Community Announcement
Non-Violent Communication (NVC) workshops in French and English in Comox.
Are you yearning to enrich your relationships? Longing to transform power struggles and conflict into cooperation and connection? The Comox Valley La Leche League is putting on several workshops that will help you do just that.
There will be one short French presentation: an intro to NVC on Friday night. Saturday and Sunday are in English. On Saturday the workshop is an intro or refresher to NVC and Sunday is specifically for issues relating to parenting. They are based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg’s Non-violent Communication.
“NVC provides us with the most effective tools to foster Health and Relationships”
- Deepak Chopra
The workshops are presented by François Beausoleil from Quebec. La Leche League Leader Dominique McGrady attended his workshops in Washington over the summer and was able to invite him here on his way to teach in California. François is passionate about contributing to the well-being of himself and others through teaching communication skills and promoting a respectful way of living interdependence. After a career as a professional musician, he is now teaching, and consulting (in French and English) in organizations and communities internationally. François is a certified CNVC trainer and holds an MBA degree.
Friday night’s intro to NVC is at Cape Lazo School in French on October 16th from 7-9 pre-registration $5 or $7at the door. This event is sponsored by École Au Coeur de L’île and their PAC.
The weekend workshops run from 10-5 at Brooklyn Elementary at 1475 Noel Ave. If you register before October 11th the cost is $65 per person, $110 per couple or for both days. The cost will be $75 per person, $125 per couple or for both days after October 11th. To register: email mcgrady@shaw.ca or call Dominique (250) 890-9330
More info on NVC:
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand and diagnose – to think and communicate in terms of what is “right” and “wrong” with people.
We express our feelings as what another person has “done to us.”
We struggle to understand what we want or need in the moment, and to effectively ask for what we want without using unhealthy demands, threats or coercion.
As founder of NVC, Marshall Rosenberg says,
“What others do may be a stimulus of our feelings, but not the cause.”
At best, communicating and thinking this way can create misunderstanding and frustration, or simply keep us from getting what we want. It can also keep us from the fulfilling relationships we deserve. And still worse, it can lead to anger, depression and even emotional or physical violence.
Since developing the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process in the 1960’s, Marshall Rosenberg’s vision has been to teach people of any age, gender, ethnicity or background a much more effective alternative. At present, over 250 certified trainers and hundreds more are teaching NVC to all walks of life around the globe.
