Facilitation from the Inside Out: Leading with Compassion and Clarity
Cascadia Retreat Center (Camp Brotherhood)October 10th – October 15, 2010(Arrive Sunday at 5:00, depart Friday at Noon.)
Facilitators: Karl Steyaert and Kathleen Macferran(CNVC Certified Trainers)
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Join Kathleen Macferran & Karl Steyaert (Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainers) to explore “Facilitation from the Inside Out: Leading with Compassion and Clarity.” This training will provide hands-on facilitation experience, peer learning and feedback. We will experiment with the art of facilitation by looking at both the “outer” skills visible by others as well as the “inner” skills needed to navigate the internal landscape that emerges during facilitation.Finally! A workshop for workshop facilitators! Join us to practice your leaderful facilitation skills in an interactive workshop environment focusing on strengthening facilitation skills.This training will include:
- Cultivating presence, self-connection and staying centered under pressure
- Creating a culture of trust, transparency and collaboration
- Facilitation and leadership styles
- Attending effectively to content and process
- Interrupting compassionately
- Processing conflict in a way that strengthens the group
- Strategies for tracking, decision-making, getting unstuck and dynamic flow
Complete Retreat Registration fee:
$1000.00(includes room and board and transportation from and to SeaTac Airport)2×2 Special:Couples, friends, organizations: register two at the same time and you’ll save $200.00!Email nvc@freedom-project.orgfor retreat reservations and information or call 206-325-5678.
About the Retreat Center:
Cascadia Retreat Center (formerly Camp Brotherhood)www.campbrotherhood.orgCamp Brotherhood is a beautiful 200 acre retreat center an hour north of Seattle, Washington offering outstanding facilities and service to non-profit 501(c)3 in a forested farm environment. Camp Brotherhood partners with other non-profits to carry out programs fostering interfaith, racial and ethnic harmony. For over 40 years we have strengthened children, marriages, families and youth.This training supports the work of Freedom Project, a nonprofit organization taking Nonviolent Communication training in to state prisons. www.freedom-project.org. There may, or may not be people present who have spent time in state prisons who may or may not have committed violent crime. We request that no one under the age of 18 attend this retreat.
About the Facilitators
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a practical, learnable process for communicating with empathy, honesty, power and compassion. It integrates personal development with social change. The purpose of NVC is to ensure everyone’s needs are valued equally and fulfilled in ways that contribute to connection, harmony and peace. It develops people’s ability to listen to and transform blame, anger and criticism into respectful, constructive communication, and to resolve conflicts peacefully.Kathleen Macferran is one of 300 people worldwide that has been certified as a trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). She has offered Nonviolent Communication (NVC) training to schools, community groups, churches, hospitals, families, correctional officers, and prison inmates. She is one of the trainers for the Freedom Project, an affiliate organization of CNVC that strengthens community safety through supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers.Kathleen is a lead trainer and facilitator for Freedom Project, a nonprofit organization bringing Nonviolent Communication in to four WA State prisons. For her private practice, Strength of Connection, visit: www.strengthofconnection.comKarl Steyaert is passionate about co-creating learning experiences and communities that contribute to peace, justice, and sustainability. With over 20 years of experience teaching and facilitating groups in settings ranging from university classrooms and corporate boardrooms to ecovillages and urban gardens, he has been sharing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in North America, Europe, and Asia since 2003.His clients have included Charles Schwab & Co, LiveBooks Inc, the Findhorn Foundation, Lost Valley Education Center, Pleasant Hill Co-Housing, and the World School of Massage. Since 2009 he has also been facilitating Restorative Circles, an approach to restorative justice grounded in NVC. In addition to his work with NVC and conflict resolution, Karl has also directed, designed and taught international college study programs interweaving the themes of sustainability, community, and consciousness, at the Findhorn Community in Scotland, and Auroville ecovillage in India.With academic training in Anthropology and Environmental Policy, he has also spent many years dedicated to the study and teaching of aikido (a nonviolent Japanese martial art), Buddhist meditation, sustainable community design, and integral theory. While still occasionally traveling globally, Karl is currently based in the Pacific Northwest, teaching courses, providing organizational consulting, facilitating groups, and coaching individuals.
Registration Deadline September 20th, 2010 5:00pm.Download Complete Registration Packet with agenda, what to bring, weather, travel (500 kb): More >>Please forward to other lists of similar interest.
