Day

This Practice Group begins with a "remembering" for inspiration, centering and connecting with ourselves. This is followed by a "check-in" when we share how we are, what we bring with us or what we hope to receive during the session. Activities include: short education exercises, empathy, role-plays, games and discussions. Participants can facilitate the group with prior arrangement with Rodger Sorrow

Time 7 - 9 PM Pacific

Donation $10

Open to all

Would you like to learn how to transform your communication?
This workshop runs from 10am-5pm on Saturday and Sunday, and * Introduces you to the steps of the NVC process for use in expressing yourself to others, listening to others and listening compassionately to yourself * Gives you sufficient information and practice to start using NVC in your daily life. * Is run in an experiential style working with examples from participants' lives. * Uses the NVC Dance Floors for integrated, dynamic learning. * Is a recognised stepping stone to further NVC training.
Fee: We would like to receive £130 (business rates on application). Low-income and Sangha (Buddhist community) rate: £90.
The venue is Birmingham Buddhist Centre, 11 Park Road, Moseley, Birmingham B13 8AB
Info and booking: Contact the Birmingham Buddhist Centre office on (0121) 449 5279 or info@birminghambuddhistcentre.org.uk

With facilitators:Jean Morrison, NVC trainer since 1989 &
Patricia Wolff, Zen practitioner.

We will connect our meditation practice with our speech and communication as a powerful and effective way to bring
spiritual values into our everyday lives, and our actions into the world.

Some common themes we will explore in this workshop are:
… do no harm, compassion, mindfulness, wise speech, lovingkindness, empathy, responsive, non-reactive, free from the judging mind…

A Foundation Trainings presents the concepts and tools used in NVC. Like learning a foreign language, full fluency comes over time. These two days:

Introduce you to the steps of the NVC process for use in expressing yourself, listening to others and connecting compassionately to yourself
Will give you sufficient information and practice to start using NVC in your daily life
Are run in an experiential style working with examples from participants' lives
Are challenging, moving, supportive and fun

Join us for this residential workshop to mourn, celebrate, explore in community and be stimulated and supported to make the transformation you seek.

We invite you to:
• explore some models of human consciousness and ways they might support our understanding of paradigm shift (e.g. Spiral Dynamics, complexity theory)
• enjoy support to discover what might be holding you back
• use the NVC Dance Floors for inner work and dialogue practice
• develop ways to maximise your impact
To book: Contact Gitte Brandenburg Carlsen E-mail: gc@giraf4connexion.dk or tlf. +45 62651565
Costs: Dkr 4200,00 in double room. Single Room + kr. 225,00
The fee includes all workshop time, accommodation in double room, and all meals and refreshments.

Do your conversations with your child seem to reveal that you are worlds apart? Nonviolent Communication will give you the tools you need to both establish common ground and talk honestly yet respectfully about your differences. This workshop is sponsored by The CHANGES Parent Support Network, which provides support, education, and service to parents struggling with teens and adolescents who are engaging in self-destructive or acting-out behaviors such as truancy and failing grades, defiant, rebellious or out-of-control behavior, running away, drug and alcohol abuse, illegal activities, aggressive and/or addictive behaviors and attempted suicide.

Join us for this residential workshop to mourn, celebrate, explore in community and be stimulated and supported to make the transformation you seek.

We invite you to:
• explore some models of human consciousness and ways they might support our understanding of paradigm shift (e.g. Spiral Dynamics, complexity theory)
• enjoy support to discover what might be holding you back
• use the NVC Dance Floors for inner work and dialogue practice
• develop ways to maximise your impact
To book: Contact Gitte Brandenburg Carlsen E-mail: gc@giraf4connexion.dk or tlf. +45 62651565
Costs: Dkr 4200,00 in double room. Single Room + kr. 225,00
The fee includes all workshop time, accommodation in double room, and all meals and refreshments.

NVC enables us to connect empathically with other people, and helps us
to help them to connect empathically with us. But what do you do when
you are feeling angry or upset to the extent that you don't want to
empathise with them? And they feel the same about you?! We call this
empathy collision, and on this day we will explore what is happening in
these situations and how we can get around this impasse. This day will
be practice oriented, to help you develop and rejuvenate your skill
with NVC.

other dates: 21.-25.5.2008, 6.-10.8.2008
Target audience
This training is open to any person who:
• has attended at least 5 days of NVC training; and
• through trainings, conferences and/or the facilitation of practice groups, wishes to disseminate the NVC process, without necessarily embarking on the NVC certification process; and
• wishes to consolidate their ability to:
• contribute to the learning of others.
• live ande practise the process,
• understand and absorb the essence of NVC
In addition to being a living model of the spirit and principles of Nonviolent Communication, our mission as a trainer is to contribute to our participants’ learning in a variety of manners.
We shall make full use of our expertise in respect of key differentiations when faced with questions, objections or ‘resistance’ from participants.
You will be able to train with video feedback and ask others to give you feedback.