--- title: "The Living Map - Center for Nonviolent Communication" description: "Rhonda Mills, Rhonda Mills" url: "https://www.cnvc.org/learn/events/the-living-map-2026-09-17-10-00-00" date: "2026-09-18T06:34:55+00:00" language: "en-US" --- From our CNVC Certified Trainers Online # The Living Map ## come home to your authentic voice, choice & rhythm By: **Rhonda Mills** # AUDIENCE: all Thursday, Sep 17, 2026 10:00 AM — Thursday, Mar 11, 2027 11:30 AM English Recurring event **Timezone:** America/Chicago [ See in your local time ](https://dateful.com/eventlink/e/?d=2026-09-17&t=10%3A00%3A00&tz=America%2FChicago&title=The+Living+Map+ "Click to show how this event's date and time would appear in your time zone") **The Living Map** **Come Home to Your Authentic Voice, Choice & Rhythm** **Event Type / Format:** Live online program (Zoom) ~ six months ~ international, English **Short Description:** A six-month live online journey integrating somatic practice, relational mirroring, and the consciousness at the heart of Nonviolent Communication. Learn to listen to your body as fundamental information, connect needs-awareness with felt experience, and express your authentic voice in relationship and community. Led by CNVC Certified Trainer Rhonda Mills. Begins September 17, 2026. **Full Description** The Living Map brings you home to the truth your body holds ~ not just how you feel inside, but how you show up in your relationships, your communities, and what matters most to you. If you practice Nonviolent Communication, you already value self-connection, empathy, and honest expression. The Living Map deepens that practice below the level of language. Feelings and needs are not only concepts we name; they live in the body as sensation, rhythm, and impulse. This program offers a gentle, sequential, embodied way to connect directly with your experience, so that your empathy, your honesty, and your choices arise from felt self-connection rather than effort. In this six-month journey you will learn: ~ How to listen to what is happening in your body as fundamental information, not a problem to fix ~ How to untangle what-is-what in your experience: sensation, emotion, belief, history, longing ~ How to bring inner connection into relational practice, so your authenticity is expressed in real relationships, not only in private reflection ~ How to navigate your yes, your no, your maybe, and your not yet ~ with your boundaries intact and your energy available for what matters most Especially for those who have already grown and moved through a lot in your life, and yet some patterns persist, such as: ~ Tightening your muscles as you prioritize others' perspectives while not sharing your own ~ Draining your energy in trying to get approval ~ Harshly self-criticizing to push through ~ Pressuring yourself to conform to someone else's idea of success ~ Struggling with how you want to address social issues If you are engaged in social change and community work, The Living Map supports sustainable contribution. Rather than unconsciously replicating patterns of pressure, extraction, or self-abandonment internally, you learn to tend your whole system so that your presence itself becomes part of the healing you offer the world. **What's Included:** ~ 24 live group calls (90 minutes weekly) with guided practice, curriculum, and relational practice pods ~ Two 1:1 somatic sessions with Rhonda (55-minute Zoom calls) ~ Recordings of all live calls, accessible through one week after the course ends ~ Written homework for reflection, with the option to share and be witnessed **Schedule:** Weekly 90-minute live calls on Thursdays 8am Pacific / 10am Central / 11am Eastern / 5pm Central European Time (The course follows daylight savings time in the US Central Time Zone.) September 17, 2026 through March 11, 2027 No class November 26 or December 24. Full date list on the registration page. **Investment:** Early bird enrollment: $777 through July 29, 2026. See the registration page for the current enrollment fee. **Registration:** **Questions or wondering if this is a good fit?** Reach out: **About the Trainer:** Rhonda Mills is a CNVC Certified Trainer based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), working with communities locally and worldwide online. Her work weaves Nonviolent Communication with somatic practice, trauma-informed approaches (including NARM), and embodiment, in service of individual and collective healing. Her essential message is inter-connectedness: individual healing, relational repair, and social change as one living process. **Search Keywords / Tags** embodiment, somatics, self-connection, empathy, authenticity, needs consciousness, trauma-informed, self-empathy, body awareness, boundaries, social change, collective healing, online course, six-month program, CNVC certified trainer [ LEARN MORE ](https://www.embodiedwitnessing.org/the-living-map.html "LEARN MORE") ### Related - [ **Rhonda Mills** (Trainer Profile) ](https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/rhonda-mills) ### TRAINING FOCUS: - Conflict Resolution - General - Health & Healing - Intimate Relationships - Mind-Body-Spirit - Parenting & Family - Social Change [ REGISTER ](https://www.embodiedwitnessing.org/the-living-map.html "REGISTER") The Living Map brings you home to the truth your body holds. Not just how you feel inside, but how you show up in your relationships, your communities, and what matters most to you. So you can make the contribution that only you can make. ~~ Many methods carry more of the same: trying to get rid of, fixing, forcing, controlling. Survival strategies in disguise, or attempts to disown parts of yourself. For example: 'mind over matter,' get rid of emotions you don't like, get rid of your thinking or beliefs, deny your body experience or your sensitivity, or spiritualizing what's happening to escape your experience. This is not a cookie-cutter program that tells you who you are or who you should be, or one that disregards your lived experience and wisdom. It is an empathetic, systematic, practical, grounded, thorough way to connect directly with your experience. What is happening now is simply a step on your path, and any next steps unfold from here. Your present human experience, sacred experience ~ body, emotion, history, sensitivity, longing, calling ~ is the very ground through which your way forward becomes available to you. Your problems are a step in a process. The Living Map process offers a real, embodied, relational orientation toward what is already in you. The way through is orienting to each aspect of your experience as part of a larger whole. # ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS EVENT First name \* Last name Email \* Country \* Sri Lanka Your Message (rich text available) \* Email