4.7 Corso di 10 giorni
How To Overcome Political Differences & Feel More At Ease
Di Dr. Femke E. Bakker
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Political tolerance is the willingness to put up with opinions and behaviors of others who you dislike. It is the oxygen of democracy, since tolerating each other is the pre-requisite for a peaceful co-existence. Tolerance is, however, one of the harder values to cultivate. It's a quality and we must consciously decide to foster and cultivate it. Over 10 sessions, you'll learn about the value of tolerance for any political community, and you'll explore what tolerance means to you personally. This course can challenge the beliefs you hold about yourself and others, it actively asks you to answer difficult questions about yourself and your ability to tolerate other opinions, beliefs, and behavior. Through the use of meditation, you'll find out who it actually is that you find hard to tolerate, and what your intolerance tells you about yourself. You are guided to explore these feelings, and to consciously connect, through the use of meditation, with the true unconditional love that we all have unlimited access to. This course is for: anyone who wants to be politically engaged from a more positive perspective, explore and cultivate their level of tolerance, feels challenged by the political ideas of others, gets stuck in patterns of blaming others for what goes wrong in politics. The tools you will learn during this course will support you to, over time, really start meaning it when you say that you "agree to disagree".
Dr. Femke E. Bakker
Netherlands
Femke Bakker, Ph.D. is a meditation teacher and a political psychologist. She works as a professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she teaches and studies political leadership, decision making, and political behavior from a psychological perspective.
Over the years, Femke has been most interested in how diversity of individuals can explain political outcomes. Her research has received several awards, including the highly prestigious ECPR Jean Blondel Prize. In 2019, she received the PEACE-Grant from the esteemed Mind and Life Institute to study the impact of meditation on political behavior.
Femke teaches meditation at Lila Meditation from the perspective that learning to meditate should be easy, pleasant & personal, thus no "one-size-fits-all" approach. She currently facilitates meditation courses, corporate meditation workshops, and private meditation coaching. She also offers guided meditations at Insight Timer, in English and in Dutch.
Femke's mission, as a teacher and as a researcher, is to create awareness of the beautiful diversity among individual beings. And she believes that understanding and embracing this diversity is a personal choice of free will, but a choice that can ultimately lead to the understanding that we are all together in this....
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Annie
February 7, 2024
An important work. To build self-compassion and love, in order to extend that compassion and love (with grace and forgiveness) to others with whom we have different perspectives on politics and how to live ‘a good life’. Thanks Femke for your efforts in preparing this course and for your interactions in the classroom. May we all learn to be more tolerant. 🙏♥️
Judith
November 4, 2021
Excellent and important course that is really needed in this world. It helped me enormously in taking a new perspective.
Leslie
October 24, 2021
This was a very helpful course, with Metta practices to help encourage lovingkindness for ourselves and others. I'm certain I'll be returning to it again next political election cycle!
Riccardo
November 25, 2020
Great course, it open up to tolerance and to understand our emotional triggers when it comes to political confrontation with others.
Indeed was useful for me. Thank you Femke 🙏
Michael
October 11, 2020
A lesson in daily living towards others and oneself to learn tolerance and understanding. 🙏🏻
Alicia
July 31, 2020
This course is so relevant right now, and I am so grateful that I stumbled across it. While it did help me to begin the process of showing more love and understanding toward others who do not share my political views, it also equipped me with the tools needed to have better relationships with everyone around me. Any time I am feeling frustrated with anyone for ANY reason, I find myself remembering that they are just trying to live a good and happy life, and it helps me to show so much more compassion toward them. I have started to heal a broken relationship with my mother through the use of this mindset. It's an incredible change after just ten days. I will continue to do loving kindness meditations as suggested, and will retake the course just to make sure I properly absorb as much of it as I can. Thank you so much, Femke. Your course is life changing....
Emily
July 30, 2020
Very very helpful to have a tool to deal with so many feelings during this difficult political time. Thank you
Colette
June 1, 2020
This course covers very difficult terrain. It is a very difficult time in the US with much stress due to the polarization of political parties, COVID 19, and continued racial tension. It it like walking a tightrope and the rope is very ridged.
This course comes at a very needed time. Intolerance is an easy road to walk, but tolerance takes strength and courage.
Femke walks the listener through this difficult territory, with respect and gentleness. Guiding us step by step.
Thank you Femke, for these words of wisdom and for your knowledge and guidance. I am grateful. ...
Freebird
May 2, 2020
I am so grateful for this course! You have equipt me with some incredibly valuable tools to use as situations arise and as I continue to evolve. Thank you Femke!
Brian
May 2, 2020
This course covers the important topic of tolerance. We need more tolerance towards others and the course give us tools to start that process. Thank you. I will come back again to this practice. 🙏🏼🧘🏻♂️🌈🌞🌚
Tracy
April 27, 2020
An extraordinary course. The teacher is highly knowledgeable about the topic and has thought through it well. She is also highly skilled at the emotional elements of tolerance loving kindness. Her voice is pleasant, and she respond to my questions quickly and thoroughly and with powerful insights. The course is so helpful, I will take / listen to it again, likely many time, because it has the tools and guidance necessary to cultivate tolerance. Excellent course, would recommend it broadly. ...
Nick
April 20, 2020
Awesome course Femke!!
Mandi
April 11, 2020
Great course in these trying political times
Anj
April 5, 2020
This course is really helpful, not only in finding ways to practice political tolerance but in dealing with general feelings of dislike for others. My biggest realization in this course is understanding how important the foundation of self love is in learning to love and tolerate everyone else around you. I may have finished the course now but I will certainly be going back to this again every once in a while.
To Teacher Femke, thank you so much for putting together this course for us. Namaste 🙏...
Anne
March 23, 2020
Very helpful words to help develop compassion for others. Helped me reduce the stress that I clung to kept inside me.
Razen
March 11, 2020
I feel more tolerant towards a friend who hurted me, i forgave him remembering how he hurted me. Namaste!
Stacy
March 6, 2020
A very helpful course in navigating sometimes difficult emotions.
Jeanie
February 28, 2020
This is certainly an ongoing process. Thank you Femke, for a very calming and insightful course. The practice of loving kindness is easy with beings one agrees with and likes. This course is a gentle stretching of ourselves beyond our comfort zone. I need this and I appreciate it deeply.
Ryan
February 21, 2020
It may not have been the course that I perceived it to be; however, the content and presentation was top notch. I can see how the course would help expand the mind and heart for someone who frequently deals with difficult people in his or her life.
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