9-day in-person retreat in Nonviolent Communication, the Language of Life
View a welcome video from the organizing trainer, Dmitriy Kopina:
Join us for this residential retreat in Slovenia that will help you bring nonviolence and peace into all areas of your life. 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.
Nonviolent Communication is an immersive experience that will allow you to join workshops, and be with home groups where you will be able to hone your skills and practice the principles of Nonviolent communication over 9 days.
The training welcomes an international group of about 50-60 people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life who are willing to co-create a safe space where we will explore vulnerability, gain communication skills, deepen our consciousness, and foster change, personal and community-oriented, over an extended period of time.
Please feel welcome to join us whether you are a parent, teacher, activist, leader, businessman, social worker or a curious explorer of life…
The retreat will be held by a group of 2 skilled organisers and 5 internationally established Certified Trainers with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. You can also check out a website for this event created by the organizers.
Basic Details |
Format: In-person, 9-day residential retreat
Language: English
Begins: Friday, 22 April 2022 (17.00)
Ends: Sunday, 01 May 2022 (12.00)
Location: Best Western Kranjska Gora in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia
Sponsor: Center for Nonviolent Communication
Organizer: Dmitriy Kopina, Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication
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
- 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.
The Training Team |
Each member of the team is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
Trainer: Liv Larsson (Sweden)
Liv Larsson is the author of 20 books including A Helping Hand: Mediation with Nonviolent Communication; Human Communication at Work: How to use the principles of Nonviolent Communication in a professional setting; and Anger, Guilt, and Shame: Reclaiming Power and Choice.
Liv is a mediator and loves to be of support to people in conflict. She has been a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication since 2002 and an educator since 1992.
Shame has become one of the mysteries of inner human life that Liv appreciates studying and sharing her knowledge about. Embracing shame means opening up possibilities to learning about human interaction and showing how to find dignity, acceptance, and belonging.
Trainer: Mitch Miyagawa (Canada)
I create and facilitate multi-day retreats, workshops, summer camps, and artistic events that incorporate NVC into life-changing experiences. I’ve led retreats at the 2017 New York NVC Intensive, the 2018 Texas IIT, and at the Haven, a world-renowned transformative learning center. I’ve worked in educational and business settings as a consultant and trainer.
Some of the themes in my transformative offerings/ projects are:
- embodiment/ movement – let’s dance!
- nature connection – get back to the land
- art – creative paths to the soul
- pleasure – what we can learn from desire and play
I’m also a community arts practitioner and events designer/ producer/ host, through my business, Maji Events. Currently, Maji Events focuses on workshops and festivals. My goal is social change through live events, and I’m currently exploring:
- Small-scale hybrid events, formats, and technologies that are adaptable to challenging physical restrictions
- More collaborative, equitable, and land- and season-based models and approaches for production and organization.
- An artistic process that incorporates a relationship with the land, history, and my Shinto cultural heritage.
- An artistic identity – Maji Events – that serves as an organizational container.
- Creating highly collaborative artistic partnerships with other community artists
- Working intergenerationally – seeking wisdom from older people, serving and listening to younger people
In the past, I’ve been an award-winning writer and filmmaker. My most ambitious project was a 47-minute documentary called A Sorry State, a personal journey through state-sanctioned historical racism in my family’s past, and the three apologies my family received. I won the Writers Guild of Canada award for Best Documentary for this film. Learn more about Mitch.
Organizing Trainer: Dmitriy Kopina, Ph.D. (Slovenia)
Being human at first, finding a precious gift of Life in me and any other living being, thru connection and empathy, is the main aim of Life in me. Deeply connected with mother Nature I’m in my quest toward exploration, joy, growth, care, love, and admire the beauty of needs and feelings Life brings to us.
My mission and my goals involve activities that are supporting individuals finding their authenticity, the fullness of life and awareness; connecting people, building “power with” communities based on equality of all needs, and using forms of communication and full embodiment to support connecting individuals and groups into their essence, conciseness and spirituality.
Working as a trainer, expert, adviser, manager, father, and teacher for over 30 years I gathered a broad variety of experiences and I’m very keen on sharing them with other individuals, couples, in business environments and especially enjoying reinventing teams, organizations, and communities.
Trainer: Frank Gaschler, Assessor (Germany)
I am a CNVC certified trainer and assessor in the certification process of the CNVC. My current passion revolves around the 4 life themes: Be welcome the way I am, have space that I can defend or open, be held in trust, and be alive to live my life.
My passion is to experiment with NVC outside the box, far away from the boundaries of words and language. Therefore I like to concentrate on intuition, empathic presence, and body language.
My social change project “Giraffe Dream” aims at introducing and spreading NVC in kindergartens and primary schools. This program has become the biggest social change project in this field. I live with Gundi, my wife, near Munich, Germany.
Trainer: Anniken Poulsson Beer (Norway)
Anniken was the first certified CNVC trainer in Norway. Her background is as a preschool and drama teacher and she has worked in education since the mid-1980s with leadership and coaching experience for more than 20 years.
Anniken is passionate about bringing out empathic communication, connection, and understanding in all kinds of relationships. She works as a principal in a kindergarten school and since March 2020, has has been the executive director of NVC Norway.
Anniken speaks Danish, English, Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish and teaches Nonviolent Communication all over the world.
Cost |
The cost of this training includes two components: 1) Tuition; and 2) Room and Board.
1. Tuition (USD): convert to your currency
- $1,989 Early Bird (make your payment by 31-Jan-2022)
- $2,340 Standard (beginning 1-Feb-2022)
Discounts:
- 15% discount for Certification Candidates and repeat participants of an IIT or VIT (only one 15% is available)
- There is a special discount available if you are a resident of Slovenia or another country with a lower economic standard(for example Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Hungary, Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria). Please email the organizers to get more information on this extra discount. (We usually respond to your e-mail within 5 working days at the latest.)
- Early Bird discount + one other discount is possible
Financial support:
If you would really like to attend this IIT, but the price is an obstacle you can not overcome, please write to us. We can offer some financial support. We will open applications for Financial Support Requests for this IIT on 22-January-2022.
You will pay tuition to the Center for Nonviolent Communication starting 22-January-2022 (once we have confirmed the training regarding any Covid concerns).
2. Room and Board (EURO): convert to your currency
- €931 Single Room (private room)
- €749 Double Room (you will have one roommate)
- €517 Commute daily or camping
Notes:
The price of accommodation also includes two times (on arrival and day 4) rapid antigen Covid testing in the hotel, on-site.
Prices include your room and all meals throughout the retreat. For all options, the tourist tax is not included in the price. Tourist tax is payable on-site in the venue. TT price for an adult person in the year 2021 is 3€ per day.
In all packages, the tourist tax is NOT included in the price. Tourist tax is payable on-site in the venue. TT price for an adult person in the year 2021 is 3€ per day.
Rooms and types of rooms are limited and are available on a first-come, first-serve basis; we encourage you to book your housing as soon as you complete registration and payment for the IIT.
If you choose a double room, you can choose your own roommate (either someone you already know or via an IIT roommate connection page you be invited to once you register), or the hotel can assign roommate(s) for you.
Camping or Commute Daily: Prices including two meals per day, lunch and dinner; (breakfast is not included), and two coffee breaks during the day including coffee and tea. There is a nice and affordable camping place close by (approx. 5 km). Prices of the staying and other services are not included in the accommodation fee. Exact prices for the season 2022 will be known at the end of 2021 and they will probably start at 15-20 € per person/night (breakfast not included). Camping site link: www.camp-spik.si
You will pay Room and Board to the Lucan Spa Hotel starting 23-January-2022 (after you have paid your tuition and received instructions from us; please wait for our instructions before booking at the hotel).
Location |
Venue: Best Western Hotel, Kranjska Gora
Address: Vrsiska 38, 4280 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia
Learn more about the village Kranjska Gora
This magical retreat will be held in an alpine village of Kranjska Gora at an altitude of 810 metres. The village is a world-renowned ski resort and a very popular destination for active holiday-seekers during all seasons. With its stunning overviews of Slovenian Alps and in the green luxury of lakes, springs and streams it is a perfect place to centre your mind, spirit and practice of NVC.
The hotel holds the name of this lovely village which offers the types of amenities guests seek; for example, grocery store, pharmacy, some restaurants and local stores. The hotel itself offers cosy rooms and three meals every day (vegetarian and vegan option). There is also a swimming pool, sauna and tennis court.
However, we recommend that you spend any spare time in the amazing walks just around the corner of the hotel (we will provide specific recommendations on the spot). The temperature in alps valleys in April or May may vary from chilly 5-10 °C to warm 18-20 °C (lower at night).
All rooms are 4-star hotel quality and have a private bathroom. Prices including three meals per day, and two coffee breaks during the day including fresh mountain water, coffee, and tea. Free WiFi internet, free car parking near the hotel, and free use of the swimming pool is also included. Guests can use a sauna park at a 75% discount.
Camping site
There is a nice and affordable camping place nearby called Camp Spik (distance approx 5 km). Prices for staying on the campsite and any other services are not included in the accommodation fee. If you might need help with making a reservation or payment, please email us.
In the package for a Camping site, we have included two meals per day (lunch and dinner), and two coffee brakes during the day including coffee and tea. If you would like to join us for breakfast too, please let us know beforehand (payable extra).
Commute daily
We strongly invite you to stay with us for the whole time, as evenings and mornings can be a place and time for some extra activities, offered content, music, light talks, peaceful walk or cosy rest. However, if you might live nearby and would support you more to drive daily to the venue, we can support that.
In the package for the Commute daily, we have included two meals per day (lunch and dinner), and two coffee breaks during the day including coffee and tea. If you would like to join us for breakfast too, please let us know beforehand (payable extra).
Registration
Please visit https://www.cnvc.org/2022-Ireland-IIT for more information and to register.
