Imagination
is more
important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination
embraces the whole world.
—
Albert Einstein
‘Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you
come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is
people who have
come alive.’
Harold Whitman (Historian)
Public
Courses with Nonviolent Communication™
Fluency
Training in Nonviolent Communication™ September 2009: 3 days Friday morning 25th
to Sunday afternoon 27th With
Elizabeth English (Locana) and Annie Rankin (Vajrasara)
This three-day course is an opportunity to focus on fluency skills, and ways of dwelling naturally and authentically in a compassionate consciousness. It is an in-depth, intermediate training, suitable for people who have done at least 12 days’ formal NVC training, and who want to enrich an existing practice. It will be non-residential and held in West London.
For details, bookings and enquiries, please contact Annie Rankin (Vajrasara): vajrasara[at]fwbo.org
Living and Working with Nonviolent Communication™
(and Focusing) February – June 2010 With Elizabeth English (Locana) and Annie Rankin (Vajrasara)
About the Course
This course is for people who would like to work with Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) as a spiritual influence and practice in their lives. It provides an opportunity to enrich our lives through NVC and to integrate this with deeply-held hopes, values and ideals. There is also be the chance to explore how we share NVC with others, informally in our personal lives and/or as part of our work and livelihood. Peer support groups and mentoring between modules create an enjoyable and beneficial sense of community as the course progresses. While the main emphasis is on NVC, we also include an introduction to Focusing, a practice which both complements NVC and enriches the inner dimensions of our practice. There will also be meditation each day and time to absorb the material. The course takes place over three long weekends at a Buddhist College in Birmingham, and a week’s retreat at a Dhanakosa retreat centre in the Scottish Highlands. Participants will be asked for at least four days formal NVC training in order to attend the course, and some experience of meditation.
“Is this course for me?”
“Yes …” if you want to do all or some of the following:
Deepen your practice and understanding of NVC
Enrich your meditation
and dharma practice through NVC
Increase heart connection with yourself and those around you
Positively affect the world in the way you choose
Learn skills that bring yourself and others more alive
Develop your needs consciousness
Increase harmony through reconciliation and mediation
Explore whether you want to share NVC with others in your life
Gain experience of teaching and coaching people using NVC
Learn and practise Focusing
Course Details The course runs from January to June 2010.
At Dharmapala College, Birmingham, and Dhanakosa Retreat Centre, Scotland.
