Led by: Carlene Maginnis
November 9-10, 2018
Led by: Carlene Maginnis
November 9-10, 2018
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).
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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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:
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.
Hotel accommodations near the workshop
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.
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!
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!
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:
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.
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
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.
Through this workshop NVCNashville hopes to:
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
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?”
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.
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!
For more information, please contact Marijo Cook at marijo.cook@gmail.com or Fifi Johnson at fifijohnsonemail@gmail.com.
With François Beausoleil
CNVC Certified Trainer and author of The Blame-Free State
“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:
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.
“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
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
Tuition: $210
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.
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.
Also, for more information, email workshops@nvcnashville.org.
Before the holiday candles are lit, gifts purchased, preparations for meals planned, and way before family and friends gather, give time connecting to why many of us do what we do during this time of year.
Often the holidays are associated with stress and frustration. There is another way to inhabit the holiday season….
With Gratitude.
Come! Fill your tanks with empathy, compassion, and gratitude. We’ll share:
There is no better gift to ourselves and those we’ll encounter during the seasons of celebrations and life. I hope to see you!
Contact: Carlene Maginnis, clmwr123@gmail.com
Led by: Carlene Maginnis
November 21, 2015