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Flex Your Empathy Muscle: Embodied NVC
with Maja Bengston
"Flex Your Empathy Muscle" is a body of work for integrating Nonviolent Communication through embodied, regular practice. In this workshop you will learn hot to add body movements to your NVC learning to make it more concrete.
Last classes with Maja until Summer!
THE BASICS: Jan 29th, 1-5pm, Oakland
INTERMEDIATE: Jan 30th, 1-5pm, Oakland
"Authenticity and Belonging" by Maja Bengtson: Becoming more authentic while also remaining in meaningful contact with those around me has been an important part of my own path. With my predisposition it was easy to believe that it's either "me" or "them", that I had to be either authentic-and-alone, or inauthentic and part of the group...Read full article
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conflict Resolution & Mediation Labs with Lisa Montana January 23 and 30, 6-9pm or  February 20 and 27, 6-9 pm This 2-evening lab offers the chance to bring conflict scenarios from your life to class and work with them in role-plays. - Role-play your own or someone else's scenario
- Receive one-on-one coaching and support
- Learn to express what's true for you so another person can hear
- Increase your ability to hear views that are different from yours
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beginning NVC Mediation & Conflict Resolution with Lisa Montana Sundays, March 6 - April 24, 6-9 pm 
Are you feeling frustrated or overwhelmed because you're engaging the same arguments-over and over again? If so,this class is for you! We'll practice simple techniques to untangle every-day conflicts at home and at work. Register ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Creating Poetry in Empathy with Meganwind Eoyang and Lynda Smith Sunday, March 13, 10:00am-3:00pm 
Meganwind and Lynda invite you to participate in building grace, ease and beauty in our connecting language -- freeing your heart and mind, learning the process, connecting deeply with yourself and others. (For people with intermediate and advanced NVC skills.) In addition to the one-day workshop, there are three 2-hour practice sessions offered after the workshop with dates to be chosen together. Register
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Family Agreements with Jared Finkelstein Thursday, March 24th, 6:45 - 9:15pm 
Families that make agreements with participation from every member and in the spirit of true partnership are very likely to experience greater connection, ease, and love in daily life. In this workshop we will learn a process for creating family agreements that foster greater connection, trust, and understanding. Register -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Making Collaboration Real 4-day Conference!
 with Miki Kashtan, Martha Lasley and many more! Discover new practices that enhance partnership, teamwork and productivity at the Making Collaboration Real conference, March 17 - 20, 2011. For more info and to register, visit: http://leadershipthatworks.com/mcr. | 
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Our partners tend to be those with whom we feel most frustrated. Over time, we can lose our sense of easy connection and playfulness as a couple. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to explore some of the tensions in your relationship and to gain skills for understanding yourself and your partner more deeply. 
Nick (not his real name), CEO of a privately owned company, identified listening to others as one key area of learning for him. As we explored this challenge, we soon realized that truly opening to hearing others would require overcoming a habit of distancing and separating himself from people whom he perceived to be different. I offered him one of my personal practices: looking for 3-5 things I have in common with someone I experience as different and separate from me. Nick immediately thought of Dick Cheney as an exception, someone with whom he really didn't have anything in common. I challenged him on this belief, and he succeeded in identifying several qualities they shared, the last of which was this statement: "We both like power." What did power mean to Nick? Without any hesitation he said: "When you have power you rarely hear 'no.' 
We will provide a supportive container for opening to new experiences in relating across differences with greater authenticity, as well as practice time for deepening our collective learning by grounding ourselves with opportunities to practice leading edge tools in a learning community of diverse participants.
BayNVC Collaborative Trainer Jared Finkelstein would like to invite you to save the date for the 2011 Northern California-Grass Valley Family Camp. Registration will open soon! Click 
