About Linnaea's work
"My earliest memories are filled with the joy of seeing the blinding beauty in the uniqueness of each individual. I awakened slowly to the realization that not everyone in my world saw themselves and others in this way and I am often filled with mourning when I think this beauty in us is not seen. Nonviolent Communication and particularly the work of Robert Gonzales has offered me both insight into why this is so, and tools and methods to support the full emergence and embodiment of our inner beauty. My work focuses on supporting the learning and development of the skills that support emerging the fullness of our own authenticity through embodiment of the consciousness NVC points us towards: To hold an intention to connect with the needs of ourselves and others equally in a spirit of pure natural giving.
| The Self-Responsible Practice Group: A Guide for Facilitators and Participants
A Telephone (Telecourse) Program with NVC Facilitator  Linnaea Marvell from Newport Beach, CA. USA. Free Introductory Session
Choose from these two dates:
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Tuesday January 13, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST Facilitators' Course, 12 bi-monthly sessions
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - Tuesday, July 28, 2009
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
(Registration for this course includes Facilitator's Guide, Participant's Guide, and supporting materials) Participants' Course, 3 sessions
3 telecourses: 1st, 5th and 10th weeks of facilitators' course.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Thursday, April 16, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
Thursday, July 2, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST
(Registration for this course includes Participant's Guide) The Workshops " I believe that the role of the practice group is both to support our learning of the tools of NVC and to foster the full blown embodiment of the consciousness. To that end I have worked with 11 practice groups at various stages of learning (some just beginning and some many years into the practices) to evolve a set of lessons and habits that can support the consciousness to emerge. I am confident that one of the most powerful tools we can foster in any group process is the recognition of our own empowerment through connection to the beauty of our collective need for self-responsibility. This series on the Self-Responsible Practice Group is designed to support both facilitators and practice group members to formulate groups with a self-responsible culture.
The series is designed with two integrated workshops in mind, one for facilitators of practice groups, the other for participants of practice groups. Both workshops are open to anyone who chooses to participate whether or not they are currently involved in a practice group, either as facilitator or participant. Anyone imagining starting a practice group is encouraged to use this opportunity to support that process. This series offers a format in which anyone regardless of their level of knowledge or skill can be supported to begin and sustain a practice group." FREE Introductory Workshop
The Lifecycle of a Practice Group
Or
What happens when you just piss me off and I just piss you off?
Linnaea has developed and designed practice group materials emphasizing NVC's self-responsible development of consciousness-- the intention to connect at the level of our humanness, in such a way that we hold others' needs equally with our own, in a spirit of pure natural giving. Based on her experience facilitating 3 practice groups and supporting the use of her materials in 11 more, she will discuss the lifecycles individuals and practice groups go through as they learn and begin to embody NVC. She will use the mutual stimulation of a real practice group in Wyoming. Members of the group will work with Linnaea as she uses their real life situation to demonstrate the challenges of practice groups and support connection in the group. This situation will be used to illustrate methods and techniques that can support connection in practice groups even when they don’t have the collective skill to address what is stimulated in each of them. Free Introductory Session
Choose from these two dates:
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST —My time zone? (2:00 AM GMT, Dec. 17 ) Tuesday January 13, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST—My time zone? (2:00 AM GMT, Jan. 14 )
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| Facilitator Workshop
 A six month, bi-weekly series for the facilitators of practice groups. This workshop covers development of self-responsibility in practice groups through ten basic lessons on the key understandings and some of the key differentiations essential to the practice of NVC. Facilitators can expect to receive support and guidance for the challenges they face leading groups, for specific challenges as they occur in their groups and support in developing a teaching level of understanding of each of the key topics. The facilitator series also offers support and guidance for certification candidates seeking ways to facilitate introductory course material.
Topics include:
Session 1: 2/10 – Covers practice group developmental cycles and the emergence of self-responsibility in the practice group. How to start off with a new practice group and basic grounding in the incremental skills essential to full embodiment of NVC. Work with formulating inquiries and intentions, and formulate an intention for the course.
Session 2: 2/24 – This lesson covers facilitating learning about the consciousness NVC points us towards. What is meant by ‘intent to connect’, ‘holding needs equally’, and ‘pure natural giving’?
Session 3: 3/10 – This lesson addresses facilitation learning about jackal consciousness. What are the acculturated ways in which we’ve learned to think? How does each type of jackal affect our ability to emerge our true authenticity? Just what are these jackals anyway?
Session 4: 3/24 – This lesson covers facilitation of the following: understanding the relationship between the jackal consciousness and giraffe consciousness. How does a compassionate understanding of the role of the jackal support us to full authenticity?
Session 5: 4/14 – Understanding observations. This lesson covers the skill and importance of understanding just what an observation is and why it matters that we know. This lesson also introduces the key differentiation, stimulus vs cause.
Session 6: 4/28 - Understanding feelings. In this lesson we’ll explore facilitating lessons on what a feeling is and what it is not and why this matters so much. We’ll take a sneak preview of where this understanding leads us as a way of appreciating the value of the skill.
Session 7: 5/12 – Understanding needs. This lesson covers facilitating the learning of what a need is, how needs work moment to moment and as essential values. We’ll explore what is, and is not a need and look at ways to encourage this recognition in others.
Session 8: 5/26 – Understanding requests. In this lesson we’ll explore how to facilitate understanding of what requests are, their role in the four components and the distinctions between requests and demands. We’ll explore what may get stimulated in practice groups as people learn this understanding and what to do if that happens.
Session 9: 6/16 – The Four Parts of the Dialog – In this lesson we’ll learn how to facilitate learning the four parts of the dialog and how each of the four components relates to each of the parts of the dialog. The lesson introduces the use of the dialog board as a means to foster connection when the group lacks the collective skill development to do that. Session 10: 6/30 – This lesson covers facilitating learning about empathy. What empathy is and is not are discussed. The lesson covers key differentiation between empathy and sympathy or other ways of responding. Some modeling of empathy with live situations may occur in this lesson.
Session 11: 7/14 – This lesson will address how to facilitate learning around the beauty of the needs. We’ll make the distinction between the beauty of the needs and an intellectual understanding of the needs.
Session 12: 7/28 – We’ll cover additional key differentiations that support the consciousness, where to go from here, additional challenges facilitators face and any co-created inquiries that appeal. Facilitators' Course, 12 bi-monthly sessions
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - Tuesday, July 28, 2009
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST February 10, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST—My time zone? (2:00 AM GMT, Feb. 11)
February 24, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST—My time zone? (2:00 AM GMT, Feb. 25)
March 10, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Mar. 11)
March 24, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Mar. 25)
April 14, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Apr. 15)
April 28, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Apr. 29)
May 12 , 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, May 13)
May 26 , 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, May 27)
June 16, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Jun. 17)
June 30, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Jul. 1)
July 14, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Jul. 15)
July 28, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Jul. 29) Fee: $69 USD per month for 6 months: All registrants receive access to a recording of the course. (Registration for this course includes Facilitator's Guide, Participant's Guide, and supporting materials) Register Now P.S. If you are leading a practice group now, or know others who want to learn NVC through a practice group, please encourage them to attend the participant workshop described below.
| Participant Workshop
 The participant workshop is designed as a three part series over a period of six months and serves as a companion to the facilitator workshop. In this three part series participants will be supported in their growth towards embodying the NVC consciousness.
Session 1: 2/12 - Self-Responsibility – this lesson will support the development of the concept of self-responsibility, and will address the journey from embodiment of the consciousness supported by our culture to embodiment of the compassion consciousness. What does it mean to be self-responsible? What stages can we expect to go through? What can we do to support ourselves and others in the process? How do we manage to compassionately connect when what is going on is outside of our skill or ability? The learning will be supported by dynamic, live modeling of the difference between self-responsibility and jackal right/wrong, win/lose thinking.
Session 2: 4/16 - Dialog - In this lesson participants will be exposed to the active practice of NVC dialog through hearing two people engage in active connection. Each of the parts of the live dialog will be exposed and participants will have time to ask questions and support their recognition of what the practice of NVC sounds like in “real life.”
Session 3: 7/ 2 - Empathy and the Beauty of Needs. In this session we’ll examine what it means to hold an intention to bring empathic presence and a beauty of needs consciousness to the practice of Nonviolent Communication. Linnaea will model the transformation process from jackal into full expression of the beauty of the needs in a live demonstration and participants will be invited to ask questions and probe their understanding of the process deeply. Participants' Course, 3 sessions
3 telecourses: 1st, 5th and 10th weeks of facilitators' course.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PST—My time zone? (2:00 AM GMT, Feb. 13)
Thursday, April 16, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Apr. 17)
Thursday, July 2, 2009 • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT—My time zone? (1:00 AM GMT, Jul. 3) Fee: $99 USD: All registrants receive access to a recording of the course. (Registration for this course includes Participant's Guide) Register Now
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