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October 2019
Mindful Communication: 6-week Series (Mondays, Berkeley)
MINDFUL COMMUNICATION: FOUNDATIONS • Learn core tools for effective dialogue • Reduce stress and conflict • Strengthen resilience and empathy • Grow in self-understanding Communication sits at the center of our lives – personally, socially, and professionally. This six-week course offers in-depth training in the…
Find out more »Authentic Communication: 6-week Course (Thursdays, Online)
A 6-WEEK *LIVE* ONLINE COURSE with Oren Jay Sofer This 6-week online course with author and teacher Oren Jay Sofer offers training in his unique, integrated approach to communication. It is specifically designed to support you to discern what’s most authentic and to develop the…
Find out more »Compassionate Communication Foundations (16hours)
Register Please click on THIS LINK to register. Description Most of our lives, we have been taught habitual patterns to deal with our upsets – to judge, blame, shame and guilt-trip ourselves and others – to do things out of obligation and duty, rather than…
Find out more »Communication Dojo Drop-In
Dates Mondays 7pm – 9pm Cost Introductory rate: $35 – $15 sliding scale Registration No registration needed. All welcome @ “The Center SF,” 548 Fillmore St, San Francisco. “I gained so many insights about myself and learned many skills on how to connect with people better.…
Find out more »Fall practice group, 5 Mondays
COST: Regular tuition $400; Scholarship rate $325 (when available) 5 Mondays, October 28 through November 25, 2019, 6:30pm-8:30pm COURSE DESCRIPTION: So, how do I use NVC in my day to day life? How can I work with my “unreasonable” boss? Why doesn’t my spouse just get…
Find out more »Communication Dojo Drop-In
Dates Mondays 7pm – 9pm Cost Introductory rate: $35 – $15 sliding scale Registration No registration needed. All welcome @ “The Center SF,” 548 Fillmore St, San Francisco. “I gained so many insights about myself and learned many skills on how to connect with people better.…
Find out more »Mobilizing for Nonviolent Global Liberation – Stony Point, NY
A Retreat to Co-create Personal and Collective Capacity Offered by a team including Miki Kashtan, Uma Lo, Tarek Maassarani, and other NGL trainers, and NGL apprentices You are invited to chat with the organizers and past participants this Tuesday, September 24th, 7 p.m. EDT. Scroll…
Find out more »November 2019
Mindful Communication Workshop at CIIS
Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. Join author and Dharma teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our spiritual practice can provide a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships. Oren…
Find out more »The Compass: An Integrative Roadmap Towards Personal, Familial, and Social Liberation
An 8-month course involving weekly or bi-weekly 2 hour online courses (frequency depends on chosen track). “I offer you something radical, a real process of healing, compassion, and courage, to get to know yourself and others.” ~ Arnina Kashtan “The Compass” is Arnina Kashtan’s unique…
Find out more »Communication Dojo Drop-In
Dates Mondays 7pm – 9pm Cost Introductory rate: $35 – $15 sliding scale Registration No registration needed. All welcome @ “The Center SF,” 548 Fillmore St, San Francisco. “I gained so many insights about myself and learned many skills on how to connect with people better.…
Find out more »Anger, Judgments & Self-Connection, 4-week series
When others speak while angry you might have a hard time hearing them, even though they really want to be heard. The same is true when you speak while angry – it almost certainly means that you’ll experience less connection, more conflict, and the frustration of knowing that the way you’re communicating is really unlikely to lead to the kind of outcome you want. If I speak while angry I’ll probably end up even more angry about how effective my communication is!
In this series we’ll practice ways to make it easier to listen and stay connected, even when there is a lot of anger. We’ll also practice methods of self-connection and self-understanding that help you figure out the true message of your own anger and that of others, and to extract meaning and direction from even the most painful judgments. Get the true message of anger and I predict you’ll find it comes back less often. We’ll also look at ways to express anger when it arises rather than stuffing it inside.
Find out more »Reckoning with Collapse – Rochester, NY
This workshop is an opportunity to learn and engage with others who are also grappling with the overwhelming information and grim prospects that humanity faces, most specifically with climate change, as well as other crises. The workshop is sponsored by the Gandhi Institute. For the…
Find out more »Communication Dojo Drop-In
Dates Mondays 7pm – 9pm Cost Introductory rate: $35 – $15 sliding scale Registration No registration needed. All welcome @ “The Center SF,” 548 Fillmore St, San Francisco. “I gained so many insights about myself and learned many skills on how to connect with people better.…
Find out more »Communication Dojo Drop-In
Dates Mondays 7pm – 9pm Cost Introductory rate: $35 – $15 sliding scale Registration No registration needed. All welcome @ “The Center SF,” 548 Fillmore St, San Francisco. “I gained so many insights about myself and learned many skills on how to connect with people better.…
Find out more »Empowered Commun 2 of 3, 5 Tuesdays
COST: $400.00 regular tuition; $325 scholarship rate (when available). 5 Tuesdays, November 19 through December 17, 2019, 6:30-8:30pm “NVC is already contributing to my life. I’m feeling so peaceful and happy. The relationship between me and my parents has been developing little by little…
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