements in relation to self-compassion could already be observed.
An “Honest Sharing” group takes place regularly at our Institute for Compassion in Heidelberg. If you are interested, just send an email to
info@institute-for-compassion.de
PARTNERS
University of Saarland
THEME
Honest Sharing
YEAR
2022
Honest Sharing Workshop on 20.03.2023
In the workshop we will practice "Honest Sharing" together and you will learn the theory behind it. As a continuation we offer a weekly practice over the period of 8 weeks, where you have the chance to get further into the process.
