Capacity Building - Meditation and NVC

Portland

For many of us who are learning to communicate compassionately we continue to “miss the mark” long after we understand the basic framework of OFNR (Observation, Feeling, Need and Request). When we experience strong emotions there is a tendency to become disconnected from our new intentions, slip into old patterns, leading to unmet needs for ourselves and others. So how to we experience a shift in the capacity to use OFNR and transform our experience of life and relationship connections?

Mindfulness in many forms is the evidenced based approach to improve the capacity to shift towards using our new skills, improve our emotional intelligence (EQ) and contribute more to others while experiencing greater ease and harmony ourselves.

In this workshop you will get to directly build our skill capacity!

We will:

  • Practice a variety of meditation techniques that have proven effective for building capacity.
  • Learn to detect the nuanced internal sensations that we represent as “feelings” within NVC.
  • Experience a few “tough emotions” in a safe and controlled space.
  • Take a step towards bridging our spiritual, personal and professional lives.

Facilitator: Isaac Hart

Training by: 
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Sandra
Amiry
CNVC Certified Trainer

Individual and Couples Coaching, Mediation and Training

I started my practicing and sharing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in 2003 as part of my passion for building stronger relationships, (focusing on, though not limited to, Couples and Parenting,) while developing more integrated and sustainable communities. I completed my NVC Trainer Certification with CNVC in 2016.

I've been gifted by the experience of bringing NVC into the Oregon State Penitentiary, Columbia River Correctional Institution, the Reentry Transition Center in Portland, and at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (for Women). I currently offer Individual and Couples Coaching, mediation and various trainings to my greater Portland community and globally via zoom. Having been a Rose City NVC Teacher Training Program (TTP) participant myself, I'm now excited to offer this same opportunity (as sole proprietor of Rose City NVC), to other teachers in training.

My personal NVC journey includes many other forms of emotional/spiritual growth work with an emphasis on meditative and body awareness practices. I integrate practices which allow me other avenues to strengthen the essence of our NVC work. While I believe words and the form on NVC can help my participants get into a place of greater compassion and understanding, I also believe that holding a space of compassion and understanding in myself creates ease in adopting the new words (silently and out loud) for my participants. My spiritual outlook related to NVC is to align my daily will in progress towards awareness, acceptance, action and sharing the gifts I've received from this work. My vision for an NVC world is one in which most adults will hold this type of unconditional and loving space most of the time, supporting each other in the hard times, and in continued healing and growth, so we can be fully engaged to more of each moment on this earth.

7 years 2 months
Sliding Scale: $50 - $120
3534 SE Main St

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