Living Compassion 4-day Reatreat

ZO 27 sep 2026 t/m WO 30 sep 2026

Tijd: 18.00 - 16.00 uur |
Locatie: Retreat Center 't Zonnehuis
Straat: Beekbergerweg 25
Plaats: 7371 EV Loenen, the Netherlands
Kosten: € See info on website for Room&Board and Tuition
Link website: plantingseeds.nl

Your authentic life force is the essential living energy that animates every moment. This fundamental energy is the tender expression of your inner being, unfolding through the heart as your deepest longings,  in all forms of human needs and values.

This fundamental energy is the tender expression of your inner being, unfolding through the heart as your deepest longings,  in all forms of human needs and values.

Living Compassion is the work of Robert Gonzales, brought to you here by Mironel de Wilde and Eva Maria Schneijderberg.

Living Compassion is an expression of the spirituality of Nonviolent Communication. As we develop a depth of compassion, we naturally develop empathy, authenticity, empowerment, and a greater capacity to love. When you live from the energies of compassion, creativity, love, and clarity, you are living your passion. You are living the Authentic Self-in-Life.

We invite you to live into your wholeness.

Each moment of life can be an integrative moment. Wholeness asks for a paradigm shift from relating to life through opposites to a non-dual sense of welcoming all of life arising through you. We will begin with a preparation of consciousness beyond the mind — through embodiment and connecting to the source of meaning within — and explore three paradigm shifts together:

From a sense of lack to wholeness

From a sense of problem and solution to attending

From a sense of blame and victimhood to empowerment

Over the course of this retreat, we will explore practices to deepen self-acceptance and self-compassion, increase your capacity for vulnerability and mourning, clarify your own spirituality, and strengthen your trust in your place and purpose in life. We will transform the pain of unmet needs into an awareness of their beauty, compassionately embrace core beliefs, and develop the daily habits that allow us to live our lives to the fullest.

This is the work of finding, experiencing, and empowering your Life Energy expressed through you, for the world.

Mironel de Wilde A pivotal moment came in 2014 when I attended my first Nonviolent Communication (NVC) workshop also in India. For the first time, I learned how to fully feel my feelings and listen to their messages. As my NVC practice deepened, my spiritual focus shifted from seeking transcendence to living into wholeness. Through the work of Robert Gonzales, Living Compassion, I discovered a practical way to live non-duality in relationships and everyday life. Living non-duality, living into wholeness is a process of unveiling my innate nature. There is nothing to do to cultivate what is already the truth of my being. The work is simply to love ourselves into who we really are.

Eva Maria Schneijderberg I attended my first NVC training in 2012. I was super enthusiastic about what it brought me; awareness and  practical guide for my inner and outer communication.  In 2015 I met Robert Gonzales for the first time. The process of Living Compassion deepened my practice of Nonviolent Communication as I experienced this as a spiritual way of approaching nonviolence. It gave me a process on how to meet my inner experience in a compassionate way that supports healing. Being aware and present to how life moves through me and where this flow of life is blocked or stuck enables me to live from a place of openness rather than protection. I enjoy working with groups and individuals who want to explore how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) , with awareness of the impact of power dynamics, can contribute to connection and collaboration. 

Eva Maria and Mironel are both CNVC certified trainers. Mironel is boardmember of CNVC,  Eva Maria is chairwoman of the Dutch NVC trainercommunity GC-Kring.  

“ With this program we aim to keep the legacy from Robert Gonzales, Living Compassion,  alive and accessible"

For who:

You are interested in the intersection of psychology and spirituality

You have studied the basics of NVC and want to go deeper

You experience healing as a form of empowerment

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Living Compassion is my continual, embodied mindfulness practice - because the longing in my being is to live and feel the fullness every moment of my life. The continual sense of intimacy with the life in me, is a way of living.

Robert Gonzales

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