Every one of us is impacted many times each day by micro-freezes that are the resulting fallout from both recent and long ago painful events. During this powerfully healing course, Sarah will walk you through a unforgettable tour of neuroscience, and succinctly demonstrate how NVC and neuroscience together can change your brain and enable your life to become both more fluid and far more resilient.

NVC is an invaluable tool for strengthening your connection to all beings: from one-celled life forms to more complex beings such as trees, humans, and other animals. During this course, you’ll grow a better understanding of how you might connect to and compassionately serve life in ALL its forms. You’ll deepen your ability to love animal nature — especially human nature — and learn how you might weave compassion into every thought, word, and action.

Whether you’re an “official” leader or not, you can be part of making life work for everyone, because leadership isn’t always about the position you hold. If you’re a homemaker, CEO, spiritual leader, board member, parent, manager, volunteer, etc. – YOU are in a position of leadership. And whatever your challenges may be, this program will give you the opportunity to approach life from the driver’s seat, able to respond to what life presents with heartfelt care for all.

What’s a powerful way of deepening YOUR NVC consciousness? Sharing it with others! Facilitating NVC courses is a richly powerful way of deepening your own NVC consciousness. It tends to continually remind you of the ways in which you’re living — or not living — your practice. This intensive has been designed to help you further develop your NVC teaching skills, augment your personal teaching style, rediscover ease and joy around sharing NVC, and fall in love with the process all over again!

Habits, patterns, and judgments: automatic reactions like these can easily get in the way of opening to the aliveness of each present moment. During this course, you’ll explore ways in which integrating a blend of NVC and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction can help you deepen your connection to your whole self — feelings, needs, body, and mind — and enable you to bring a far deeper focus to intention, acceptance, empathy, compassion, and gratitude. Weekly home practices included!

As a child, holding onto old and painful messages may have been necessary for your survival. Now that you’re an adult, however, you can learn how to re-orient yourself and give yourself the gift of that happy childhood. How? Through empathic listening, reparenting, and unburdening! If you’re a wounded healer who’s willing to dive into the deepest of all emotions — to witness the tender experiences you’ve never before dared to feel — this course offers you a whole new world.

How does the magic of NVC work? And how can YOU become an Empathy Wizard with anyone and in any situation — even situations that are deeply challenging? Come find out in this course with Dian! Along the way you’ll not only add more Empathy Magic to YOUR life, you’ll also gain greater naturalness, flow, and ease in your NVC practice — as well as new ways of seeing and practicing NVC!

What exactly IS empathy? Empathy is the connection that happens between you and another when you experience your differences while holding on to underlying threads of commonality. In this course, John will be sharing in-depth practices designed to give you the ability to speak and listen from a place of empathic presence, as well as a Self-Connection Practice specially formulated to help you come back to that empathy connection when you’ve gotten triggered into “fight-flight-freeze.”

A house that is built to be sturdy, yet flexible can stand up to many years of challenging weather – it can survive - even thrive in the vast variety of circumstances known as everyday life. Both Buddhism and NVC can provide a sturdy support system for this kind of home. They offer you skills to help you remain open to whatever life offers you, to be in harmony with the flow, and they provide a sheltering space held together by acceptance, compassion and loving kindness.

When you reach “across the aisle” to others who hold differing levels of power, privilege, or rank — or who come from vastly different cultures — you may feel as though you’re about to step into a minefield, where even your best attempt could inadvertently trigger an explosion. Join Roxy and change it up! You’ll learn practices that can help you safely navigate difficult or confusing situations, and enjoy plenty of space for practice time, too.

The current social and political climate can make it feel difficult to find your center and get clear in regard to what’s going on in. You may have wondered how you can engage in working on these challenges in a way that is empowered and effective – not motivated by fear, anger or judgment.

In the throes of a career or relationship change? Perhaps you or someone you love are experiencing health challenges, or navigating through the challenge of moving house and home? Or maybe recent events have added distress to your life? Whatever the cause, transition times can be so confusing and scary! This nurturing, experiential course is designed to help you more easily navigate those change-filled times of transition.

Please join us on the fourth Saturday of most months for a 2 hour session and enjoy a taste of living within our empathic community, as well as a brief training and practice with our trainers. You will learn concrete skills and steps for practicing compassion and leadership in your life.