Nonviolent Communication Integration Program
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Nonviolent Communication Integration Program
Nonviolent Communication Integration Program Opening My Heart … Opening Communication September 2015 to May 2016 An Intermediate NVC Experience 9 Months of Deepening NVC Consciousness Five Workshop Weekends With Peggy Smith (Certified NVC Trainer) & Leah Boyd (NVC Mediation Program graduate) About This Program Do you find yourself freezing, fighting or just pretending “it doesn’t matter” when conflicts arise? Do you long to reframe conflict so that you can use these situations to hold more compassion for yourself and others? Are you eager to utilize the skills and consciousness of NVC so that you can use them to support you in your life? Do you imagine integrating NVC so deeply that you have the capacity to actually come up with authentic, connecting responses in day-to-day experiences? Do you wonder how to engrain NVC so thoroughly that you can lean on it for support even in the thick of life? Do you want to contribute to the tipping point of peace? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions and have completed an NVC Level 1 training, then this NVC Integration Program is for you. Structured into a series of themes and diverse activities, this program will progressively deepen your NVC capacity while nurturing a growing community. Program Highlights • Five Themed Weekend Retreats • Integrating mind, body, and heart • Creating a learning community that includes: ~ pairing with empathy partners ~ readings ~ journaling ~ home practice ~ group phone sessions Retreat Dates & Venues • September 11 - 13, 2015 Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, ME •October 23 - 25, 2015 Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, ME • January 15 - 17, 2016 Notre Dame Spiritual Center, Alfred, ME • March 11 - 13, 2016 Notre Dame Spiritual Center, Alfred, ME • May 20 - 22, 2016 (3 full days) Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, ME The Trainers Leah Boyd is an NVC mediator, facilitator and communication skills trainer and is currently a candidate for certification with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She offers her services both privately and within the Maine District Court system. With Peggy Smith, Leah is co-founder of Clarity Services, LLC an NVC based company helping organizations improve communication, collaboration and culture through needs-based Peggy Smith is a certi- fied NVC trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Peggy offers workshops, seminars and coaching through her business, Open Communication. She taught elementary and middle school for 32 years. Peggy brings her extensive teaching skills, humor and presence to her workshops. Peggy has done international NVC work through Seeds of Peace International Camp, working with educators from the Middle East and South Asia. She continues to develop NVC opportunities in a wide range of venues – private coaching, schools, jails and workplaces. Peggy is a co-founder of the Maine NVC Network. She is the editor of Phases of the Moon, the monthly educational newsletter of the Maine NVC Network (www.mainenvcnetwork. org/newsletter-archives.htm) With a life-long interest in spiritual traditions and fostering compassion, Peggy is a student of Zen teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh. FMI please visit: opencommunication.org awareness. Leah has prior experience as a public school teacher, a human resources director and a professional musician. She was also a co-founder of Circle Voice, a community dedicated to hosting peace and spiritual diversity events for 15 years. Leah is passionate about group process. In addition to Nonviolent Communication, she works with Dynamic Facilitation, a group choice creating process developed by Jim Rough and has apprenticed with Marie Miyashiro, author of The Empathy Factor in her process, Integrated Clarity. FMI please visit: peacefulpurpose.us or clarityservices.us Clarity Services, LLC is Leah & Peggy’s new venture. Together they bring their passionate interest in sustainable peace to all they do, being particularly drawn to understanding and contributing to collaborative group processes and redefining conflict within businesses and all kinds of organizations. FMI please visit: www.clarityservices.us will be invited to use empathy sessions, readings and group phone connections to How It Works: Participants immerse themselves in NVC integration throughout the entire nine months. Each Themed Weekend will be supported by home practice that will include weekly and daily practices to further the learnings that occur during our inperson sessions. The skill level of the participants and the synergy of the group will guide the trainers as they craft each session to deeply support participants’ NVC growth. Be prepared to bring NVC reading, inquiry and focus into your daily experience so that you too can harvest the benefits of authentic compassion and action. “This Integration Program is definitely helping to solidify the work into my everyday life. I’m positive that I’m more peaceful, compassionate and loving as a result. I have so many new opportunities to laugh at myself and all those strategies that I’ve employed to get my needs met. I’m acutely aware of how inauthentic I’ve been as a means to protect what I thought was expected or required. I love how it so graciously allows a celebration of our humanity that is easily found in our universal feelings and needs.” Gail DesRochers, current participant “The work we are doing feels very powerful to me and it is a joy to have you as a teacher.... I am so happy with what I am learning. I only wish I had learned NVC in graduate school.” Evelyn, retired psychotherapist Integration Program Overview In this experiential Nonviolent Communication program, we will explore themes that lead to an embodiment and deepening of NVC skills and awareness. Led by Peggy Smith and Leah Boyd, experienced teachers and practitioners, participants will have the opportunity to shift from simply understanding NVC as a concept to living from NVC consciousness. Carl Rogers and NVC calls Empathy. Our exercises will help us strengthen our abilities to stay in a place of presence and acceptance during a flow of dialogue. While all our sessions will hold Empathy at the core of what we do, this particular weekend will focus on strategies to strengthen our access to Empathy – both for ourselves and others. The program is dynamic and lively, based on proven learning methods. A strong bond of NVC community grows among the participants. The direct instruction will be enriched by home practice and phone connections between sessions. If I’m Triggered It’s Mine January 15 - 17, 2016 The first four weekends begin Friday, with supper. The fifth session begins Friday morning. This is an amazing opportunity to develop NVC skills and consciousness while staying in New England. Hearing the Needs within Our Judgments September 11 - 13, 2015 Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, ME www.ferrybeach.org We will explore our cultural conditioning around conflict. We will hold with tenderness and compassion those parts of ourselves that are conditioned to name and blame. Sitting with whatever our thoughts and feelings are, the ‘now’, we will strengthen our abilities to find the needs, (Life-force) hidden within our judgments. Using all feelings and emotions as guides to self-awareness, we connect to the needs underneath. We will observe our patterns rather than getting absorbed within our stories. Using NVC to find our way to authenticity and self-care. Ever Deepening Empathy October 23 – 25, 2015 Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, ME www.ferrybeach.org What happens when someone is in pain? Where do we go in ourselves? How do we react to others in pain? Do we try to assuage our own feelings of discomfort? This weekend we will learn more about how to use presence to actively explore the space of inner calm and awareness that Notre Dame Spiritual Center, Alfred, ME www.notredamespiritualcenter.org Needs are the very heart of NVC. They are the means by which we connect with our own deepest humanity and the humanity in everyone else. Using personal inquiry to explore the realm of needs we will interactively investigate: how we hold needs; how to separate needs from strategies; discover how strategies can masquerade as needs; and inquire into the layers of what we call needs. Strengthening Relationships March 11 – 13, 2016 Notre Dame Spiritual Center, Alfred, ME www.notredamespiritualcenter.org Relationships are usually the place where the rubber meets the road of life. This context of intimacy puts all our learning to the test. We will use supported inquiry to explore how cultural trauma affects our closest relationships. We will then use NVC consciousness and skills to strengthen these relationships. Communication Where Being Right Doesn’t Matter Anymore 3 FULL days May 20 - 22, 2016 Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, ME www.ferrybeach.org We will experience bringing the art of NVC dialogue to life. This dynamic, interactive session will strengthen our abilities to bring NVC into our internal and external conversations. Whether we want to enrich our internal dialogues, our family/ work communications or political/activist communications, participants will practice, practice, practice within the supportive community developed over our five sessions together. “The integration program has helped me gain a level of trust of others that I really didn’t have before which has allowed me to open up and be a far more authentic human being.” Alton Lane, current participant “I knew I needed the discipline and practice the Integration Program provides because my behaviors that didn’t serve me well were so long-standing and rigid. I need strengthening in my abilities to stay present and accepting during a flow of dialogue. I have been profoundly impacted and nourished by my participation!” Arlene Nickerson, current participant Registration Program Fees Total Residential — Total Commuter — $2,126.00 $1,876.00 Payments are due as follows: Residential Commuter With application $500. $500. August 15, 2015 $500. $500. September 15, 2015 $400. $400. Octoberr 15, 2015 $400. $400. November 15, 2015 $326. $76. Make checks payable to Clarity Services, LLC and mail to Leah Boyd 51 Jordan Road Buckfield, ME 04220 Registration is for the duration of the five weekend program. Class size will range from 15 to 21 participants. Registration form accompanied by a $500 deposit will hold your space. Except in the event of the program’s cancellation, the deposit is non-refundable. It is expected that participants will pay the full fees even if they are unable to attend a segment of the program. Payments over one week late will incur a $40 fee. Payments over a month late, without prior mutual agreement, is reason for removal from the program. Registrations by June 1, 2015 will substantially support the success of this program. SPECIAL OFFER: All registrations received by June 1 will be entitled to 2 FREE hours of individual empathy or NVC coaching by one of the trainers at some time during the program. This is a $200 value for early registration. For more information: [email protected] Registration Form -- Complete and mail to Leah Boyd, 51 Jordan Road, Buckfield, ME 04220 Name ____________________________________________________________ Date ___________________________ E-mail ____________________________________________________________ Residential Commuter Address ___________________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________________ State _________ Zip ______________ Phone ____________________________ (day) ___________________________ (night) ________________________ (cell) Prior NVC trainings ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food Preferences: ____ vegetarian; ____ omnivore. Food allergies _____________________________________________ I understand that I am enrolling in a nine-month program and intend to follow through by attending the retreats and engaging in the home study components of the NVC Integration Program. I understand that if I choose not to attend any session I will still pay the fees for that session. [2014 Integration] Signature ___________________________________________________________________ “After the first workshop my partner saw the positive impact the Integrated Program had on my communication skills. That alone is well worth the price.” Noreen Hogan, current participant