Finding Connection in a Fragmented World
Wednesdays, March 19-April 16, 2025 (five sessions)
10:00am-12:00pm Pacific Time | Online via Zoom
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Learn concrete tools to engage meaningfully and authentically with the world
Increase your connection with the natural world
Deepen your capacity for grief and wonder
Experience the power of life-centered engagement with those you love (and even those you don’t!)
“My education didn’t focus on helping me be more alive, more in touch with myself and others. It was oriented toward rewarding me for giving right answers as defined by authorities.”
—Marshall Rosenberg
For those committed to deep inquiry and relational living, this course will provide a path of inquiry to “unlearn” what gets in the way of your collective birthright to genuinely live relationally.
Together, we will explore some of the historical and neurological patterns that have compromised our human capacity to be in healthy rewarding relationships with ourselves and others.
At the same time, you will learn the enormous power your words have to change the course of your relationships by rooting your speech to the aliveness within you that is intuitively drawn to be in service to life.
Over 5 sessions, you can expect a focus on two aspects of relating:
1. Using Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process, you’ll explore the impact your thoughts and speech have on both yourself and others and learn how to apply the NVC process to a variety of situations. You will be invited to bring your own relationship and communication challenges to the class.
2. You’ll explore the habits and reflexes that are so ingrained in your life that you are unlikely to be conscious of them and consequently, even less likely to question them. You’ll stretch yourself mentally and emotionally to become more aware of the source of the beliefs and narratives that influence your drives, choices, and actions.
Each week will focus on a specific theme that invites you to recognize and track what keeps humans unwittingly separated from life as you simultaneously embark on the crucial task of becoming more relational using the NVC process.
Themes of inquiry:
The web of life: respecting the interconnectivity of all life
What’s your story? Examining personal and collective narratives
Your mutable brain: rewiring for relational engagement
Repositioning conflict as an invitation and not as a problem
Developing skillfulness for repair work for when we mess up
You can look forward to in-session exercises as well as assignments between sessions to strengthen your learning.
Come with an open mind and a readiness to roll up your sleeves so you can experience the power of life-centered engagement with those you love, those you don't love, and the living world that sustains us all.
This training is offered through THE NVC ACADEMY. Click here to learn more.