NVC Trainer/Facilitator Training Program

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NVC Trainer and Facilitator Training is for you if:

You want to share NVC
You are already sharing NVC
You know NVC well and want to learn how to share it
You want to develop your presentation skills
You are looking for support in how to facilitate groups and coach learners effectively

Intentions -

To teach and practice skills and consciousness specific to presenting, teaching, facilitating and coaching NVC.

It is my heartfelt intention with this training to provide learning and guidance specific to teaching and facilitating NVC in a way that supports the integrity of NVC and each individual who shares it. I am committed to creating more ease for trainers wanting the skills to create workshops, present effectively, facilitate learning powerfully, and coach learners to grow with confidence, all while having fun. It is my passion to support new facilitators and trainers!

Who is it for?

people who are actively engaged in teaching NVC or beginning to do so
certification candidates, accreditation candidates,
those who have begun teaching NVC with short presentations or practice group leadership,
trainers wanting more support for the details of training, presenting and facilitating.

Class Size is limited to 12 in order to effectively provide support and coaching to all participants.

Pre-Requisites -

~ 10-20 Days NVC training other than practice groups - required

~ Experience facilitating NVC practice groups, intros, or short workshops – recommended

~ This training will focus on trainer skills and consciousness with the understanding that you have understanding and integration of NVC content and principles.

This Online Program Includes:

Three weekend intensive trainings - September 9-10, October 7-8, November 11-12, 2023
Three facilitated coaching groups - Mondays, Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20, 6-8pm MT
Three private coaching sessions by appointment
Please note that times are in USA Colorado MDT/MT, UTC-6 currently

Investment: $1,750 - (This will shift if we meet in person)

Proposed Topics

Group Formation
Creating Brave Space
Building connection and rapport
Entrustment
Clarification of purpose as a facilitator
Clearing the vessel – Preparing to teach
Embodying Conscious Intentions
Managing Trainer Reactivity
Learning theory, styles, and different needs
Variety in modalities
Meeting your audience where they are – Adapting to specific Audiences
Creating and structuring Content to scaffold and build for progressive learning
Teaching Aids, handouts, visual support
Presentation skills
Physicality – posture, voice, body language,
Responding to participants
Presentations and feedback
Tracking skills, layers and more layers,
Tracking in different situations
Sensing the Field
Facilitation Skills & Challenges
Facilitating exercises and activities – safeguarding trust and vulnerability
Practice group facilitation
Group management while living NVC
Coaching Participants
Self Care
Power – managing when people give their power to trainer. Comfort with leadership and decision making. Functional power and collaboration in leadership.
Trainer Self-Disclosure
Transparency
Using Stories in teaching
Role Plays, Real Plays, Role Being
Responding to Participants
Empathy vs education
Modeling NVC
Accessibility Issues
Organizing and Logistics
Marketing
Money
Networking
Creating support
Engaging and supporting assistants and volunteers

To confirm participation: Please fill out the registration form and contact me to set up a time to talk as soon as possible to clarify all the details, get to know each other and confirm this program is a good fit for you.

I would like to have registrations complete by August 1, 2023. If you have discovered this after that date, please call me asap. Thank you.

Your Trainer: Kathy Ziola, MA, Center for Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainer.

My journey has included forty years of deep exploration of relationship, self-awareness, healing arts, spirituality and communication. NVC trainer training includes Bay Area NVC’s Leadership Program in 2006, the Training of Trainers Program in 2009, Making Collaboration Real Trainings in 2010 and 2011 with Miki Kashtan, study with Marshall Rosenberg in 2009, extensive work with the NVC Training Institute (Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye, Wes Taylor, Towe Widstrand) for three years, and Living Compassion year long program and graduate programs with Robert Gonzales. Empathic Coaching Program with Francois Beausoleil. I have organized and facilitated NVC training for thirteen years.

I created the NVC Immersion and Trainer Development Program in 2011 and this coming year will be its eleventh year. It is a nine-month experience in deeply integrating NVC and moving toward facilitation and NVC training. I have organized and facilitated workshops and retreats in a variety of settings over the past 25 years. These have included the areas of stress management, peer counseling training, breath work, loving relationships, women’s retreats, yoga, Reiki, and couples' work. I have been teaching NVC since 2005. I currently provide training, coaching and psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families, organizations and businesses. It is my passion to support people in having extraordinary relationships based on presence, honesty and compassion.

Education: CNVC Certified Trainer since 2009. MA Agency Counseling with Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, University of Northern CO. BS Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University.

Sample Experience and Settings Teaching NVC

NVC Immersion and Trainer Development 9 month Program – 11 years – Founder and Facilitator - Colorado
School District 65, Skokie, Illinois 9 months training
NVC Trainer Apprentice Program – Denver – Two years - Founder & Facilitator
Arapahoe County Human Services Department – Division of Child and Adult Protective Services – Aurora, CO - 4.5 years, ongoing one-day trainings, follow up integration groups, and team mediation series.
Boulder County – General County staff training. Training and ongoing sessions for Parks and Open Space Department, one year program.
Public weekend trainings offered consistently in Lakewood, CO, and various states across the US
Los Alamos National Research Lab – Los Alamos, NM - Two days staff and administration training
St. Julien Luxury Hotel – Two days full staff training – Boulder CO
The Conflict Center – Three days training staff and volunteers - Denver, CO
Restorative Justice Convention – Keynote and workshops – Colorado Springs, CO
Living Energy of Needs Trainings - 7 day intensives with the NVC Training Institute – US and Canada
Juniper Ridge Community School – Teacher and administrator ongoing in-service trainings and mediation 1.5 years
Dos Rios Elementary School – After school programs for students grades 3-5 for one year
Private practice groups and class series
Yoga West Collective - Ongoing practice group and training events for 4 years
Training for Business Owners – Mesa County Business Incubator
Mesa County Business Incubator - Staff training
Medical Staff at St. Mary’s Hospital – Intro - Grand Junction, CO
Western Colorado Educators’ Convention - workshop presenter
Business Women’s Networks – Denver and Grand Junction
Retreat – Inside Out – four day residential
Online Video and Tele-courses since 2010
Couples NVC Weekend Training events – Six years
Montessori School Parent Book Club – Workshop series
Facilitation of The NVC Facilitators’ Practice group - Denver

Sample Speaking Engagements

West Metro Chamber Women in Business

Colorado Collaborative Divorce Professionals Association

International Coaching Federation Colorado Chapter

Mesa County Library

Colorado Restorative Justice Conference

Alameda Gateway Community Association

General Public Introductory events

Englewood Public Library

Mesa County Business Women's Network

Englewood Library, Englewood, CO