Led by: Carlene Maginnis

(Four quarterly events in 2019)

Led by: Carlene Maginnis

November 9-10, 2018

CHOOSING PEACE IMMERSION PROGRAM

Respond to challenges and conflicts with universal skills of empathic communication for navigating the human journey of reconnecting with heart and soul in daily life and being able to take effective, caring action. Learn ways we humans can use awareness and language to create a healthier and more sustainable world, and respond together to the challenges we face. The program integrates compassion, mindfulness, and neuroscience in an empathic learning community.

John Kinyon provides training, coaching, and facilitation/mediation around the U.S. and around the world. He is a speaker and author, and has helped people resolve conflicts peacefully and collaboratively for over two decades. John is co-developer and founder of the Mediate Your Life training program, and worked closely for over a decade with Marshall Rosenberg, founder of the international work of Nonviolent Communication (NVC).

Workshop details

CONFLICT TO CONNECTION
Nov 1-4, 2018 (EARLY BIRD price until Oct 4)

E-Mail: connect@mediateyourlife.com
Call: (510)919-5847
Website: www.mediateyourlife.com
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A Workshop for Those Who Suffer and for Those Who Love Them

September 22-23, 2018
Nashville, TN

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In an ideal world, our emotional needs are met with warmth and understanding from the earliest age. For many of us, this is not the case. Instead we experience loneliness, internal conflicts and overwhelming emotional pain. Addictions and choiceless behaviors often become the brain’s creative strategies for survival.

Sarah Peyton, a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, will teach us how to disentangle nervous system wiring which keeps us locked in these unhealthy patterns. Join us to experience the way Sarah’s innovative work can support the healing process.

During the workshop, we will explore:

• The connection between the latest brain research and the “decisions” we make that lead us toward and away from addictions and compulsions;
• How to counteract old patterns to support healthy decision making;
• How to leverage our own empathy skills to bring ourselves relief.

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Workshop Details

Workshop pricing

Early-bird $225; after August 21st $275 

If this workshop appeals to you and cost is the only barrier, please contact Melissa Red (Melissa.k.red@gmail.com) to discuss how we can help support your attendance.

Workshop site/venue

• United Methodist Publishing House
  2222 Rosa L. Parks Blvd.
  Nashville, TN 37228
  (A short distance north of downtown Nashville
  (3 miles) with plenty of free parking.)
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Date and Times (September  22/23 2018)

• Saturday, September 22, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
• Saturday, September 22, 2018 | 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 
  Family Constellations (optional; no additional fee)
• Sunday, September 23, 2018 | 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Out of Town? Suggestions of where to stay!

Hotel accommodations near the workshop

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CEs Available

For those interested in earning CEs (Continuing Education), 12 Continuing Education (CEs)  are available.
Cumberland Heights has been approved by NBCC and NAADAC as an approved continuing education provider.

NBCC, National Board of Certified Counselors and
NAACAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals

If you’re interested in CE’s, please see Zina Yzquierdo when you arrive at the registration table to complete the workshop sign ins, sign outs, and workshop evaluation. No fee is required!

We are grateful to Cumberland Heights as we join efforts in providing this added benefit to this workshop.

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About the Facilitator:

Sarah Peyton speaks and writes internationally on the confluence of NVC, Family Constellation work and the world of neuroscience research. Author of the recently published book, Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, Sarah has a passion for weaving together neuroscience knowledge and experiences of healing to support brain and body connection. Funny, touching, and filled with personal stories and up-to-date research on our nervous systems, her presentations change lives and invite the healing and self-compassion that comes from hearing ourselves and others deeply. For more information about Sarah see www.empathybrain.com.

 

 

 

In October 2016, a group of 16 women spent 4 days in a special retreat learning and experiencing self compassion. It was a transformative event!
This year, NVCNashville is pleased to support the second retreat for women.
Please, don’t miss it!

A Woman’s Retreat
May 31- June 3!

Facilitated by Mary Mackenzie, will be held in beautiful Monteagle, TN!
For more details click here or see https://tinyurl.com/y6v14yx8 or contact Carlene Maginnis at carlene@carlenemaginnis.com

Before the summer begins, take a few days for yourself! Enjoy the wealth of women sharing wisdom!

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Building Powerful Alliances to Tackle Tough Problems

The mission of NVCNashville is to learn, share, and practice Nonviolent Communication. We believe the practices of Nonviolent Communication offers beneficial and lasting results to anyone interested in, or working on, serving social justices issues. As a predominantly white, upper middle class organization, NVC-N wants to do its part to address the urgent challenges we are all facing.

Having a sense of what we don’t know, we’ve invited Dr. Roxy Manning to share some of her experience, skills and approaches learned navigating communities in the US as an Afro-Caribbean woman raised in Harlem. She’ll invite dialogue and experiences from the Nashville community, and weave them together while sharing about Nonviolent Communication, to illustrate how radical authenticity, and a commitment to learning the skills to work together for shared purposes, can build powerful alliances ready to tackle tough problems.

In this two-day workshop, participants will explore the following topics:

• Develop daily practices to transform the way you relate and interact with others in support of social justice – in organizations, agencies, companies, and institutions.
  • Learn the basics of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and empathy
• Build skills for empowered communication to strengthen human relationships.
  • Learn some of the ways implicit bias plays out in our interactions
  • Explore basic strategies for reducing the effect of implicit bias to create strong partnerships and communities.
• Explore how existing power dynamics and systemic oppression in North American society impact us — our ability to connect with our own and others’ full humanity
  • Understand why the distinction between perception, intention and impact is crucial when responding to conflict. Identify different responses that are effective when responding to each of these three areas. Practice responding to microaggressions.

Dr. Roxy Manning

Roxy Manning, PhD, Executive Director of BayNVC and Lead Trainer of BayNVC Leadership Program, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Center for Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainer. In addition to supporting clinicians and others seeking to improve their ability to serve clients from diverse backgrounds, Roxy has worked directly with programs and people working towards social change in international settings — including supporting former rebel soldiers working for grassroots peace organizations in Sri Lanka and artists seeking to contribute to greater acceptance of homosexuality in Japan.

 

Join Us

Saturday, May 6, 2017, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Sunday, May 7, 2017, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

American Baptist College
1800 Baptist World Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37207

 

CEUs

Continuing Education credit for this program is awarded by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) for the following professions:

Social Workers: CES, provider #1117, is approved as a Provider for Social Work Continuing Education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. CES maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 10/5/15 through 10/5/18. Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social Workers participating in this course will receive 12.5 clinical continuing education clock hours.

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors/Licensed Mental Health Counselors: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is entitled to grant continuing education credit for LCPCs/LMHCs in the following states: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, MA, MO, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, WY. CES maintains responsibility for this program. LCPCs/LMHCs completing the program will receive 12.5 continuing education hours of credit.

Psychologists: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education credit programs. CES maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists receive 12.5 hours of continuing education credit upon completing this program.

Nurses: As an American Psychological Association approved provider CES programs are accepted by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Every state Board of Nursing accepts ANCC approved programs except California and Iowa, however CES is also an approved Continuing Education provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, (Provider Number CEP15567) which is also accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Nurses completing this program receive 12.5 CE hours of credit.

More Info

• Moving beyond Political Correctness – Why Awareness of Inclusion and Implicit Bias Matters to You
  • Deepen your understanding of the challenges facing today’s communities
• The Empathy  Inoculation
  • Understand how the four steps of NVC can help reduce misunderstanding and bias in intercultural communications
• Microaggressions
  • Develop an understanding of microaggressions and their impact.
  • Explore our experiences with microaggressions, both as receivers and actors.
  • Practice responding to microaggressions in a way that is authentic while creating the possibility of future connection.
• Perception, Intention and Impact
  • Practice differentiating between one’s intention and the impact on the other in situations you bring.
• Different Paths to the Present Moment
  • Use NVC approach to listen and support each other as we share our experiences related to discrimination and exclusion in our community.
  • Learn how to identify core issues for the speaker without either minimizing the speakers’ experience or “fanning the flames.”
  • Explore new pathways for responding.

Through this workshop NVCNashville hopes to:

• Examine, through the lens of Nonviolent Communication, the real wounds and societal messages we’ve received about race and ethnicity and find ways to heal from and surmount their impact.

We invite you to be a part of this two-day event focusing on Social Justice in Middle Tennessee.

Led by: Mary MacKenzie

October 28-30, 2016

The Journey of Nonviolent Communication

A Workshop September 30 – October 1, 2016

Just the word itself, nonviolence, brings to mind the names of Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King — those who exemplified “living nonviolence,” practicing the concept under incredible pressure, in the face of changing human conditions. These leaders personified compassion, the centerpiece of nonviolence.

Living Nonviolence is a workshop for anyone seeking a way of living with compassion and with peace with oneself, with others, and with the world at large. If you’re thinking, “This workshop is not for me. I’m not violent!” then I invite you to observe your self-talk. When you make a ‘mistake’ do you tell yourself things such as “I’m so stupid,” or “I’ll never learn,” or “What’s wrong with me?” Do you ever think equally unkind thoughts about others? Such habitual thoughts and statements are examples of violence.

The question you might then ask yourself becomes, “Would I prefer to live nonviolently?” And if so, “How do I do this?”

• How do I nurture, develop and possibly heal relationships with members of my family?
• How can I be effective and heard in my workplace?
• How can I respond to criticism?
• How do I deal with institutions which seem to demean human value?

Society encourages us to blame and attribute fault to others.  However, Marshall Rosenberg, author and originator of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), provides another way to live. NVC teachings and practice provide a way to Living Nonviolence. Join us now and experience new ideas and a greater potential for living with authenticity, freedom, and connection.

In This Workshop

• You will be taught the three pillars of nonviolence: Courage, Truth and Love and how to apply them in your daily life.
• You will explore experientially the value of empathic listening so that you can hear what truly matters to you and to others.
• You will be encouraged to discover and explore those areas in your life where self-talk is violent.
• You will learn to use judgements as a pathway to understanding.
• You will explore experientially the value of using empathy to unlock and release deep pain in the human psyche.

Carlene Maginnis is the workshop facilitator and a certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication located in Albuquerque, NM. She lives in Nashville with her husband Carl and their big dog Lola!

Workshop Specifics

Dates and Times

• Friday, September 30, 2016, from 1:00 to 6:00 PM
• Saturday, October 1, 2016, from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Location

• Oasis Center
  1704 Charlotte Ave. #200
  Nashville, TN 37203
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Fee

• $100.00

 

Registration

Your Name

 

For more information, please contact Marijo Cook at marijo.cook@gmail.com or Fifi Johnson at fifijohnsonemail@gmail.com.

Flyer to print

 

With François Beausoleil
CNVC Certified Trainer and author of The Blame-Free State

Summary

• March 5-6, 2016
  10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday
  10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday
  Green Door Gourmet, 7011 River Road Pike, Nashville, TN
• Registration
• Flyer to Print
• Recording of a coaching call with NVCNashville, Jan. 2016
• Also, a FREE, Open to the Public, NVC Introduction
  Friday, March 4, 2016
  7:00 p.m. – 9:30p.m.
  First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, 1808 Woodmont Blvd.
• More info: contact Anna Belle Leiserson, newsletter@nvcnashville.com, 615-383-2041

Details

“Blame can become a terrible habit – one that’s extremely costly both personally, socially and culturally.” ~ Miki Kashtan, BayNVC Co-Founder

As Miki says in the above quote, when you play “The Blame Game” there are usually only losers. Nobody wins, not really. But everyone wins when you let go of blame…

Francois Beausoleil, author of The Blame-Free State, will be in Nashville March 4-6, 2016, offering a two-day “Living in the Blame-Free State” workshop on the processes he has built to explore what you can do to reduce the presence of blame in your life – whether it’s blaming others, yourself, or the situation.

Here is an invitation to live from the very heart of Nonviolence – “Ahimsa” – also known as the “State of the Heart that has no Enemies.” Wherever you are on your life-path, this course can gift you with new tools for keeping your heart open and free of blame.

This 2-day workshop is designed to offer:

• a clear understanding of the cost of blame on our health and overall well being.
• a comprehensive process of how to transform blame towards others, self or situations.
• a roadmap to help you decode the blame that is coming towards and respond from a place of groundedness and choice.
• a window into the behaviors we use to avoid being blamed, as well as a concrete approach to bring more choice and freedom to these situations.

About François Beausoleil, CNVC Certified Trainer

François trains, coaches and supports individuals and organizations throughout Canada, US and Japan. In addition to his engaging approaches on how to share the foundations of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with others, François brings a strong business and social justice focus to the programs he leads.

With his expertise in business and working with organizations, François supports participants to clarify their vision, articulate what they want to contribute to the world and identify strategies of doing this that will meet their needs.

François is highly skilled at helping participants discover and transcend internal and external barriers so that they can live from a more fully empowered state. François’ previous career was as a musician with Cirque de Soleil – he brings creativity, music and dance into the rooms and hearts of participants.

Francois is a co-facilitator of the North America NVC Leadership Program, by BayNVC. The 2016 Program starts end of January.

What People Are Saying

“I am filled with joy and additionally deeply at peace. I also felt a warmth spread over me when you set the stage with an explanation of ‘ahimsa’. Throughout, you provided such an open hearted space for me (us) to process personal situations, using your steps in this first session.

And what a nurturing ‘how to’ you shared with us, to arrive at heart filled insightfulness about ‘self’ and within ‘other’ and the common ground of feelings and intent that then shone through.

I feel energized and refreshed, deeply nurtured and connected.”

– Esther Pockrandt

 

Learning about the blame-free state from François turned out to be a major milestone in the arduous work of healing not just myself, but also my beloved faith from clergy sexual misconduct. While I would not wish my particular path on anyone, it has broken my heart open — into a joy and understanding I never imagined possible.

None of this would have been possible without the strong hands and hearts of my NVC community. And I am particularly grateful to François for teaching me how to “dissolve enemy images” — his very practical approach to what many would call forgiveness.

For almost a year, I carried his one page handout with me everywhere, practicing its steps countless times. Forgiveness, they say, is not really for others; it’s for ourselves. Over and over, in the safety of my home, I would go through these steps and my heart would open to those who had hurt me. It even opened to denominational leaders who had turned their backs on victims.

Later, when I ran into these people, with little-to-no effort I was able to see them in their full humanity. And I could see in their faces they knew that I bore them no ill will. Some even said so or emailed me kind thank you’s for my work later on. None of this would have been possible without learning how to dissolve enemy images from François.

I am absolutely thrilled he is coming to Nashville again. I hope many others in my community benefit from François’s course as much as I have

– Anna Belle Leiserson

 

Living In the Blame-Free State 2-Day Workshop

March 5-6, 2016
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Green Door Gourmet, 7011 River Road Pike, Nashville, TN

Plus a FREE, Open to the Public, NVC Intro
March 4, 2016
Basic Principles of NVC
7:00 p.m. – 9:30p.m. Friday
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, 1808 Woodmont Blvd.

Note: Friday’s NVC intro is open to the public, independent of the workshop.

Find Out More

There was a coaching call on January 16 on the Blame-Free State. François walked through an 8-step process designed to dissolve enemy images of others and worked live with one of the Nashville callers.

• Listen to the recording

Also, for more information, email workshops@nvcnashville.org.