Courses » Peace-Making Course Curriculum
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP
Register for our free introduction to Nonviolent communication and Conscious Awareness. We offer them monthly on the Friday before each Monthly training.
Experience of the shift in relationship that occurs through nonviolent communication. Practicing making observations, expressing feelings, recognizing needs and making requests.
MONTHLY TRAINING SCHEDULE: September, 2010-June, 2011
The second Saturday each month we offer a skills training from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the subjects outlined below. For the four Wednesday evenings following a training, we practice the skills of the training. The practice groups run from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. for people needing an early practice group and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. for people needing a late practice group.
1. September 11, 2010– OBSERVATION and SELF CONNECTION– – Observing what is, without adding. Connecting within. Recognizing and enjoying emotional energy. Understanding feelings as energy, thoughts as tools and viewpoints as maturational stages. Beginning the internal search to connect with ourselves. Using thoughts instead of being used by them. Recognizing and enjoying the loving and gentle being within and making it safe to live in that wonder.
2. October 9, 2010– NEEDS ENERGY– Understanding Feelings– a two way communication from body to mind and from mind to body. Tracking Needs Energy. Empathy– Recognizing the same loving, gentle being within another seeking to experience life and fearing injury and destruction.
3. November 13, 2010– FERTILIZING INTERNAL GROWTH. Dealing with thoughts and beliefs that cause suffering. Opening awareness into our growth process and growing. How to transcend and include everything we have learned.
4. December 11, 2010– CONFLICT RESOLUTION– Building Peace When We’re Passionate. Soothing the Raging Bear– Transforming Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness and Stonewalling. Hearing the other. Appreciating the excitement, insight and intimacy within anger and rage. Especially for working with our spouses, parents and children.
5. January 8, 2011– HEALING– Transforming Fear, Pain and Core Beliefs.
6. February 12, 2011– DECISION MAKING– Finding the Way Within. Protecting Our Choices. Discovering the Needs Within Us. Finding How to Meet All Needs. Requests that Invite, Lead to and Create Uncompromising Joint and Mutual Decisions that Cause Us All to Thrive.
7. March 12, 2011– HEALING– Unblocking insights we hide from that separate us from our Self.
8. April 9, 2011– PARTNERSHIP– Living in connection with another– spouses, children, co-workers– everyone. Engaging their loving being. Saying who I am and what I need, and assuring it is heard. Hearing who they are, and what they need and confirming they have been heard. Dancing together.
9. May 14, 2011– HEALING– Creating safety and security by facing the unforgivable and the unforgiven within, between and Among Us. Seeing through the eyes of another.
10. June 11, 2011– INTERCONNECTION– Exploring What We Don’t Know We Know– Our Shared Unknown. Recognizing connection in everyone and everything.