This workshop/retreat is being offered by request by my past participants. Purpose is for basic NVC practice as it relates to holiday stress.

This workshop builds on the Introduction to Nonviolent Communication as a Spiritual Practice, Part I held at Chobo-Ji in October, 2018. In that training by Marcia Christen, we covered core aspects of NVC: empathy, feelings, needs, and self-awareness, all for the purpose of building compassionate connection with others. In January’s Part II, we’ll develop these understandings further and introduce more essential skills: deep listening and speaking authentically, as well as making observations and requests. We’ll also explore ways to bring NVC as a spiritual practice into our sangha life as well as into our individual relationships. Finally, we’ll continue to deepen our understanding of interdependence, compassion, and shared power in order to foster a restorative community here at Chobo-Ji. There will be plenty of time for active role playing to build skill with what we’ve learned.

Relationships are the fabric of our lives, and how we communicate can literally make or break them. These tools will help us upgrade the way we think, speak, and relate in order to create more joy, satisfaction and authenticity in our relationships and lives.

This training will take our investigation of Nonviolent Communication as a spiritual practice to yet another level, and builds upon the two introductory workshops held to far. Together, we’ll foster compassionate connection with others, even when communication becomes challenging.

A Somatic Approach for Embodying Nonviolent Communication Personal Practices for Deepening Relationships Our body-wisdom holds keys to a treasure house of intuitive guidance and inspiring communication. Nonviolent Communication teaches us a brilliant language of the heart. Somatic practices help to integrate our words with all that we communicate non-verbally. Living life fully begins with knowing deeply what you care about. This is the organizing principle and inspiration for embodying new skills. To move through lifetimes of embodied personal, familial and cultural patterned living, building new habits must capture your imagination. It must be fun. Each of our sessions engage physical, emotional, linguistic, intellectual and intuitive resources to build our capacity to manage mood and emotion, take skillful, decisive action and relate compassionately.

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.

Are you deeply committed to personal growth and passionate about social justice? Do you see NVC as an essential tool for both? Join this intimate learning group for a 6-month intensive program that will help you strengthen your NVC skills, embody a paradigm of nonviolence, leverage your power to empower the systematically marginalized, and step into greater leadership in your community and life!

How would your life improve if you could stay openhearted through conflict? If you could process difficult feelings without isolating or shaming yourself? If you could meet yourself and others with dignity and compassion instead of judgment and blame? Join us for this 8-week series to study and embody the basics of Compassionate Communication in a supportive community of learners!

Do you watch yourself doing the same tired things over and over again in your relationships? Do you have a hunch you could do better, but you can’t quite get yourself to change? Come learn and put into practice a set of accessible tools and skills for more effective communication and better relationships.

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.

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.

Relationships are the fabric of our lives. We need each other, and we know it. Yet all too often, conflicts get in the way of us achieving what we truly want together. How would your life improve if you could stay openhearted through conflict? If you could process difficult feelings without isolating or shaming yourself? If you could meet yourself and others with dignity and compassion instead of judgment and blame?