Weekend Workshops
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Come check out our new weekend workshops coming up in August
and September! We're making changes to how we organize the workshop material and also to the ease and speed with which the learning can happen.
Aug. 24-26, San Luis Obispo, CA
Weekend Retreat at the Sukha Wellness Center
With trainer John Kinyon and organizer Joan Judson.
Sept. 14-16, Tampa, FL
Weekend Retreat at the Tampa Bay Grand Hyatt
With trainer John Kinyon and organizer Cindy Bigbie.
Sept. 21-23, Houston, TX Weekend Trainings at the South Texas College of Law
With trainer John Kinyon. Special Friday session for advanced mediators sponsored by ACR-Houston. Saturday-Sunday sponsored by Power of Compassion. We're also offering an alternative entry point to the 2012 immersion year program-a new 3-day intensive in Oklahoma City from August 10-12. |
Mediate Your Life
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Exciting news!
Ike and I are changing the name of our work from "NVC Mediation" to "Mediate Your Life." We have used the phrase "Mediate Your Life" a lot over the years and I love how it captures what, for me, is at the heart of what we offer. It means taking to the general public the paradigm-changing approach to resolving conflict called "mediation" that has been the province of professional mediators. Our mission is that anyone can learn for themselves -- and benefit from -- the approach and skills of mediation, whether or not you aspire to formally mediate conflict between others.
In our training, the framework of mediation -- supporting both sides of a conflict to hear and understand each other and work together to find a synthesis to the dialectic -- becomes an orienting guide and roadmap for daily living, for navigating moment to moment triggering and stressful situations with ourselves and others that arise throughout the day. Our goal is to broaden and deepen what "mediation" means to the general public, and in doing so offer a way for individuals, groups, and communities to support one another in responding to all aspects of human conflict -- internal, between ourselves and others, and between others around us.
The beauty for Ike and me has been marrying the framework of mediation with the transformative power of NVC's language distinctions -- observations, feelings, needs and requests -- and the deep focus on "connection." Recognizing universal needs shimmering behind all tragic expressions of word and deed on the surface helps us transform "enemy images" of self and other, and arrive at the compassion that transforms the world. In this way "mediation" becomes "meditation" -- the unifying presence and interconnection offered in humanity's spiritual and wisdom traditions for progressing toward happier and more effective living, as well as a healthier and more peaceful world.
A newer component of our training incorporates neuroscience understandings of brain functioning and the fight-flight-freeze stress response with the science of habit change. This aspect of the training taps research on how to re-wire our habitual responses to conflict. Ike and I are very excited about the new possibilities that these innovations have opened up in our training. We hope you will be pleased as well.
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