Oct 26-28, 2007
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has been developed over the past 40 years and is being utilized and practiced in over 65 countries. The message of NVC is that peace and compassion can be found in the conflicts of our daily lives through using very practical, “doable,” and learnable communication skills. The premise of NVC is that it is our deepest nature to enjoy contributing to each other’s well being and enriching life for ourselves and others. NVC helps create a quality of connection that allows our natural compassion to flow toward getting everyone’s needs met through “compassionate giving.”
John Kinyon is a leading trainer of Nonviolent Communication and specializes in conflict resolution and sharing NVC as a spiritual practice. In different ways, the world’s spiritual traditions express universal principles for living effectively and transcending suffering. Many of us understand and admire spiritual principles such as oneness, presence, nonattachment, and radical compassion, but putting them into action in our everyday lives, especially in the heat of conflict, is not easy. John shows how NVC skills effectively put these principles into action and transform difficult interactions.
For people new to NVC and for those more experienced with the process, the workshop will move through various levels of distinctions and skill building practices, integrating and deepening the connection with spiritual principles. Dialogue and role play practice is used to apply the skills to conflict situations within yourself, between yourself and others, and between others in conflict. There is a back and forth flow between experiential practice in small groups and in the whole group, with people sharing and “harvesting” what is being learned.
John Kinyon facilitates communication training and conflict resolution with individuals, groups, and organizations and works closely with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg as a co-trainer at 9-day international intensive retreats. John was trained as a clinical psychologist and has started three businesses. Since 1992 he has worked with thousands of people all over the world, including provided NVC training to Afghan tribal elders along the Pakistani border in 2002. John’s goal is for all people to have access to skills for effectively meeting their needs and peacefully resolving conflicts. For more info visit www.jbksolutions.com. After 40 years, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg no longer wants to live “on the road,” so we asked him for teachers he recommends and trusts: “John Kinyon and Robert Gonzales.”