Bratislava, Slovakia
Basics of Nonviolent Communication
You are welcome to join our world wide community where we are committed to increase our trust that each conflict situation is a great possibility to get closer to each other instead of separation. And to continually improve our skills to manifest this.
Soft skills for hard cases
- Would you like to be able to stand up for yourself in a way that evokes cooperation and deeper connection?
- Are you fed up with trying your best when often your intention is not going through and you end up with more issues?
- Would you like to be able to hear not just what people are saying but what is in their hearts?
If yes, please join this program, where we will practice how to
- Express verbally what is really happening in our hearts.
- Listen empathically to others without hearing blame or criticism, even if they express themselves in hostile ways.
- Notice what is blocking connection.
- How to express gratitude in a heart-connecting way.
We do not promise you quick fix solutions, but we do offer you the next step in your own growth!
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has been called the language of life. It was developed by US psychologist Marshall B. Rosenberg in the sixties, and is now practiced in more than 70 different countries. By focusing on each person’s feelings and needs and working with these, NVC helps humans to meet beyond their cultural differences, as needs are considered to be neutral and common to all of us. NVC effectively helps people suspend judgement, freeing them from prejudice and culturally-patterned expectations. This greatly facilitates intercultural interaction.
Trainer: Eva Rambala, Certified Trainer of the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, Eastern European Project coordinator.
Dates: 3-4 December, 2011, each day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Price: 55 Euro per day (100 Euro for both days). Students get 50 % discout
For further questions: contact Ivana Horáková, jablko21@seznam.cz
How to register: Send an e-mail to Ivana at jablko21@seznam.cz
End date of registration: 25th november, 2011
If you would like to support people who have a great wish to participate but no financial resources, please let us know about the amount and we are going to find the way to make this happen.
Reduction: If you invite 3 full price paying participants who are not in our mailing list, you are welcome as a guest without payment.
Media connection: If you write and publish an article about NVC and our work, you can participate one day for free on the workshop
Ideas: if you have any idea that could support our work, you are welcome to share with us in any form that suit you.
This program is based on Nonviolent Communication (NVC):
Nonviolent Communication is a language of compassion, a tool for social change, and a spiritual practice. Its basic premise is that behind all human actions are needs that people are seeking to meet. Understanding and acknowledging these needs is creating a shared basis for connection, which leads to natural care, cooperation, and peace.
This process focuses our attention on compassion as our motivation, rather than fear, guilt, blame, or shame. It emphasizes taking personal responsibility for our feelings and choices, and improving the quality of our relationships as our goal.
Eva Rambala:
“Before studying Nonviolent Communication (NVC) I thought I was born in the wrong family. I thought that to be happy I had to change the people close to me. Applying “empathic listening”, I found that it is enough just to fully hear what is alive in other people's hearts. When the sense of being heard comes, flexibility radically increases, and conflicts dissolve.
I discovered Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in 1996. Ever since, I have been committed to using it in every aspect of my life and, for the last eight years, I have been teaching it to others. I have seen in many different cultures how NVC effectively handles conflicts with family, friends, and colleagues in an honest, loving and compassionate manner. Of all the topics to which this approach can be applied, empathy is for me the sweetest, and I love the aliveness and the presence that comes with honesty.
In 1999, I became an authorized trainer of the International Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). I worked closely with Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of CNVC for five years in many trainings in 30 different countries all over the world. I love the openness and love which is created after a couple days of training.”
