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THE SATVATOVE EXPERIENCE
Satvatove Institute, based out of Alachua, FL, offers groundbreaking personal development and spiritually based transformative communication seminars across the globe. Visit us at www.satvatove.com and find out more about our seminars, life mastery programs, and coach training school.
FROM ALEX
“Satvatove 3 has inspired me in ways that I did not know were possible. I have been involved with Satvatove programs for several years and am now building my own client base. Satvatove 3 has given me a huge boost in my effectiveness as a coach and facilitator. I am truly astounded with the value I received taking this course. During the course I touched a part of myself that brings so much more to my life. I am a richer and wiser person with deeper compassion.
If you are hesitating or questioning if Satvatove 3 is for you because you have done the other courses then I invite you to take a step into the unknown and experience the dance of life. Because in my experience you won’t be disappointed.”
Alex Moy
Satvatove 3: An Adventure In Conscious Living – June 2011
WHAT IS EMPATHY?
What is empathy? Is it sympathy? In Satvatove’s Transformative Communication model we make a distinction between empathy and sympathy. Sympathy can involve pity, or feeling bad for someone. Most of us sometimes appreciate a sort of pity party once in a while- “I feel so bad for you”- and there’s a place for that. But that’s not empathy.
What is empathy? Is it kindness? Certainly when we convey genuine empathy, we’re showing kindness, though kindness is not intrinsically synonymous with empathy.
What is empathy? Is it agreement? Not inherently. In the process of Transformative Communication empathy can be accompanied with disagreement, as easily as with agreement.
In response to the question “What is empathy,” our focus is on understanding, on seeing the world from the other person’s perspective. To cross the bridge from my world to your world, to see, and more profoundly, to feel and experience, your world, requires that I am secure in myself, in my worldview. Because I’m secure, I am willing to open myself to deep understanding of your feelings, thoughts, and perspectives. This entails readiness to suspend my judgments (which of course is different than pretending I don’t have judgments), so that I get a fresh experience of you and your standpoint. Empathy as a way of being is aligned with approaching life with a spirit of wonder and discovery.
Thus, while sympathy might involve feeling pity or sorrow for someone, such sympathy doesn’t intrinsically demand understanding. Sometimes sympathy can even have a condescending nature. A statement like “I feel terrible for you” doesn’t necessarily communicate that I understand what’s happening for you. In considering what is empathy, we can realize that a statement such as “I understand that you feel humiliated because he ridiculed you in front of the whole team,” expresses concrete understanding of what the other person has said, and the feeling behind it. That, especially when integrated with genuine warmth and caring, demonstrates empathy.
With regard to the above scenario, in communicating empathy I may or may not agree that the person is justified in feeling humiliation, anger, or hurt. Whatever my opinion, I’m suspending it to show that I understand the world of the other. In doing so, my world may open to broader perspectives, and the other person will feel understood, which is a primary human need. On the basis of this understanding, a person will likely feel inspired to share more, and to be open to hear alternate views- as the saying goes, people don’t care what you know, till they know that you care. To cross the bridge from my world into the world of another is a powerful way to show that I care.
We understand of course, in this discussion about what is empathy, that terms such as sympathy, kindness and empathy are used in various ways, each with valid application. In this article we present some distinctions that we’ve found very helpful in creating sacred space in our communication and relationships with others, and with ourselves.
Satvatove Institute assists individuals, communities and organizations worldwide understand what is empathy. For information about Satvatove’s workshops, seminars, coaching and coach training programs, write to seminars@Satvatove.com or coaching@Satvatove.com.
DR. DAVID WOLF AT THE MASTER OF INFLUENCE EVENT
Excerpts from Dr. David Wolf’s workshop, Transformative Communication: A Foundation for Powerful Living, at the Master of Influence event in Palm Springs, California, on November 5, 2010. Transformative Communication is an approach to self-realization founded in ancient wisdom, innovative yet simple communication strategies, and breakthrough transformational methods. Join David and the 1300+ participants as you get a glimpse into the power of conscious living that characterizes the Satvatove experience.
FROM KYLIE
“The first thing I would like to say is that I have attended personal growth and transformational seminars all over the country for the last thirteen years of life and nothing has touched me so deeply or assisted me so quickly in discovering deeply embedded patterns and also offering the tools or ‘the way out’. I feel that the intelligence that went behind developing the exercises in the exact sequence that they were presented is nothing short of ingenious. I felt really safe and supported by the environment that you create.
The most powerful moment for me was when you shared that the biggest roadblock to communication is stating: ‘I know that’. Hearing that allowed me to listen more vulnerably and openly than I normally or habitually would have, so I appreciate that. I also appreciate the suicide prevention segment, its important and felt important to me in that moment. I am not exactly sure what all the elements are that create such an impactful experience compared to all the other personal growth and spiritual awareness work I have done, but whatever it is please don’t ever stop doing it. 
I also appreciate the ongoing ways that you provide for participants to be involved with Satvatove through coaching, further trainings and courses, etc… thanks for changing my life. Thanks for being here on Earth at this time. Both of your caring commitment to humanity and to God shines through like I have never seen and I have met many committed, loving, conscious people. I have never encountered anything like Satvatove before. How powerful. Thank you.”
Kylie Devi
Foundational Seminar – Florida March 2011
FROM JESSICA
“I wanted to share a few things with everyone, as they to have been profound and meaningful in my life. If it speaks to you, I am elated that it reached you, and if it doesn’t, disregard it and move forward from where you sit.
First honorable mention, Satvatove at satvatove.com, is a seminar that is held in Gainesville Florida and many other places. The founder has a book that is called Relationships that Work, the Power of Conscious Living by David B. Wolf, which is a minute insight of the courses, it is the experience that matters.
There are three parts of participation, that is the Foundational course, the Advanced course and the Life Mastery Program.
The Foundational brings many great communication tools and life tools to help a person communicate at higher level. My experience of this first course is that it truly helped me open myself to say and do what I really mean, this means not holding back, but truly I was able to express what is true for me in the moment I feel the need to. It also helped me communicate with people, where I am truly able to enter another persons world and be there to hold space for a person. In conversations, I experience that I often put in advice, questions, directions to help, but it doesn’t allow a person to fully express what needs to be said. This course has expanded my ability to express myself and truly helped me uncover why I am so valuable. I can listen with full intention of hearing in a place that suspends judgements and allows people to be comfortable. I had so many realizations and introspective outcomes, that was rooted from my childhood, and my life, and they were discovered and uncovered, by my willingness to put my self in this course and know that I was going to get the most from it. So it was….
The next course was the Advanced course. This was truly more deep, what I experienced was more than just listening tools and life tools, it was profound introspection of my many painful feelings. What I had felt was over for me in the first course was just the beginning in the Advanced, I had uncovered so many layers of life patterns and habits. There was some deep introspection as to how they have connected to my childhood, and how I truly feel about these deep things in my life. This was just the beginning of my own shifting, as I was put into hyper drive after leaving the course, there was more growth I was uncovering about myself.
The seminars begin when you leave these courses as everything you have learned is taken into your life to flourish and continue your growth. I have and continue to make many realizations in my life that are continually helping me connect with who I truly am. I am whole and complete. This uncovering of myself is continuous, as I shared in the retreat, that my most recent realization is that I avoid pain in my closest relationships, and I now know very differently. I am willing to go there in a painful situation, and be that light, love and nurturing being that I know I am.”
Jessica T.
THE BILLION $$$ QUESTION
What is actually the secret to us all getting along with each other? (No, that’s not the Billion Dollar question. To find out what it is, listen to the show.) Discover this and much more on this week’s Satvatove Radio Hour, as David coaches a client on life purpose and landing a job
Relationships That Work Radio Show, January 26, 2011
SATVATOVE RADIO SHOW- The Billion $$$ Question
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EMPATHY: EFFECTIVE IN ALL LIFE DIMENSIONS
Excerpt From Relationships That Work: The Power Of Conscious Living
- By David B. Wolf
There is a distinction between thought empathy and feeling empathy, both of which are important in connecting with people and their experience. Research has found that women are slightly more empathic than men with regards to feeling empathy, grasping the emotion behind the words. With reference to thought empathy—apprehending the thoughts behind words—studies have indicated no significant gender difference. An interesting aspect of this research is that after training in empathy, gender differences for both emotion empathy and thought empathy disappear. This indicates that men are not inherently less empathic than women. The lower degree of feeling empathy in men may be primarily determined by culture, meaning that showing empathy does not correspond with the image that a man wants to project, and thus men are less motivated to be empathetic. This cultural facet may be changing though, as there is increasing evidence—some of which is cited below—that effectiveness in traditionally male-oriented occupations is associated with high empathy.
Across many fields of endeavor, including those where we might not imagine that listening and relationship skills are preeminent, empathy is understood to be an essential quality for success. In his book Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman quotes the head of a Swiss bank: “My job is something like a family priest or doctor. You can’t be in private banking without using your emotional intelligence, especially empathy. You have to sense what your client hopes for, fears—even if he can’t express it in words.” Empathy is the most important quality in the assessment of applicants to the Harvard Business School’s graduate program, and the top five attributes are all “soft” qualities, such as being a team player, and being able to effectively coach people and understand their perspective.
Research has shown that in a multitude of professions, including police work, financial consulting and sales, higher empathy correlates positively with better performance, results and satisfaction. A study at a large polyester fiber plant demonstrated that empathy was the quality that most differentiated the most productive teams of workers from others. In the field of medicine, greater empathy correlates positively with more accurate diagnoses, higher patient satisfaction and other desirable outcomes. In a study comparing physicians who were sued for malpractice with physicians who weren’t, the quality that most distinguished the group that did not get sued was empathy. The doctors who were not litigated against were not necessarily more skilled. They were more empathetic, which meant that if an apparent mistake did occur patients were less likely to file suit.
Empathy does not mean sentimentally acceding to the demands of others. Knowing how the other person feels and being able to show it does not mean agreeing with them. I can understand and be open to another perspective, while standing for my own viewpoint. This quality of empathy and the skill to express it underlies effectiveness across practically all life dimensions.
RED LIGHT MEANS GO VERY FAST
Immerse yourself in this edition of the Satvatove Radio Hour and learn how to apply regulative principles of freedom to advance your life forward. Hear about the Kali-yuga, and non-verbal communication as it relates to your relationships, consciousness, and international security. Focus in to this radio experience and intensify the urgency and authenticity with which you approach life.
Relationships That Work Radio Show, November 24, 2010
SATVATOVE RADIO SHOW- Red Light Means Go Very Fast, Nov. 24, 2010
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FROM SUBTLE TO GROWTH
by Lacey Nagy
“Wow, Lacey, you look different.”
“I do? What about me is different?”
“Your eyes are softer and you’re holding yourself differently. You seem more peaceful and secure,” my friend said. I have been working with this friend, who is also a Rolfing professional, on straightening my body structure. She has a gift at noticing subtle changes in posture and energy and according to her my change was profound.
“So, you got a lot out of the Satvatove 3 Course,” she said assumingly.
“I did.”
She was one of a handful of my friends who noticed not only an internal change, but a physical change in my structure and face. Since experiencing the “Satvatove 3, An Adventure in Conscious Living”, people close to me have said, “Wow, Lacey, you look different. What have you been up to?”
Maybe I appear different because I connected with the limitless peace and freedom that is available to me while being on purpose with my life. I am currently reinventing myself and going for my highest dream…something I have been scared of and avoiding until now. In the course, I saw myself in a future moment doing what I’ve always wanted to do and feeling more peaceful and alive than I ever have before. I saw that there was nothing for me to be afraid of, that in fact, “being” on purpose was an effortless stream that washed away the fear-nonsense I had been carrying by playing small.
For me, the course had “sneaky enlightenment” laced through every process. I could not place my finger on what was happening with me. I came into the course feeling powerless and enraged by someone who had been sending me harassing phone calls and by the end of the course, I was no longer bothered by the pettiness of that experience. I felt light and free.
I had melted into a pool of God’s Unconditional Love for me. I experienced what a conscious world looks and feels like and I am more confident about a conscious world happening now rather than some day in the distant future. For me, the Satvatove 3rd Level Course is a uniquely powerful vehicle for conscious living and being happy and free for no particular reason.
