Introduction to NVC in Dorking
28th Feb 2019 - 7th Mar 2019
10.30-14.30
sliding scale £60-£100
LED BY Ceri Buckmaster
Certified Facilitator
Introduction and deepening practice of Nonviolent Communication or NVC. Suitable for complete beginners and those who attended sessions when we ran some in 2018.
This training will explore how it is possible to change narratives or paradigms towards needs-based paradigms. For example,
o It’s possible to believe that everyone’s needs matter, to consider everyone’s needs and that win-win solutions are within our reach.
We will strengthen understanding of NVC Key Differentiations
Observation (and Evaluation)
Feelings (and thinking about how you are feeling)
Needs (and strategies)
Request (and No Request)
and use them to navigate situations and challenges, and look through the lens of one of the differentiations to move some energy where there is stuckness.
There will be 4 strands of practice:
1. Practice at being with what is present inside us right now and in a relationship with others … allowing what is present … stopping the stories about it momentarily to allow our feeling sense some space.
2. Empathic or focussed listening (which I distinguish from everyday listening which is mixed up with speaking and where the focus of attention is constantly shifting)
3. Allowing space for the shadow/jackal parts of you
4. And a role-play practice of empathic listening and empathic expressing (staying connected to feelings and needs) in a situation you have an emotional involvement in, in which you are likely to be triggered into reactivity.
The first three strands help us to get clarity about what is happening, the fourth is an opportunity to experience yourself roleplaying a situation using the tools of nonviolence, and to harvest learning from that. The fourth strand is a challenging exercise and one I like people to have an attempt at in a foundation training.
Attendance on both days is required.
This is what participants said about last year’s Training
“I found the training really supportive, inspiring and useful. The space, hosting and structure were really welcoming, well paced and inclusive. There were some usefully challenging moments, role playing and discussion in a non judgemental inclusive atmosphere. I have really benefited from reflecting on what I learned and slowly putting it into practice. I’ve already recommended to various people and will continue to do so. Many thanks”
“I got so much out of the training, and continue to reflect on it six months on. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who thinks it might be for them. Ceri created a warm, non judgmental, thoughtful and supportive space in which to explore important techniques for living more truthfully and with less conflict.”