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9-day residential retreat in Nonviolent Communication
Join us for this residential retreat in Şirince, Turkey (06 – 15 October, 2023) that will help you bring nonviolence and peace into all areas of your life.
Building Bridges Across the Divided
In this IIT we come together to explore what can bring us to the table even if we are about to lose hope. We want to investigate together how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can support people out of the polarization trap (separation) into mutual understanding, connection and finding ways of collaboration to create new possibilities.
Watch this video to meet the team that is hosting this training (English with Turkish subtitles):
When it comes to different viewpoints and/or intense emotions in a group, we tend to split off through arguments. The purpose of a dialogue is to open a space to listen and to be heard. When we sit in a dialogue circle, it is possible to understand the intense feelings and thoughts through expressing and hearing them. Our perspective stretched out by connecting to the heart’s longings behind the arguments of each other. These conversations reveal mutual understanding that occurs change. So could we enter a space of cooperation.
In this event, you can discover skills that will help you improve the quality of your relationships, deepen your inner peace, and increase your contribution to the world.
This 9-day immersion experience into Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will offer learning sessions, home groups, coaching and feedback from skilled trainers, and a community environment where you can learn and practice the key skills of NVC.
Our team of Certified Trainers will share both the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique applications. We expect a group of approximately 50 to 60 people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.
People around the world are using Nonviolent Communication skills to transform conflict, create resiliency in their relationships, and build a world where everyone’s needs matter and are met collaboratively.
We will create a dynamic learning laboratory that will show you how to create a more compassionate and peaceful culture in your life at home, at work, and in your community by learning how to:
- Speak from the heart
- Practice deep, non-judgmental listening
- Build self-empowerment from the inside out
Basic Details |
Format: In-person, 9-day residential retreat
Languages: English, Turkish
Begins: Friday, 06-October-2023 (5:00 pm)
Ends: Sunday, 15-October-2023 (1:00 pm)
Location: STOA (Center of Body Arts and Studies) (Şirince, Turkey)
Sponsor: Center for Nonviolent Communication
Organizers: Özgen Saatçilar and Begüm Keçici
Steps to Register:
- Fill out the pre-registration form.
- Make your payment (or request financial assistance). Instructions will be provided after you submit the pre-registration form.
- The Organizers in Turkey will send you instructions on how to book your Room and Board.
- Note: 5 weeks prior to the start of the training, we will send you a form asking you about your dietary preferences, special needs, or other things that will make your experience as successful and meaningful as possible. (Note: We will send you this form).
Goals of this Training |
The purpose of this training is to give you the opportunity to live the process of Nonviolent Communication in community over an extended period of time, in order to develop the mindsets and practical tools to help you in three areas:
1. Personal and Professional Relationships
- Increase connection and closeness with the people you love.
- Speak in a way that inspires compassion and understanding.
- Initiate difficult conversations with more ease and confidence.
- Remain centered and peaceful when receiving difficult messages.
- Express and receive anger fully, safely and respectfully… yet powerfully.
- Resolve long-standing conflicts and heal painful relationships.
- Parent children from the heart and move beyond power struggles into cooperation.
- Translate criticism, judgments and blame into life-serving messages.
2. Inner Transformation
- Shift patterns of thinking that lead to depression, guilt and shame and that perpetuate pain.
- Transform anger into self-understanding, thereby increasing inner peace.
- Enliven yourself by expressing and receiving gratitude.
- Learn to embody unconditional love.
3. Contribution to others and Social Change
When it comes to different viewpoints and/or intense emotions in a group, we tend to split off through arguments. When we come together in a dialogue circle, with the purpose of living the process of Nonviolent Communication in community we can understand the intense feelings and thoughts through expressing and listening to them. These conversations reveal mutual understanding. Our perspective stretched out by connecting to the heart’s longings behind the arguments of each other. That occurs change. So could we enter a space of cooperation.
In order to develop the mindsets and practical tools to help you to create social change we will practice to…
- Share NVC in ways that transmit and model its power to transform and inspire others.
- Create educational systems where students love learning and teachers love teaching.
- Learn to engage in effective, lasting nonviolent social change in the tradition of Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Facilitate meetings and support group decision making in a power-sharing, collaborative, and consensus-based ways.
- Support holistic and human-based workplaces
- Engage with others at work and in the community to foster openness, trust and authenticity.
- Foster restoration and harmony by mediating conflicts and helping to resolve differences among others.
While we will prioritize these three areas in the curriculum, there is also room for co-creation. There will be opportunities for you to request specific topics and applications to support you in living and sharing NVC at work, home, and in the community as well as internally in how you relate to yourself.
