WCA member Davida Luminabes is once again starting up the non-violent practice group here in Woodland Valley. If you would like to join this group please use the information below to get in touch with Davida. It sounds like it will be interesting! Here is Davida's message:
Greetings friends and neighbors
We had a lovely practice group before last winter, and keeping it small seems to work best.
We're starting over this year into next with a new practice group and format, a shorter, 9-week course.
You may be familiar, new or practiced in the ways of "Non-Violent Communication", or compassionate communication. It is a way of communicating with ourselves and with each other which works through compassion, shifting us (with practice) from the old ingrained criticism/'shame/blame/judgement/should patterns of thinking and speech, better meeting our truest needs in life.
It is a system being used in interpersonal relationships from personal partnerships to family, from business to mediation between nations.
I've been studying this past year and 1/4 (and continuing) with NYNVC Co-ordinator Thom Bond.
When we have a core group minimum (we're going only up to 8 max), we will announce a definite time/place start date. As a starter, I'm suggesting sunday evenings, here at my home in Woodland Valley, skipping holidays, starting the last Sunday of September.
Study Books:
· Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
We had a lovely practice group before last winter, and keeping it small seems to work best.
We're starting over this year into next with a new practice group and format, a shorter, 9-week course.
You may be familiar, new or practiced in the ways of "Non-Violent Communication", or compassionate communication. It is a way of communicating with ourselves and with each other which works through compassion, shifting us (with practice) from the old ingrained criticism/'shame/blame/judgement/should patterns of thinking and speech, better meeting our truest needs in life.
It is a system being used in interpersonal relationships from personal partnerships to family, from business to mediation between nations.
I've been studying this past year and 1/4 (and continuing) with NYNVC Co-ordinator Thom Bond.
The '64 days training' is a 9-week training course which meets once a week. It's been put together by Thom Bond, a student and friend of Marshall Rosenberg, the Author of Non-Violent Communication. This course is for anyone who is willing to make a personal commitment to learn the principles and concepts of NVC and begin to incorporate them into daily life.
Whether new, familiar, or practiced, you are invited and welcome!
Study Books:
· Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
See website for ordering http://www.cnvc.org/bookstore/cnvc-store-printed-items. Powell’s books (union) and Amazon (non-union) may carry them second hand. They are available from the Mid-Hudson Library System as well.
No required fee. Donations accepted/suggested, to course co-ordinator org. Host to provide water and a pot of coffee, tea, and simple refreshments.
Directions, curriculum and a reminder will be forthcoming for those who respond. Please feel welcome to join in a pot - luck before or after the meetings.. (we'll decide).
RSVP/Info
Davida
(845) 679-7981
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