ONLINE WEEKLY Intermediate Level Deepening into NVC, walking towards gift culture.

Deepen and enliven your practice of living the energy of NVC in your life, in this weekly Wednesday morning workshop, open to all that have completed a foundation training and/or have at least one years experience of living/applying NVC. My intension is to support participants to keep alive their growth in NVC consciousness by creating community and offering learning/practice opportunities through a variety of activities such as held group discussions, role plays, pair and small group work, dance floors etc, and to create welcoming empathic online space in our locked-down society.

Each meeting will probably consist of a remembering (a quote/poem/video-clip), a meditation, an empathic check in, followed by some group work that addresses the alive needs and requests of those in the group. There will also be regular ‘bio-breaks’ to support physical self connection in the online environment.

I am limiting number to 8 to maintain a sense of intimacy and connection, and support having a meaningful level of individual participation.

ABOUT RIK

I am certified trainer of Nonviolent Communication, practising since 2011. I understand NVC to be a living consciousness, a way of being, a longing to live harmoniously, and to be empowered to have the capacity to speak authentically in challenging times while remaining in connection with my deeper values and longings.

My passion is in growing in ‘presence’. That is nurturing the capacity to be self connected and aware of the choice i have, moment by moment to be either in the ‘head’ world of judgements and stories, or to live the shift into ‘heart space’ where compassion flows naturally. In addressing this in my life, I have been practicing the introspective technique of Vipassana Meditation since 1990 and have been sharing a physical awareness process I call ‘Self Connection Qigong’ since 2010.

WALKING TOWARDS GIFT CULTURE

My passion is to make NVC available to anyone regardless of financial constraints, as well as to honour the spiritual intension of this priceless work. In doing so I want to step towards the concept of ‘gift culture’. My longing is to freely give, open-heartedly embracing abundance, inclusion and a sense of welcome/belonging in our community. It would be a gift for me to receive any financial offering that you would enjoy giving in acknowledgement that you are supporting the sustainability of my work, and contributing to my welfare. In choosing this, I request that you also honour how you value these sessions, what you would love to offer, as well as holding an awareness of your own financial choices, restraints and commitments. If you arrive at a range of values of what would be sweet for you to give, consider the lower if you are caring for your own security.

Finally, I ask for a token non-returnable deposit of £5 per session. I feel torn to include this, yet it gives me the reassurance that participants have made a clear commitment to attend and are honouring that I will be reserving them one of the limited to 8 places.

BOOKING

Booking is essential as places are limited to 8. Please send me an email along with your deposit if you wish to attend, and I will respond to confirm your place. If it is full, I will book you onto the following week if there is a place and give you the opportunity to cancel.

Please transfer the deposit of £5 together with any additional donation you wish to make into my account, with a reference of the letters ‘WI’ (Wednesday’s Intermediate) followed by the date of the Thursday and your name, so it is clear who has given me the money and for what.

Eg: WI 7May Rik Midgley

Account name: R. P. Midgley, Account no: 11239131, Sort code: 51-61-28

Any issues, please contact me on Rik@ChooseCompassion.uk or 07788952106.