NVC Exploration Gala With The RMCCN Community - Fall 2022

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“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” - Joseph Campbell

If we want more clarity, compassion and empowerment in our relationships the study of how we stumble and fall out of connection is essential. Topics will include how to work with self-criticism, negativity bias, and habitual ways of being that breed separation and loneliness.

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“Donde tropiezas, allí está tu tesoro.” - Joseph Campbell

Si queremos más claridad, compasión y empoderamiento en nuestras relaciones, el estudio de cómo tropezamos y nos desconectamos es esencial. Los temas incluirán cómo trabajar con la autocrítica, el sesgo de la negatividad, y las formas habituales de ser que generan la separación y la soledad.

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Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests (OFNR) is a great formula for learning Nonviolent Communication, but it can be difficult to use with real people in real situations… especially when relationships are at stake. If people can’t feel us because they are distracted by having a “model” used on them, we can lose trust and connection.

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Living in community, as we humans are wired to do, brings joy and fullness and, at times, can also be a triggering experience. Resilience is what fuels connection, safety, and well-being. It is our way of bouncing back after difficult and/or traumatic experiences. It shifts us from hyper-alert reactions (looking for what is wrong, feeling afraid, stressed) - to a calmed and re-connected way of being. Parts 1 and 2 will weave together practices from the grounding work of NVC and Generative Somatics (Staci Haines’ work).

Part 1: This session will focus on building connections to resilience and how we can recognize and identify the impact of a given situation through our own body perceptions and understanding of our brain functions.

These sessions may be taken individually, however, there is benefit in taking both sessions as they build on each other. Part 2 is Sunday at 2:00 MDT.

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Liminal space has different meanings. When thinking of our grief and loss as a liminal space, it becomes a threshold – a transitional or transformational space and time. These past years of the pandemic may have magnified the grief and loss of losing a beloved one, a job, a community group or identity, or facing changes in health and relationships or stages of life that carry their own type of grief such as miscarriage, disillusionment in one’s profession, or aging issues. Likewise, the larger global shifting of fires and other natural disasters, wars, climate disruption, and growing isolation, despair, poverty, and separation.

Nonviolent Communication can help us slow down - to be mindful of what we are longing for in these times of being in liminal space, individually and collectively. In addition, identifying what really matters to us on the levels of physical, emotional, mind and spirit/soul also allows us to expand our understanding of our values/needs during these chaotic and unpredictable times.

One strategy is to turn towards each other and practice the profound experience of being listened to when you have a full grieving heart. Come join with others to identify what moves you deeply in these times of individual and collective grief.

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One description of hope is that if we persevere, our efforts will impact our world and our aspirations will be fulfilled even though we don't clearly see how this will happen.

Impacting our surroundings is fundamental to our survival drive. When we doubt our ability to have impact we go into survival mode. We can feel helplessness, even despair, and do nothing – the freeze reaction. We can feel anxiety and ignore what is happening, taking refuge in distraction and fantasy – the flee reaction. Finally, we can get angry, blaming and finding fault, insisting that things be different than they are – the fight reaction.

There is an ancient saying that wherever you go, there you are. The fact that we are, the I am, is the fundamental consistency that accompanies us throughout our whole life. It is always present, independent of any specific circumstance. It is the one thing we can depend on. It is the gift of life.

When we place our attention on the fact that we are, we resonate with that implacable and innovative life force. We develop trust and find strength and resilience beyond calculation, beyond our intellect's ability to comprehend, and we can accomplish what our minds believe impossible.

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“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney

Do you long to have a better sense of self-connection and respond to life’s events with deeper authenticity?

Who are you? What do you want? How do you want to show up? How we show up in the world is influenced by our history, beliefs, stories, roles and relationships.

At the deeper level of values, we can connect with the authentic expression of what lies at our core. This can provide a grounding or base for how we approach our relationship with ourself and with others.

In this session, we will provide some background, activities and discussion to explore the needs and values that lie at the depth of our being and you will have a take-home reference to keep with you as a reminder to help stay connected with what's important to you.

“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same but you leave them all over everything you do.” – Elvis Presley

Description:

Living in community, as we humans are wired to do, brings joy and fullness and, at times, can also be a triggering experience. Resilience is what fuels connection, safety, and well-being. It is our way of bouncing back after difficult and/or traumatic experiences. It shifts us from hyper-alert reactions (looking for what is wrong, feeling afraid, stressed) - to a calmed and re-connected way of being.
Parts 1 and 2 will weave together practices from the grounding work of NVC and Generative Somatics (Staci Haines’ work).

Part 2 will focus on our own resourcing that supports resilience and how we move from the contracting state that triggering stimulates to finding agency and the inner space of the PAUSE that creates room for awareness and choice in our everyday approach to life. There is benefit in taking both sessions as they build on each other.

These sessions may be taken individually, however, there is benefit in taking both sessions as they build on each other. Part 1 is Saturday at 2:00 MDT.

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It is said that the seen is supported by the unseen. Without the diligent support of Mark, Laura and their exceptional, multi-cultural, and globe-spanning support team this NVC Exploration Gala would be much more difficult and bumpy. We are grateful to Mark and the volunteers he assembled to bring behind-the-scenes ease so that facilitators can focus on facilitation.