From Resentment to an Open Heart:
Honest Communication for Spiritual People
Saturday October 11th: 10 – 11.30 am Mountain Time.
Free online webinar (recording available if you cannot attend live).
You meditate, reflect, and work on healing your heart—yet expressing your needs clearly still feels surprisingly difficult. You’re not alone. Many spiritually minded people find themselves taking care of others while hoping they’ll read your mind, avoiding asking for what you truly need, or swinging between silence and frustration instead of speaking from clarity.
This free introductory webinar bridges that gap. Learning to express needs honestly and set healthy boundaries help us move out of resentment and develop an open heart. Learn to practice clear, compassionate communication using Clear Sky’s Five Principles of a Mindful Container. These time-tested principles help you move beyond habits of over-giving, resentment, and indirect communication.
We all want the best for ourselves and others. We long for peace in our hearts. And yet, most of us were never taught how to express our needs clearly or how to ask for help effectively. Instead, we’ve often learned to:
- Take care of others while expecting them to somehow read our minds.
- Avoid asking for what we truly need or want—sometimes not even knowing the difference ourselves.
- Hold onto resentments because we don’t know how to voice what’s really going on.
- Express ourselves indirectly—saying everything except the heart of the issue.
- Swing between silence and frustration, instead of speaking from clarity and balance.
For many spiritually minded people, this has a particular footprint. We may dedicate ourselves to meditation, reflection, and healing the heart, yet still find the application of healthy boundaries and honest communication surprisingly difficult.
This free introductory webinar explores how to strengthen your emotional resilience and practice clear, compassionate communication, using Clear Sky’s Five Principles of a Mindful Container:
- Honoring Space – Creating environments where your emotions and needs can safely be expressed, and where others feel truly heard.
- Structure – Building supportive rhythms and routines that keep you steady when emotions run high.
- Communication – Developing the courage and skill to say what you mean with clarity and kindness, and to listen deeply when others share their needs.
- Cleaning Up Big Areas – Establishing healthy boundaries and shared understandings that reduce conflict and build trust.
- Working With Others – Balancing care for others with the inner strength to stay connected to your own well-being.
Together, these principles help us move beyond habits of silence, over-giving, or resentment. They cultivate steadiness in the midst of strong emotions and teach us to speak honestly, listen generously, and connect with one another from a place of resilience and heart.
Ready to Go Deeper?
This webinar introduces you to Clear Sky’s Five Principles through the lens of communication. Our 4-week Integrating Mindfulness course takes you through all Five Principles in depth, helping you apply them to every area of your life—from your meditation practice and daily routines to your relationships, environment, and the big life areas that drain your energy.
If you’re ready for lasting transformation beyond this introduction, learn more about Integrating Mindfulness here or register directly after the webinar.
This workshop is based on Clear Sky’s Five Principles of a Supportive Container.
You can learn more about our Five Principles here and get our free pdf overview by clicking the link below.
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Meet the Teachers
Karen McAllister
As Clear Sky’s Chair of the Board and Director of Business Development, I’m passionate about teaching the much-ignored principles of nurturing the factors – like honor your space, structure, and communication – that create the conditions we need to wake up more in daily life. I see how I learned and embodied these principles in my different roles at Clear Sky as the center went from self-starter to second-stage growth. This is what I call “the hands-on way of doing an MBA with a spiritual bottom line!”
In my free time, I love travelling, speaking Portuguese and reading history, architecture and art books.
Duncan Cryle
Through 30+ years of personal practice and 15+ teaching meditation and mindfulness, alongside an active career working all over the world, I’ve learnt a lot about an integrating mindfulness into daily life. As a founding member of Clear Sky in 2004, I’m amazed at the power of a beautiful, natural and dedicated space for supporting people to deepen their meditation and feel more connected. Alongside. my Clear Sky work, I hold a director position at a large software company where I also run a volunteer global mindfulness program to 1000s employees. I was formerly one of the pioneers of IBM’s mindfulness movement. I’m passionate about how mindfulness-based approaches can transform how we live and work together, and be of better service in the world.
What Previous Students Are Saying
"I think this course is a beautiful, utterly grounded and relevant way of making the spiritual life very real and integrated with how we are living every day of our lives. It lays an important foundation for a meditation practice that can actually go somewhere and lead to a well-rounded and truly fulfilling life."
"It's really, really brought me back home to myself. I found myself in the past very scattered and would put off all the important things, the spiritual aspects of life, the mindfulness and so on, just to blast through my day and get things done, but now I am really taking pause. I still don't get everything done, but I don't get everything done in a much more calm and soulful way."