Sri Lanka
Sandhi Institute is announcing our annual international residential training for the 3rd time in Sri Lanka.
How you will benefit?
This training will bring together a community of people who are committed to embodying the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in their own lives and sharing it with others. Residential trainings enable greater depth than non-residential trainings, thereby contributing to a deeper sense of community. It’s a rare opportunity to learn from international trainers with many years of wide ranging experience.
Beginners will learn basics of NVC as well having opportunity to practice NVC conflict resolution skills. Those with NVC background will be able to deepen their understanding & skills. Everyone will be supported to apply it in their work or life context. The training is designed to meet all the different learning needs of participants.
Alongside NVC, we also offer meditation, body and breathe work, chanting and yoga. Yet, the communication training will be the central teaching, complimented by these other practices.
Some of the ways that people benefit are through:
- Self empowerment
- Deeper awareness
- Stress reduction
- Bridging cultural differences
- Harmonious relationships
What will you have gained at the end of the training?
- To see conflict as an opportunity to connect more deeply with yourself and others
- To express your authenticity clearly and strongly without blame, criticism, or attack.
- To understand compassionately what is motivating others words or behavior
- Learn how to increase mutual respect and trust in communication
- Improve understanding and better connection in relationships
- Learn how to support others in their communication - “Mediation”
- Clarity about yourself and what your needs are and finding powerful and effective ways to meet them
- To manage strong emotions such as anger, shame and guilt in self and learn how to respond constructively when expressed by others
What people say about our trainings?
“There were lot of things which really touched my heart in this training. I learned how to transform my anger and pains through self-connection. I’m really happy about it”
Gowsy -
“I have never received a training as this in my life. This training is a new rising in my life. Thank you Sandhi Institute”
Sutharshan -
Nonviolent Communication (aka NVC) is a communication method built around the idea that all people have the same human needs, and that our actions are attempts at meeting those needs. We focus on building connection on that level of shared humanity. NVC can help us to express ourselves in language that doesn't involve blame or attack as well showing us a way to listen to the underlying values or needs that are important to people even when they express themselves in difficult or hostile ways.
The practice of NVC can help us understand ourselves more fully, provide us with a sense of power and choice in our lives and open our hearts to compassionately connect with others. NVC strengthens our compassion, helping us to make heart to heart connections with family, friends, neighbors and work colleagues. It’s a powerful tool for resolving and mediating inter personal, intra personal and organizational conflicts. It is being used worldwide by parents, teachers, doctors, social workers, managers and others to improve their work and home life.
ABOUT THE TRAINERS
JEYANTHY Siva, Sri Lanka
is the founder and director of the Sandhi Institute, a centre for the study and practice Nonviolent Communication as a tool for transformation at individual, interpersonal and systemic levels. She has trained change makers and their teams in interpersonal communication, conflict resolution and group decision-making process. She also offers coaching to leaders in business, the not-for-profit and educational sectors. She conducts workshops in Europe, USA and Asia. http://www.sandhi.org
KIRSTEN Kristensen, Denmark
is a family therapist, supervisor, mediator and CNVC certified trainer. In 1998 she met Nonviolent Communication and found that NVC was adding a very deep and life changing dimension to her work as a therapist. Now she leads year long NVC trainings in three countries as well as serves as a consultant and supervisor for institutions and organizations. www.kommunikationforlivet.dk
EVA Rambala, Hungary
Is a Certified Trainer of the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, and serve as coordinator for the Central and Eastern European Centers for Nonviolent Communication. She has been working with NVC since 1996 and became a Certified Trainer in 1999 working closely with Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of this process for 5 years. She has conducted training and workshops across the world for a wide variety of groups—including businesses, schools, orphanages and prisons. http://www.rambala.hu
ROXY Manning, Ph.D., USA
is a licensed psychologist, has shared NVC for over 8 years. Lead trainer with BayNVC’s Leadership Program, Roxy helped participants from five continents deepen their understanding of NVC and share it more effectively with their communities. She is passionate about bringing NVC to an exploration of group dynamics, especially in the area of how differences in power and access to resources get addressed in communities of all types - from organizations and businesses to social groups. http://manning.learnnvc.org
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Requested Tuition fee is a sliding scale (pick between these figures based on your financial means): We are keeping the low end of the sliding scale for tuition at €600 in order to make it possible for people to afford the travel from Europe and USA. We do ask that people pay the highest amount they are able to give joyfully as that will help support the people from Sri Lanka who would not have the resources to attend otherwise.
Tuition: € 600 – 1200
Food and lodging: € 220
Note that this is rare and wonderful opportunity for you to take advantage of this learning opportunity in Sri Lanka and to travel and explore our beautiful Island at same time.
We are committed to turn No One from Sri Lanka away due to Lack of Funds. If you are living and working in Sri Lanka, Please contact us for the rates for Sri Lankans.
This training is not being sponsored by any funding organization. The trainers are working as volunteers and are covering their own costs. We do not yet have funds to cover all the costs nor to cover all the scholarship requests we are anticipating. If you give above the low end of the scale, you will be supporting those who cannot afford to pay and need financial assistance in order to attend this training.
For whom?
Open to everyone interested and looking for tools to strengthen relationships and reach for conflicts with hope.
The training will be led in English with translation into Tamil and Sinhala as needed.
How to register?
Filled registration form mailed to us by post or email to arrive
soon as possible and latest by January 6, 2012. In order for us to hold a seat for you, we need to receive full payment or a deposit of 100 Euros by January 12th.
Registration Email: training@sandhi.org
Email or call us for application form (if you don’t get one with this flyer)
We expect this training to fill quickly so please send in your registration as soon as possible so we can reserve you a place.
Contact us:
Email: info@sandhi.org
T/P No: +94 (0)11 288 2659 (Monday- Friday 9-5)
http://www.sandhi.org
Address: 535/5A, Nawala Road, Nawala, Sri Lanka
