NVC Santa Cruz: Nonviolent Communication in counseling, mediation, conflict resolution, organizational development, communication skills training, diversity training, social change, parenting classes & education, couples counseling, family counseling

Overview of NVCSantaCruz.org:

Jean Morrison, Christine King, Rick Longinotti, and Kristin Masters share their diversity of experience and interests to offer NVC services, adaptable to your needs.

Events Calendar -
Get a complete rundown on upcoming workshops and event series

Restorative Resources -
Offering non-punitive tools and practices to create environments where trust and understanding are valued and nurtured.

Services -
We also offer mediation and counseling services to individuals and families and tailor-made trainings for community groups and businesses.

Resources on Nonviolent Communication -
Links to Trainer's websites and online NVC sources.

Community Page -
Has announcements from our network concerning NVC practice groups, related events, community living and more...

Support NVC Santa Cruz -
Make a donation - whether it be an old automobile or money, you can support our mission.

Location -
The Center For Compassion is our home in Santa Cruz - look inside for detailed directions.

Upcoming Events Newsletter
Sign up for our free monthly email newsletter and also select topics of interest to receive special class announcements.

• NVC Integration & Immersion Program
Starting January 22, 2011!

We've also got a blog! & a twitter feed! Facebook too!
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Creating peace,
one conversation at a time

Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz provides opportunities to learn lifelong skills for communicating with compassion, fostering mutual respect, and resolving conflicts peacefully.

We support the mission of the international Center for Nonviolent Communication by offering a variety of services for individuals, couples, and groups to learn and practice Nonviolent Communication in the Monterey Bay and surrounding areas.

Why Nonviolent Communication?

We have all been in situations where misunderstanding occurred. Either we have felt misunderstood or the other person got the wrong impression. What went wrong?

We often leave these situations feeling mystified as to what happened. How were we so misunderstood? Why was the other person so stubborn? Why couldn’t they understand what I was trying to say? Learn more...

What's New - August

This is the time of year when lots of fruit trees are coming on strong and folks with such fruit trees get to either share the wealth of this fruition, preserve it for the future or let it fall and return to the earth. I hope you'll indulge me in applying this metaphor to NVC.

If you are finding greater ease and peace in your communication from working with NVC, you probably already find yourself sharing the juiciness you pluck from this life-sustaining tree - and we thank you. You may also find it easier to let go when certain interactions don't meet your needs, like spoiled fruit that the bugs can enjoy rather than letting it bug you! And there's the making of preserves to help you to carry you through in less fruitful times. I find that by returning to self-empathy and persisting from a place of compassion, even in my most challenging relationships, eventually the seal of separation is broken and we open up to rediscover the sweetness and connection we crave.

In this fruitful time, we are celebrating a couple of projects that are getting some light shined upon them. Gratitude goes to John Malkin for his article on Restorative Justice as featured on the Good Times cover two weeks ago in which Christine King was interviewed about her Restorative Circles Work. I'm pleased that she, Todd Phillips, Jennifer Young and others are rounding up a Restorative Justice Circle workshop in September. We are also grateful and delighted to have received a grant from the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County to continue and advance the work that Armando Alcaraz has been doing to share NVC with Spanish-speaking parents.

Coming up quickly on Sunday, we have our monthly Intro to NVC in the evening preceded by Good Grief for mourning with compassionate support, both with Kristin. Jean's Beginner's Blitz is a ripe 3-days-in-a-row introductory series. At the end of the month, is our non-residential weekend for LGBT folks Aug 27-29. Then Aug 31-Sept 2, Christine is offering a 3-day blitz of Breaking Free of Anger, Fear, & other BIG emotions.

We still have room for a few more participants in the Radical Self-Acceptance ~ The Inner Work of NVC at Mount Madonna Center. (I love that we'll be in the Orchard House!) There's also one spot left for the NVC Couples Weekend Retreat that same weekend - August 6-8.

AND there's room in the NVC & Diversity Retreat that Kristin is involved in (If this is a meaningful topic to you, even if money is a challenge, contact barbarakochan at learnnvc dot com to talk commuter rates). Jean will be joining Dian Killian Aug 20-23 for an NVC Women's Retreat in New York - tell your friends on the East Coast.

With hope that you are finding NVC to be fruitful and delicious in feeding your needs and your being,

Laurie Brooks
NVCSC Director

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