What Do They Hear When We Say What We Say?
Wed, Jan 16
|Jerah
Your child spilled a glass of milk. You want to teach him to be more carful, to learn from his mistake. You say: "What were you thinking? You always do that!" S/he hears "I am so stupid, useless and clumsy" S/he turns what s/he hears into a belief. What we say and how we say it matters.
Time & Location
Jan 16, 2019, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Jerah, Calle Anita, Entre Bar Isaga y Jacó Club Blù, Garabito, Jacó, 61101, Costa Rica
About the event
We come to this world without language. We slowly learn from our parents and surroundings how to communicate. We learn what each word means and what emotion attached to the specific word. The language we speak influence the way we think.
We establish most of our known language patterns at a fairly young age - the way our parents spoke to us become our inner voice, and will affect the way we talk to others including our children.
Many times there is a GAP between what we say to what our child hears internally. This gap becomes larger and larger as our children grow and many of our good intentions for teaching and helping our children are getting lost in a vast of misunderstandings.
In this workshop we will examine nine common language patterns that are instilling shame. And examine how shame languages grow and evolve into an inner woun…