PROGRAM DIDN’T RUN DUE TO LOW ENROLLMENT
NVC INTEGRATION PROGRAM
Oct 2024 - Sept 2025
with certified NVC Trainers
Peggy Smith & Leah Boyd
&
additional training team member kate burnim
An Intermediate NVC Experience
A full year of Deepening NVC Consciousness in
Monthly Online Sessions - Friday Evening & All Day Saturday
We are excited to offer this well honed learning experience in an online format, making it available to a wide variety of participants from many geographical locations. 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 vibrant 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. Practice group participation is not required and also not guaranteed.
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 during our sessions and strongly encouraging the expansion of that learning community in the practice groups between sessions
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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 year 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
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SCHEDULE:
Friday 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 - 11:00 am, 12:30 - 2:30 pm, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Oct 25/26
Nov 15/16
Dec 13/14
Jan 10/11
Feb 7/8
Mar 7/8
Apr 4/5
May 9/10
June 13/14
July 11/12
Aug 15/16
Sept 12/13
Enrollment minimum 10 participants
Price: $1400
Payment Plan
Payment 1 (Deposit) $700 (required at the time of registering)
Payment 2 $350 (due by Nov 15th)
Payment 3 $350 (due by Dec 15th)
Integration Cancellation/Attendance Policy
In the event Clarity Services cancels the Integration Program, participants will receive a full refund of the payments they have made.
In the event that a participant cancels:
If cancellation occurs more than 8 weeks prior to that program start date, Clarity will refund all payments made minus a $100 admin fee.
If cancellation occurs less than 4 weeks prior to the program start date, Clarity Services will retain the participant’s deposit and refund any additional payments made.
If cancellation occurs at any time after the program start date, no refunds will be issued.
Attendance:
It is our preference that participants attend all sessions throughout the program, as the consistent learning community is an important part of the Integration experience.
We recognize that sometimes circumstances require a participant to miss some sessions. At this time Clarity does not offer recordings of the sessions nor do we offer make up or tutorial sessions for those who miss class.
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