Compassionate Communication
A Skills Building Workshop
Wednesday evenings, September 13 - October 18*
*(no class on Oct 4)
6:30 - 8:30 pm
A 5-Week Co-Ed Class on Zoom
*(no class on Oct 4)
6:30 - 8:30 pm
A 5-Week Co-Ed Class on Zoom
THIS COURSE IS NOW UNDERWAY AND NO LONGER OPEN TO NEW PARTICIPANTS
Would you like to improve your communication skills and express yourself in a direct, respectful manner? Would you like to have more clarity and understanding of your own feelings and needs? Would you like to better understand the feelings and needs of those with whom you interact? Join us for Compassionate Communication – A Skills Building Workshop to learn tools to name your own needs and feelings, understand the needs of others, and learn how to make requests in ways that can be heard and honored.
This five-session workshop is based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication (also known as NVC and Compassionate Communication) created by Marshall Rosenberg. Our words can often result in hurt and pain, and NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves and hear others. By using NVC instead of habitual, automatic responses, our words can become conscious responses based firmly on awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling, and wanting. We can express ourselves with honesty and clarity, while simultaneously giving others respect and empathy.
The sessions will focus on building the following skills: identifying our own feelings and needs, identifying the needs and feelings of others, and respectfully and confidently asking for what we want. Each session will offer time for reflection, group discussion, guided meditation, and practice scenarios. We invite participants to attend all five sessions. The first two sessions will be open to all and after that we will close it to those who have been attending. If you would like to enhance your experience in the group, we recommend reading Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life.
This five-session workshop is based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication (also known as NVC and Compassionate Communication) created by Marshall Rosenberg. Our words can often result in hurt and pain, and NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves and hear others. By using NVC instead of habitual, automatic responses, our words can become conscious responses based firmly on awareness of what we are perceiving, feeling, and wanting. We can express ourselves with honesty and clarity, while simultaneously giving others respect and empathy.
The sessions will focus on building the following skills: identifying our own feelings and needs, identifying the needs and feelings of others, and respectfully and confidently asking for what we want. Each session will offer time for reflection, group discussion, guided meditation, and practice scenarios. We invite participants to attend all five sessions. The first two sessions will be open to all and after that we will close it to those who have been attending. If you would like to enhance your experience in the group, we recommend reading Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life.
Suggested donation: $20 - 40 Fees for this class are on a sliding scale, with a minimum donation of $20 for the 5-week experience. If able to pay more, your contribution will support our ongoing efforts to provide a forum for personal development/growth, relationship building, and self- and interpersonal awareness. |
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MEET THE FACILITATOR
This workshop was created after the participants of a year-long book study of Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life felt a desire to continue learning NVC practices and develop the skills presented in the book. The goals of this workshop were collaboratively developed. Jess Stechmann will facilitate the sessions. Jess is a long-time attendee of events at the Women’s Center, former teacher, and a facilitator/coach for educators. She loves the support, community, and opportunities to live more consciously and heartfully that the Center provides.
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Women's Center for Healing & Transformation
(985) 892-8111
[email protected]
71667 Leveson Street
Abita Springs, LA 70420
(985) 892-8111
[email protected]
71667 Leveson Street
Abita Springs, LA 70420
