Intermediate

Deepening Compassion is a one day intermediate training to build skills and support our living NVC. This is very interactive and will include a very brief review of the basic knowledge and skills of NVC. The specific intermediate agenda will emerge out of the needs of those who attend and may include: self-empathy, anger, conflict resolution, radical honesty, working with hard-to-hear messages, role plays, deep healing and more. This is open to all new comers and experienced NVCers.

Facilitators:  Rodger Sorrow, certified trainer and Anne Walton, certified trainer candidate

Fees:  Sliding Scale between $100 - $65

Register:  http://communicationfromtheheart.com/1_registration.htm or contact Anne Walton at annewalton@verizon.net or call 805-687-6961

COMPASSIONATE SELF-TALK

• Know your own heart so that you may follow it
• Learn how to transform your own inner Jackals (judgments) with the living energy of compassion.
• Get in touch with your own values before speaking.
• Learn to forgive and love ourselves that we may forgive and love others
• Experience deeper connection with yourself and others

 Compassionate self-talk or self-empathy is the most crucial application of Nonviolent Communication^SM.  Marshall Rosenberg reminds us that “Judgments are the tragic expression of an unmet need.”  Compassionate self-talk is the tool that empowers us to translate judgments and return to the living energy of our values and authenticity.  We can then choose how to contribute to our own and other’s well-being. Facilitators: Rodger Sorrow & Anne Walton who have been sharing Nonviolent Communication^SM (NVC) here in Santa Barbara and in Calgary, Alberta for years. Rodger is a certified trainer and Anne a certified trainer candidate with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.Fees:  a sliding scale of $100 - $65 is requested.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds, please be in touch with us if you have a request around money. 

Location: Mosher Alumni House, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA

Registration:  Complete form and send with check payable to Rodger Sorrow, 100 N La Cumbre Rd Apt 16, Santa Barbara, CA 93110.  Call and sign up early to reserve your space.

More Info:    Phone Anne or Rodger at (805) 687-6961, or email: rodgersorrow@verizon.net or annewalton@verizon.net or visit our website www.communicationfromtheheart.com

Deepening the Foundation (DF)
These intermediary trainings are designed for practising skills learned in the Foundation Training, plus developing further skills and understanding in the areas of anger, conflict and empathy. Each training stands on its own, and they are designed for attendance in any order. Feedback from people who are developing fluency in NVC tells us that participants find it enriching to attend all three.
Preparation: Completion of Foundation Training

• Review and practise the basic ingredients of NVC
• Shares the experiences you've had applying NVC in your life
• Go further with the NVC dance floors if you enjoy using this learning tool

Transforming Conflict (DF&C)

• Learn more about the NVC approach to inner and outer conflict
• Remain centred when in conflicts with others
• Have plenty of practice in using the process with your own conflict situations
• Renew and improve the skills learnt in the Foundation Training

Something this wonderful is so rarely FREE!  This conference including several trainers is being sponsored by SBCC and SBRNVC and you are invited to attend.

The highly effective NonViolent Communication (NVC) process developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg has been successfully applied for several decades by countless businesses, organizations, groups, couples and individuals around the world to increase productivity, closeness and enjoyment while reducing conflicts and difficulties. Now we are pleased to present a complete weekend NVC Conference with introductory, intermediate and in-depth sessions.

The weekend begins with keynote addresses by leading internationally-recognized trainers brought in from around the US: Jori & Jim Manske,  Jeff Brown, Kit Miller, Barbara Larson and Doug Dolstad. They will join several popular local Certified NVC Trainers such as Rodger Sorrow, Liz Otterbein and others for breakout seminars and workshops. Times and topics for these sessions will be developed dynamically during the conference to ensure that participants will have an opportunity to explore the topics of greatest interest. Topics will range from introductory to advanced and specialized, with ample opportunities for interaction and dialog. Further details will be made available in free flyers and online as the date approaches.

If you have ever attended an NVC event or class, this is a rare opportunity to dramatically expand and deepen your knowledge and skills. If you are not familiar with NVC but would like to express yourself more fully and easily, be sure to attend this event and discover the power of communicating compassionately.

For more information on this free program sponsored by SBCC and SBRNVC check online at:

http://ce.sbcc.edu/contact.html

This 3 Day Retreat represents
the fourth of a series of retreats in our year long
Integration/Leadership Program. It is open to those who have prior NVC
training but who are not able to commit to the year long program for
various reasons.

During this session, participants will engage in individual and group
exercises that will support them in honing their skills in dialogue.
This will include the exploration of rhythm and flow in dialogue,
responding empathically to "hard to hear" messages, expressing our
honesty when we feel most exposed and vulnerable, and knowing when and
how to withdraw to oneself empathy.

This 5 Day Retreat
represents the third of a series of retreats in our year long
Integration/Leadership Program. It is open to those who have prior NVC
training but who are not able to commit to the year long program for
various reasons.

During this session, participants will engage in individual and group
exercises that will support them in deeply examining the belief
structures that inevitably lead to disconnection from ourselves at the
core of our being as well as from others. When in the early stages of
learning Nonviolent Communication, it is clearly evident that it is an
incredibly powerful and effective process for building connection with
others. Yet as beginning practitioners, it's very common for us to
quickly discover that we have developped habits over the course of our
lifetime that will take some time to overcome before they can be
replaced with our new NVC habits.

This 3 Day Retreat represents the second of a
series of retreats in our year long Integration/Leadership Program. It
is open to those who have prior NVC training but who are not able to
commit to the year long program for various reasons.

During this session, participants will engage in individual and group
exercises that will support them in deepening their conceptual
understanding of needs within the context of NVC: how we conceptualize
and relate to our needs to how we embody them and finally express them.

This 3 Day Retreat is the first of a series of
retreats in our year long Integration/Leadership Program. It is open to
those who have prior NVC training but who are not able to commit to the
year long program for various reasons.

"The failure to register another's feelings is a major deficit in emotional
intelligence, and a tragic failing in what it means to be human. For
all rapport, the root of caring, stems from emotional attunement, from
the capacity for empathy."
- Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

During this session, participants will engage in individual and group
exercises that will support them in deepening their conceptual
understanding of empathy while providing an experience at the energetic
level.

This special 10 month program is an
opportunity for individuals to study NVC with two of Canada’s top NVC
trainers and other passionate and engaged NVC learners. The focus of
the program is to build NVC consciousness as well as develop NVC
leadership potentials within individuals. An important component of
this program is the NVC Learner’s Network through which participants
will enjoy a supportive and expansive environment for exploring and
deepening their NVC skills.

The program is structured with a series of themes, designed to
progressively deepen individual’s NVC learning experience. The learning
experience is highly engaging with many different types of instruction
activities utilized. Learners are supported through mentoring and
co-support with a learning partner. Learners also journal and actively
participate in NVC interest groups on various topics.

The skills associated with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) nurture a consciousness of compassion, strength and flexibility, inviting profound personal and social change.

In this training we explore and experience enhancing self-care, intimacy and leadership. We learn concrete skills for change in our lives and our world—peace-making and peace-building skills essential in the transition towards a global community that is sustainable, egalitarian and compassionate.

Nonviolent Communication has emerged as a vital technology for people involved, or wanting to get involved, in such change. It nurtures connection at a heart level, makes power tangible and inspires us to co-create the world we would like to live in. This is the third annual Findhorn NVC Intensive, and follows on from the visit to Findhorn in 2006 of Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of NVC. See www.FindhornNVC.org for pictures and feedback from previous years' trainings.

This workshop will be based at the Findhorn Foundation, a world renowned intentional spiritual community founded in 1962 and now at the forefront of developements in personal growth, spiritual practice, ecology and sustainability. See www.findhorn.org for more info.  

Based in The Park, in the heart of the Findhorn Community, the Findhorn NVC Intensive is a unique opportunity to experience the spirit of Nonviolent Communication.

To book contact the Findhorn Foundation Booking Office on (44) 1309 691653, or email bookings@findhorn.org.