Program: This International Intensive Training (IIT) is a 9-day, Nonviolent Communication “immersion experience.” It is a residential workshop led by a team of experienced CNVC Certified Trainers.

The purpose of this IIT training is to offer people the opportunity to live the process of Nonviolent Communication in community over an extended period of time, in order to develop Nonviolent Communication knowledge, skills and consciousness. One exciting focus of this specific intensive training is exploring how individuals and teams can influence systems, cultures, communities and organizations, to become settings where all people can thrive.

Trainer: Kathleen Macferran,  Kathleen holds a vision for a peaceful, just and sustainable world. 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.  Offering communication and conflict resolution exploration is a passion of hers having worked with organizations and individuals including businesses, schools, colleges, community groups, faith-based communities, hospitals, families, prison inmates, and correctional and law enforcement employees. Kathleen is on the faculty of Seattle Central Community College where she offers courses in Conflict Management.

Kathleen enjoys exploring ways to engage with conflict in life-serving ways through the development of restorative systems. She serves as a lead trainer for the Freedom Project of Seattle, an affiliate organization of CNVC that strengthens community safety by supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers. Kathleen offers trainings in concrete skills of nonviolence leading to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones and the community. For over 25 years Kathleen has explored ways to restore harmony to communities. Her experience includes two decades as a music conductor and leader of a nonprofit organization, and seven years as a public school teacher. Her website is www.StrengthofConnection.com. You can see Kathleen’s 15 minute Ted Talk here.

Trainer: Karl Steyaert

Karl 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, he has helped catalyze learning in settings ranging from university classrooms to ecovillages and urban gardens. As a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Karl leads trainings in conflict resolution and communication across North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, he facilitates Restorative Circles, a community-based approach to restorative justice grounded in NVC, and collaborates with Kathleen Macferran in supporting CNVC trainer candidates through the Trainer Candidate Community Program (TCCP). In addition to his work with NVC and conflict resolution, Karl is actively involved in co-creating communities that embody values such as sustainability, transformational learning, and consciousness. He is also dedicated to the practices of aikido (a nonviolent Japanese martial art), yoga, Buddhist meditation, permaculture, integral theory, and play. Karl’s website is www.findflow.org

Trainer: Robert Krzisnik, MSc. Psych., has been working for 25 years (which of course cannot be true because that would mean he is already old) 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. While all his work is infused with the spirit and the approach of Nonviolent Communication, he is also a dedicated practitioner of Art of Hosting practices, and an explorer of inter-cultural communication. In Nonviolent Communication he is most passionate about its spiritual aspects, as well as its use in conflict mediation (between individuals, within groups and between groups).

Since his early teenage years, Robert has been eagerly exploring the spiritual realms of Self and the Whole, as well as existential questions of life, through numerous inward journeys and travels around this wonderful world. He is also an eager practitioner (in beginning stages) of Contact Improvisation.

He lives in Slovenia, a small country in Europe, but his heart is still in a country he grew up in and which sadly does not exist anymore – Yugoslavia. His website: www.humus.si/en

Trainer: Kristen Masters was a diversity trainer working on social justice issues with runaways, battered women, and prisoners when she first found NVC. She was looking for ways to interrupt the downward spirals of violence that created these conditions. NVC became not only a tool but a lens through which she began to see the world in new ways.

The day that her friend (and CNVC trainer) Jean Morrison saved her marriage….well, Kristin’s giraffe ears perked up, and she was completely “sold”. NVC was invaluable as Kristin and her partner raised and homeschooled their daughter, who is now 15 years old. She can’t imagine parenting (or being in any relationship), without the support of a living practice of empathy and honesty, and a richly supportive community. Thankfully, she has this in abundance in her home in Santa Cruz, California, US.

Kristin lights up when she is applying NVC to social change, diversity issues, and leadership development. She draws heavily on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, applying this framework with an added richness of NVC principles. She is honored to be part of the team that holds the Leadership for Social Change retreat annually, focused on compassionate communication and critical awareness across lines of race, class and ethnicity.

She has embarked on extensive work with Robert Gonzales’ Living Compassion approaches, applying NVC and inquiry to inner work. She leads this in the full range of her own style, hoping to share the sense of empowerment and freedom that can come with an embodied self connection and conscious choicefulness. Kristin is dedicated to a participatory, experiential teaching style, that peppers in song and play, while also inviting space for a deep inner connection. Her long association with singing in Threshold Choir has created a personal soundtrack of self empathy songs. Music helps her stay connected to the love inside and between all of us.

Venue:

Ananda Center at Laurelwood is a 501 3c Educational Nonprofit Organization located on 225 acres 25 miles west of Portland, Oregon on the West Coast of the United States. Gardens, orchards, abundant wildlife, rolling hills, inspiring views, and the close proximity of Bald Peak all provide a setting conducive to expansive thinking, creativity, and a sense of harmony with life.  The campus, retreat and conference center provides facilities to groups looking for an uplifting, rural setting for exploration, growth and sharing. Ananda Center at Laurelwood is a place where divine joy, friendship, respect and growth thrive.

Within minutes of Laurelwood Valley two small college towns offer coffee shops and restaurants, while plentiful opportunities beyond the campus for hiking in natural areas and wildlife refuges, exploring the coastal beach towns of the Pacific Northwest are all just over an hour away.

For more details, including the all-vegetarian mostly organic meals, cozy and carpeted rooms, and large and open classrooms, click here:http://anandalaurelwood.org/stay/

Travel:

Expansion Hall: Most mapping or GPS programs will direct you to the administration building on Laurelwood Road. Guest Check-In and the Green Hill Cafe are in Harmony Hall. From Expansion Hall, continue west to Academy Way (on left past the gymnasium), turn left on Academy Way (before the Seventh Day Adventist Church and LACE Center), follow the road up the hill to the large 3-story building with a green roof. Follow signs to Guest Parking and Registration in the foyer of Harmony Hall.

For map and driving directions, click here:http://anandalaurelwood.org/about/directions/#sthash.bQCyR8I6.dpuf

By Plane

Fly into Portland International Airport. Ananda Center at Laurelwood is 36 miles from the Portland Airport, approximately an hour by car.

Transportation options from the airport:

• Take MAX (light rail) to the Beaverton Transit Center (BTC) and arrange to be picked up there for $35 each way. The MAX Red Line terminates at the BTC and takes about an hour.  Ananda Laurelwood is a half-hour drive from there. MAX costs $2.50. The station is located in the airport. It runs every 15 minutes from 4:44 am to 11:49 pm.
• Car rentals are available at the airport.
• Groups can self-organize to arrange shared shuttle buses from the airport- more information upon registration

By Train

Amtrak does arrive in downtown Portland and is served by MAX (light rail) as well.

Participants are asked to wait until their registration in the IIT has been confirmed before booking travel reservations.

Fee: Total IIT Fees consists of a tuition fee of $2,340 plus accommodation fee – as outlined in the table below.

Early Bird Discount: Receive a $351 discount on tuition (15% off tuition) on payments received in full by 1/3/2014 (3 months prior to start of IIT). Tuition Fee Payable to CNVC under this option is $1,989.

Receive a $234 discount on full tuition (10% off tuition) on payments received in full by 2/3/2014 (2 months prior to start of IIT). Tuition Fee Payable to CNVC under this option is $2,106

Other discounts: If you are a registered certification candidate with CNVC or have attended a CNVC IIT before, we offer you a $351 discount on tuition (15% discount off tuition) (not to be combined with other discounts). If you are associated with a partner organization for this IIT, we offer a 5% tuition discount.

IIT Options and Fees (For a 9-Day Training):

Total IIT Fees consists of a tuition fee of $2,340 plus accommodation fee – as outlined in the table below – both payable to CNVC.

Three all-vegetarian, mostly organic meals per day included in accommodation fee. Shared participant kitchen and refrigerators available.

How to register:

1. Click here to fill out the online IIT Application Form, please follow the instructions in the form to make payment:
2. Applications sent before March 3, 2015 need to include full or partial payment, with a minimum of $100. The balance is due on March 3, 2015 . For applications sent on or after March 3, 2015, please include full tuition fees.
3. CNVC usually acknowledges your application within 5 business days; please contact the IIT department if you did not receive an acknowledgment within this time
4. If you would prefer a written application contact the IIT department and we will mail you one.

For questions please contact the IIT Department at 505-244-4041 or e-mail IIT