Wired For Love
Wired For Love
Presented By
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Michelle EsrickMore Info
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Dates and Times
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-In-Person
Location
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Northern Hemisphere E3/4Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Our need for love and connection is a fundamental aspect of our biology and psychology that has real, tangible impacts on our health and well-being. This is not sentimentality. Love and connection are essential to our healing, to our survival, to being a full, rounded human being. And why don’t we teach it?
In a world often driven by fear, self-protection, and division, love is a science-backed imperative for our survival and thriving. As the spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba said, “Love everyone.” But how do we love our enemies which includes being our own enemy. I used to tell people that I would never speak to anyone the way I used to speak to myself. How do we overcome the internal war of self-hatred and the external manifestations resulting in class differences, racism, cancel culture, sexual violence, climate change and war.
The answer lies in understanding that our old survival mechanisms, while once necessary, and even saved us, no longer serve us and in fact disconnect us from ourselves and those around us.
My mentor and friend, Dr. Lonnie McDonald used to say, “The hardest thing we will ever do is to look at ourselves” and “our whole life is about moving from an unconscious reaction to a conscious response.” And yet, as a trauma survivor who was biologically wired for survival from an early age, whose nervous system was trained to be on high alert, doing military preparedness drills in case of an attack. Therein lies the rub and makes it virtually impossible to stay connected or to love when you have one eye out for an attack. This has certainly been my life-long challenge and personal journey of recovering myself. I can tell you from first-hand experience what works and what doesn’t work. I can also tell you that love won every time!
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Biologically Wired for Love
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The Ways We Resist Love
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The Practice of Love – What Would Love Do?
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Workshop Begins
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Workshop Ends