Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland (Metro accessible, plenty of free parking)
Leader: Lynd Morris, CNVC Certified Trainer
Cost: $60-$150*, sliding scale (you decide the highest amount you can easily and joyfully contribute)
Pre-Requisites: None
To Register: Please email Lynd Morris to reserve space at this event.
* This training is open to everyone, regardless of ability to make the requested contribution. 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.
An Opportunity for NVC Immersion
Workshop participants who want to continue building a firm foundation of NVC skills will be eligible for the 6-month Learning NVC, Living Compassion Program that will begin in March. If you'd like more information about either training, please contact Lynd Morris.
Interested...But Can't Make It on January 9th?
Another introduction to "Learning NVC, Living Compassion" will be held prior to the beginning of the 6-month program in March. If you'd like to receive an announcement about the next introduction, please contact Lynd.
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 5 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. 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.