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Facilitate NVC Groups with Joy and Confidence

Begins March 16, 2023 • 20 hours (2 hours per session)
  • Clarify and accentuate your personal teaching style
  • Gain tools for creating safety and ease in your groups
  • Learn to easily create workshop outlines and teaching activities
  • Come away with tips that will keep your workshops alive

Engaging with Controversial Questions: A Conversation between Roxy Manning and Miki Kashtan (Q&A Fishbowl Fundraiser)

April 22, 2023 • 2 hours
  • Witness these two visionaries engage with love, openness, and curiosity
  • Explore open questions and curiosities you have about NVC
  • Help support the ongoing sustainability of NVC Academy
  • Expand your thinking within NVC and its relevance to our times

Lightness When Things Are Difficult: NVC and Resonant Dialogue Skills

Begins April 24, 2023 • 12 hours (1.5 hours per session)
  • Discover how to bring resonance into your conversations with others
  • Learn how resonant language and NVC empathy come together
  • Practice consent and saying “no”, even when it is difficult
  • Feel the movement into more intimacy in your relationships!

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

The Art of Making Requests: Ask for the Moon

Begins May 11, 2023 • 18 hours (3 hours per session)
  • Discover how to figure out what you really want, then how to ask for it
  • Learn how to make requests with ease and how to guess the requests of others
  • Practice strategies for turning ‘demand energy’ into ‘request energy’
  • Be able to stand firmly for your needs and assertively ask for what you want

Conversational Connections: Practical Skills for Communicating Compassionately

Begins June 5, 2023 • 7.5 hours (1.5 hours per session)
  • Learn, practice, and integrate the basic components of NVC
  • Understand how to use observations, feelings, needs, and requests
  • Grow your communication skills and strengthen your relationships
  • Discover how to express yourself honestly and authentically!

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

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

Pettiness, Judgment, and Self-Compassion

Begins September 25, 2023 • 12 hours (1.5 hours per session)
  • Deepen your self-compassion in difficult moments
  • Discover how to meet judgment with resonance
  • Learn the relational neuroscience of pettiness and spite
  • Find empathy for your jackal and accompany yourself with warmth!

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

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!

NVC with a Systemic Lens: How Far We’ve Come, Why it Matters, and What is Needed Now

Begins November 21, 2023 • 10 hours (2.5 hours per session)
  • Apply NVC principles beyond individual experience to develop a systemic NVC practice
  • Bring a systemic lens to ‘individual’ experiences
  • Understand Otherness and how Otherness happens
  • Harness the power of NVC to bring about social transformation

Intimate Relationships: The Tiniest Details Make the Difference

Begins December 20, 2023 • 12 hours (3 hours per session)
  • Understand the destructive dynamics that keep love from blossoming
  • Learn how to deal with expectations, disappointments, and judgment
  • Transform guilt, shame, and obligations into a flow of creativity
  • Find out what tiny details are preventing natural love to flow!

Responding to the Call of Our Times: A Leadership Coaching Program 2023

Begins February 3, 2023 • 45 sessions (2 hours per session)
  • Discover what is yours to do in response to our global crises
  • Weave nonviolence more deeply into how you live and lead
  • Receive ongoing support in how to be effective and alive while pursuing your highest goals
  • Increase your capacity to face and mourn current reality as a source of greater choice and energy
  • Be a part of transforming the legacy of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness into a livable future

Taste of Compassionate Leadership

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 
  • Learn concrete skills and steps for practicing compassion and leadership