Nonviolent Communication: Facilitating NVC Groups With Joy and Confidence

Mary Mackenzie

About Mary Mackenzie

Mary Mackenzie is a certified CNVC trainer, the executive director of the Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication and co-founder of the NVC Academy. She holds a master’s degree in Human Relations and is a trained mediator and member of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association.

Mary is the author of "Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion".

Mary’s first career was as a fundraiser in higher education, where her listening skills helped people realize their dreams and helped her raise millions of dollars for the universities where she worked. She ended this fifteen-year career to begin work with the newly-formed Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication.

Mary’s guiding vision is to help people fully connect to themselves and their world so that they may experience more joy. Toward this end, she teaches Nonviolent Communication to children, adults, families, couples, and adolescents, and she works with organizations by offering individual or group workshops and facilitating organization-wide restructuring.

Facilitating NVC Groups With Joy and Confidence
A Telephone Course (Telecourse) with Mary Mackenzie, CNVC Certified Trainer, Author & Mediator from Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

12 Monthly Sessions from March 2010 - February 2011: Second Thursday of each Month from 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST/PDT (11:00 PM GMT/10:00 PM GMT)

Fee: $300.00 USD

sedona Sharing NVC with others is one of the most powerful methods for deepening NVC consciousness. The very process of helping someone else understand one of the concepts allows us to integrate our own understanding and heightens our awareness of how we are (or are not) living the concept ourselves. In addition, facilitating NVC courses is a steady reminder of the NVC consciousness we want to live. In a sense, by "giving it away" we get to keep it for ourselves.

However, sharing NVC has its own set of challenges and joys and calls on different skills. This year long program is specifically designed to help people develop their skills in teaching NVC, to clarify and accentuate their individual style, and to love the process. Your own ability to live in NVC consciousness will deepen as a result.

This program will support people with an intermediate understanding of NVC who want to improve their skills, ease and joy in facilitating NVC courses. It is especially intended for people who are currently facilitating NVC groups and who long for community, support and collaboration.

Monthly Topics:

March – Setting our intention and clarifying the facilitator’s role
April – Creating safety and ease in your group and improving your tracking skills
May – Creating a workshop outline
June – Developing teaching activities
July – Balancing all the needs – yours, individuals and group
August – Transparency – when and how to decide to be transparent
September – Responding to nonbelievers and hecklers
October – Dealing with our own triggers and people in our courses we don’t like
November – Choosing when to interrupt and when to fine tune a participant’s NVC skills
December – Charging for your work and how to decide whether to give discounts
January, 2011 – Keeping your workshop alive
February, 2011 – Open topic to address what’s alive in the group

Specific program components:

One monthly, 2-hour telecourse session with Mary Mackenzie as facilitator
Discussion forum to continue learning and connection between sessions
Online classroom – to post handouts, activities, course recordings, etc.

12 Monthly Sessions from February 2010 - January 2011: Second Thursday of each Month from 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST/PDT (11:00 PM GMT/10:00 PM GMT)

Thursday, March 11, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST (11:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, April 8, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, May 13, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone
Thursday, June 10, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, July 8, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, August 12, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, September 9, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, October 14, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, November 11, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST (11:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, December 9, 2010 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST (11:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, January 13, 2011 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST (11:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?
Thursday, February 10, 2011 • 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST (11:00 PM GMT)—My Time Zone?

Fee: $300.00 USD

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