DATES and TIMES:
Live 2-hour sessions on six consecutive weeks starting in late October 2020.
1. North America (Tuesdays): October 20, 27; November 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2020. START TIME:
- 4:00 pm - San Francisco (PT)
- 5:00 pm - Denver (MT)
- 6:00 pm - Chicago (CT)
- 7:00 pm - New York (ET)
2. Asia/Australia (Wednesdays): October 21, 28; November 4, 11, 18, 25, 2020. START TIME:
- 07.00 - Shanghai & Taipei (08.00 for sessions in November)
- 08.00 - Tokyo & Seoul (09.00 for sessions in November)
- 10.00 - Sydney (11.00 for sessions in November)
- 12.00 - Auckland (13.00 for sessions in November)
(NOTE: The live sessions in this course are not convenient for most people living in Europe--they begin at 12:00 am London and 1:00 am Paris (CET). However, everyone is welcome to register using the sliding fee scale, watch the recordings, and meet with a practice partner between sessions that we will help to arrange).
AUDIENCE:
This online program is for people who have participated in a minimum of 5 days of in-person or 25 hours of online training with a Certified Trainer(s) with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
This is important because we would like everyone to have a similar experience with the principles of NVC and we have found that live, in-person learning with Certified Trainers is the best way to create the environment we are aiming for (this is an intermediate course).
FORMAT:
This course will take place on Zoom, a free video conference platform designed for the layperson and available to anyone with a computer, tablet, or smartphone (or telephone as a backup). Each session will be recorded and we will share a video and audio recording after each session.
COST:
USD $50 - $400 (sliding scale based on the Gift Economy approach)
Choose the amount based both on your desire to support Robert’s sustainability and on your financial resources. We want you to stay within a range you are comfortable paying.
The Spirituality of Nonviolent Communication
6-week online course in Living Compassion
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FROM: Robert Gonzales
If you have had five or more days of Nonviolent Communication training, I invite you to join me for my 6-week online course starting 20 October 2020 on Living Compassion and the spirituality of Nonviolent Communication.
In this course, you can discover how the perennial strength of compassion and the living energy of nonviolence can help you develop resilience in order to remain present with yourself and others amidst the disruptions occurring in our world.
Strengthening our Center:
To fully empower our place in life and our engagement in life, we must first cultivate and strengthen the center from which we engage with life. The center where our values lie, our heart center, and the center of our life force energy as it flows through us. When we act from our center, fueled by love, we start to harness a force that is beyond what we’ve known is possible.
A spiritual practice, as I define it, is the deliberate and intentional focus of consciousness and action moment to moment that supports us in relaxing into and strengthening our presence and well-being.
What you will learn:
In this course, I will offer several practices to help you to cultivate a spiritual practice such as:
• Relationship to Life Force
• Needs consciousness: Fullness vs. deficiency
• Transforming fear, anger, and other primary reactive states
• Restoring our wholeness through self-compassion
• Developing Presence
Format:
The six 2-hour sessions with Robert will include:
• Presentations: Principles and practices of Living Compassion.
• Demonstrations: Robert guiding participants through processes that model Living Compassion in action.
• Practice: An opportunity to meet with another participant in a breakout room to practice a process and receive support.
• Sharing: You can share your experience about how applying the principles of Living Compassion are impacting you.
• Resources: Readings, videos, and handouts will be shared throughout the program.
In addition to the six live sessions with Robert, you will have the opportunity to participate in two additional offerings:
1. Group Practice Sessions: Led by Assistants in this course who are experienced practitioners of Living Compassion.
2. Practice Partners: 1-on-1 meetings with other participants with whom you can practice the exercises that Robert presents.
Approach:
Robert Gonzales will present practices and processes he has developed in 30+ years of teaching Nonviolent Communication, and from his personal self-exploration into how to live with compassion moment-to-moment in any and every situation that arises. The workshop will incorporate teachings, process demonstrations and exercises, dyad meditations, guided group sessions, and silent integration times.
Robert's evolutionary approach to Nonviolent Communication -- with an emphasis on self-compassion -- has helped thousands worldwide to find joy and freedom from suffering previously unavailable to them. Living Compassion is the body of work that has evolved from this emergence.
"There is a basic life current or impulse resonating in and through us as a yearning of the heart, this current and yearning manifest as human needs and values."
~ Robert Gonzales
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About the Facilitator:
Robert Gonzales' work in Living Compassion has emerged from a lifetime of inquiry into the intersection between spirituality and human communication. His influences include Dr. Marshall Rosenberg (founder of Nonviolent Communication), Stephen Schwartz (creator of Compassionate Self-Care), and other spiritual teachers.
Robert established and leads the Center for Living Compassion in Portland, Oregon. He received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1989 and his original profession was as a licensed psychotherapist. In 1985, Robert met Marshall Rosenberg and has been offering Nonviolent Communication training in some form since 1986.
Robert has played multiple roles with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication including Certified Trainer, President of the Board of Directors, Certification Assessor, and a trainer at many Intensive International Trainings (IITs).