Announcing Our Speaking Peace Class Series
Learning the skills and consciousness necessary to establish and maintain peaceful, flowing, and satisfying relationships with both ourselves and others requires changing the habits of a life-time, especially if you were born and raised in western technological culture. And because or natural language is the cooperative and partnership language essential to our well-being, once we encounter a more satisfying possibility we want to realize our hope as soon as possible.
NVC provides both a consciousness and set of skills that together serve to create a bridge to a new, satisfying and cooperative way of living; our Speaking Peace Class Series is designed to cover the foundational understandings and experiences necessary for confident use of NVC.
Our Speaking Peace Class Series is comprised of three, eight-classes, each section of the series addresses a separate part of your developing integrated ability.
Foundations
If you are new to NVC and want to understand what occurs that keeps us longing for connection and despairing for being able to create the connections we long for our Foundations course is for you. In our Foundations class you will learn to:
- Indentify when you are believing that you will not get your needs met, and that you may not even be able to be heard for what is important for you.
- To transform your defensive beliefs into an experienced felt sense and understanding of yourself and others leading to peace and calm.
- Engage others in a way that creates peace.
As a result of your Foundations class you will be able to notice what is keeping you from experiencing peaceful, cooperative relationships, and will also provide some solid, doable skills to transform your experience.
This training will be facilitated by Xander Macswan.
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.