How to Speak Your Truth Without Sounding Like a Robot or Annoying Others

Facilitator:

   Mair Alight (CNVC Certified Trainer)

Location:

   Your computer, phone or webphone
Registration

Date and Time:

   Thu, Jul 7, 2016

Thursday Calls Noon-1:00PM PT 2 months of 8 Thursday Calls July 7-August 25

Tuition:

  Sliding Scale $93, $143
If you want to participate, and your financial position doesn't support that, contact M a i r AT DOMAIN MairAlight~com and we can figure something out as we hold all our needs with care.

Details

   This is for you if you want to speak your truth in a way that doesn't annoy others. Learn and practice "Tools Not Rules" with Mair Alight, Empathy Specialist. Eight Sunday Calls and Call Recordings.
If you are on the path of certification, or plan to be, these  calls with Mair could count towards your training hours.

We'll experience empathic presence as we practice Tools-Not Rules (key empathy skills) together in full group and in breakout groups while on the call. You can ask for me to come to your group for support when you like. The simple method for breakouts will be explained.

Call Structure Guideline below. Mair has been facilitating calls for over a decade and navigates the needs and strategies to meet them with care and efficiency, as our emergent wisdom creates our container.

# Min.

Activity

5-7

Circle Check-In

Specific Question (relevant to the key skill) to answer

10-13

Key Skill

One each week with periodic review. Explanation and Demonstration with Mair and a Volunteer

15-20

Small Group Key Skill Practice

Tryads: 1:1 and an observer (switching roles) Mair will be available to be called to groups when requested

5-7

Large Group Harvest of Learnings

What did you learn that you want to share with the group (contribution to learning)

5-7

1:1 Empathy Demonstration

Focus Selection and Demonstration with Mair and a Volunteer

10-13

Empathy Dyads

Requester, Empathizer (Bell will ring ½ way) If you want to remain in your empathy session, press 2 on your phone keypad and you will not be placed back to the main circle, and can continue for as long as you like in your empathy breakout session. When you do press 2 you will be re-united with the main group.

5-7

Circle Check-Out

Specific Question (relevant to our time together) to answer.

 

Note: The call is recorded, so what is shared in the main part of the call will be available for all to listen to.

The recording is of the main call portion; the breakout sessions are NOT recorded.

If you would like to continue a discussion on the call “in private”, you can ask to be put in a breakout room to exchange phone numbers and/or to continue with an unrecorded interaction.

Sometimes at the end of the main circle checkout, people who are not in a private breakout empathy group asked to be placed in a breakout room to continue to interact without being recorded.

Sometimes people choose to stay in the main recorded part of the call so that their interactions are recorded.

Calls: Sundays 7pm PT/10pm ET

8 Calls (one call per week) and call recordings

Sliding Scale $93, $143

If you want to participate, and your financial position doesn't support that, contact M a i r AT DOMAIN MairAlight~com and we can figure something out as we hold all our needs with care.

Read what present and past participants have said about the benefits and value of being on calls with Mair:

"I wanted you to know I just love your groups!.. I find them rich, compassionate, educational, inspiring and heart warming!! smile comes on my face just thinking about them!!"
Warmly, Carol Harrington, M.A., C.M.T.

"During Mair's Mentoring Calls I experienced her creative, NVC exercises as both fun & easy to apply to my life."
Kelley Giaramita, Wellness Consultant  

Having worked and collaborated with Mair for 14 years, I feel blessed and grateful for the mutual learning and consistency I experience in our interactions.  I have grown to trust Mair's ability to support the group sessions by tracking where we are, guiding the conversation with suggestions and points of learning and consistently checking with the group for inclusion and informed decisions.  I believe Mair creates a level of safety and trust so that participants are eager to step up and practice applying the tools of empathy and seem to welcome the feedback, seeing it as an invitation to add another tool to their tool box.
Carol Chase, CNVC Certified Trainer    

"I participated in 6 calls with Mair and a group of NVC enthusiasts through the month of January. I found myself nervous as I was new to the teleconference format and to NVC. However, within a couple of calls I felt at ease. My heart was opened by the honest sharing of participants and the deep listening and curiosity Mair brought to each session and person. Over these several weeks, I have come to feel more alive and celebratory toward myself and others. I've opened to new truths and wisdom within myself. The support of others also sharing their truth and honoring my own, has left me feeling inspired, enlivened and hopeful!

Thank-you Mair for guiding this process with such ease and integrity. And thank-you to all the participants who offered their companionship and acceptance!" with warmth, Gwen

Points

  
  • You value the power of nonviolent communication
  • You want to use its principles in your daily life
  • You want relief from the pain of judging yourself and others
  • You like to learn and practice in supportive, nurturing community

Who is it for?

  This call series is for you if you want to learn and grow while being held with compassion and love.
It's for you if you want to learn practical, simple tools (not rules!) for speaking your truth, and hear what goes on with others when they hear you - without shaming or blaming.

Registration and deposit info:

   Sliding Scale $93, $143

If you want to participate, and your financial position doesn't support that, contact M a i r AT DOMAIN MairAlight~com and we can figure something out as we hold all our needs with care.

What to bring:

  Your willingness to learn and practice, as well as hold all on call with care.
Something to write with and on.
I suggest you have a dedicated place for notes to refer to during the week, and to record conversations and situations you would like to bring to the call.