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9-day retreat in Nonviolent Communication
We welcome you to join us for this residential retreat in São Roque, State of São Paulo, Brazil on 27-July to 5-August-2023. We envision that this event will help you bring authenticity and harmony into all areas of your life. We hope that you will discover skills that will help you improve the quality of your relationships, deepen your inner peace, and increase your contribution to the world!
This 9-day immersion experience into Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will offer learning sessions, home groups, coaching and feedback from skilled trainers, and a community environment where you can learn and practice the key skills of NVC.
Our team of Certified Trainers will share both the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique applications. We expect a group of approximately 60 to 80 people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.
People around the world are using Nonviolent Communication skills to transform conflict, create resiliency in their relationships, and build a world where everyone's needs matter and are met collaboratively.
We will create a dynamic learning laboratory that will show you how to create a more compassionate and peaceful culture in your life at home, at work, and in your community by learning how to:
- Speak from the heart
- Practice deep, non-judgmental listening
- Build self-empowerment from the inside out
| Basic Details |
Format: In-person, 9-day residential retreat
Language: English, Portuguese
Begins: Thursday, 27-July-2023 (5:00 pm)
Ends: Saturday, 5-August-2023 (1:00 pm)
Venue: Espaço Natureza Arco-Íris, São Roque, State of São Paulo, Brazil (see the exact location)
Sponsor: Center for Nonviolent Communication
Organizer: Sandra Caselato
Assistant Organizers: Maria Santana and Daniele Putnoki
Interpreters: Daniel Fauth Washington Martins, Estelle Ampélé, Flavia Figueiredo, Luciana Rovegno, Thais Rosa Pinheiro, and Vivian Alonso.
Register: Click this link
| Goals of this Training |
The purpose of this intensive training is to give you the opportunity to live the process of Nonviolent Communication in community over an extended period of time, in order to develop the mindsets and practical tools to help you in three areas:
1. Personal and Professional Relationships
- Increase connection and closeness with the people you love.
- Speak in a way that inspires compassion and understanding.
- Initiate difficult conversations with more ease and confidence.
- Remain centered and peaceful when receiving difficult messages.
- Express and receive anger fully, safely and respectfully... yet powerfully.
- Resolve long-standing conflicts and heal painful relationships.
- Parent children from the heart and move beyond power struggles into cooperation.
- Translate criticism, judgments and blame into life-serving messages.
2. Inner Transformation
- Shift patterns of thinking that lead to depression, guilt and shame and that perpetuate pain.
- Transform anger into self-understanding, thereby increasing inner peace.
- Enliven yourself by expressing and receiving gratitude.
- Learn to embody unconditional love.
3. Contribution to others and Social Change
- Share NVC in ways that transmit and model its power to transform and inspire others.
- Create educational systems where students love learning and teachers love teaching.
- Learn to engage in effective, lasting nonviolent social change in the tradition of Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Facilitate meetings and support group decision making in a power-sharing, collaborative, and consensus-based ways.
- Support holistic and human-based workplaces
- Engage with others at work and in the community to foster openness, trust and authenticity.
- Support mutual understanding and connection when working in colonised countries.
- Foster restoration and harmony by mediating conflicts and helping to resolve differences among others.
While we will prioritise these three areas in the curriculum, there is also room for co-creation. There will be opportunities for you to request specific topics and applications to support you in living and sharing NVC at work, home, and in the community as well as internally in how you relate to yourself.
| The Training Team |
Each member of the training team is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
Trainer: Roxy Manning (United States)
Roxy’s life experience as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant in the United States, combined with her academic training and professional work as a licensed clinical psychologist and CNVC Certified Trainer, have cultivated a deep passion in her for work that supports social change at the personal, interpersonal, and systemic levels. Roxy is excited whenever she is helping opposing voices hear each other and see past individual hurt and struggles to the structures that contribute to those challenges. At this IIT, she hopes to support the authentic and vulnerable exploration of NVC to support our individual healing, and to build communities where people from all levels of society trust their needs matter and develop strategies that better meet all needs. Fun notes about Roxy: She is the mom of three kids, avid reader and baker, and has a huge love of travel.
Learn more about Roxy.
Trainer: Duke Duchscherer (United States)
Duke is a Certified Trainer with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication (since 2000) and is a past member of the Board of Directors for the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.
He has facilitated training in Restorative Circles and Nonviolent Communication around the world with a depth and breadth of peoples and communities from small villages at the grassroots to governmental leaders at the United Nations on five continents.
Some of this work has included supporting the transformation of active conflicts such as leading a series of restorative dialogues between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian community where they reside near the warfront in Ukraine; or facilitating dialogue between state-level government officials, minority/indigenous groups, and those who have been directly harmed by strikes, protests, and border closings due to the promulgation of the new Nepal constitution.
Duke has also worked extensively in the area of reconciliation leading numerous dialogues such as one between former Shining Path & MRTA rebels, former military, civil society leaders, and those directly harmed during the ‘time of violence’ in Peru; or between Rwandan genocide survivors and recently released prisoners who killed their families. (see the documentary In The Eyes of the Good for an example of Duke’s work).
Trainer: Fabiola Fuentes (Colombia)
Fabiola is a lawyer and holds a Master's degree in Political Science in Colombia, her country of origin. She lived in Britain for 11 years where she studied Nonviolent Communication (NVC) from 2001 with Marshall Rosenberg and other mentors, and in 2004 she was certified as CNVC trainer. Her passion is to work with individuals and communities who wish to contribute to making this planet a better place, healing their families, their communities, their work places, their organizations, corporations, wherever they live or work. Fabiola has done this work in different places in England, Scotland, Sweden, Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina. She has worked with individuals, groups and communities, organizations, businesses, corporations, facilitating processes to create trust, connection, leadership, teamwork, cooperation, to improve the quality of life and strengthen relationships. Sharing her knowledge and experience of how to apply NVC and other tools like permaculture, Transition Towns and support of the local economy.
Trainer: Kirstin Masters (United States)
Kirstin is a certified CNVC Trainer from Santa Cruz, CA who is committed to using the principles of compassionate communication in addressing issues of oppression and power imbalance.
Kristin has a long history of leading diversity work, mostly from models based on the work of Ricky Sherover-Marcuse, working as an associate alongside Lillian Roybal Rose and with NCBI (National Coalition Building Institute) for years.
Kristin is committed to supporting all of us to step forward as allies and accomplices, most especially other white people to take action in the face of racism. As a leader of Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, she offers an invigorating and empowering approach to social change work.
Kristin loves to bring creativity, music, artistic expression and embodiment to the inner and outer work of grief and gratitude in community. She integrates Sarah Peyton's work on Interpersonal Neurobiology and systemic constellations into most situations, and finds the call to resonant language to be transformative in healing our past traumas.
Trainer: Yuri Haasz (Brazil)
Yuri is the first Brazilian trainer certified by CNVC. He has been facilitating groups for over 20 years and has a special interest in social justice and the creation of a worldview, dialogic spaces, and intervention strategies for the transformation of domination and oppression systems.
Son of a Brazilian mother and an Uruguayan father, he was born and raised in Israel, and for more than 15 years has taken part in several initiatives in the region. He has worked with human rights, and led NVC retreats in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for Jews, Palestinians and internationals.
Yuri has international experience in 13 countries, and in various sectors: with senior government executives and agencies; judges, prosecutors, public defenders, courts; corporate clients; NGOs; social movements; universities; communities; armed conflict zones; social projects with marginalized groups and more.
Yuri holds an MA in Social Sciences (focus on Systemic Social Innovation) from the University of Chicago, USA, and an MA in International Relations (focus on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution) from ICU, Tokyo, Japan. He was a Rotary Global Grant Fellow and a Rotary World Peace Fellow.
He is co-founder of Sinergia Comunicativa with his life and work partner, Sandra Caselato.
| The Organizers |
Organizer: Sandra Caselato (Brazil)
Sandra is a clinical psychologist and has been facilitating groups for over 20 years with her life and work partner, Yuri Haasz, seeking, in diverse contexts and groups, to promote conflict transformation and systemic change towards a more empathetic and life-centered society.
Sandra is co-founder of Sinergia Comunicativa and has experience sharing NVC in Brazil and internationally. Over the years she has been conducting and organizing several events and retreats, seeking to strengthen the practice of NVC in Brazil and strengthen the connection with the international NVC community. She was the organizer of IIT Brazil 2019.
During the pandemic she conducted support programs for health professionals based on NVC, reaching hundreds of people, and she coordinates a project to spread empathy at the Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo.
She was a columnist for UOL and for the magazines Bons Fluidos and Viva Saúde.
Assistant Organizer: Maria Santana (Brazil)
Maria was born in Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil. She is an Audiovisual and Cultural Producer, graduated in Audiovisual Communication from USAL (University of Salamanca, Spain). She works as a Virtual Assistant at Sinergia Communicativa supporting Sandra and Yuri's work since 2017, when she learned and fell in love with Nonviolent Communication. Since then, she has been experiencing NVC’s benefits in her personal and professional relationships. She loves to do sports and travel.
Assistant Organizer: Daniele Putnoki (Brasil)
Daniele is a speech therapist specialized in voice, actress, dubbing artist, systemic family constellator and trauma-informed professional. For 8 years she has been sharing NVC with diverse audiences. She loves accompanying people in their processes of learning and experiencing NVC, seeing self-discoveries, gains in awareness and resources to dialogue, make choices, deal with conflicts and improve their relationships with themselves, other people and systems where they participate and belong. Currently, she has been dedicated to the research and practice trauma-informed approaches, in which she sees a lot of sense and connections to CNV, due to the way of seeing human beings, trauma and its impacts, as well as individual and systemic transformation paths.
| Cost |
The cost of this training has two components: 1) Tuition; and 2) Room and Board (accommodations).
1. Tuition (USD): convert to your currency
- $1,989 Early Bird (make your payment by 8-April-2023)
- $2,340 Standard (9-April-2023 and after)
However, if you are a full-time resident of Brazil or any of the Latin American countries, your qualify for the regional tuition fee:
- Early Bird (through 8-Apr-2023): USD $1,200 (convert to your currency)
- Standard (9-Apr-2023 and after): USD $1,500 (convert to your currency)
Note: The regional tuition fee discount cannot be combined with any of the discounts listed below.
Discounts:
The following tuition discounts are available to people who do not qualify for the regional tuition fee described above (Note: you may apply only one of these discounts):
- 10% if you participated in (and paid for) a previous intensive training with CNVC
- 10% if you have been a Supporting Member of CNVC for 6 months or more.
- 15% for registered Certification Candidates
- 25% if you are an active Certified Trainer with CNVC - Note, that there is also a limited number of tuition-free spaces available for Certified Trainers, granted by a committee. For more information, email us at [email protected].
Financial assistance:
After applying the available discounts, if you are not able to afford the tuition, you can request financial assistance to further reduce your tuition fee (Note: We do not offer assistance for Room and Board, which is a direct expense for us to the venue). We have a limited amount of financial assistance available and we prioritize people who meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Actively collaborating with others in the NVC network
- Can use what they learn in this training to make an impact such as in education, government, environmental sustainability, equity and inclusion, or with an NGO or community-based organization.
- From a region that has fewer in-person NVC trainings.
- Part of an economic system that offers less access to financial resources.
- Come from a disadvantaged group (race, ethnicity, origin, religion, gender identity, class)
- Willing to search for other sources of financial support such as their workplace, family, or organizations they are involved in (in order to be in partnership with us about finding the resources to host this training while including as many people as possible)
2. Room and Board (BRL): convert to your currency
Room and Board prices include your room and all meals throughout the event beginning with dinner the first day and ending with lunch the final day. Some room types are limited and are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Room options include:
Single Room: R$ 3.510,00
Double or Triple Room: R$ 2.700,00
Note that the prices are in Brazilian Real
When you confirmed your registration by making the Tuition payment, the organizers will reach out to you with further information on when and how you can pay for the room & board.
| Location |
The venue is located in a temperate mountain climate, in São Roque, State of São Paulo, just 50 km from São Paulo city.
Surrounded by the lush nature of the Atlantic Forest, the property is part of a private large area of 35,000 m2. Created by beautiful landscapes, the space easily takes us into a space of inner peace, connection and balance.
Venue: Espaço Natureza Arco-Íris
Address: Estr. do Hirofumi Mikami, 875 - Bairro do Carmo (Canguera, São Roque - SP, 18143-303, Brazil (location in Google Maps)
The venue has a number of diverse indoor and outdoor spaces available for guests. You can enjoy the peace and quiet and beautiful nature while wandering around the grounds.
| Travel |
Travel Visa
If you need to obtain a visa, please consult the Embassy of Brazil in your country. If you need an invitation letter from us in order to apply for your Visa, email us.
General Travel Information
Please wait to purchase your travel until we confirm your registration.
Air Travel:
If you are traveling by air, there are three airports, all in São Paulo, where you can fly into:
Guarulhos International Airport - approx. 1hr 35m ride to the venue
Congonhas Airport - approx. 1hr 5m ride to the venue
Viracopos International Airport - approx. 1hr 35m ride to the venue
From the airport, you'll need to take an Uber or a taxi to the venue. There will be a forum to share a ride - the details will be shared with you if you confirm your registration by making the payment for the Tuition fee.
Public Transport:
Public transport to the venue is not available.
Car:
Here is the location of the venue in Google Maps.