Nonviolent Communication - 'Living Compassion' course

About this event

Thursday mornings with Nadine:
11-session course: at 10:00-13:00. Dates:
January: 28
February: 04, 11, 25
March: 04, 11
April: 01, 08, 15
+ Saturday double session: 20 March (10:00-17:30)
(no sessions on: 18 February, 18 & 25 March.)

→ The course will be held online with Zoom. Online sessions will be recorded and made available for participants to view until 3 weeks after the course is over.

During this course I would like to introduce you to the living energy of needs and help you develop concrete skills to transform obstacles to embracing life compassionately and connect with the beauty and fullness of needs by sharing:

❀ Exercises to allow a felt experience of the fullness of needs vs the lack.
❀  Concrete NVC based processes (e.g. Transforming the pain of unmet needs to the beauty of needs; Preparation for authentic dialogue) to add to your tool box for life.
❀  Contemplative practices like meditation and inquiries (alone and in pairs) that engage the heart and the felt sense of the body and can be used and established as an ongoing meditation practice in your life in order to live needs-based
❀  Time to get in touch with yourself as well as community time are an essential part of this course
I will mix in my own inspirations that I receive from mindfulness and yoga, neuroscientific approaches like Rick Hanson’s work, my training in Internal Family Systems work with inner parts  (IFS) and inspiration I receive from my NVC colleagues and friends.
I would enjoy if you want to join me in this exploration.

Learning style

You will be invited to work on examples from your own life in an interactive and safe learning environment. We will practice Nonviolent Communication through demonstrations, role-play and exercises in order to integrate NVC values and language more into our daily lives.
The way we teach is: 30% Theory and 70% of Practice/Demonstration/Learning from LIVE situations that are happening in the here and now. Our focus is very much on the Embodied aspect of ‘Nonviolent Communication’, so be ready to dive.

Extra support
Assistants: We will have assistants accompanying us during this course. They’ve already completed the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Year Courses with us and some are engaged in their steps toward teaching/sharing NVC.
For the Living Compassion course, the assistants have done Living Compassion work either with Nadine or Robert Gonzales or both.