FREE Live Video Class: Getting The Support You Need To Survive The Holidays

Or do you have so much trouble being with your biological family that you honor solstice-time celebrations with chosen family?

Or is your tradition not even aligned with mainstream Christian traditions such that "the holidays" is a challenging and isolating time altogether?

This free 1-hr webinar can help with any or all of the above.

If and when you return to the people or places of your upbringing, some of your oldest patterns can resurface, making it more difficult to stay self-connected and rooted in your purpose.

And explaining to your family why you're NOT coming home is probably one of those conversations you dread every year.

Even with all the same old family dynamics, YOU don’t have to accept the status quo this time.

With enough support, this time of year can be an opportunity for deep integration and growth. Imagine returning from your trip feeling a little more energized and motivated to keep doing your important work in the world!

If you're tired of shutting down - and doing all the same things you’ve been doing since you were a kid - come learn concrete strategies and skills to help you stay grounded and resourced.

With 2020 just around the corner, the world needs your fullest expression. You don't have to settle and you don't have to do it alone.

**NUTS & BOLTS**
We'll guide you through a few simple exercises that you don't need any preparation or prior training in communication to benefit from.

At the end of the hour, you’ll have clear, doable steps to help you handle the complex challenges of this time of year.

You’ll know what to do when:
- you start feeling drained listening to Uncle Harry go on and on
- you find yourself defending your lifestyle (again) to your cousin
- you notice yourself wanting to crawl into bed and hide under the covers all day
- your mother calls again to beg you to come home

Even though it seems overwhelming and impossible to change, a little bit of preparation goes a long way.

**SOME POSSIBLE QUESTIONS**

"What if I'm not used to doing this kind of thing on video?"

Yes, it does seem strange but we've been teaching and facilitating communication training over video and phone for years and we've got it down. Our students and clients often marvel at how much personal and specific-to-them benefit they got through the computer screen.

"But my family is hopeless...?"

Yes, we know it can feel that way. That doesn’t mean you have to continue to be bogged down. There’s a lot you can change about your own experience even if everyone else continues to do the same old things.

**WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING**
About the webinar:
"When I took this class I realized, ‘OH! I’m actually not helpless. I DON’T have to revert to old childhood habits of unfulfilling self-care. I can have agency and power in creating my OWN structures when I’m at my family’s house. I don’t have to revert to my family’s culture, even though I am in their house. I can bring my own culture with me.’”

About the facilitators:
"I have deeply appreciated how you collaborate and work together and support each other in facilitation. It speaks volumes to me about how to radically and wholly share space and power with each other."

"I really appreciate the way you facilitate connection among class members. Also how your co-facilitation models connection."

**REGISTRATION REQUIRED**
This one hour webinar is free but registration is required:
https://airtable.com/shr121wc5DQtJJoNG
The recording will be made available to anyone who registers.

**FACILITATORS**
Amanda Blaine has tons of privilege. She’s a white, cisgendered, straight, double-Ivy-League-educated, middle class, Jewish woman. And she’s hellbent on using every ounce of it to leverage change. She wants to support you to learn the skills that make the difference between “heartbreaking waste of time” and “heart-opening, get-lots-of-important-shit-done-together collaboration.” She makes her home on Vashon Island, occupied Puyallup land near Seattle, Washington.

Nicole Bauman is a white, middle class, queer, genderqueer, farmer, healer, movement builder and parent, rooted in community and organizing in the Rust Belt city of Elkhart, IN, on occupied Potawatomi territory. Nonviolent Communication has been an empowering tool for Nicole’s own personal healing and transformation, and has also increased her capacity to show up more skillfully to communication, conflict and collaboration interpersonally and within the movement. Nicole is excited to share all of this with you!

Josh Blaine is a community song leader and organizer based out of Austin, TX who's found that unlearning his patterns of white and male supremacy is best done in community. Since the Fall of 2017, he's been organizing other men who are committed to undoing male domination patterns by leveraging the tools of nonviolent communication as a backbone of the work.

• The recording will be made available to anyone who registers.