THIS PROGRAM IS NO FULLY ENROLLED AND REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
September 2020 through August 2021
with certified NVC Trainers Peggy Smith & Leah Boyd
An Intermediate NVC Experience
A full year of Deepening NVC Consciousness in
Monthly Friday evening through full day Saturday online events
We are excited to move this well honed learning experience into an online format to make it available to more and more people. Participants will no longer be hampered by geography and will be able to participate at much reduced cost. Please note that all teaching is in English. Participants will be expected to print their own handouts prior to each session. All times are Eastern Time.
Program Highlights - In this experiential Nonviolent Communication program, we will explore themes that lead to an embodiment and deepening of NVC awareness and skills. Led by Peggy Smith and Leah Boyd, experienced certified NVC teachers and practitioners, participants will have the opportunity to shift from simply understanding NVC as a concept to living from NVC consciousness. Month by month, a strong and vibrate learning community forms as participants practice deeply together during sessions and in practice groups between sessions.
A word about practice groups - We invite, support and strongly encourage participants to participate in practice groups of 3 - 4 people throughout the program. These groups typically meet for about 1 hour per week by phone or online technology to practice and deepen into the skills being taught in each session. The consistent practice with fellow learners has proven very powerful for participants’ growth & integration.
The program is dynamic and lively, based on proven learning methods. Woven into NVC practice is current understandings gleaned from Sarah Peyton’s (www.empathybrain.com) synthesis of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB). We delve into not only how NVC works but why it works with our neurobiology.
Weaving NVC and Interpersonal Neurobiology
Creating a learning community, both during our sessions and in the practice groups between sessions
EXCITING THEMES EXPLORED IN THIS PROGRAM
Hearing the Needs within our Judgments - We will explore our cultural conditioning around judgment. 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 - What happens when we are suffering? Where do we go in ourselves? How do we react to others in pain? We will study how our brains react when old traumas are stimulated and how empathy can transform old memories. This weekend we will learn more about how to use presence to actively explore the space of inner calm and awareness that 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.
If I’m Triggered It’s Mine - 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 - 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 old trauma affects our closest relationships. We will then use NVC consciousness and skills to open new possibilities.
Communication Where Being Right Doesn’t Matter Anymore - 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.
Throughout the program a strong bond of NVC community grows among the participants. The direct instruction will be enriched by online practice groups, empathy partners, readings, & journaling.
This is an amazing opportunity to develop NVC consciousness and skills online.
“Participating in the Integration Program has given me a rich collection of practices to which I can return again and again as I continue to deepen my engagement with NVC. Perhaps even more importantly, it has fueled my commitment to opening my heart to the boundless possibilities of loving connection. Peggy and Leah are highly skilled, fun, and dynamic teachers/facilitators - both in person and online - and they create a container where all participants can show up just as they are.” - Erika Arthur, 19/20 Participant
“What I found in this training program is that there is no expectation to be perfect, there is no right or wrong, there is no pressure to get it right or say the right thing because you realize call those pressures live inside you. This is the change to really ask yourself “Am I Ready? Am I willing?” - Carleen Mahaffey, 19/20 Participant
“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, past 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, past participant & retired psychotherapist
"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, past participant
SCHEDULE
Monthly sessions from
Friday 6:00 - 8:30 pm ET
Saturday 9:00 am - 5:30 pm ET
Sept 11 & 12
Oct 2 & 3
Nov 20 & 21
Dec 4 & 5
Jan 15 & 16
Feb 19 & 20
March 12 & 13
April 9 & 10
May 7 & 8
June 18 & 19
July 16 & 17
August 20 & 21
We will only accept the first 30 participants to register, so register early!
Pre-requisite - Participants must have completed an NVC Level 1 or Foundations Class of at least 10 hours
Price: $1275 USD
You may pay in full at the time of registration, or you may choose the following payment plan:
$640 deposit with registration
$320 by Oct 15, 2020
$320 by Nov 15, 2020