with Mary Mackenzie and Kathleen Macferran
(Certified Trainers with the Center for Nonviolent Communication)

January 19-21, 2012
10 AM-4 PM each day (Thursday, Friday and Saturday)

Together, in a loving community, we will explore:

• The meaning that significant life transitions hold for you
• Methods for facing challenges with compassion
• Strategies to come back to center when you are thrown off balance
• How you can inspire support for moving forward
• How to grieve fully to enhance and expedite your healing
• How to express your truth even when others are afraid or don’t understand your transition
• Ways to make friends with the unknown
• Discover new depths of self-compassion and self-acceptance

Overview:

You’re in the midst of a life transition– career or relationship change, death of a loved one, financial unrest, or something else, and you’d like support companionship, direction and grace in moving through it.

Join CNVC Certified Trainers Mary Mackenzie and Kathleen Macferran for this transformative workshop devoted to supporting you through your current life transition. Much of the struggle in a big life transition happens when we forget the deeper meaning attached to it, when we lose compassion for ourselves, when we don’t allow enough time to mourn each stage or when we forget we have choice in every stage of our transition.

This workshop is about opening up your transition, examining it and loving it until you are connected to its meaning. Then we’ll explore exercises to uncover your choices in moving forward and clarifying the specific steps you’d like to take from here on.

Requested experience level:

Previous introduction to NVC through reading Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg or having attended a NVC training is useful, but not required.

Registration and fee:

$300 USD (early bird discount $250 before Jan 1, 2012)??. Includes all training materials and snacks. Individuals are responsible for their own housing and meals.

Register at: www.nwcompass.org, emailKathleen@StrengthofConnection.com or call Kathleen at 206-780-1021

Information about Bainbridge Island:

Bainbridge Island is 35 minutes away from downtown Seattle by ferry. Once the ferry docks, everything you need is within walking distance. Workshop sessions will be in Kathleen’s waterfront gathering space (187 Parfitt Way SW, Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110). Several restaurants and coffee shops are within a few blocks. Overnight accommodations are available at the charming local Eagle Harbor Inn (www.theeagleharborinn.com) two blocks from the workshop site, or the Island Country Inn (www.islandcountryinn.com) and Best Western (www.bestwesternwashington.com/bainbridge-island-hotels) within a 20 minute walk.

Evenings may be spent nurturing yourself or building community with other NVC workshop participants at the local fitness center (enjoy a relaxing steam bath), movie theaters, walking near the marina or just strolling.

For more information:

Regarding housing, meals, Bainbridge Island or workshop content- please email Kathleen Macferran, Kathleen@StrengthofConnection.com or call 206-780-1021.

Regarding workshop content– please email Mary Mackenzie atMary@peaceworkshop.org.

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