Oops...I Didn't Just Say That!
November 7, 14, & 21
on Zoom
6:30 - 8:00 pm
on Zoom
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Learn to communicate, have more clarity, and better understand the needs and feelings of others.
Join us for this 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.
If you often feel unheard by others, this class is for you. If you sense people treat you with "kid gloves," this class is also for you - and for anyone who just wants to explore how to communicate with more awareness. The concepts are straight forward and the exercises are interesting and fun.
This three-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. 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: $30 - $50
Sliding scale
Join us for this 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.
If you often feel unheard by others, this class is for you. If you sense people treat you with "kid gloves," this class is also for you - and for anyone who just wants to explore how to communicate with more awareness. The concepts are straight forward and the exercises are interesting and fun.
This three-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. 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: $30 - $50
Sliding scale
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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. Carolyn Burns and Jess Stechmann will facilitate the sessions.
Carolyn Burns is a Marriage & Family therapist in private practice. She has been studying using the NVC (Non-Violent Commuication) in her family and couples' sessions. As a mom, grandmother, businesswoman and relationship therapist, Carolyn knows that conflict is unavoidable and even sometimes healthy. It is not that conflict exists but how we stand in it that makes strong, respectful relationships. |
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
