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)
Engaging with Controversial Questions: A Conversation between Roxy Manning and Miki Kashtan (Q&A Fishbowl Fundraiser)
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
Lightness When Things Are Difficult: NVC and Resonant Dialogue Skills
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
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
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
Conversational Connections: Practical Skills for Communicating Compassionately
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
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
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
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!
NVC with a Systemic Lens: How Far We’ve Come, Why it Matters, and What is Needed Now
NVC with a Systemic Lens: How Far We’ve Come, Why it Matters, and What is Needed Now
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
Intimate Relationships: The Tiniest Details Make the Difference
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
Responding to the Call of Our Times: A Leadership Coaching Program 2023
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