Join us for a half-day workshop
on Nonviolent Communication!

Saturday, January 6, 2024:

9:00am - 11:30am PT – Transforming Conflicts by Examining our Stories with Jackson Lima

2:00pm - 4:30pm – NVC & Writing with Janey Skinner

Sunday, January 7, 2024:

9:00am - 11:30am PT – What’s grief got to do with social change? with Kristin Masters

2:00pm - 4:30pm – The Gift of Anger and Receiving Intensity with Meganwind Eoyang

All workshops will be held on Zoom here. Details listed in our Group forum and on registration page as well.

January Guest workshops:  https://bit.ly/Oren-IN23
Meeting ID: 
987 9438 1752
Passcode: 
202324


Transforming Conflicts by Examining our Stories

January 6th — 9:00am-11:30am pt
with jackson Lima, online Zoom

As human beings, we long to make sense of the world and often do this by creating stories. In our relationships and interactions, we tend to create meaning beyond what we actually know from observations. Becoming aware of and questioning the stories we tell ourselves—these added meanings—hold a key to resolving conflict. In this workshop, we will investigate the structure of the stories we tell ourselves and how this can influence the way we approach and engage with conflict.

Jackson Lima is an Afro-Brazilian diplomat, who has a master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. He is interested in working with BIPOC communities in Brazil, particularly with NVC mediation in schools and Favelas (shanty towns). He is also interested in bringing NVC to the diplomatic world to impact on the formation of diplomats in his country. He has been studying NVC since 2019, when he attended an IIT in Spain, and another IIT in Brazil (2023). He has a passion for Buddhist mind training approaches as well.


NVC And Writing

january 6th — 2:00pm-4:30pm PT
with Janey Skinner, Online Zoom

This workshop will use free-writing exercises (no experience needed!) to open avenues to self-connection, combined with empathic listening as we share from what we write. This process can be surprisingly moving, grounding, and playful, all at once. Through tapping into intuition, imagination, and expression, participants discover new layers of what's going on with them, and through listening for needs in the writing of others, the skill of connecting to the heart within the story (any story) is strengthened.

Janey Skinner is a community college teacher, writer, and NVC practitioner who was active for many years in international nonviolence and human rights work. Today, she enjoys helping people connect with what is most alive, opening up new vistas for action. Janey has been studying NVC since 1998 and has assisted NVC trainings since 2017. Janey also leads workshops on NVC with a new approach to free-writing in conjunction with NVC for deeper creative connection. In one-on-one coaching, Janey offers empathy, role plays, self-integration exercises, and support on interweaving NVC and social change. She is bilingual in Spanish.


What's Grief Got To Do With Social Change?

January 7th — 9:00am-11:30am PT
with Kristin Masters, Online Zoom

In this session, Kristin will build a bit of framework about the role of grief work in social change/social justice work, based on a kind of Venn diagram of NVC, Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects and the Decolonization Work of Poka La'enui. Don't worry, this is less heady than it sounds! Grief and mourning have important roles in all 3 models, so we will have a chance to notice where our hearts are broken about the collective grief (not just our personal losses) that we hold, and get to experience how that can be both healing AND empowering. 

Kristin Masters is committed to creating a world that works for everyone. She has long been a group facilitator and diversity trainer, and loves helping groups find ways to move toward the goals of their good work more easily. She is currently engaged in learning, teaching and sharing compassionate communication, and is a certified NVC trainer through CNVC. For nearly twenty years, Kristin has been a leader in diversity issues and believes that we can heal the hurts we’ve suffered in our domination society.  She anticipates great joy in the future of applying NVC to social change and healing. She also utilizes Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects – incorporating empowerment, mourning and action.


The Gift of Anger and Receiving Intensity

January 7th — 2:00pm-4:30pm PT
with Meganwind Eoyang, Online Zoom

People often experience strong feelings about anger, whether coming from others or when they have expressed their own. NVC offers helpful perspectives on finding (and KEEPING) the baby after throwing out the bathwater, that is, how to find the real life gems behind the anger and use those gems to connect. We will also work with some ways to handle our own experience when someone else is blasting out their anger so we can stay present and compassionate even in the fire of the moment. We’ll explore how to understand and relate to anger more wisely using the tools and framework of Nonviolent Communication, practice new ways of expressing anger, and develop tools to hear and receive intensity with more skill and balance.

Meganwind Eoyang studied Nonviolent Communication coming from a different world. She grew up street fighting on Chicago’s south side. Her longing for sweet, deep connection with fellow humans arose after finding safety and meaning in nature. She was excited to discover that Nonviolent Communication offers clear steps for practicing the compassion, self love, and love for others Invited by her Chinese, European and North American spiritual traditions. Meganwind was a trainer with Bay Area Nonviolent Communication from 2001-2022, and now offers NVC classes, coaching & couples support through Winds of Change. Watch a 10-minute video interview about empathy with Meganwind here. Here is a 4-minute video interview on empathy with inmates at San Quentin and on couples coaching.