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There's already an excellent thread in Spanish, so I thought it would be nice, fun, useful and interesting to have one in English too. If anyone has already attended the workshop, or has any questions about it, feel free to post your thoughts here.
The workshop will be held in September 2011 so there's plenty of time for productive discussions.
Thank you for the beautful gift of having you and Lina in Amsterdam, to get to know to you two and to participate in the introduction course. It was an absolutly heart opening and mind expanding experience!
I'm looking forward to seeing you again either here or in South America...
Also many thanks to Sifu Darryl for organizing this course!
It was a great pleasure to have you come over to Amsterdam to Teach the superb Art of Negotiation. I would totally recommend this course to everybody, especially to shaolin wahnam students.
We have learned so many things, even though we have only done an introductory workshop. To give some highlights.
We applied some of the core teachings of practicing Chi Kung, like chi flow and smiling from the heart, to make most of our “ordinairy” interactions in life and in the workplace.
How can we consciously and with intention enter conflict to create full value agreements between all parties.
How do you deal with angry and closed people, by using the transformative power of smiling from the heart.
Learning to, with care and respect, establish contact with other people, from our 3 dan tiens.
Most of all, we had an incredible amout of fun and from a professional standpoint, it is great to see how sifu piti uses all his skills to bring the shaolin arts alive for business.
Everybody who cares for his professional career or want to improves his entrepreneurship, should really go out of his way to catch this course. It’s like suddenly getting new tools to transfer all you hard earned shaolin chi kung skills to your daily life. To me, Piti easily rates with the top business guru’s we’ve interviewed for www.wakinguptheworkplace.com.
Rests me to thank sifu darryl for once again getting great shaolin teachers to Amsterdam. I also love to thank Lina for all her inspiration in transforming “energy work” to a subject that is marketable to business.
And finally, I want to thank sigung, for being the keeper of the essence of the shaolin arts, and for spreading these arts far and wide. You can know you’re successful, when a Scottish man is inviting a Columbian giant to teach dutch people in the netherlands about the art of man from Malaysia.
The Art of Negotiation absolutely blew my mind and opened my heart.
Smiling from the heart is the most powerful force!
Thank you so much for reminding us of this incredible gift and the power of the Shaolin teachings. This workshop has had a really beautiful and deeply powerful impact on myself, and I believe also on the rest of the group. I can sincerely say it changed me in a very positive way.
It was absolutely amazing and so liberating to realise that all emotions are equal and conflict can be a very, very good thing. Combining these insights with the instant experiential learning and immediate application during the course was, well, just awesome :-)
And now it's time to start practising in day to day life! Already looking forward to seeing how things will have changed when we meet again next May :-)
To all brothers and sisters out there: never hesitate to take this course. It will change your life.
Thank you again Piti & Lina! It was an honour to have you here!
And a special thanks to Sifu Darryl for creating this opportunity and ofcourse an enormous thank you to Sigung :-)
Also I attended Sifu Piti’s art of negotiation workshop last Saturday. And also I found the workshop absolutely amazing! I would like to share some of my experiences with you.
At the start of the workshop Piti asked us to think about conflict situations in daily life. I realized I don’t encounter many conflicts in my life, and that you could call me a ‘conflict avoider’. Piti then learned us that conflict is the lubrication in any good relationship. But not only did he tell us so, but he showed it, and let us experience it by comparing a verbal conflict with a sparring situation. How would I feel when I wanted to hit someone, and my opponent would run away even before I started my strike? My anger, my message would stay inside me, and couldn’t flow. If you are a good sparring partner you don't run away, you don't get yourself beaten up, but you use your timing and spacing to create a 'conversation'. I found it beautiful to get to understand this daily life application of kung fu by means of such a simple, yet profound example.
The second part of the workshop touched me very deeply as well. It was in this part that Piti taught us about the power of vulnerability. In contact with other people, or conflict situations I tend to feel somewhat vulnerable at times. Also in Kung Fu class I, as a female, struggle at times when sparring with the big guys. It makes me feel vulnerable as well. And this vulnerability does not feel comfortable for me.
But Saturday I learned this vulnerability can be more powerful than anything. If I embrace this vulnerability instead of fighting against it, I can turn any ‘strike’ into a bright shining light. We experienced how just smiling from the heart can melt anger into love. For me smiling from the heart gained a deeper meaning now I have really experienced what it can do for Kung Fu sparring, and any contact situation in daily life. I feel very grateful for having this deeper understanding now. I have been practicing for the past three days and I already received many beautiful smiles in return. I will definitely try to apply these Shaolin secrets into daily life.
Dear Piti, thank you so much for giving this beautiful workshop. Dear Siheng, thank you so much for inviting Piti, knowing what is good for your students, and for being such a good teacher. And of course, dear Sifu, thanks from the bottom of my heart for spreading the arts.
I was fortunate to be able to join the Introduction to Shaolin and the Art of Negotiation by Tai Sisook Piti last Saturday in Amsterdam. It was incredible!
What I remember most vividly, in addition to Tai Sisook Piti's radiating presence, is when he said he believed Smiling From the Heart to be both the highest-level skill and the essence of our school. Wow! With help from my Sifu Darryl, I had recently been emphasizing this very skill in my own practice, so hearing this really made me appreciate the opportunity to practice it more!
Throughout the day, I kept being amazed at the clarity and skill level of Tai Sisook Piti's communication, and his application of Shaolin principles to any form of energy exchange, and negotiation interactions in particular. Connecting to others from the Third Eye, the Heart, and the Dan Tian was also a powerful experience. The latter in particular opened up a space of deep appreciation for me, just becoming aware that this is even possible!
I highly recommend this course to anyone who can spot or create the opportunity to join it. I will definitely join Tai Sisook Piti and my dear brothers and sisters in May for more Art of Negotiation Awesomeness!
I also want to express my gratitude to Sifu Darryl for organizing this course, and applying the principles last year in Malaysia, to negotiate with Tai Sisook Piti to come to Amsterdam for this. A beautiful example of what we learned last Saturday!
With a smile from the heart,
Diederick
Last edited by Diederick; 14 September 2011, 09:40 AM.
The Art of Negotiation absolutely blew my mind and opened my heart.
Smiling from the heart is the most powerful force!
Thank you so much for reminding us of this incredible gift and the power of the Shaolin teachings. This workshop has had a really beautiful and deeply powerful impact on myself, and I believe also on the rest of the group. I can sincerely say it changed me in a very positive way.
After reading this thread a couple of days ago I was so eager to try "Smiling from the Heart" on an angry Professor. I am not sure what is going on inside him, but inside myself it worked wonders!
Thanks for posting!
Anton
Engage and maintain joyful practice!
May all of you get the best benefits from what you do.
Reading your "discoveries & confirmations" makes me very happy and gives me even more "fuel" to continue this experiential research to find more and more simple, direct and effective applications of the wonderful treasures we have received from Sifu.
Looking forward to reading more soon and seeing you all again,
I was thinking of you and your visit earlier, sitting opposite a Herring Stall and deciding not to negotiate a purchase .
It was beautiful having you and Lina here, both for the teaching and the time spent. I'm still enjoying absorbing many of the fine points you taught, in particular ..
about inviting conflict and encouraging vulnerability
about how to be powerful and vulnerable at the exact same time
about connecting with the person you wish to have a conversation with and respecting their wishes if they don't
about the flowing nature of a successful exchange
about how so many of the techniques and principles of the Shaolin Arts are so powerfully applied to every day interactions
and more and more and more
I would greatly enjoy the chance to repeat this course, with even more of our international family present
In the meantime, I'm looking forwards to more of the Dutchies describing how they been able to apply what they learned ..
Last edited by Darryl; 21 September 2011, 04:33 PM.
Sifu was very happy to hear about our "Taste of Shaolin & the Art of Negotiations" in Amsterdam and of course he is encouraging us to lead more of such workshops in Holland and in other places of Europe.
Thank you for getting the ball rolling...
Smiling from the Heart, with Sifu in the waterfalls of Canaima,
I was fortunate in that I experienced Sifu Piti's incredible Art of Negotiation course in 2009 - and I heartily recommend this course to anyone who can get there for this session in Amsterdam; it is a tremendous way to build skill in the Shaolin Arts.
"I am very excited to once again report from the amazing Montana Azul from an incredible course. I am now back in Dublin and I've been spending a great deal of time absorbing and discovering and confirming a tremendous amount of learning from Sifu Piti's Shaolin and the Art of Negotiation course. Many thanks to Sisuk Piti for this brilliant and illuminating course - it was a special honour to be a part of this session.
I have too much for one post -plus I'd very much like this to flow as a conversation of/through the forum with all of ye- so I will start with a short comment that I think, for me, is the baseline understanding from Sisuk's teachings: the MOST important negotiation we undergo is the active, everyday and near-constant internal negotiation of the entire spectrum of the Warrior/Monk, Yin/Yang, enemy/master dynamic that is within ourselves - and grounding that negotiation in our Smile from the Heart. And within this concept, the word "negotiation" works on two levels of meaning - the basic definition of "a discussion to produce an agreement" but also "succeed in passing through, around or over". From this "negotiation", we will discover the right approach and/or response to anything we find, face or deal with in our lives, grounded in the loving and wonderous teachings of Sigung.
I'm rereading that paragraph and I realize I'm not being concise enough - what Sisuk's course offers to the Shaolin Wahnam family is helping each of us to realize the foundations, techniques and skills so generously taught by Sigung as chi kung, tai chi chuan and shaolin quan can and should (and do) apply to every day, and everyday routines/challenges/interactions.
Sigung's writings and teachings already offer these truths to us - and the structure, language and process of Sisuk's Shaolin and the Art of Negotiation course is primarily aimed at helping us realize this "simple but not easy" understanding of the incredibly powerful gifts the Arts offer to each of us. The course helps a participant "see" how the Shaolin Arts and foundations - e.g., Smiling from the Heart, Safety First, the 4 Preparations and 3 Arrivals, the relationships of/from the Five Elemental Processes, etc - should be applied to EVERY PART of your life, and does so in a way that helps you get by the (sometimes unconscious) separation of a Tai Chi Chuan training regimen or Chi Kung practice, and going about your life day-to-day. And then the course goes on to show you how to enact those applications."
Many thanks to Sigung for encouraging this course, and congratulations to Sifu Darryl and Sifu Piti for organising this opportunity for the family.
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