Introduction to Nonviolent - Compassionate Communication: Speaking and Listening from the Heart

Stretch into more effective communication with Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication skills. 

Join us to discover life-changing skills that can dramatically improve the quality of your personal and professional relationships by increasing harmony, shared understanding and creative problem solving.

Nonviolent-Compassionate Communication (NVC) shows us how to exchange information needed to prevent violence, increase mutual understanding, and discover win/win strategies that contribute to lasting peace among individuals, organizations and nations.

This daylong training is an opportunity to learn some tools and mindsets that you can apply right away, in a community of like-minded learners and supported by more advanced practitioners.

Why is Nonviolent Communication Important in Our World?
Most of us are hungry for skills to that can improve the quality of our relationships, increase our contribution through our work, and deepen our sense of personal empowerment.

However, most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand and diagnose... and to think and communicate in ways that create distrust and alienation, rather than connection.

At best, these habitual ways we think and speak hinder communication and create misunderstanding and frustration. And still worse, they can cause anger and pain, and may lead to violence, either physical or emotional.

Without wanting to, even people with the best of intentions stimulate needless conflict in their lives. NVC helps us reach beneath the surface and discover what is alive and vital within us, and how to express what's important to us in a way that generates connection, goodwill and compassion.

Who is it for:
Everyone is welcome -- the training is designed to be relevant and engaging to all experience and skill levels. 

Points
-Show you how to prepare for difficult conversations so that you are emotionally settled and have clear goals for the conversation.
-Develop your deep listening skills so that you can hear a person’s underlying needs, even when they aren’t communicating those needs directly or clearly.
-Demonstrate how to engage in conversations where you advocate for what’s important to you, understand what’s important to the other person, and move toward to a mutually satisfying solution.
-Equip you with tools for remaining grounded and clear-minded when other people are criticizing or blaming you.
-Learn an approach for giving and receiving gratitude that increases trust and goodwill with others and raises everyone’s energy.
-Discover how to transform enemy images that you have about other people and reclaim full access to your energy and choice.
-Clarify the difference between empathy that connects versus other helping responses that are designed to be caring but that actually interfere with empathic connection.