The Art of Communication:
Clarity, Energy, Gentleness, Integrity, Love

Gay Luce

May 28-30, 2010

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Learning to communicate is like an opera, a form of play, movement, meditation, and speech. When we constantly make our motivations clear and draw out a speaker energetically, conversation becomes deep, authentic, and unpredictable. We are engrossed and feel close to each other. We open doors, experience intimacy, and solve problems. Our hearts open, there is love — even with people you might never have imagined you could appreciate so deeply.

People talk a lot every day, but much of the time they “miscommunicate,” Gay Luce says. These misunderstandings have enormous costs, creating hurt or angry feelings, conflict, and emnity. If people could communicate fully, Gay believes, “sunlight would illuminate our relationships and our lives would intertwine like tropical vines.”

But clarity and integrity and speech don’t just happen — they require skill. People are capable of sensing the energy field and draw out the thoughts and feelings of others, learning a vocabulary of healing and understanding layers of tone and body language. Communication depends on intuition, energy work, sound, and movement helped by “right speech” and nonviolent communication.

Communication also requires the willingness to sacrifice a little self-delusion, Gay believes. “We have feelings and judgments we hope to leave hidden — not realizing they pour out of our energy bodies and surround our listeners like a hot wind. They respond — but usually they don’t know how to make their ‘instinctive’ reactions conscious. There is not much about us we can hold private.”

At 54, Gay says she still felt “unloved by my mom and resentful of her. One afternoon, using the communication skills I’ve been learning for 20 years, I really listened to her — for four hours. It was the first time in my life I discovered who my mother was. I had resented her for not being a nurturing mom, and now I saw a brilliant, creative painter and sculptor whose every breath was about form and color. She hadn’t a nurturing bone in her body, but I began to appreciate and love her for who she was, instead of wanting her to be someone else.”
Exhilarated by this shift, Gay began sharing what she had learned. This powerful workshop compresses the essentials into a few days, offering skills to achieve clarity, integrity, gentleness, and compassion. We are delighted to have her back at Rowe.

 

Gay Luce is a transformational teacher who understands both how energy moves through the body and how to teach it to others. She taught in Jean Houston’s Mystery School, then founded the Nine Gates Mystery School, a transformational program structured on the energy centers of the body and drawing on teachers from diverse spiritual traditions. Once a science writer with the National Institute of Mental Health, and a member of the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee, Dr. Luce is the author of many books, including Body Time and Longer Life, More Joy. Long an explorer of the mysteries of life and death, she is a compassionate, grounded, clear teacher and one of Rowe’s favorite workshop leaders.