The Empathy Dojo Certification Course
Next entry point: June 2021
What if there was a way to remove the drama from our relationships and get right to the good stuff of sharing from the heart? Whether in business, parenting, dating or marriage, healing arts, or literally any human context, the only thing we're usually missing is putting in the effort to train better habits!
The Empathy Dojo is an immersive curriculum that empowers you to reach "Black Belt" status in compassionate communicating in record time! What's a black belt? It's someone who knows the safe and effective ways to train, and can guide others on that path!
Dojo, is a Japanese term that means a "sacred training hall".
In this training hall of empathy, we utilize the superlearning tactics of great martial artists and meditators from around the world. We "install" the paradigms and techniques of compassionate and effective rapport so that these rapidly become our new normal.
Are you ready to enter a whole new realm of no-drama sharing from the heart? Do you want to help others in navigating their communication challenges? It's time to put on your white belt and enter the Empathy Dojo!
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"Fa Jun’s communication courses have built trust and confidence in my capacity to express myself in ways that align with my deepest values. Where I would collapse into muted fear before I can now show up with emotional intelligence...knowing I have the capacity to navigate whatever might arise."
-Mikyo, Massage and Yoga Instructor
My Story
I always knew there was something strange about how we communicate. I remember watching sitcoms as a kid and feeling uncomfortable about how people were talking to one another, knowing it was going to cause more trouble down the road than it was worth!
I took my first communication course in high school, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a science to this stuff! From that time on I knew I needed to learn all I could about how to make all our relationships easier and more compassionate!
Fast forward through many years of training in meditation, martial arts, healing, and ministry: the consistent message I've learned in all of these fields is:
We must prioritize the quality of connection if we want our relationships to thrive.
I studied everything from the neurobiology of connection, to Marshall Rosenberg's seminal work in Nonviolent Communication. Through it all, I've learned that while our instincts about communication can lead us astray, we can change everything for the better if we simply learn how to make new habits!
It's simple to say, but I've found it's rare to get step-by-step instructions that tell us how to rapidly upgrade our default communication style to one which maximizes mutuality and understanding.
I designed the Empathy Dojo to meet a very specific need: we need better communication skills and we need them now.
The dojo is a sanctuary dedicated to study in art of relating: safely, efficiently, and through evidence-based principles.
"Using the skills learned in the Empathy Dojo, I navigated an difficult communication situation successfully today. I was able to respect the message of my friend, expressing empathy and understanding of their point of view, while being empathetic to my own beliefs and maintaining the self-respect of both of us. Sharing different viewpoints without conflict was an excellent experience."
-Jim, Therapist and Artist
Earn Your Empathy "Black Belt" in Just 10 Months!
The Empathy Dojo has been designed as an accelerated "black belt" course in compassionate communication. Whether you're are already in a helping profession, starting out on a path of coaching, or want more love and connection in your relationships, this course will transform your life! Best of all, it's designed so that people with full lives can succeed!
By using our time and attention skillfully we ingrain entirely new patterns in our brains and bodies around how we communicate! As you do inner work on yourself, you gain the skills to guide others through their toughest communication challenges.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a little less drama in our interactions...
...and get right down to meeting each other's needs? As a minister, teacher, and coach, I use empathy professionally on a daily basis, but I also use it at home with my beloved life-partner! These skills are what have been missing in our sales, parenting, teaching, social action, and love lives!
Follow Your Compassionate Calling!
Learn to help others as a coach, deepen your own capacity for care and connection, If you're longing to upgrade your skill of compassion, empathy, and rapport this is the certification for you!
"Fa Jun's gentle direction showed me how to positively communicate even the hardest feelings without assigning blame or shame. I learned there are ways to be authentic, maintain boundaries, and be vulnerable without fear."
-Krista, Coach and Parent
Core Modules, Practice, and Retreats
The Empathy Dojo curriculum follows a specific training methodology to allow the student to integrate advanced understandings with ease, and use their new knowledge as quickly as possible!
The 6 Core Modules:
- Empathy Alchemy - the essential toolbox of connection to self and others
- All About Boundaries (and how to use them)!
- All about TRIGGERS (and how to diffuse them)
- How to Build Bridges - communicating from different backgrounds, viewpoints, and agendas.
- The Fine Art of Interrupting: Confrontations, and Interventions with Empathy!
- Mediation and Meditation - changing states to see together.
The core modules are where students learn new, radically transformative information. These are delivered online utilizing superlearning principles to let you complete your daily study in just 15 minutes per day! Unbelievable? Maybe, but this type of learning is actually MORE EFFECTIVE than engaging in long, grueling processes that put your brain to sleep!
In addition to the pre-recorded lessons and daily practices, we'll meet once per month for a check-in with the whole group. This two hour mentorship is for partnered exercises, questions, and connecting with each other.
Certification candidates also take advantage of two private phone sessions with the head instructor, to answer specific questions and stay up-to-speed with course progress.
The final piece of the puzzle for certification is a 3-day live retreat that happens in-person once a year. This is a time for fun, community building, and the subtle refinements that only come about when we're meeting live and face-to-face. Certification candidates are taught advanced techniques in this retreat time that allow them to begin their practice of helping others immediately!
What's so 'Templestyle' about it?
My brand is 'Templestyle' and the whole idea is about creating sanctuaries of compassionate relating. This is something that only a few humans have managed to do yet, but I believe it is our future!
Human technology has far outpaced our emotional intelligence, and it's time to remedy that. The Empathy Dojo is my answer to this great challenge of our times.
Wherever you go, you can find interpersonal conflict, even in the world's most sacred temples!! We enter the dojo to create a new kind of sanctuary within ourselves and the community we create together. A healing space that embodies the reverence we bring to our care for each other as human beings.
As an ordained minister in Buddhist and Daoist lineages, I know how much peace and compassion we all have waiting inside us, but we need tools to bring it forth! As the leader of a Unitarian Universalist congregation, I know how much our world needs skilled heart-warriors empowered with the peacemaking tools that heal conflict.
Whether you're a meditator, or just want to make your everyday interactions easier or your business more efficient, this training gives you the tools you need to speak from the good heart, and call that goodness forth from others!
An Investment Empathy Mastery!
This Dojo has been created to meet the need for resourced and resourceful peacemakers, who use the strength of their voices while coming from the Compassionate Heart within.
This course includes:
- 6 Core Modules, including live meetings and on-demand material ($1500 value)
- Two one-on-one coaching sessions ($600 value)
- Final Live Retreat ($500 value)
- Online learning resources, homeworks, reading assignments, and archived classes.
- caring community, monthly practice groups, empathy buddies, and MORE!
- Candidacy for certification as an Empathy Dojo level one coach!
People pay more than $10,000 for trainings like this, but my calling is to make this inner human "technology" of kindness more available than ever before. Thats why I'm offering the entire level one course at a significant discount from my already low price of $2600!
For those ready to commit to a life-transforming immersion you can take the entire 10 month's for just $1500 when you sign up now!
This offering is limited to the first 21 people who register, so reserve your spot while they last!
Bow, and Enter the Dojo