RENEE LINDSTROM: Victoria & Suburbs

Renee Lindstrom has a passion to guide people and groups into consciously experiencing a higher quality in their inner and outer experiences and lifestyles.  She practices techniques of  body movement, heart-mind communication and understanding the stimulus of the environment.  Her specialty is guiding individuals into a deepening awareness of  their personal process to understand more clearly how they are creating their own experience.   She has developed and deepened her skills of empathy through her own learning and practice of  Dr. Marshall Rosenbergs practice of Nonviolent Communication.  Training in silent empathy for the purpose of guiding movement patterns has enhanced her ability to witness the unspoken communication of how someone is receiving information and responding without being able to honestly express.  A skill necessary for creating the safety for others to become vulnerable enough go beyond their habitual understanding into exploring learning beyond that experience.

Renee's passion for sharing Dr. Rosenberg's NVC quality of consciousness takes many forms from sharing learning in groups, individual and couple coaching, developing opportunities to explore and stimulate a deepening mindfulness through pausing to check in and in creating community awareness opportunities to connect.  Some of these opportunities:

Nonviolent Communication in Victoria  Community Group, Resources and Practice on Facebook - stimulated from her first year as task force leader for the 14th Gandhi, King Chavez Season for Nonviolence in 2010

@NVCinVictoria Community Awareness Campaign on Twitter - stimulated from her participation in the Season for Interfaith/Intercultural Celebrations in 2011

Waking2Heart  Web pages for developing multiple skill sets for personal and community evolving opportunities for moving towards social change and ideas, events, classes and gathering to support the move from jackal to giraffe 

Walk-Victoria.com Web pages for reconnecting to our natural environment for support in becoming mindful.  Freely sharing walking groups, clubs, urban trails and community parks for walking and getting back outdoors and into exploring.  In her organized walks she uses the framework of noticing how we express to ourselves and others stories about ourselves.  Gentle guidance is used to understand the story that  has been stimulated by a need.  The emphasis on this is for developing a kindness to self and self empathy for increasing the understanding that our expression creates our experience.  It is a combination of becoming mindful through heart communication and body movement awareness for learning in a non-traditional environment.  

Renee has volunteered as a Director on the Board for B.C. Network for Compassionate Communication - on the board her focus and passion was for creating NVC awareness and developing grassroots communities that would grow NVC consciousness.  Her focus was on creating connection and  learning and practice opportunities that would filter upwards and support the trainers who have dedicated themselves to mentoring others versus the hierarchy paradigm that Dr. Rosenbergs discusses in his training materials.    

Prior to joining the BCNCC Board Renee supported a local Victoria Intensive that brought Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye and Gregg Kendrick together from the NVC Training Institute.  This offered  in-depth training in Nonviolent Communication from an orientation of the “Living Energy of Needs,”

Renee Lindstrom, GCFP (250) 361-7508

Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner - Feldenkrais Guild of North America  

Website: www.insideawareness.com