We will be donating 100% of profits coming from this workshop to a social justice cause that may be jeopardized by the recent election. Charity to be determined after polling for input form class participants.
An interactive, daylong communication workshop based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg.
This month NVC Boston will be focusing on politics: a place where we rarely feel that people with different opinions are as fully human as ourselves.
We are inclined to trust completely the correctness of our opinion, and to ascribe stupidity or maliciousness to those who believe differently. We flock to find agreement and validation, avoiding conversation or even contact w the ‘others’. If we do have conversations they quickly become a futile exchange of ‘fact’s, which, to our surprise, are almost completely ineffective at changing/transforming positions
Paul and Gail will be teaching together this month. With both of them in the room there will more opportunities for coaching support, as well as witnessing NVC in collaborative leading and conversational role plays. This class will be a multi-level class, appropriate for beginners as well as students w NVC experience. All of us can use support in softening the judgments that prevent reconciliation and change.
While we will be using political content as a place to explore transforming our judgments into needs, while understanding the stories and suffering of our “opponents”, any student can use their content of choice in the participatory exercises.
This workshop is designed for anyone new to NVC, as well as for anyone with NVC experience that wishes to practice and deepen NVC skills.
While we will be using politics as a trigger, what we learn and practice in this workshop can be used in a wide variety of real-life situations, and in most all relationships, from intimate to professional.
By understanding and acknowledging the human needs that underlie everyone’s words and actions, we can create a shared basis for connection, cooperation, and peace.
Some of the topics will be:
- Listening for what matters
- reflecting what you hear, not what you think
- Using your judgments to discover your needs
- Self-expressing authentically without blame
The day will be a balanced combination of group instruction, partner work and structured role play.
Facilitated by CNVC certified trainer Gail Carroll and Paul Merrill
Cost: $115 profits to be donated to social justice charity
You can register online, or send a check to NVCBoston, 49 Fairview Ave, Watertown, MA 02472 along with an email to Gail at gcarroll@nvcboston.org