Upcoming Classes and Workshops:
Parenting for Strong Family Connections
Sponsored by Communication Matters and The Interfaith Center for Action and Healing
Our children are so important to us, yet sometimes we struggle to parent in ways we feel truly good about. By participating in this class I can help you:
Dates: 7 Tuesdays, 7-9pm
Location: Interfaith Center for Action and Healing, Lansing (just 5 mi. from Stewart park)
- Understand the needs behind your children’s behavior
- Parent effectively without relying on the threat of punishments or promise of rewards
- Transform power struggles into opportunities for building connection and trust
- Discover a quality of connection that will sustain your family through life’s challenges
- Work with your children to find solutions that meet both your needs
- Teach your children a skill they will use their whole life--how to resolve conflicts in peaceful and satisfying ways.
Dates: 7 Tuesdays, 7-9pm
- June 11th - August 6th, not 7/2
- Couples receive $50 off
- Includes booklet
Location: Interfaith Center for Action and Healing, Lansing (just 5 mi. from Stewart park)
Past Classes and Workshops:
New Practice Group
I know first hand that remembering or choosing to use NVC in the moment--or when strong feelings arise--can be challenging! I would like to support your practice with NVC so that you are integrating it into your life as much as you desire.
I am inviting you to join a practice group beginning this Sept. By getting help with real-life situations that you would like to handle differently, doing practice exercises focused on specific skills, and by practicing with others who have similar intentions, it can become easier to use your NVC skills more often. Practicing together can also contribute to your sense of being connected to and supported by others in our local NVC community.
Dates: Every other week, for 6 meetings, 7-9 pm, beginning Tues. Sept. 18th, with option to continue.
If you can’t make this time but are interested in being in a practice group please let me know.
Cost: $120.
Please reply by Sept. 1st if you are interested in joining a practice group.
This practice group is for folks who have participated in NVC classes/workshops, or read Rosenberg’s book, “Nonviolent Communication.” Contact me if you have questions regarding whether this practice group is a good fit for you.
I am inviting you to join a practice group beginning this Sept. By getting help with real-life situations that you would like to handle differently, doing practice exercises focused on specific skills, and by practicing with others who have similar intentions, it can become easier to use your NVC skills more often. Practicing together can also contribute to your sense of being connected to and supported by others in our local NVC community.
Dates: Every other week, for 6 meetings, 7-9 pm, beginning Tues. Sept. 18th, with option to continue.
If you can’t make this time but are interested in being in a practice group please let me know.
Cost: $120.
Please reply by Sept. 1st if you are interested in joining a practice group.
This practice group is for folks who have participated in NVC classes/workshops, or read Rosenberg’s book, “Nonviolent Communication.” Contact me if you have questions regarding whether this practice group is a good fit for you.
Parenting Without Power Struggles
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action,
A Cornell Affiliate, and Communication Matters
Our children are so important to us, yet sometimes we struggle to parent in ways we feel truly good about. By participating in this class I can help you:
“Making any change, let alone in our parenting, can be deeply challenging. Yet there is no path more nourishing for our hearts, our spirits, and our hopes for the world.” -Inbal Kashtan, Director, Peaceful Families, Peaceful World Project
- Understand the needs behind your children’s behavior.
- Parent effectively without relying on the threat of punishments or promise of rewards.
- Work with your children to find solutions that meet both your needs.
- To handle conflict in more effective and mutually satisfying ways.
- Support your children, or your child and their friend, as they have conflicts.
- Create more closeness and connection with your children.
- Contribute to peace by raising children who can make peace.
“Making any change, let alone in our parenting, can be deeply challenging. Yet there is no path more nourishing for our hearts, our spirits, and our hopes for the world.” -Inbal Kashtan, Director, Peaceful Families, Peaceful World Project
Effective Communication
Save Time, Resolve Conflicts, Improve Relationships
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action,
A Cornell Affiliate, and Communication Matters
This course will help you clarify what matters to you and how to express yourself so that people are likely to listen. It also will help you hear what is important to others no matter how they express themselves. Your new tools and skills will support conversations that foster understanding, trust, and respect for one another. Using the skills, you will have more rewarding interactions and be more able to resolve conflicts and find solutions that work for everyone.
Learn how to:
Learn how to:
- Defuse heated situations before they lead to conversations you may regret
- Speak authentically and in ways that can be more easily heard and understood by others
- Increase your understanding and compassion for yourself and others
- Transform painful patterns of interacting
- Communicate without criticism, blame, or judgments through understanding and sharing what really matters to you
- Break patterns that result in guilt, anger, and shame
- Prevent and resolve conflicts by helping to increase understanding and trust
- Create closer, more respectful relationships with others where everyone’s needs are more likely to be met and conflicts resolved
- Promote both inner and world peace
Strengthening Relationships …
romantic, family, work, or friend
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action,
A Cornell Affiliate, and Communication Matters
- Develop more trust, honesty, and connection in your relationships
- Resolve topics where conversations keep getting stuck
- Defuse heated situations before they lead to conversations that may be regretted
- Transform unproductive and disconnecting ways of interacting
- Reconnect with a friend or family member
- Get clear about both of your needs, increasing the likelihood of finding strategies that work for both of you
- Empower relationships by not being lured into blaming yourself or the other person
- Learn how to navigate frustration and conflict
- Speak up in ways that others are more willing to listen to, instead of staying quiet and unhappily dissatisfied
Effective Communication
Save Time, Resolve Conflicts, Improve Relationships
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action,
A Cornell Affiliate, and Communication Matters
Save Time, Resolve Conflicts, Improve Relationships
Co-Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action,
A Cornell Affiliate, and Communication Matters
This course will help you clarify what matters to you and how to express yourself so that people are likely to listen. It also will help you hear what is important to others no matter how they express themselves. Your new tools and skills will support conversations that foster understanding, trust, and respect for one another. Using the skills, you will have more rewarding interactions and be more able to resolve conflicts and find solutions that work for everyone.
Learn how to:
Learn how to:
- Defuse heated situations before they lead to conversations you may regret
- Speak authentically and in ways that can be more easily heard and understood by others
- Increase your understanding and compassion for yourself and others
- Transform painful patterns of interacting
- Communicate without criticism, blame, or judgments through understanding and sharing what really matters to you
- Break patterns that result in guilt, anger, and shame
- Prevent and resolve conflicts by helping to increase understanding and trust
- Create closer, more respectful relationships with others where everyone’s needs are more likely to be met and conflicts resolved
- Promote both inner and world peace
Communication Matters:
Talk So People Want To Listen
Listen So People Want To Talk
Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action
A Cornell Affiliate
This course will help you understand what matters to you and how to express it in a way that people are likely to hear. It also will help you hear what is important to others no matter how they express themselves. You will develop communication skills that foster understanding and trust, creating more effective and rewarding interactions and relationships.
Learn how to:
- Defuse heated situations before they lead to conversations you may regret
- Speak authentically and in a way that can be more easily heard and understood by others
- Increase your understanding and compassion for yourself and others
- Transform painful patterns of interacting
- Communicate without criticism, blame, or judgments through understanding and sharing what really matters to you
- Break patterns that result in guilt, anger, shame, and depression
- Prevent and resolve conflicts by helping to increase understanding and trust
- Create closer, more respectful relationships with others where everyone’s needs are more likely to be met and conflicts resolved
- Promote both inner and world peace
Hearing “NO” Workshop For parents experienced with Nonviolent Communication
I would like to support you in your ongoing practice of NVC and in grappling with internalizing NVC into your daily life. One place that can be challenging is hearing someone say “no” to a request that you have made. If you’ve spent time carefully crafting the request, hearing “no” can be really painful! This situation can test our intention for everyone’s needs to matter and our aim to refocus on needs instead of strategies. Join us to focus on what we can do after hearing “no” to a request.
Compassionate Parenting Communication Class
Sponsored by The Center for Transformative Action
A Cornell Affiliate
Our Children are so important to us, yet sometimes we struggle to parent in ways we feel truly good about. By participating in this class you will explore how to:
- Understand the needs behind your children’s behavior.
- Parent effectively without relying on the threat of punishments or promise of rewards.
- Transform power struggles into opportunities for building connection and trust.
- Discover a quality of connection that will sustain your family through life’s challenges.
- Support your children, or your child and their friend, as they have conflicts.
- Contribute to peace by raising children who can make peace.