Facing Life as One: Restoring Our Individual and Collective Capacity for Choice, Togetherness, and Flow
Facing Life as One: Restoring Our Individual and Collective Capacity for Choice, Togetherness, and Flow
Facing Life as One: Restoring Our Individual and Collective Capacity for Choice, Togetherness, and Flow
Begins August 7, 2022 • 12 hours (2 hours per session)
- Learn concrete tools for engaging with others as you embrace individual and collective liberation
- Find your own source of choice even in the face of challenges
- Release the constriction of scarcity
- Find an empowered option to respond to what is happening in our world
- Open the door to the possibility of thriving rather than merely surviving
The Heart of Parenting (Introductory Course): Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Children, and Our World
The Heart of Parenting (Introductory Course): Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Children, and Our World
The Heart of Parenting (Introductory Course): Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Children, and Our World
Begins September 3, 2022 • 8 hours (2 hours per session)
- Tune into your self-dialogue with a compassion that supports loving presence
- Shift limiting beliefs about your parenting patterns so you can choose consciously
- Transform frustration, confusion, or guilt into constructive, honest discussions
- Foster your ability to say yes and no in a way that supports your natural limits
Self-Empathy: Healing from the Inside Out
Begins September 22, 2022 • 12 hours (2 hours per session)
- Heal internal messages that tell you you're not good enough
- Release yourself from old habits and unmet needs
- Deepen your ability to connect with self and heal your past
- Heighten your ability to express your authentic self
- Experience greater ease and joy in your relationships
The Communication Difference: Create the Life and Work You Want
The Communication Difference: Create the Life and Work You Want
The Communication Difference: Create the Life and Work You Want
Begins October 1, 2022 • 9 hours (3 hours per course)
- Gain insights into what drives people in your life to do what they do – it’s amazingly logical!
- Explore how to build bridges while being honest, even when you disagree
- Practice communicating in ways that make it more likely to find support for your ideas
- Discover how understanding your needs and those of others creates a wealth of options for living and working together in a cooperative, enjoyable way
NVC Zen: Living in the Paradox of Both/And
Begins October 3, 2022 • 8 hours (2 hours per session)
- Foster nonviolent discernment with the wisdom of modern and ancient thinkers
- Navigate common life choices without experiencing your options as dilemmas
- Make decisions that foster personal well-being through an awareness of dependence, independence, interdependence, and self-fullness
- Explore this abundance in an atmosphere of gentle, matter-of-fact authenticity
Somatic NVC-Stabilization of the Nervous System and Self-Connection
Somatic NVC-Stabilization of the Nervous System and Self-Connection
Somatic NVC-Stabilization of the Nervous System and Self-Connection
Begins October 9, 2022 • 9 hours (3 hours per session)
- Learn how to stabilize your nervous system to build inner safety
- Become more aware of what is going on inside you
- Transform internal negativity into inner peace and compassion
- Connect to the outside world with curiosity and empathy
The Art of Mourning: Exploring Pain, Depression, Anger, and Other Dear Friends
The Art of Mourning: Exploring Pain, Depression, Anger, and Other Dear Friends
The Art of Mourning: Exploring Pain, Depression, Anger, and Other Dear Friends
Begins November 10, 2022 • 15 hours (3 hours per session)
- Welcome unpleasant feelings and meet their flow in and around the body
- Discover how you can enjoy Anger as a beautiful life force
- Realize insecurity and depression as a door to the core of your humanity
- Know how to use fear to firmly connect to your life and strength
Harmonizing Our Inner Conflicts
Begins November 12, 2022 • 3 hours
- Learn physical, emotional, and linguistic practices rooted in NVC and Aikido that you can use daily to self-connect
- Discover how these practices combine to create more inner harmony and more clarity of expression
- Deepen your NVC practice beyond the words by connecting to parts of your being that hold the key to your needs
- Build your ability to listen empathically with your whole being
Self-Compassion Boot Camp
Begins December 2, 2022 • 25 hours (5 days)
- Reboot your sense of self-connection with accompaniment, neuroscience and NVC
- Kickstart the release of tension you are holding in your body from past pain
- Breathe in compassion and let a renewed sense of self reinvigorate you
- Experience how transformation of old contracts can set the tone for new habits
Responding to the Call of Our Times: A Leadership Coaching Program (Ongoing)
Responding to the Call of Our Times: A Leadership Coaching Program (Ongoing)
Responding to the Call of Our Times: A Leadership Coaching Program (Ongoing)
Begins February 4, 2022 • 90 hours (2 hours per session)
- Learn how to engage effectively with others around a shared purpose
- Weave nonviolence more deeply into your personal leadership style
- Receive ongoing support in moving towards your highest goals
- Increase your capacity to know and face reality as a source of greater choice
- Be a part of transforming the old legacy of scarcity, powerlessness, and separation into a livable future
Taste of Compassionate Leadership (Ongoing)
4th Saturday of each month • 2 hours per session
- Meets on the fourth Saturday of most months
- Experience a taste of living within an empathic community
- Enjoy short yet powerful training / practice sessions with our trainers
- Learn concrete skills and steps for practicing compassion and leadership
Building Restorative Systems for Transforming Conflict
Building Restorative Systems for Transforming Conflict
Building Restorative Systems for Transforming Conflict
Begins January 17, 2023 • 20 hours (2 hours per session)
- Develop a mindset that engages calmly and comfortably with conflict
- Discover how to bring a restorative approach to your community
- Build support for solutions that are sustainable and engaging
- Learn and practice specific skills for dialogue, mediation, and restorative circles
Restorative Circles: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience
Restorative Circles: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience
Restorative Circles: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience
Begins May 9, 2023 • 12 hours (2 hours per session)
- Learn to design systematic, transformative, grass-roots restorative circles
- Find hope and inspiration for mutual understanding, shared humanity, and healing when violence – even war – has painfully torn apart your community
- Learn how to develop a robust container for dialogue in your local communities including in families, schools, church groups, neighborhoods, and businesses
- See how restorative circle work can contribute organically to community development and wellness
Parenting for the Future: Your Child's and the Planet
Parenting for the Future: Your Child's and the Planet
Parenting for the Future: Your Child's and the Planet
Begins August 9, 2023 • 8 hours (2 hours per session)
- Explore ways of parenting that will shape a future full of purpose and possibility
- Discover how your values can serve as a compass to guide you forward
- Understand the relationship between your present actions and desired outcomes
- Gain experience in balancing your child’s present needs with long term visions!
Equitable Facilitation: Supporting Equity Through Leadership
Equitable Facilitation: Supporting Equity Through Leadership
Equitable Facilitation: Supporting Equity Through Leadership
Begins September 13, 2023 • 8 hours (2 hours per session)
- Learn tips and strategies to ensure ALL voices are heard
- Grow your capacity to name and address power dynamics
- See how prior assumptions and perspectives impact how groups work together
- Explore facilitation components using a caring for all, power-with lens
Transitions in Life: Rediscovering Your Inner Spark
Transitions in Life: Rediscovering Your Inner Spark
Transitions in Life: Rediscovering Your Inner Spark
Begins October 16, 2023 • 16 hours (2 hours per session)
- Find peace amid chaos and see beauty in the challenges you face
- Spend less time feeling stress and return to balance much faster
- Ask for help when you need it and speak truthfully to anyone
- Navigate big changes with greater peace and clarity!
Jump In Now: Facilitation Basics
Begins November 16, 2023 • 8 hours (2 hours per session)
- Clarify and accentuate your personal teaching style
- Build a strong NVC network and support system
- Learn how to balance everyone’s needs – yours included
- Expand your capacity for living in NVC consciousness