Unsure about the workshop? Special Offer

Returning to True Nature: an NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing program
October 2-7, 2012
Ladysmith, Quebec (1 hour from Ottawa, ON or Gatineau, QC)

IF:

• you aren't sure that the combination of Nonviolent Communication and Inner Relationship Focusing is for you
• you're curious to know what makes the combination different from each individual practice
• you want an experience of what you are going to learn in the  workshop (for more information see Returning to True Nature: an NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing program)

then here is an invitation to try it at a special rate. Experience for yourself the powerful combination of the inner relationship, felt-sensing in the body, and needs consciousness.

Shulamit Berlevtov is offering potential participants one guided NVC+Inner Relationship Focusing session at a special rate of $75.

Sessions last 50 minutes. There will be an experiential segment as well as time to ask questions.

For more information,contact Shulamit
a) by e-mail: shulamit (at) shula (dot) ca,
b) by phone 613-868-9642

To book a session, go to www.tungle.me/shulamit.

Toronto workshop: Introduction to Inner Relationship Focusing and Nonviolent Communication

This weekend workshop runs approximately 9am - 5 pm on September 9, 10 and 11, 2011.

This workshop is for you if:

- you’d like to release self-criticism and increase self-love and acceptance

- you’d like to know better what you feel and want

- you’d like to release action blocks

- you’d like to make clear and centered decisions

- you would like to live from fullness rather than from lack

- you want to live your full, present-moment, joyful whole self and potential…

Over the weekend, you will be introduced to the 2 movements of NVC and Inner Relationship Focusing:

1. Moment by moment mindfulness and EMPATHIC PRESENCE to whatever is blocking our path to action, taking away our energy, and stopping us from embodying the ideals we have.

2. Moment to moment self responsibility, and living from wholeness rather than lack.

Nonviolent Communication combined with IR Focusing give us skills to develop true intimacy as the combination helps us:

• develop honesty and empathy inside of ourselves and in our relationships. Really knowing all parts of ourselves, we are able share on more & more authentic levels.

• learn new ways of thinking and speaking that lead towards connection, nourishment, and continual growth in relationship to ourselves and others.

• recognize and value the needs behind all our actions, seeing them as gifts.

• learn to embody the presence, authenticity and self responsibility that lead to lasting healing and self-empowerment.


$425.00/person after July 1, 2011 $375.00/person before July 1, 2011
$150.00 non-refundable deposit

Balance due August 12, 2011
Contact Norman Pasewalk with questions: normanpasewalk@gmail.com

To register, mail a cheque made out to Gina Cenciose to
PO Box 16, Eastman, Quebec J0E1P0, Canada.

Facilitators: Gina Cenciose and Shulamit Berlevtov

GINA CENCIOSE has been living and sharing NVC and other modalities intensively since 2002. She offers mediation and counselling sessions, as well as group programs in Transformation of Consciousness every week. She is currently leading 7 different 1-year NVC integration programs with colleagues, in English and in French. Gina Cenciose has studied transpersonal healing, shamanism, trauma work, and non-dualism with Adyashanti and Eckhart Tolle. She teaches in prisons, hospitals, community organizations, spiritual centers and offers NVC and musical conferences as well. She trains new NVC trainers with the international center for NVC at www.cnvc.org . In many of her year long programs she adds Whole Body Focusing, Inner Relationship Focusing and Inquiry with NVC. www.embodyingempathy.com

SHULAMIT BERLEVTOV As a spirit-body-mind coach, Shulamit supports women in transforming what is painful and difficult into meaning, ease and new life. To do so, she applies the tools of Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, yoga (in its widest sense), mindfulness, reiki and the Tapas Acupressure Technique. She is a certified Focusing guide and teacher, a multiply-certified yoga instructor and therapist, and has passed the assessment for certification as a trainer in Nonviolent Communication. She has been in private practice since 2000, and is currently completing an MA in Counselling and Spirituality. Shulamit's passion is guiding one-on-one Focusing sessions (by phone, Skype or in person) for people who are familiar with NVC because the unfolding that occurs is beautiful and inspiring beyond description.
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What is Empathy and why you may find value in it?

"Empathy can be likened to standing in another person’s shoes, understanding the feelings and values of another person’s perspective at any given moment. It begins with an internal choice to see from a different point of view, to understand another side of a story. Empathy is the state of being fully present to each other's feelings and needs. Empathy is not agreement, but rather a willingness to fully understand how things look from another’s point of view. To create empathic connection, one need not have ever been in the same situation of the person you are listening to - for example, even if one has never had a child does not mean that they would be unable to empathize with a parent.

Empathy is being present to what the other person is experiencing, not being triggered by it or trying to fix it. When we allow the person who is before us to simply be, without our values, judgments or decisions to be placed upon them, we are offering ourselves in what some have called unconditional love. Connecting with open-hearted curiosity accesses our natural ability to respond with compassion and clarity. It's an experience of mutual giving and receiving.

Empathy is the meeting ground where the needs of all are acknowledged and considered, including our own. When we deeply accept another, the other person is far more open to hearing and understanding us. With empathy we all have a greater chance of resolving conflicts peacefully and meeting our universal needs and values.

"I often say we've got a budget deficit that's important, we've got a trade deficit that's critical, but what I worry about most is our empathy deficit."
—U.S. President Barack Obama" http://nvctraining.com/courses/telecourses/IDEA/empathy-20090816/empathy.html

For opportunities to learn more about the value of empathy and strengthen your empathy skills, contact Shulamit 613-868-9642 or shulamit@shula.ca Individual sessions are available for $75 each or a block of three for $200. Group workshops are also available. Please contact Shulamit for details.

You can also register for a series of FREE empathy teleconference classes at the NVC Academy, an NVC teaching organization I recommend very highly. For more information, see http://nvctraining.com/courses/telecourses/IDEA/empathy-20090816/empathy.html

10 Things We Can Do to Contribute to Internal, Interpersonal, and Organizational Peace

(1) Spend some time each day quietly reflecting on how we would like to relate to ourselves and others.

(2) Remember that all human beings have the same needs.

(3) Check our intention to see if we are as interested in others getting their needs met as our own.

(4) When asking someone to do something, check first to see if we are making a request or a demand.

(5) Instead of saying what we DON'T want someone to do, say what we DO want the person to do.

(6) Instead of saying what we want someone to BE, say what action we'd like the person to take that we hope will help the person be that way.

(7) Before agreeing or disagreeing with anyone's opinions, try to tune in to what the person is feeling and needing.

(8) Instead of saying "No," say what need of ours prevents us from saying "Yes."

(9) If we are feeling upset, think about what need of ours is not being met, and what we could do to meet it, instead of thinking about what's wrong with others or ourselves.

(10) Instead of praising someone who did something we like, express our gratitude by telling the person what need of ours that action met.

The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC.org) would like there to be a critical mass of people using Nonviolent Communication language so all people will get their needs met and resolve their conflicts peacefully. 2001, revised 2004 Gary Baran & CNVC. The right to freely duplicate this document is hereby granted.


Shulamit Day Berlevtov offers training and coaching in Nonviolent Communication. Individual sessions are available at the rate of $75 each. You can save $25 when you buy a 3-session package for $200. For information on group workshops, please contact Shulamit. For more on Nonviolent Communication, see www.shula.ca.