One Sunday afternoon a month our facilitated group meets in Baltimore to practice Nonviolent Communication skills and address questions of communications and connection. To help orient "newbies" we usually spend about half an hour focusing on basic NVC principles. It's no surprise to "oldies" that this adds depth to our understanding too.
We then focus on a specific skill or tool. In August we will look at "Right/Wrong Thinking".
For more information, please contact Barbra shia...@verizon.net or Hope life...@earthlink.net
The phone number for Hope is 410 486 6086 and for Barbra is 410.360.3534 .
This workshop has been cancelled. If you are interested in attending a future workshop about using NVC with your family, contact Lynd Morris using the link below.
Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland (Metro accessible, plenty of free parking)
Cost: $45-$90 per person (you decide the highest amount you can easily and joyfully contribute--please let us know if you need to make other financial arrangements to attend)
Pre-Requisites: None--all adults are welcome, whether or not there are children in their lives
To Register: Please email Lynd Morris to reserve space at this event.
Life is sweet when all family members are happy, respectful, and enjoying themselves and each other. But how do we weather the lack of sleep, the outbursts, and the rebellion that periodically arise in our children, in our partners, and in our own hearts and minds?
Nonviolent Communication is an approach to life in which we connect to the needs and values that motivate all behavior before we speak or act. Then, when upsets occur, we can intentionally respond with honesty and compassion instead of reacting in ways that can stimulate more pain and disconnection.
Children learn what they see their parents live. But it is not always easy to live in accordance with our values. Join us for a workshop that offers ways to turn conflict into cooperation by exploring skills we can use to live more fully the lives we’ve imagined.
The “Our Children, Ourselves” workshop will be held on Saturday, August 28, from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The requested financial contribution for this training is $45-$90 (you decide the highest amount you can contribute with joy and ease). All adults are welcome to attend, regardless of ability to contribute financially and regardless of whether or not there are children currently present in their lives.
Please contact me, Lynd Morris, if you’d like to register for this event or if you have any questions about this training.
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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.
Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland (Metro accessible, plenty of free parking)
Cost: $125-$250 per couple, 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.
How many times have you expressed something to your partner that was really important to you but you didn’t feel heard in the way you’d intended? Or how many times has your partner expressed dissatisfaction for the way you’ve listened (or not listened) to him or her?
It was this decades-old “disconnect” that led my husband, David Steigerwald, and me into our exploration of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We’ve learned a lot about ourselves, each other, and how to stay connected even when we are upset since our introduction to NVC in 2004. Now we are sharing with other couples the skills and practices that have been most effective in bringing us more deeply into relationship with each other.
This is Part I in a series of workshops we are offering to help couples understand each other while enhancing/restoring the hope, joy, and love that drew both partners to each other in the first place. These trainings are designed for all couples—from newcomers to NVC to couples in which one or both partners have many years of NVC experience. The workshop include large group work as well as partner practices that are playful as well as meaningful. Because we'll be coaching participants in exercises designed to enhance relationship, we request that both partners in each couple attend.
The next “NVC for Couples-Part I” workshop will be held on Saturday, August 28th, from 1:00-5:30 p.m. The requested financial contribution for this training is $125-$250 for each couple (you decide the highest amount you can contribute with joy and ease). All couples are welcome, regardless of ability to contribute financially. Please contact me, Lynd Morris, to explore if you have questions.
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.
David Steigerwald has participated in NVC trainings since 2004, has assisted at most of the workshops and classes offered by Lynd, and has co-led two “NVC for Couples” workshops with her. He can be heard singing bass with the APL Scats and playing bass with the rock band, "White Chichuachua." His sound designs are heard in several community theaters in the Metro DC area.
The 2010 Welcoming LIFE Program-II is now full.
You are invited to apply for the waiting list for this session and/or for the 2011 Welcoming LIFE Program to begin in March 2011.
See RSVP information, below.
Dates/Times: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on September 25 & 26, October 23, November 13, December 18, January 22
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
Cost: $475-$875 (highest amount you can easily and joyfully contribute)
Pre-Requisites: 30+ hours formal NVC training and 6+ months NVC practice
RSVP: Email Lynd Morris as soon as possible, only a few spaces are left
Juggling commitments at work and with families and friends, as well as needs for rest and renewal, it can become increasingly challenging to welcome the opportunities we encounter in our lives unless we are connected to what it is that gives us life: the vitality and nourishment present at the center of our longings.
Connecting to the living energy that manifests as needs and then learning how to integrate and embody this energy in our daily lives is at the heart of a series of practices developed by international NVC trainer Robert Gonzales as part of the LIFE Program he began offering in 2006. LIFE is an acronym Robert uses for Nonviolent Communication Living and Integrating, Full Embodiment. The LIFE Program has been transformational for so many people that Robert now offers it in Europe and the United States.
But how many of us can afford to take time off for several retreats each year and to make the financial commitment to attend the 2-year NVC LIFE Program? This year, Robert and I created the 5-month, “Welcoming LIFE Program,” a series of 6 consecutive local workshops to give commuters the chance to taste the same practices Robert offers through his LIFE Program, at a fraction of the cost.
I’m pleased that this new Welcoming LIFE Program (WLP) has been a powerful one. We are now nearing the end of our first WLP and the five workshops we’ve already held have been so nourishing for everyone involved, it is clear to me that offering this program again could benefit others, too.
Following are some unsolicited comments sent to me in emails after our opening WLP workshop in March 2010:
“Lynd, I hardly have words to tell you how much the weekend meant to me. I had not even been in touch with the need for peace at the depth that I found -- both getting in touch with it, and finding it. And getting in touch with some other needs around compassion and integrity, I managed to identify a couple of strategies that both left me with peace and confidence -- and have "worked" as I tried them today! Mmmmmm. Just what I wanted. Accomplishment, efficacy, as well as all the others.” Jone Lewis
“What a wonderful weekend workshop! I felt so deeply held and supported in the space and ways that you created for us, thank you for this precious gift!”...”this level of confidence and mastery comes through so clearly and beautifully in you, it's really a gift to behold, thank you for sharing it with us!” D.F.
“I am still breathing in that spacious weekend! I realized when I talked to my sister that Sunday night, the words that I was going to say didn't matter as much as my presence and honesty. Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Barbra Esher
“I feel so energized and not so afraid to feel the depths of my feelings. Needs met for adventure and self connection!” Lorinda Bosch
“The workshop was amazing. I feel so nourished and inner-balanced by it, by the gentle guidance and sharing you gave us. It nourished also my desire to deepen my practice of NVC”…”I am so grateful for the amazing gift you are sharing and giving to all of us. You are making the process of living life so exciting, awakening more curiosity, hope, and joy.” Brigitte Pichot
I’ve decided to offer the second session of the Welcoming LIFE Program from September 2010 – January 2011. This 5-month program will be held in Silver Spring, Maryland, from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. on the following dates:
September 25 and 26
October 23
November 13
December 18
January 22
Please note that enrolling in this program is dependent on being able to commit to attending all six workshops, barring unexpected or unavoidable emergencies.
The requested tuition for the Welcoming LIFE Program is $475-$875 (sliding scale based on the highest amount each registrant can contribute easily and joyfully). Payment plans can be arranged for those needing them to participate.
This an intermediate-advanced NVC program and is designed for people who have already attended more than 30 hours of formal NVC training, with more than 6 months of practicing NVC at work/home. To enhance intimacy and the depth of processing, I’m limiting enrollment for this session of the Welcoming LIFE Program to 12 people. Several people who were unable to attend the first session of the WLP this year have already enrolled in the second session, so there are only a few spaces left.
Please send an email to me, Lynd Morris, right away if you’d like to receive an application for this program or would like to learn more about this opportunity to deepen your experience of NVC consciousness.
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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.