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Evolution of Needs and Values through the Lens of Spiral Dynamics
Live Zoom Course • 10 hours (2.5 hours per session) • Begins January 26, 2023
- Discover how Spiral Dynamics can offer more understanding of human nature
- Learn from a Ukrainian NVC trainer and Spiral Dynamics experts
- Better grasp the evolution of human needs, values, and life conditions
- Explore how to apply NVC in situations that involve extreme violence
The Art of Mourning
Exploring Pain, Depression, Anger, and Other Dear Friends
Live Zoom Course • 15 hours (3 hours per session) • Begins November 10, 2022
- Welcome unpleasant feelings and meet their flow in and around the body
- Discover how you can enjoy Anger as a beautiful life force
- Realize insecurity and depression as a door to the core of your humanity
- Know how to use fear to firmly connect to your life and strength
The Heart of Parenting (Introductory Course)
Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Children, and Our World
Live Zoom Course • 8 hours (2 hours per session) • Begins September 3, 2022
- Tune into your self-dialogue with a compassion that supports loving presence
- Shift limiting beliefs about your parenting patterns so you can choose consciously
- Transform frustration, confusion, or guilt into constructive, honest discussions
- Foster your ability to say yes and no in a way that supports your natural limits
Liberation for All
Integrating a Power and Privilege Lens into Basic NVC Training
Live Zoom Course • 6 hours (1.5 hours per session) • Begins December 19, 2022
- Explore the complexities of how we can care for all of life using NVC
- See the role that power plays in relation to observations, feelings, needs, and requests
- Learn how to support people from many backgrounds in being able to apply NVC
- Discern how to engage with these vast topics as we learn and share NVC
The Capacity Lens as a Path to a Post-Patriarchal Society
Live Zoom Course • 14 hours (2 hours per session) • Begins July 6, 2023
- Explore what makes the capacity lens radical and practical
- Understand the complexities of how capacity and willingness interface
- Mourn capacity limits within and around us without jumping to conclusions
- Orient to agreements as behavioral anchoring in support of your commitments
Bringing Self-Empathy Into Conversations Around Race, Racism, Power and Privilege
Live Zoom Course • 4 hours (2 hours per session) • Begins March 6, 2023
- Unpack interpersonal, internalized, and institutional racism from the lens of NVC consciousness
- Hear and share personal stories and the impacts of racism, power, and privilege
- Learn how to translate “hard to hear" messages into meaningful conversations
- Expand and deepen the conversation of systemic and interpersonal racism
A Journey from the Heart:
A Year Long Path to Peaceful Living
Live Zoom Course • 18 hours (1.5 hours per session) • Begins January 22, 2026
- Dive deep into Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion with the author
- A year-long container to reflect, realign, and return to what matters most
- Experience the combination of Mary’s wisdom, daily meditations, and community
- Enjoy accompaniment and loving support throughout 2026 with like-minded individuals
Lightness When Things Are Difficult
NVC and Resonant Dialogue Skills
Live Zoom Course • 12 hours (1.5 hours per session) • Begins April 24, 2023
- Discover how to bring resonance into your conversations with others
- Learn how resonant language and NVC empathy come together
- Practice consent and saying “no”, even when it is difficult
- Feel the movement into more intimacy in your relationships!
Responding to the Call of Our Times:
A Leadership Coaching Program 2026
Live Zoom Course • 45 sessions (2 hours per session) • Begins Friday, February 6, 2026
- Do you know what is yours to do in response to our growing global crises?
- Is nonviolence woven as deeply as you want it into how you live and lead?
- Have you ever experienced what it’s like to participate in an interdependent web of mutual support to fully embody our commitments?
- Are you familiar with how to bring yourself back again and again to aligning with purpose in every moment?
- Do you see yourself as part of transforming the legacy of scarcity, separation, and powerlessness into a livable future?
The Art of Making Requests
Ask for the Moon
Live Zoom Course • 18 hours (3 hours per session) • Begins May 11, 2023
- Discover how to figure out what you really want, then how to ask for it
- Learn how to make requests with ease and how to guess the requests of others
- Practice strategies for turning ‘demand energy’ into ‘request energy’
- Be able to stand firmly for your needs and assertively ask for what you want
