Like a kid in a candy store

I'm a real newbie to the NVC world but I've been a Quaker for over 25 years. so it's an easy idea for me to grasp. It makes sense to me that the original sin that causes the misery in this world is believing our thoughts of good and evil, right and wrong, reward and punishment. Actually using NVC, on the other hand, will take me a while to learn. I'm pretty sure that it is something I am being led to use in my career in the future. I have been a nurse for 16 years, but now find myself out of work. Nursing jobs that were well suited to my abilities and weaknesses seemed to just fall into my lap right when I needed them up until now. So I'm thinking of a career change. Last winter I found out about "The Work" of Byron Katie and found it very useful in my life. I was considering going through her training to become a Certified Facilitator of the Work of Byron Katie when I picked up Marshall Rosenbergs book "Speak Peace in a world of conflict". Then it seemed like an even better idea to become an NVC trainer. Or maybe I'd like to do both. This is complicated by my lack of finances. My wife, my family and I are living on my unemployment and our dwindling savings. It's a bit tricky to get a good idea on how much cash it would take to do either. The training is similar for both, involving a lot of traveling to different programs, a bunch of home work and practical experience.

I'm considering going back to school to get a MS in mental health counseling and then become a counselor who uses "the Work" of Byron Katie and NVC with my customers and maybe later get certified in one of them. I live on the south shore of lake superior, which is sparsely populated. My customer base would be a lot bigger if I could bill insurance for some of my work. I would have to take as much in student loans as we paid for our farm 22 years ago, but it would hopefully be worth it. I think it would be interesting to see what they're teaching these days compared to what Marshall Rosenberg and all my other recent teachers (Byron Katie, Wayne Dyer, Miguel Ruiz, et. al.) are saying.

I am blessed to have so many challenging, potentially rewarding options in my future and the kick in the pants by my unemployment to get me going after some of them.

Rich