Where: Takoma Park, MD
What: A few years ago I often found myself asking "Why can't we talk?' or "Why won't he listen?" and sometimes even "What's wrong with me/them/us?" These are pretty big questions but I started getting some answers when I went to my first Nonviolent Communication (NVC) workshop.
Nonviolent Communication (tm) refers to the theory and practices based on Marshall Rosenberg's work presented in "Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life". Basic NVC theory is not hard to understand, and from the very first workshop, I could use my learning in real-life situations.
My NVC journey has been rich, and I'd like to share some of what I learned.
Since I love exercises, and seeing how the practice can work with the words that people really say, we will do several in this 3-hour workshop. Those who wish to use this workshop as a pre-requisite for The Learning NVC Program series offered by Lynd Morris in March may stay for an extra hour of informal practice at the end of the workshop.
Please email or call with questions, or to register: workshopreg [at] gmail [dot] com (subject: Workshop%20Feb%2019) or 301 270 8754.
I'm asking $20-$5 for the workshop, please choose the amount that you can pay with ease.
Capital NVC’s Community Circle has been focusing on ways to connect those practicing and interested in NVC with each other in the DC area. We are excited to invite you to a day of NVC social gathering! We hope to encourage a large group to join together to share presence and connection from 11am to 5pm on February 25 at Maitri House in Takoma Park, MD.
The vision of this Capital NVC social gathering:
• To have a fun, free, family-friendly social event
• To build community among those involved with 'compassionate communication' or 'NVC' in the DC area
• To be as inclusive as we can for people of varying ages, family status, chemical sensitivity, gender expressions, families of origin, socioeconomic class, and mobility.
• To support continued learning and deepening of intentions and skills while enjoying fun and warmth
• To increase the opportunities for life-affirming social change
Date and time: Saturday February 25, 2012, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Location:
Maitri House, a family-inclusive, NVC-inspired intentional community in Takoma Park, MD, is contributing its common space for the event.
251 Manor Circle
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Two Blocks from the Takoma Park Food Co-Op
Walking distance from the Takoma Metro station on the Red line
Near bus stops for the Ride-On Buses 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, and the F4, F6 Metro buses.
Opportunities we anticipate during the event:
• A potluck lunch and social time all throughout the event
• An empathy room to practice being fully heard and received and fully listening and receiving others
• Various short presentations or mini-workshops on the foundation of NVC. We anticipate at this time the offerings to happen between 1pm and 3pm.
• A play area for kids of all ages with NVC activities, cooperative games, arts & crafts and lots of free play
• An optional facilitated cuddle party (see more info below) - around 4pm.
• An environment that welcomes people of all ages -- children are warmly welcomed
• An opportunity to meet local NVC trainers and facilitators so people can socialize with whom is leading trainings they sign up for or send others to
Potluck Lunch and Snacks:
If you would enjoy doing so, we invite you to bring a potluck lunch or snack item. The healthier the better. No alcohol, please.
Helping Out
We welcome volunteers to help setup before and cleanup after the event. Come 30 min earlier or stay 30 min later for tidying.
Other Considerations
• Maitri House intends to be a place safe for people with chemical sensitivities. So please do not bring or wear fragrances or smoke-producing products.
• Maitri House has a dog, who can be in a separate space during the event. Still, dog allergies may be an issue for some.
• While we wish it were different in this aspect, the space is not currently well-adapted for wheelchairs. If you use a wheelchair and would like to come, contact Ryan at ryan [at] notjustskin [dot] org and we can describe the limitations of the space and hear from you what we can do to make it as workable/enjoyable as possible for you to attend.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offers powerful tools and perspectives to support:
Experiencing these benefits involves making an inner shift that allows us to think differently, and show up differently. Learning to make this shift involves ideas, experience, awareness, and intention. These increase inner clarity and open-heartedness. With these, we can speak naturally, without focusing on formulas, and we and others are likely to enjoy the results.
This two-hour experiential workshop offers a taste of new tools, insights, and practices that support an inner shift to a more peaceful and enlivened way of being and relating. While fuly realizing these benefits takes more learning and an ongoing practice, this workshop offers a place to start.
Who This is For
This workshop is intended anyone interested in taking initial steps towards living a more satisfying life. It's also for those without prior experience with Nonviolent Communication who are interested in attending the subsequent Skills for a Happy Relationship weekend workshop.
Logistics
When:
Friday March 16, 7:00-9:00 pm
Where:
Seekers Church, 276 Carrol St NW, Washington DC 20012 - near Takoma Park metro
Price:
$25 - $50
The requested contribution for this workshop is specified as a range, to make this learning available to people in varying financial situations, while supporting Bob and Mali in their ability to do this work. Please choose an amount to pay that honors both your own circumstances and your desire to support this work.
Our intention is that no one be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Bob for special circumstances.
Cancellations: There will be no refund for cancellations within the last 10 days prior to the event. Prior to that, refunds are available and 25 percent of the amount paid will be retained as a processing fee. Your registration is not complete until your payment has been received.
Registration:
Register for A Taste of Nonviolent Communication
Instructors
Bob Wentworth, PhD is a coach and trainer who works with couples, individuals, and groups to support them in living with more clarity, empowerment, aliveness and open-heartedness. He is certified as a trainer by the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and serves on their Board of Directors. He is a co-founder of Family HEART Camp, an NVC immersion experience for parents and children.
Bob came to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a part of a quest to find keys to addressing humanity's problems. He was thrilled to find in NVC a unified, synergistic set of ideas and skills suitable for individual healing and flourishing, creating ease and flow in relationships, and creating the potential for people to live and work together in fresh, radically satisfying ways.
Bob loves working with couples and supporting them in learning to live the love they are longing for. He leads classes and workshops for Capital NVC, and has also taught NVC in India and Florida. Bob is a graduate of the BayNVC North American NVC Leadership Program and Robert Gonzales' LIFE Program, and has received training in mediation, facilitating Restorative Circles, and a number of practices for inner healing. Bob has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Mali Parke, CPC is a Certified Professional Life Coach who works with individuals, families and teams who are looking to live life from a fuller, joyful and empowered presence as well as increase collaboration and partnerships in their relationships.
Mali found and trained in Nonviolent Communication as becoming a mother of two. In her quest to relate to her children with trust, compassion and authenticity, she uncovered a whole world free of old and habitual ways of relating to one another, where cooperation and joy in contributing to each other's life is flowing naturally.
Mali has trained extensively since 2007 in NVC and other supporting fields. She is a graduate of the Parent Peer Leadership Program and a current participant in the year-long Leadership Program by BayNVC. She is excited at sharing back with parents, educators and couples the possibilities of relating in full heart-connection and achieving deeply satisfying and empowered lives.
Intimate relationships can be wonderful, contributing to the quality of our lives in profound ways. Many of us are partnered, and many of us wish we were. Yet, all too often, relationships don't live up to our fantasies of what we wish for. Often, we imagine that things might be better with a different partner. But those who move on to a different partner often find old patterns repeating. Whatever relationship we are in, we bring ourselves -- and our assumptions about relationships and strategies for navigating them. What if we could have happier relationships by changing a few things about the way we ourselves show up in our relationships?
The intensive experiential weekend workshop is intended to support participants in learning ideas and skills that can greatly increase the chances of enjoying close relationships. The focus will be primarily on intimate/romantic relationships, but the learnings are likely to have relevance to other types of close relationships as well.
Deep learning tends to happen when we pay attention to what is "alive" for participants who show up to the workshop, and guide what happens accordingly. So, the contents of the workshop will evolve dynamically. However, it's likely that focuses may include topics such as:
The workshop will offer conceptual insights, experiential learning, and plenty of opportunities to practice and work with what's going on in your own life.
Please join us!
Testimonial
Our marriage, partnership and the love between M. and me are balanced wonderfully again. You guided us through our jungle of misunderstandings and judgments to a loving and sunny place where we truly enjoy our marriage again.
I feel very thankful that you came into our life and that you taught us a new language that enables us to communicate compassionately with each other. —C., after a series of private couple's sessions with Bob
Who This is For
This workshop is intended for anyone who wants to have happier relationships, whether or not they are currently partnered. It is likely to be rich for members of a couple to attend together, yet one need not come with anybody.
Some prior knowledge of Nonviolent Communication will be assumed, and those without prior training in this should plan on also attending Friday night's A Taste of Nonviolent Communication workshop.
Logistics
When:
March 17-18:
Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Where:
Washington Ethical Society, 7750 16th St. NW, Washington DC 20012
Price:
Before Feb. 23: $140 - $210
After Feb. 23: $160 - $230
The requested contribution for this workshop is specified as a range, to make this learning available to people in varying financial situations, while supporting Bob and Mali in their ability to do this work. Please choose an amount to pay that honors both your own circumstances and your desire to support this work.
Our intention is that no one be turned away for lack of funds. Please contact Bob for special circumstances.
Cancellations: There will be no refund for cancellations within the last 10 days prior to the event. Prior to that, refunds are available and 25 percent of the amount paid will be retained as a processing fee. Your registration is not complete until your payment has been received.
Registration:
Those without prior training in Nonviolent Communication are asked to also register for Friday night's A Taste of Nonviolent Communication workshop.
Register for Skills for a Happy Relationship
Instructors
Bob Wentworth, PhD is a coach and trainer who works with couples, individuals, and groups to support them in living with more clarity, empowerment, aliveness and open-heartedness. He is certified as a trainer by the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and serves on their Board of Directors. He is a co-founder of Family HEART Camp, an NVC immersion experience for parents and children.
Bob came to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a part of a quest to find keys to addressing humanity's problems. He was thrilled to find in NVC a unified, synergistic set of ideas and skills suitable for individual healing and flourishing, creating ease and flow in relationships, and creating the potential for people to live and work together in fresh, radically satisfying ways.
Bob loves working with couples and supporting them in learning to live the love they are longing for. He leads classes and workshops for Capital NVC, and has also taught NVC in India and Florida. Bob is a graduate of the BayNVC North American NVC Leadership Program and Robert Gonzales' LIFE Program, and has received training in mediation, facilitating Restorative Circles, and a variety of practices for inner healing. Bob has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University.
Mali Parke, CPC is a Certified Professional Life Coach who works with individuals, families and teams who are looking to live life from a fuller, joyful and empowered presence as well as increase collaboration and partnerships in their relationships.
Mali found and trained in Nonviolent Communication as becoming a mother of two. In her quest to relate to her children with trust, compassion and authenticity, she uncovered a whole world free of old and habitual ways of relating to one another, where cooperation and joy in contributing to each other's life is flowing naturally.
Mali has trained extensively since 2007 in NVC and other supporting fields. She is a graduate of the Parent Peer Leadership Program and a current participant in the year-long Leadership Program by BayNVC. She is excited at sharing back with parents, educators and couples the possibilities of relating in full heart-connection and achieving deeply satisfying and empowered lives.
Date: Saturday, June 23, 2012
Time: 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Leader: Lynd Morris, CNVC Certified Trainer
Tuition: $60-$150*, sliding scale (you decide the highest amount you can easily and joyfully contribute)
To Register: Please email Lynd Morris to register or ask questions
* This training is open to all applicants, regardless of ability to pay the requested tuition. Please contact Lynd if you have any questions.
NVC is a way of communicating that its creator, Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., calls a language of life. As we learn and practice NVC, we become increasingly able to hear the vitality and aliveness in others and in ourselves. And simultaneously, we finding ourselves living with greater compassion and curiosity toward everyone we encounter.
Many people who read about Nonviolent Communication (NVC) or hear about it from a relative, friend, or colleague are heartened by how simple it sounds. What could be challenging about including observations, feelings, needs, and requests in our communications? However, what most of us discover when we begin to incorporate these four components into our conversations with others (especially when one or both of us is upset), is that simple to learn is not always easy to live.
One of the most effective ways to learn NVC and begin to live it, is to spend time with other people who are doing the same thing. In this introduction to NVC, we’ll use large and small group exercises as well as partner practices to explore the basic tools of this transformational way of being in relationship with others. And, we'll practice applying these tools to situations from our own lives.
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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 almost 7 years she has led NVC classes and workshops in Maryland and Virginia and has participated in or assisted at numerous NVC trainings and family camps across the United States. 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.
Date: Saturday, June 23, 2012
Time: 1:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Leader: Lynd Morris, CNVC Certified Trainer
Tuition: $60-$150*, sliding scale (you decide the highest amount you can easily and joyfully contribute)
To Register: Please email Lynd Morris to register or ask questions
* This training is open to all applicants, regardless of ability to contribute the requested tuition. Please contact Lynd if you have any questions.
NVC is a way of communicating that its creator, Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., calls a language of life. As we learn and practice NVC, we become increasingly able to hear the vitality and aliveness in others and in ourselves. And simultaneously, we finding ourselves living with greater compassion and curiosity toward everyone we encounter.
Many people who read about Nonviolent Communication (NVC) or hear about it from a relative, friend, or colleague are heartened by how simple it sounds. What could be challenging about including observations, feelings, needs, and requests in our communications? However, what most of us discover when we begin to incorporate these four components into our conversations with others (especially when one or both of us is upset), is that simple to learn is not always easy to live.
One of the most effective ways to learn NVC and begin to live it, is to spend time with other people who are doing the same thing. In this introduction to NVC, we’ll use large and small group exercises as well as partner practices to explore the basic tools of this transformational way of being in relationship with others. And, we'll practice applying these tools to situations from our own lives.
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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 almost 7 years she has led NVC classes and workshops in Maryland and Virginia and has led or assisted at numerous NVC trainings and family camps 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.