Teach for Life! - NVC Educators Institute
Menlo Park, CA - July 6-11, 2010
An informational evening sharing NVC in the Classroom (6:30pm) and Restorative Practices in Schools (7:00pm) will be held on April 12. Please RSVP at dezbanz@yahoo.com or (831) 824-4682.
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Also: Teach for Life retreat in Seattle, WA, July 20-25, tell your friends to the north!
Come To Learn
Teach for Life! is a 5-day residential training for school teachers, administrators, counselors, and homeschool parents, where we co-create a supportive, dynamic learning community based in the consciousness and practices of Nonviolent Communication℠.
Come To Play
Each day offers a balance of playful exploration, thoughtful inquiry, powerful exercises for skill-development, and sharing of best practices.
Come To Co-Create
Throughout the five days, you will strengthen your ability to:
• Live from a consciousness of compassion, for yourself & with others
• Practice Nonviolent Communication with students & colleagues
• Shift from managing students’ behavior to nurturing respectful, caring relationships in the classroom
• Implement a “No-fault Classroom” curriculum
• Inspire engaged learning
• Demonstrate leadership in your school community
• Resolve conflict peacefully & teach your students to do the same
Take Home with you . . .
• the lived experience • the modeling • new tools and skills • and your action plan to create your own Compassionate Classroom and School Community where you live.
Trainers
Sura Hart, Jean Morrison, and
Associate Educators Team:
Armando Alcaraz
Martine Algiers
Desiree Banzhaf
Katy Dawson
Jennifer Young
Contacts & Info
Desiree: 831-588-7461 or dezbanz@yahoo.com
For the Seattle, Washington Retreat nwcompass.org
Sura Hart is an internationally recognized trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) and is the contact person for projects integrating NVC in U.S. schools She designs and facilitates trainings and curricula for students, parents, teachers and school administrators and is a co-founder of the annual 5-day NVC Institute for Educators: Teach for Life! Sura has co-authored three books: The Compassionate Classroom: Relationship Based Teaching and Learning ; Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Co-operation; The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict & Foster Relationship Intelligence. |
Jean Morrison has a Masters in Psychology and has been a certified CNVC trainer since 1989. She has co-facilitated the Teach for Life NVC Educators Institutes since 2001 and has developed and facilitated NVC trainings in schools, prisons, business teams, and community organizations. Her specialties are whole brain learning and thinking, experiential learning, and interactive games. Jean co-created GROK, 15 NVC games for discovery, learning, and fun; the illustrated primer for tickling your NVC funnybone, Communication FUNdamentals; and iGrok, an NVC iPhone application.
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Registration and deposit info: |
Group Discounts on Tuition! if registered by May 1st: 2 people register together for 25% discount each; 3 get 1 free; 4 get 1 free and one for 1/2 price. Bring your colleagues and continue the collaboration and support in your classrooms. Early Bird Registration Discount: Tuition discounted 20% ($760 instead of $950) if you register and make a deposit of $400 online by 4/1/10. |
All payments can be made online via our payment page.
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2010 South VALLOMBROSA Tuesday, July 6 – Sunday, July 11
(30 hours of training time)
July 6
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3:00 - participants arrive, register, check in to rooms |
July 7-10:
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8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast |
July 11:
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8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast |
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When: Tuesday, July 6th at 3pm until Sunday, July 11th, 1pm
Where: 250 Oak Grove Avenue, Menlo Park, at Vallombrosa Center, San Francisco Bay Area.
45 miles from Santa Cruz, 35 miles from the Golden Gate…
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We will coordinate ride-sharing & airport pickups - so please email your flight plans to Desiree (dezbanz@yahool.com).
Previous Teach for Life participants had this to say...
“I came away with activities to use with children, connection with people who can support me, a plan for presentation to school districts and our school, and ways to practice the NVC process in my life.”
“My satisfaction level was off the high end of the scale for the facilitation of group spirit, support of individuals, and the amount of learning and laughter!”
“I got to connect with a group of people like never before. This 5 days was full to the brim of learning, "a-ha!", and connection. It was heart and mind opening. I learned about ways to bring NVC to children; many ideas, games, and mostly the realization that as this lives and blossoms in me, so I pass it on.”
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Costs: $950 tuition
Accommodations
and Meals:
Commuter, w/ lunches: $250
Double Room: $535
Single Room: $615
Register Online-