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Growing Peace Within Me And the World

Facilitator:

  

Peggy Smith

Location: Maine

  Unity Center for the Performing Arts
Unity Center for the Performing Arts

Date and Time:

  Wed, Mar 10, 2010   09:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Thur, Mar 11, 2010   09:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Requested donation:

  $100

Details

  This NVC Level 1 workshop will be interactive, lively and informative with a mixture of theory and practice.  We will cover the basic NVC dialogue process and EMPATHY, the energy that is the basis of NVC consciousness.

Participants will learn to:
* Speak in a way that is more likely to be heard and understood by others.
* Set healthy boundaries and say "No" with strength and compassion.
* Distinguish feelings from thoughts and opinions.
* Prevent and resolve conflicts to increase mutual understanding and trust.
* Identify, connect to and understand needs in yourself and others.
* Translate criticism, judgment, blame and other hard-to-hear messages into feelings and needs.
* Break patterns of thinking that lead to guilt, shame, anger and depression.
* Offer and receive empathy.

Lunch will be provided with either a vegetarian or omnivore option.  Other dietary restrictions can not be accomodated.

FMI:  peggy@MaineNVCnetwork.org   or   207-789-5299   or   www.MaineNVCnetwork.org/trainings.htm

Who is it for?

  People who would like to learn the basics of NVC.

People who would like more choice, authenticity and compassion in their relationships.

What to bring:

  Your desire to learn and connect.

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