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August 2018
How Not To Take Things Personally
Description Do you sometimes have a tendency to blame yourself when things go awry? Is it often hard for you to hear “constructive criticism”? Are guilt and shame feelings that come naturally to you? Many of us respond this way. Unfortunately, these types of responses…
Find out more »Mindful Communication: Exploring Wise Speech
Learn to hold your own while still hearing others Integrate your spiritual practice into your relationships Develop more clarity and resilience Daylong Workshop Cost: By donation Registration: No pre-registration required Location: Nevada City Insight Center, 710 Zion StreetNevada City, CA, 95959 About the Daylong The path…
Find out more »Mindful Communication: Skills for Collaboration
Cost: Sliding Scale ($20-$60) + Donation to teacher Registration: Register here Location: Sacramento Dharma Center 3111 Wissemann Drive, Sacramento, CA, 95826 About the Daylong Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. In this daylong program, we will explore the foundations of an integrated…
Find out more »Mobilizing for Nonviolent Global Liberation – Santa Cruz, CA
A Retreat to Co-create Personal and Collective Capacity Offered by Miki Kashtan and other trainers and apprentices Description Is the power of nonviolence – courage, truth, and love – deeply calling to your spirit? Are you longing for deeper alignment with your values? Are you…
Find out more »Introductory Evening (Tuesday)
Cost: $50.00 Introductory Evenings are lively explorations of the basic principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a language and consciousness of compassion that can dramatically improve all of our relationships, from personal to professional. Live modeling demonstrates how the NVC process can be used in a…
Find out more »September 2018
Questioning Money Call
Description For years and years, I’ve been fascinated by economics, and never able to make sense of it even though I was always good with numbers and studied theoretical mathematics for some years. It was decades before I understood why: economics is premised on the…
Find out more »Facing Privilege Call
Description The Facing Privilege Conference Calls are an opportunity for people to engage with themselves and with others on the deep questions that arise as we reflect on the question of privilege, such as: How can we learn about our privilege when we are so…
Find out more »The Fearless Heart Teleseminar
Description Join author and trainer Miki Kashtan in a free drop-in call to talk about recent posts on her blog, The Fearless Heart. Miki is co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication and Lead Collaboration Consultant at the Center for Efficient Collaboration. Her writing and teaching search out ways to apply core…
Find out more »Empowered Communication, 5-weeks (Tuesdays)
Sliding scale: $600.00 regular tuition; $400 scholarship rate 5 Tuesdays, September 4th through October 2nd, 2018. “Never again will you believe that a person is too hard to work with, a decision too complicated to make, or a conversation too difficult to have.” …
Find out more »Effective Conversations: Intro to Mindful Communication
Join Certified Trainer Oren Jay Sofer for this live, on-line event with World Wide Insight. Oren’s new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, synthesizes his nearly two decades of work exploring the intersection between mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and trauma healing. In this…
Find out more »Overcoming Patriarchy Call
Why Focus on Patriarchy? The focus on patriarchy emerges from the understanding that patriarchy plays a foundational role in everything. Yes, I mean it: everything. find out more here Who Are These Calls for? These calls are for all people of any gender, since gender…
Find out more »Next Step, 5-wks (Mondays)
DATES: 5 Mondays, September 10th through October 9th, 2018 Powerful. Powerful. Powerful. Some of the most useful tools, concepts and skills that I can immediately apply to my work and life. …
Find out more »Principle-Based-Teaching Coaching Call
Description Principle-Based-Teaching Coaching Calls are designed for people who have been integrating NVC for a while, who are now sharing NVC with others in various forms, and would like to engage with others and with Miki in deepening our collective capacity to bring NVC to…
Find out more »Facing Privilege Call
Description The Facing Privilege Conference Calls are an opportunity for people to engage with themselves and with others on the deep questions that arise as we reflect on the question of privilege, such as: How can we learn about our privilege when we are so…
Find out more »8-Week NVC Practice Group
Assisted by Michelle Nguyen Description REGISTER for 8-Week Practice Group Most of our lives, we have been taught to judge, blame, shame and guilt-trip ourselves and others – to do things out of obligation and duty, rather than willingness and joy. Would you choose to stay…
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