This workshop will explore the powerful principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a language and consciousness of compassion that is used worldwide to help people transform blame, anger, and criticism into understanding, connection, effective communication, and peaceful resolution of conflict.

Once a month, Kathleen Macferran comes to Vashon to host a 2-hour NVC practice group. What happens varies depending on what is "alive" in the room.

An introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Join us if you would like to learn the basic intentions of NVC and some immediately usable tools for resolving conflicts, reducing criticism and misunderstanding, and for increasing respect and hope in your everyday life and in the world.

Learn and practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication. Profoundly change your ability to listen with curiosity (instead of blame and criticism) and speak with compassion for the other person while remaining true to yourself. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem. We are safeguarding this class at the highest level we can by having it in my chemical-free, shoeless, smokeless, animal-free home and asking all attendees to agree to forego wearing any scented products.

Taking things personally is the worst. It feels awful, saps our energy and sours our relationships, yet despite our best efforts we just can't let it go. How do we catch ourselves in the act of taking something personally, stop the cycle and pivot into a healthier response?

Conflict is inevitable in relationships, but drama and disconnection aren't. The better you get at facing conflict in constructive ways, the more wellbeing, effectiveness and happiness you'll experience at work and beyond. Come learn tools to engage in conflict in more skillful, compassionate ways.

An introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Join us if you would like to learn the basic intentions of NVC and some immediately usable tools for resolving conflicts, reducing criticism and misunderstanding, and for increasing respect and hope in your everyday life and in the world.

Once a month, Kathleen Macferran comes to Vashon to host a 2-hour NVC practice group. What happens varies depending on what is "alive" in the room.

An introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Join us if you would like some immediately usable tools for resolving conflicts, reducing criticism, defensiveness, blame, shame, misunderstanding and violence, and for increasing respect and hope in your school, work, family, community and in the world.

Are you longing for the essential NVC tools, practice, and capacities to create and sustain joyful, flowing relationships? We will combine fun and deep, heartfelt learning into abilities you can take home. During this workshop you will have the opportunity to work through unresolved upsets and practice the difficult conversations that could bring relief. Whether your stuck places are at work, at home, with children, friends or an intimate partner, you will return to your relationships ready to shift old stuck energy and experience sweet movement in connection, even with yourself.

The purpose of these calls? Practicing the three modes of Nonviolent Communication in a compassionate community with silence (self-connection), sharing (self expression) and listening to each person (empathy). During the hour there are no clarifying questions, vocal empathy guesses, reflections or mirroring. No cross-talk. No verbal empathy. Each person's line is muted when not speaking. Convener Mair Alight calls on each person in rotation, "handing them a mic". Each person is asked to time their own share for 2 minutes (or request that Mair time you). Needs attended to with this strategy: cooperation, support, empathy, connection, self-responsibility...and probably a whole lot more! :-) There is no check-in. We start exactly on the hour with our first 4 minutes of silence. The silence is for the purpose of self-empathy. If you come to the call and hear music, it means we have not yet started the silence. If you come to the call and hear silence, it means we are in the self-empathy silence. Time for 4 minutes, and if you then continue to only hear silence, you may not actually be on the call. You could hang up and try calling in again.

Do all NVC Collaborations need to move really slowly to be effective? Join me to learn 3 immediately applicable practices that can help your NVC collaborations take off.

Learn and practice the simple, practical, learnable, reliable tools of Nonviolent Communication. Profoundly change your ability to listen with curiosity (instead of blame and criticism) and speak with compassion for others while remaining true to yourself. Learn how to receive criticism without loss of self-esteem.