On Monday, we will explore the Vortex of Submission together. We’ve enjoyed sharing the Vortex of Submission at workshops, conferences, and IITs since the early days of our career as Certified Trainers. This training often has the effect of jaw-dropping “aha” as participants connect with a previously unseen habitual pattern. This pattern has likely been the root of suffering in your relationships, both personal and professional.

So far, with thousands of participants, no one has ever said, “that doesn’t make sense to me”. Instead, we get reports of gratitude, deep inspiration, and profound, life-connected mourning. 

Once you see the Vortex, you can never unsee it, and will predictably give you pause before acting in a way that will harm your most precious relationships. Nonviolent Communication offers you many choices for freeing yourself from the Vortex.

Mondays, 6:30- 8:30 pm US-Pacific Time (Los Angeles)
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Offered weekly with compassionate giving and receiving gift economy. Each week is a stand-alone. Feel free to forward this to friends. All are welcome.

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In 2010, four certified trainers of Nonviolent Communication produced a new tool to help people successfully learn, strengthen, improve, and integrate the skills and consciousness of Nonviolent Communication. They called this tool the Pathways to Liberation Self-Assessment Matrix. Since then, thousands of NVC practitioners have been using the Matrix to identify skills, clarify strengths, discover edges, and navigate their own personal journeys toward emotional liberation and a more just, peaceful, and loving world.

In our Open-hearted Practice Group, we’ve been working through the skills of the Matrix since October. Last week, we finished the series, and to celebrate and consolidate our learning, we will explore the entire Matrix with a guided self-assessment.

Jori and Jim, two of the four co-authors of the Matrix, will help you to set a course toward deepening self-knowledge, skill, and confidence with your practice of Nonviolent Communication. Whether you are a longtime practitioner of NVC or have only recently begun your journey, this week’s class will support your practice of Nonviolent Communication in becoming more dynamic, accessible, and fun!

Mondays, 6:30- 8:30 pm US-Pacific Time (Los Angeles)
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In this session, we will be continuing to explore the Pathways to Liberation Matrix practices that support the skill of Supporting holistic systems. Consciously participating in the creation and evolution of holistic systems that foster general well-being.

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UNSKILLED: Rebels against or submits to structures; uses organizational structures to assert one’s power or feels helpless in relationship to organizational rules.
AWAKENING: Limited view, overwhelm, and/or hopelessness about effecting change toward systems that value the needs of those affected.
CAPABLE: Aware of the potential for systems to be organized around universally valued needs; willingness to contribute to general well-being, with growing creativity.
INTEGRATED: Engaging in creating and improving systems with the intention of contributing to general well-being with openness to feedback.

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Mondays, 6:30- 8:30 pm US-Pacific Time (Los Angeles)
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Offered weekly with compassionate giving and receiving gift economy. Each week is a stand-alone. Feel free to forward this to friends. All are welcome.

In this session, we will be continuing to explore the Pathways to Liberation Matrix practices that support the skill of Awareness of response-ability. Freely choosing one’s responses to what shows up in life, owning one’s part in what happens. Not owning others’ parts, and acknowledging that one’s actions do influence others.

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UNSKILLED: Victim consciousness: Lacks clarity about whose part is whose; perceives that one’s experience and actions can be caused by others or external circumstances (e.g.: I caused yours, you caused mine, or it caused yours or mine)
AWAKENING: Becoming aware of victim consciousness and its costs; relief and freedom in the awareness of our power, and still finding ourselves stuck in habitual patterns of guilt and blame; diagnoses others as stuck or blaming, and attempts to educate them to protect oneself.
CAPABLE: Able to take ownership of one’s experience and choices when one becomes aware of blaming, justifying, or minimizing, without trying to take ownership of others’ reactions and responses.
INTEGRATED: Consistently able to respond with equanimity. Grounded and centered in the authorship of one’s own life. Clear about others’ authorship of their lives.

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Mondays, 6:30- 8:30 pm US-Pacific Time (Los Angeles)
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Offered weekly with compassionate giving and receiving gift economy. Each week is a stand-alone. Feel free to forward this to friends. All are welcome.

In this session, we will be continuing to explore the Pathways to Liberation Matrix practices that support the skill of Transcending roles. Aware that we are not the roles we play; having a choice about what roles we adopt and how we respond to the roles others adopt.

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UNSKILLED: Unconsciously stuck in reactions to roles, one’s own and others.
AWAKENING: Becoming aware of the suffering that can occur when we react to roles rather than responding to needs.
CAPABLE: Able to respond with self-connection, empathy, and honesty, rather than reacting based on the roles self and/or others are holding.
INTEGRATED: Gracefully and easily assumes, responds to, and/or refrains from roles; aware of our interdependence beyond our roles.

Details to join:

Mondays, 6:30- 8:30 pm US-Pacific Time (Los Angeles)
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Offered weekly with compassionate giving and receiving gift economy. Each week is a stand-alone. Feel free to forward this to friends. All are welcome.