Empathy Changes Us.
Do you sometimes have a sense of being stuck in your journey through life? That you are seeing the same scenery out your emotional window, even though time is passing? Do you long to connect to a sense of richness and meaning that will let you have deep and satisfying relationships with your family, your work and yourself?
My passion circles around creating opportunities to experience healing empathy and resonance, both one-on-one and in small groups, in person and on the phone, and sometimes even via e-mail, that bring people more and more fully into relationship with Self and Others.
When we understand some basics about how the brain is changed by relationship, and we begin to ask our bodies for the stories of our emotions and our longings, our work to create self-compassion and compassion for others is given wings.
The archives on the left contain the writing I’m doing about this convergence of Interpersonal Neurobiology (the synthesis work of Daniel Siegel, Bonnie Badenoch, Allan Schore, Louis Cozolino and others) and somatic empathy (the healing work of Nonviolent Communication) often containing stories from my teaching work in a women’s prison or healing stories.
Here is a free MP3 download of my basic talk, “This is Your Brain on Empathy.” Contact me if you would like to see the accompanying powerpoint visuals for this offering.
Free Download!
This is Your-Brain-on-Empathy-Sarah-Peyton
As I explore this territory, I invite you to join me. I offer monthly teleseminars which you can participate in on the phone from all over the world (or receive the recordings of), exploring themes like addiction, grief, shame, attachment patterns. I offer one-on-one depth empathy sessions, and coaching support for integration of these approaches into teaching, workshop and session work. There are twice-monthly practice groups in Vancouver, WA; regular workshops in Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC, and occasionally in Seattle, WA. I offer an in-person year-long group in Vancouver, BC. In addition, in partnership with Gloria Lybecker, we facilitate a year-long “Self in the World” telephone community, which opens once a year in the spring.
Interested in the Convergence of Nonviolent Communication and Interpersonal Neurobiology?
Consider joining NVC-Brain, an on-line community devoted to exploring the convergence of neuroscience and empathy:
