Over four days, you will first gain understanding of the principles and consciousness needed to make NVC relevant to people from all groups. Next, you will work on designing a workshop for one group of your choice, utilizing techniques from principle based teaching and graphic facilitation to develop your approach and materials for the workshop. Incredible, hands-on learning awaits!
Are you eager to explore how an NVC lens can be applied to the challenging topics of Power, Privilege, Access and Inclusion. You can do so in an immersive, 9-day retreat where we envision bringing together the values of NVC and social justice work to support individuals in facing realities of the world we live in.
Nonviolent Communication is about more than what you say. It’s about developing internal resources to realize our potential and live in line with our values. It’s about showing up authentically and compassionately in all circumstances, learning to care more fully for ourselves and for others, and transforming moments of immobility and helplessness into experiences of power and choice. The Immersion Program offers training to: Transform recurring conflicts Enhance your ability to support others Find more balance and clarity with your own “triggers” Shift areas of your life that seem stuck Deepen your capacity for listening and empathy Build community focused on nonviolence Learn [...]
Are you interested in developing skills to keep your heart strong in the face of the immense challenges of our times? The tools of Nonviolent Communication can support us to keep ourselves healthy in turbulent times and to make a difference for everyone whose lives we touch. Join us for this special residential retreat program where we’ll delve into NVC as an embodied practice for transforming our lives, relationships and world. During this five-day retreat, you’ll learn ways to: Stay grounded and balanced in challenging moments Enhance your ability to listen well and speak with clarity Deepen intimate and family relationships [...]
Nonviolent Communication is about more than what you say. It’s about developing internal resources to realize our potential and live in line with our values. It’s about showing up authentically and compassionately in all circumstances, learning to care more fully for ourselves and for others, and transforming moments of immobility and helplessness into experiences of power and choice. THE IMMERSION PROGRAM OFFERS TRAINING TO: Transform recurring conflicts Enhance your ability to support others Find more balance and clarity with your own “triggers” Shift areas of your life that seem stuck Deepen your capacity for listening and empathy Build community focused on [...]
We learned to speak — and to keep silent — as toddlers, and our patterns of communication are as deeply ingrained as our native tongues. One can get a sense of the basics of Nonviolent Communication in a couple of hours. Taking the practices into our everyday lives, though, requires immersion. Taking on a new language — one that leans toward self-acceptance rather than self- criticism, toward open curiosity rather than judgment, spacious choice rather than reactivity — requires time and practice in the context of a loving and supportive community. This VIT has the potential to change our [...]
Register Now Attend to impact before intention. We've heard this principle before, but those five words are hard to put into practice, especially when dealing with microaggressions.* We often either don't know why what we said or did is being called a microaggression, or we're desperately resisting any possible inference that might lead to someone judging our behavior as racist. So how and where can we learn more? Many of us know it is a double whammy to ask the person who is already reeling from yet another microaggression to educate us, the person who stimulated their pain, about [...]
How might we live peacefully in a world filled with injustice, rising violence and converging crises? Join us for an eight-week learning and practice space to help us do our work in the world, in 2021 and beyond.
A four day, online retreat focused on embodying the tools and understanding of Nonviolent Communication, led by Roxy Manning and Oren Jay Sofer. SPACE IS LIMITED - register early.
We often either don’t know why what we said or did is being called a microaggression, or we’re desperately resisting any possible inference that might lead to someone judging our behavior as racist. So how and where can we learn more? Join us for this four part series on Saturdays.
