Capital NVC

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 NVC Dance Floors (tm) are spatial maps made up of large cards that place Nonviolent Communication (NVC) processes on the floor in various layouts called ‘dances’. Each card represents a step in a dance of communication. These steps can be used in any sequence to support authentic, flowing, conscious communication. This description is taken from the website of Gina Lawrie and Bridget Belgrave, certified NVC trainers in the UK who developed the Dance Floors.

One of Marshall Rosenberg’s books has a diagram called “Name of the Game”.

In the game called “Who’s Right/Who’s Wrong”, the goal is to get what I want even at someone else’s expense. Evaluation is based on moralistic judgments, labels, and statements such as “You are wrong, so you deserve . . .” Motivation comes from punishment, reward, guilt, shame, and obligation.

I will use the Dance Floors ™ Inner-Outer Dance to practice NVC with a newly forming Baltimore practice group on November 8th. The Inner-Outer dance includes Self-Connection, Expression and Empathic Listening. A limited number of non-Baltimoreans interested in Dance Floors can be accommodated at this workshop.

This workshop is designed to introduce the Nonviolent Communication model and is suitable as the prerequisite for the trainings being given by Penny Wassman and others on October 3-4.

NVC is a powerful tool that we can use for hearing each other, and along the way we are likely to learn to hear -- and appreciate -- ourselves.

We will use everyday situations that have us stumped: "Why can't you just...?" to illustrate the NVC approach to difficult communications. The model works just as well for "Why can't s/he just...?" and for "Why can't I just...?"

The topic of this workshop is ‘Self-Empathy’, the process of connecting non-judgmentally with one's own feelings and needs, and the (huge) contribution this makes when we attempt to practice Nonviolent Communication.

I will introduce exercises that can help us achieve self-connection and understanding of our own needs. We will look at ways the process can help even in real-time, and we will also see how it can help prepare us when difficult situations are coming up.

The topic of this workshop is ‘Self-Empathy’, the process of connecting non-judgmentally with one's own feelings and needs, and the (huge) contribution this makes when we attempt to practice Nonviolent Communication.

I will introduce exercises that can help us achieve self-connection and understanding of our own needs.
We will look at ways the process can help even in real-time, and we will also see how it can help prepare us when difficult situations are coming up.

Empathy is the foundation of our connection with other human beings -- and empathic connection to ourselves is necessary for authentic connection to others.

We will be looking at tools developed by Marshall Rosenberg and other Nonviolent Communication teachers that help us forge and maintain empathic connections. Knowledge of the NVC principles that you may have been learning in practice groups and classes is helpful but not required for this workshop.

To make most effective use of the learning in this workshop, also attend the Self-Empathy workshop on June 1.

This workshop is an introduction to Nonviolent Communication. Following a a short summary of NVC ideas and origin, we will do exercises illustrating some of the basic principles. Our work will be based on real situations brought by participants.

Location: Takoma Park Cost: $0 - $15 or what you can joyfully pay
More Information: Hally Childs (301) 270 8754 or email: work...@gmail.com

I've been studying Nonviolent Communication for about six years, in lots of workshops, retreats, and practice groups. In 2008 I completed the North American Leadership program given by Bay NVC. Since attending my first workshop, I have wanted to share this approach that seemed so logical, so right, and so much in line with my own values and those taught by all great religions. It's taken several years to really absorb, and begin to practice, what I heard at that first workshop, and I still really want to share what I learn.