This is Your Brain on Empathy: The Neuroscience of Communication

Facilitator:

   Janice Eng (Independent Trainer)

Location: Ballard High School, Seatttle

   Ballard High School 1418 NW 65th St., enter through entrance at NW 67th off 15th Ave NW, in the Maria Montessori Language and Cultural Center. Park in parking lot behind Ballard Swimming Pool on 67th NW.

Date and Time:

   Fri, Oct 23, 2009 - Sun, Oct 25, 2009

Friday 7-9, Sat/Sun 9 AM-5 PM

Details

   In this fun, interactive workshop led by Sarah Peyton and Janice Eng, you will  gain a working knowledge of how our brain structures interact when we connect with ouselves and each other.  We will experience how empathy integrates the nervous system, and learn tools to increase awareness and capacity to respond in difficult situations.  Through re-patterning and developing new neural pathways in our brain, we increase compassion and understanding for ourselves and others, and create even more fulfilling relationships and lives.

Points

  
  • Use NVC to create new neural pathways in your brain
  • Heal and strengthen your body/mind through various empathy exercises
  • Reduce triggers for shame and anger, and re-pattern neural pathways for move empowering choices and responses
  • Increase awareness and spontaneiry in challenging situations
  • Heal past trauma using NVC tools

Who is it for?

  Anyone who would like to better understand Nonviolent Communication and would like to learn and experience how it affects Interpersonal Neurobiology.

What to bring:

  lunch and snacks if you would like to eat in.

Tuition Details:

  

The tuition is between $150.00 and $220.00.

If tuition is not paid at time of registration, the minimum deposit is $75.00 with the remainder due by Oct 23, 2009.
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