Date: Sunday, October 16, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Cost: $125-$250 per couple, sliding scale (you decide the highest amount you can easily and joyfully contribute)
Pre-Requisites: Prior attendance at an NVC introductory workshop for both partners (please contact Lynd if you have questions or believe you have had equivalent experience)
To Register: Please email Lynd Morris to reserve space at this event.
Learning how to hear and express the deep inner values we hold is an essential part of nourishing relationships. But how do we stay connected to our own and each other’s needs when pain has been triggered in either one of us or if our strategies for meeting our needs differ?
In this workshop we will explore several processes designed to help couples understand each other while enhancing or restoring the hope, joy, and love that drew both partners to each other in the first place. We will practice staying present even when we are upset or our partner is in pain.
The workshop includes large group work as well as partner practices. Because we'll be coaching participants in exercises designed to enhance relationship, we request that both partners in each couple attend.
This Communication for Couples workshop is scheduled for Sunday, October 16th, 1:00-6:00 p.m. Space is limited to 7 couples, with a 4-couple minimum. The requested financial contribution for this training is $125-$250 for each couple (you decide the highest amount you can contribute with joy and ease). All couples are welcome, regardless of ability to contribute financially. Please contact Lynd Morris, if you have questions.
Want to come but can't make it on October 16th?
We have scheduled Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 as the preferred date for this workshop but are listing the 16th as a backup, in case more couples are able to attend on that day. Please let us know as soon as possible if you'd prefer to come on the 2nd. We'd also like to know if you can't make either date but would be interested in hearing about the next time we schedule this workshop in 2012.
Lynd Morris is an NVC trainer certified by the global Center for Nonviolent Communication. She graduated from the 2005 North America NVC Leadership Program and has participated in the NVC LIFE Program since it began in 2006. For more than 6 years she has led NVC classes and workshops in Maryland and Virginia and has participated in or assisted at numerous NVC trainings across the United States, including leading the adult program at Family HEART Camps in Virginia and Colorado. Lynd is a founding member of Capital NVC and is a member of the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1997, she was ordained as a lay member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing.
David Steigerwald has participated in NVC trainings since 2004, has assisted at most of the workshops and classes offered by Lynd, and has co-led numerous NVC workshops for couples with her. He has been on staff at Family HEART Camps in Virginia and Colorado. He can be heard singing with the APL Scats and playing bass and keyboards with the rock band, "White Chichuachua." His sound designs are heard in several community theaters in the Metro DC area.