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“My family relationships, with my wife and my adult children, have been completely transformed by ISL. We have rich, deep, growing relationships of love within the family thanks to the skills and awareness I learned at ISL and could then offer to my family members. The gift of ISL keeps on giving to all of us everyday.”
Tom Torinus, 1988-1989

 Skills Gained For Being with Self and Others

     
Self Reflection Ability to be self reflective so that you recognize and name your inner experiences.

Discerning Feelings and Energy Ability to listen to your inner feelings and note how another’s words are affecting you.

  Ability to recognize your own energy and understand its tone and direction.

  Ability to recognize the energy of another person and to find its tone and direction.

  Ability to recognize the feeling and emotional tone of another.

Communication
Skills
Ability to observe and to take note of your body language as a means of communication.

  Ability to convey what you are feeling in words, language and nonverbals that are congruent with those feelings.

  Ability to observe and to take note of another’s body language as a means of communication.

  Ability to listen and to hear what another is saying or trying to say.

Confrontation
Skills
Ability to challenge and confront yourself and others.

  Ability to be challenged and confronted by another.

Encouragement
Skills
Ability to encourage and support yourself and others.

  Ability to receive encouragement and support from another.

Role Separation Ability to leave aside your role.

  Ability to create a clear space within you that is open and receptive to your inner wisdom.

  Ability to let go of presuppositions.

Recognition and Acceptance of Resistance Ability to recognize and be comfortable with your own inner resistances.

  Ability to recognize and to be comfortable with another person’s resistances.

Spiritual Practices Ability to use learned approaches such as Focusing, Active Imagination, Dreamwork, etc. in delving into your own interior and in developing deeper relationships with others.

Personal Growth Ability to be present to yourself and to others.

  Ability to trust your own inner responses to what another is saying or doing.

  Ability to aid yourself in becoming more reflective in all events in your life.

  Ability to recognize and value the meaningful events in the integration of your life.

  Ability to discern the movement and direction in inner experience.

  Capacity and ability to make good and sound assessments about where another is, his or her issues and areas for growth.



 

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