Sylvia 

About Sylvia Haskvitz

CNVC Certified Trainer Sylvia Haskvitz from Tucson, Arizona, USA

Author of Eat by Choice, Not by Habit, is a registered dietitian since 1983 and certified trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication since 1989.

Sylvia combined her work as a dietitian and the Compassionate or Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process to provide much-needed skills for clients to create a healthy relationship with their bodies and food.

Using her unique approach, Sylvia developed the Fairview Hospital’s first in-patient eating disorder program, with support from staff physicians and therapists. She also developed the Weight to Go program at the Northwest Racquet and Swim Club, in Minneapolis, MN. She has served as a private nutrition consultant for corporate wellness programs and individuals on issues concerning cholesterol, weight loss, diabetes and nutrition education. And she has offered a wide range of healthy cooking and vegetarian cooking classes.

Sylvia has also presented Compassionate Communication seminars to businesses and organizations including Head Start and Bechtel Corporation. She has presented NVC skills at several conferences including Peacemaking: The Power of Nonviolence with the Dalai Lama.

Sylvia’s essay, “Enemy Images” was recently published in the book, Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves. Her monthly column “Finding the ‘Right’ Words” is published by Tucson West Publishing.

Raj Gill 

About Raj Gill

CNVC Certified Trainer Raj Gill
from Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Raj Gill is the Director of Prosperity Circles Coaching International in BC Canada. She is a trainer certified by the International Centre for Nonviolent Communication and a published author www.nvctoolkit.org

Raj is an Inclusive Travel Guide who has been helping to develop and lead Inclusive Leadership Adventures since 2002. Raj provides coaching and mentoring and offers Compassionate Communication and Emotional Intelligence trainings in a wide variety of settings such as schools, prisons, Community Colleges and non-profit societies. Two of Raj’s role models are Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. She is a strong believer in the power of  human connection and compassion for resolving conflict and creating Universal success.

Raj enjoys working with people co-creating a motivational and supportive environment for managing the human aspect of growth and development.

Raj can be reached by email at: raj.gill@telus.net

 

Find peace through awareness and insight even when dealing with difficult situations!

Cultivating Our Power to Choose when Life has Dealt us a Challenging Hand!
A Telephone Course with Trainers Sylvia Haskvitz and Raj Gill

3 consecutive Tuesdays, April 27 - May 11, 2010, 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM PDT (7:00PM GMT)

Fee: $75.00 USD

This course is designed to draw our attention to choices even when we face challenges beyond our control. Take this course and learn practical skills to:

  • Translate judgments of yourself and others into an awareness of Needs
  • Focus inwardly to experience the moments of physical and emotional Feelings
  • Take an inner-witness stance, cultivating mindfulness of the present moment experience
  • Be present to your experience with care and tenderness, experiencing the preciousness of your unmet needs without judging and blaming
  • Develop an awareness of your thinking versus your feeling; your judging versus your observing

Overview

Freedom comes in the recognition that there is choice in everything we do or say. When we are aware of what we need from moment to moment we realize that everything we do or say is motivated by an attempt to meet needs whether skillfully or unskillfully. The essence of Nonviolent Communication lies in our awareness of universal needs and being present to our own feelings and needs. In this class, learn to elicit empathy for dealing with the impact a major life event has on your day to day living.

Find peace through awareness and insight - with a willingness to shift to a “new normal” for dealing with a difficult situation.

Our ability to apply the NVC consciousness in our relationships with others depends on our ability to connect with our needs (Self-empathy).

  • Explore ways to feel the feelings from moment to moment and to be aware of the need(s) generating these feelings.
  • Gain insights, new perspective and a deeper understanding of your own needs and the needs of others.

Possible difficult or challenging life experiences and requests for support include but are not limited to:

  • How do we respond and react when the unthinkable happens? · Your best friend has a stroke at 45 and the relationship changes.
  • Your child is born with a birth defect and is blind in one eye.
  • You adopt a child thinking if you give him all of your love, he can overcome his rough beginning and he is unable to attach to you.
  • Your father was in a car accident and is paralyzed from his neck down at age 73.
  • Your mother died when you were thirteen.
  • You are a reading specialist and your 13 year old is unable to read.
  • You are losing your hearing and your loved ones think you have selective hearing.

Class Schedule:
Tuesdays, April 27 - May 11, 2010, 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM PDT

April 27, 2010 • 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM PM PDT (7:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
May 4, 2010 • 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM PM PDT (7:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
May 11, 2010 • 12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM PM PDT (7:00PM GMT)—My Time Zone?

Prerequisites: None

Fee: $75.00 USD

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