Here are some workshop ideas that trainers have shared with me thus far. I imagine that as we get closer to the event, workshop offerings will fill out quite a bit.

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NVC Basic (with Shantigarbha)

• date: Wed. Jan 7 - Fri. Jan 9, 2009
• time: 9am-5pm
• prerequisite: none

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) strengthens our compassion, helping us to make heart to heart connections with our family, friends, neighbours and work colleagues. It is being used worldwide by parents, teachers, doctors, social workers, managers and others to improve their work and home life.

This Basic Training is part of the NVC Camp and introduces 'heart to heart' communication as a means of strengthening our compassion towards ourselves and the people around us. You will learn how to deepen your connections, become more alive and resolve conflicts harmoniously.

Intermediate NVC and Mediation (with Shantigarbha)

• date: Sat. Jan 10 - Sun. Jan 11, 2009
• time: 9am-5pm
• prerequisite: We request that participants have done a two day Basic Training or equivalent with a certified trainer.

Conflict may be inevitable but fighting, violence and war are not. However, negotiation takes a lot of time, even in cultures where they have tradition of it.

This Mediation Training is part of the NVC Camp and introduces NVC's powerful mediation process through demonstrations and exercises, to take you beyond 'compromise', 'apology' and 'forgiveness'.

NVC and Sociocracy (with Shantigarbha)

• date: Mon, Jan 12 - Tues. Jan 13, 2009
• prerequisite: none

Sociocracy is a method of governance that supports "power-with" (rather than "power-over"). It is a process for collective decision-making that makes sure that everyone's voice gets heard. It also supports the flow of information and decision-making in organizations which value 'equivalence' (valuing each member equally in decisions).

This Sociocratic-Style Facilitation Training is part of the NVC Camp and introduces the consent-based process known as 'Sociocracy' that has been adopted by the NVC network worldwide.

Healing Ourselves and Our Relationships (with Nada Ignjatovic)

• between Jan 12-26
• prerequisite: for those who are already practicing NVC
• group size: about 25

Join us in an adventure of deepening NVC - learning and celebrating life. The workshop will focus on the healing power of Marshall Rosenberg's process of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in transcending disconnection from ourselves and others, and seeing the challenge of inner/outer conflict and dissonance as a gift.

We will have a chance to:
- identify our strengths and growing edges in the application of NVC in our daily life
- deepen our empathy skills even in challenging situations or when triggered
- transform our fear/anxiety/depression/anger/guilt/pain in life-serving energy
- tune our requests to better meet needs
- sail joyfully through conflicts
- feel the healing power of empathy in a forgiveness process

How we will learn:
- through exchanges, presentations, stories and poems, playful activities, movements and drawings, large and small group activities, and informal sharing

NVC: Several Topics - TBA (with Karl Steyaert)

• dates: flexible
• topic ideas: Karl likes to respond to live needs and requests as much as possible; topics: "Living Energy of Needs," "NVC Games," "Transforming the Pain of Unmet Needs to the Beauty of Needs," "Transforming Core Jackals," and "Mediation"

NVC: Several Topics - TBA (with Karsten Schacht-Petersen)

• dates: between Jan 2-20
• topic ideas: i) Introduction and training in the basics of NVC using "Steps for connection" (learning with movement, heart and mind), (ii) Open training, training and training, (iii) Harvesting the fruit of depression and other pain in the past, NVC and healing of old pain, (iv) NVC in families and couples relationship, Mediation in families, (v) NVC and spirituality, Sharing and exploring together, (vi)Open for meeting present needs from others.

Basic NVC (with Tewa)

• date: Fri. Jan 9 - Sat. Jan 10, 2009
• prerequisite: none
• location: TBA

NVC: Several Topics - TBA (with Alexis Proniewski)

• date: flexible
• topic possibilities: educating without punishment or reward, intro to NVC, anger and guilt, beliefs, conflicts, working together, lead/join a practice group.

NVC: Several Topics - TBA (with Clayton Barker)

• date: flexible
• topic ideas: many interests, workshop for youth leader and teens, young men's workshop, connecting NVC with Earth Stewardship and Water

NVC Dance Floors (with L'aura Joy)

• date: flexible
• prerequisite: basic introduction to OFNR

The "NVC Dance Floors" are a method for learning NVC created by Bridget Belgrave and Gina Lawrie, www.GnB.org.uk

NVC and Team building (with Shyla Rao)

• Dec 24-27

NVC - a holistic growth towards Peace and Inner Self (with Shyla Rao)

• Dec 24-27

NVC Dance Floors (with Amanda Raine)

• date: flexible

Internal Jackals (with Amanda Raine)

• date: flexible

Individual Sessions: Role Plays (with Amanda Raine)

• date: flexible

?? Teenage NVC (with Jason Stewart)

?? NVC Games (with Dariya)

?? NVC in Working Groups / Meetings / Organizations

?? Family NVC

?? NVC and movement (karate, theatre...)

?? NVC in Education / Giraffe School

?? NVC Trainers/Supporters Round-Table

• discussion about advancing NVC in the world
• sharing frustrations/celebrations of facilitators