US East Coast NVC Mediation 5-Day Residential Retreat & Immersion Program with Ike Lasater & John Kinyon

[Shivani Gail Carroll]

US East Coast NVC Mediation 5-Day Residential Retreat &

Immersion Training Program

with Ike Lasater & John Kinyon

 East Coast 5-Day Retreat: January 14-19, 2010

First retreat  open to those who wish to sign up for one retreat only and may or may not choose to continue on for the year long program. The second and third retreats will only be for those enrolled in the one year program.

 

East Coast Year Long Program: January – October, 2010

Retreats held on January 14-19, April 7-12, and July 8-13, 2010

Location of retreats to be determined in the New York or Boston area.

Do you want to learn how to:

~      Facilitate people in conflict feeling heard by each other and connected to their shared humanity?

~      Empathically connect to others’ experience in challenging conflict situations? 

~      Translate judgments into need language with greater ease and naturalness?

~      Return to presence and connection in the midst of the intensity of conflict?

~      Make and support clear requests and collaborative solutions?

 

Would you like to develop your abilities in various conflict contexts?

~      Effectively mediate as a “third side” professionally or in your work?

~      Lend your skills informally to support people in conflict?

~      Peacefully resolve conflicts you are having with others?

~      Transform warring voices in your own head?

~      Apply mediation skills to conflict coaching and groups?

 

About the program

Central to our program is the conviction that increasing your capacity to be with conflict and intervene effectively involves learnable skills; and that when applied holistically a person can remain connected to their own needs and productively assist in the resolution of conflict both internally and externally, formally or informally. Also central to the program is that we (Ike and John) use the NVC mediation skills to facilitate group decision making and learning in a way that creates safety, connection and enjoyment of the learning process. Our goal by the end of the year long program is that you will experience confidence and effectiveness with these skills in all aspects of conflict and in all aspects of your life. 

 

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The program provides an intensive, in-depth experience with the language, skills and consciousness of NVC applied to mediating conflict in all types of situations -- from legal to business/ organizational to personal and family relationships. The training is based in the mediation process developed by NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg and is centered in a “three chair model”.  Emphasis is placed on seeing one’s relationship with conflict as a life practice of returning to presence (i.e. mindful awareness) and mediating from connection with the needs of self and others and making clear, “doable” requests moment to moment. Daily and weekly practices for self-connection, learning and skill building between retreats will be offered and encouraged throughout the program to integrate and extend the learning.  

 

The training offers a five-step model, nine mediation skills, a pre-post mediation framework, four mediation contexts (internal, self-other, informal and formal), mediator self-care and a learning/growth cycle, and applications to conflict such as the engagement call, conflict coaching, mediating with groups, “accreted” mediation and reconciliation with deeper interpersonal pain. The NVC mediation process is also used to transcend inner conflicts and outer challenges regarding professional development issues such as sustainability, livelihood and relationship with money.

 

The Year Long Program includes:

• three 5-day intensive residential retreats over a 7 month period
• monthly joint teleconference sessions over a 10 month period (includes 3 months after the 3^rd retreat to support extension and integration of the training into life goals and next steps in personal action plan
• weekly telephone dyad and triad practice with fellow participants
• individual self-connection and skill-building practices
• support from assistant trainers and during and in-between retreats
• guest presenters on monthly conference calls

“John and Ike's mediation training has offered me the steepest learning curve I have found for incorporating NVC into my life.” – class participant

 

“Since the workshop I have gone on to do several successful mediations with clients in my private practice as well as friends and family. If only I would have learned these skills 15 years ago! John & Ike's mastery of the material, depth of experience and integrity in living the process are exceptional. I highly recommend this training!” – class participant

 

Cost and registration:

§       Location: To be determined in the Northeast

§       Costs: Retreats cost are approximately $300 -600 per retreat, depending on retreat center and type of accommodation

§       In addition there is a request for Tuition/Financial Support for Facilitators and Organizers of $900 for the January retreat or $3825  for the year long program.

§       Prior NVC experience requested: A foundations of NVC class/workshop.

§       For more Information on the January retreat or the East Coast Year long Program: Email shivani...@gmail.com  617 393 3773  or  Lorili Henry suvan...@optonline.net

John and Ike

John’s background is in psychology, psychotherapy and research and Ike’s is as a trial lawyer for 20 years. Ike and John have each been training with NVC for over 10 years and have been developing and evolving their mediation approach for the past 7 years, beginning with a journey together to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to work with Afghan tribal elders in early 2002, shortly after the bombings following 9/11. From this experience they saw first hand that despite at least eight languages being used and layers of cobbled-together, ad hoc translation, connection to universal human needs and the NVC mediation approach worked even with a real dispute that came alive in the room during the training.  Their mediation training now includes telecourses, workshops, residential retreats and year-long training programs in the U.S. and a growing number of countries around the world including Sweden, Holland, Poland, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand.

 

Visit their websites: www.johnkinyon.com and www.wordsthatwork.us.