Nonviolent Communication From The Roots Up: Relating in a Fractured World

Since its initial publication in 1999, Nonviolent Communication by international peacemaker Dr. Marshall Rosenberg has been hailed worldwide as a pioneering approach to resolving conflict and building relationships. And yet despite our efforts, divorces, depression, and discord continue to rise. We humans are more lonely, more stressed, more traumatized, and more divided than ever. Even the closest relationships struggle to remain strong and vital.

Time to recalibrate – from the roots up. Effectively ministering to relationship challenges in these troubled times requires more than steps and techniques. Without the capacity to examine and mourn our deep-seated separation from life and without the courage to forge a shared understanding of what it means to be relational humans, even the most well intended attempts to overcome interpersonal adversities will fail to deliver enduring results.

Come learn a life-centric orientation to relating that will relieve you from the endless mania for self-exploration, self-healing, self-worth, and instead draw you into a solid enduring alliance with life that is informed by embracing one’s rightful place on a living planet with its own inherent wisdom and rhythms.

Topics and exercises:

• an ecology of needs

• locating ourselves in real place and time

• developing capacity in the face of distress and conflict

• riding the tension between certainty and curiosity

• the two wings: grief and gratitude

• sustained engagement: relational speaking and listening

Expect hard work, confoundment, practical exercises, laughter, tears, deep diving, poetry, .. and copious invitations to wonder.