Part 1 intro: Friday 20 Sept, 5.30 – 8.30pm
Part 2: Saturday 21 Sept, 1 – 6pm
Part 3: Sunday 22 Sept, 9am – 2pm
Each part is a pre-requisite for the next
Contribution: sliding scale – from $180 to $300 ( intro only – $50 )
What is Nonviolent Communication?
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, is a way of relating to ourselves and others, moment to moment, free of past reactions. By learning to identify your needs and express them powerfully, as well as understanding and being present to the needs of others, you can stay connected to your authentic truth and create a life that it is more fulfilling.
The skills of Nonviolent Communication:
- help us to stay connected to the heart of any dialogue
- assist us in dealing with major blocks to communication such as demands, diagnosis and blaming
- minimize the likelihood of facing defensive reactions in others
- empower us to receive critical and hostile messages without taking them personally, giving in, or losing self-esteem
- open the gateway to resolving differences with clarity and compassion
- bring consciousness to the interdependence of our well being
- use power ‘with’ others to work together to consider and contribute to the needs of all concerned
Read more about NVC from Heart Talk Matters
About Kate Raffin, the facilitator
Kate is a passionate communicator and has a deep commitment to social justice and her work is based in the learnable skills and tools of Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Circles. She plays a leading role in supporting communities in a spirit of inclusion and respect, putting re-connection to what truly matters and why we are here at the forefront.
Kate Raffin is a skilled Facilitator, Mediator and Mentor specialising in Team and Community Upskilling and Cohesion. Her work addresses ‘harvesting’ from and responding to the riches and common challenges we face as people working and/or living together.
As a Certified Trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication and a Mediator Accredited under the National Australian Mediator Accreditation System, Kate is informed by her experience of living, working and playing in Community. She is also a Team Animator with Play in the Wild!Initiations into Nonviolence for young people, educators and families.
Kate is passionate about the development and maintenance of the essential/critical structures + practises that ensure health + wellbeing of communities, families, couples and groups. These include developing Conflict Response Systems, Decision Making Processes, Feedback Systems, Vision, Values, Goals Identity, Governance, Individual and Group Wellbeing.
The results are often astounding and beyond what we thought possible.
From Kate’s website Heart Talk Matters
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Questions? Contact: Michelle Towle – 03 6435 4559 [email protected] or Kate Raffin – 0488 550 979 [email protected]
