January 3-10 2016
Portland, Oregon, United States
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, if you listen carefully,
you can hear her breathing.
– Arundhati Roy
- Are you inspired by fiery authenticity, deep compassion & presence, joy & play, and global service?
- Do you savor communities with an enlivening blend of nurturing and challenge?
- Are you excited to integrate your body, heart, mind, and spirit, while also powerfully engaging with & giving your gifts to your community and planet Earth?
WHAT IS IT?
Be The Change is a gathering of people with a shared passion for personal and planetary transformation. This event supports individuals to awaken more fully to their role in co-creating a thriving and sustainable world, through realizing our highest individual and collective potential.
- A space to explore our deepest passions and purpose in life
- An exploration of how to fully manifest our potential in life
- An incubator for community-based cultural transformation, sustainability, and education projects and initiatives
WHY NOW?
We live in a time of seismic shifts – from hurricanes to refugees to reclaiming communities and systems – and the beginning of a new year is a powerful time to reflect on our own transitions, both personally and professionally. This gathering is a place to pause and explore, individually and collectively, questions such as: what are these times in the world calling for in us? what new (or ancient) ways of being, working and collaborating are emerging? and what might our roles in all this be?
WHEN?
January 3-10, 2016 • 10am-6pm (10am-3pm on January 10)
WHERE?
2602 NE 7th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97212, USA
Register here
WHO IS FACILITATING?
We are a passionate team of CNVC certified trainers that connected through NVC projects and discovered there is more we can and we want to do together in terms of contributing to the Whole.
Karl Steyaert, MS, MA, Karl is passionate about co-creating communities and learning experiences that contribute to sustainability, justice and evolution of consciousness. With over 20 years of experience teaching and facilitating groups across North America, Europe, and Asia, he has helped catalyze learning and transformation in settings ranging from university classrooms and international corporations to ecovillages and urban gardens. In addition to being a CNVC Certified Trainer, he facilitates a range of conflict transformation modalities including Restorative Circles, a community-based approach to restorative justice. With academic training in Anthropology and Environmental Policy, Karl also enjoys practicing & sharing community building, ecovillage design, Permaculture, aikido, meditation, and yoga.
Kathleen Macferran holds a vision for a peaceful, just and sustainable world. Her passion includes co-creating life-serving community systems that support all people thriving. She has worked as a Certified Trainer for CNVC since 2003 and serves as an assessor with CNVC by supporting trainer candidates through a community-based certification process. Sharing NVC with organizations and individuals has brought her into contact with businesses, schools, intentional communities, colleges, community groups, faith-based communities, hospitals, families, prison inmates, and correctional and law enforcement employees.
Kristin Masters is committed to creating a world that works for everyone. As a participatory group facilitator and a leader of diversity/liberation work for over 20 years, she believes that we can heal the hurts we’ve suffered in our domination society. Kristin is a certified NVC trainer through CNVC, leaning into the freedom that self responsibility can help us discover. Kristin draws on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects to incorporate empowerment, mourning and action. Besides all of that, she sings, plays, raises her daughter and builds community in Santa Cruz, CA, US.
Marjeta Novak, an IAF-certified group process facilitator and Circle host, combines a variety of strength-based approaches (Nonviolent Communication – CNVC certified trainer, Appreciative Inquiry, Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter) to support individuals, organisations and communities in co-creating the future they long for. Having been raised in one system (socialist Yugoslavia), which then transformed into another (capitalist Slovenia; member of the European Union), Marjeta is curious what new, more life-serving systems are waiting to be born (and how to facilitate this process). When looking ahead, she finds inspiration in indigenous, nature- and community-based practices.
Robert Krzisnik, MSc. Psych., has been working for 27 years with individuals and groups as psychotherapist, trainer, team coach, complex meeting facilitator and conflict mediator in a wide spectrum of environments: from corporate to educational to personal and spiritual retreats. As a CNVC certified trainer he is most passionate about exploring spiritual aspects of Nonviolent Communication, and about it’s implementation conflict mediation. He lives with his wife Marjeta in Slovenia, EU and has been sharing his work extensively across Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. To this gathering he is bringing skills and passion of hosting circles and group processes, using principles of Art of Hosting and Bohmian Dialogue, mediating between individuals, groups and in groups, embodying our inner worlds and relations through Contact Improvisation and the work of Robert Gonzales, and intercultural awareness and skills.
Requested Contribution: We are dedicated to making this event as accessible as possible, regardless of people’s financial resources. To provide for hard costs and to support the livelihood of those who are organizing and facilitating the event, we request a sliding scale financial contribution of $450-$900 for the week, with at least $100 of this amount paid as an advance deposit. For people experiencing significant financial constraints, please contact us at info@findflow.org to explore partial work-exchange opportunities.
Accommodation: Out of town guests can find a hotel in Portland or let us know on your registration form and we will attempt to match you up with a local participant to host you in Portland.
Questions: Please email us at info@findflow.org
We hope you can join us!