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ONLINE Communication Dojo Monday Drop-In Class
Dates & Time Zone
Mondays 7pm – 9pm (Pacific Time)
Cost/Registration
Learning communication skills can be playful!
$35 – $15 sliding scale. This means we’d love to receive $35 for our sustainability, but understand that this is not affordable for everyone, hence the sliding scale starting at $15. We welcome any amount within this range. Payment methods listed below. Please email us at info@communicationdojo.com if you’d like to make a different arrangement about the amount or method of payment.
No pre-registration required
Payment methods:
We accept payment within the sliding scale through these methods (in preference order):
Zelle: 415 694 8798
or contact info@communicationdojo.com if you’d like to make a different arrangement about the amount or method of payment.
Access information:
Live online class – access information:
You can join the calls using the Zoom video conferencing software, available for download for free from zoom.us You can also join the calls by phone. Access details below:
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“Nonviolent communication (aka Connected Communication) has helped me and my partner speak in a much more conscious and effective way. It was a perfect transition and supplement to our prior couples therapy. It helps in every way, at work, with friends, with family, etc. I can’t recommend these classes and Newt as a teacher enough. I wish we all had to take NVC classes in school, it would change the world.”
~ Elise H., San Francisco
Course Description
JOIN US AT THE COMMUNICATION DOJO FOR THIS WEEKLY OPPORTUNITY TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION AND TO WORK ON REAL CHALLENGES FROM YOUR LIFE
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Changing how you communicate means changing habits, developing new skills, strengthening existing skills, and finding new ways to understand your thoughts and actions, and those of the other people in your life. As you gain greater proficiency and mastery you find that situations that used to trouble you greatly now seem surprisingly easy to navigate, and situations you would previously have avoided completely now fall within your capacity to handle.
The Communication Dojo provides an excellent environment to bring about this change with a combination of:
– Study
– Practice
– Community
– Your commitment to a more joyful life
We don’t just want you to understand the skills, we want you to be able to access them when you most need them…
Whether you’re already a student of Nonviolent Communication or not, we all know that in moments of anger, upset, sadness, fear or frustration there’s a much increased chance of us falling back on what Marshall Rosenberg called “Jackal” communication – the kind of communication that leads to disconnection and conflict – communication that takes your time and energy but does not give much in return.
Your body probably tries to give you instant feedback when this happens – even before you get to the bigger signals like hot face, tight stomach, tensed muscles, increasing loudness of speech. The momentum of defense and counter-attack, shut down or flee, can easily take over – but what if you get more quickly tuned in to the signals your body is giving. What if you start listening more to what your body is saying, and including your body, its signals and its movement in a kinesthetic approach to Nonviolent Communication?
You’ll discover how play, movement and bodily gestures can all accelerate the sense of “getting NVC in your bones.” Our aim is that you’ll develop greater bodily awareness, and respond more quickly to steer yourself in the direction of connected communication any time you start to veer in a less useful direction.
As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.— Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido
Bring your real situations to the dojo …
Some features of the Communication Dojo practice environment:
*Chances to use your real-life situations to guide experiential learning
*Efficient use of group time to maximize learning
*High proportion of practice time in pairs – learning communication by communicating.
*Minimal “jargon” i.e. language that might be confusing or alienating for those not familiar with NVC.
*Little likelihood of people developing any sense of “Doing it wrong” or “Trying to do it right.”
*Mixture of experience levels deepens practice and learning
Experienced with NVC? – Do you sometimes find that your attempts to use NVC do not lead to the connection you want? Perhaps they even lead to greater disconnection? Or are you looking for a different kind of NVC learning environment for friends, family members, or colleagues you really want to introduce to the power and potential of NVC.
New to NVC? – Come try out the Communication Dojo. You’ll find that whatever your current approach to communication, you can start from that point and expand your range of options from there at a rate that suits you.
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About the Training Team
Newt Bailey, Lead Trainer
Newt’s passion is to help people communicate with each other more deeply, to experience greater intimacy, and to find the potential for mutually-satisfying change that lies within conflict.
From his first training in 2005 Newt has set out to understand and share with others the essential core of NVC. He believes strongly in teaching the principles of NVC in a way that frees students from specialized language, and allows facility with connected communication to grow in small, quickly assimilated steps. The Communication Dojo has been Newt’s testing ground for his latest ideas and approaches, and he is now bringing it to BayNVC.
Since 2006 Newt has been facilitating NVC groups, and leading intro classes and class program like Foundations 1, Foundations 2, and his own Communication Dojo classes, in public and organizational settings, and with prisoners and parolees. He is also on the teaching team of John Kinyon’s NVC Mediation yearlong programs, most recently co-leading a yearlong program in Poland.
Location
Online, please scroll up for Zoom link
Contact
Email newt@communicationdojo.com
Phone: 415 694 8798
Videos
See more Communication Dojo video here:
http://www.youtube.com/CommunicationDojo
and
http://www.youtube.com/newtbailey
