Nonviolent Communication is a practice of empathetic connection. A way of communicating with awareness, compassion, and understanding. Not just with others, but with yourself and past generations, too.
In this 6-session course, Sarah Peyton will lead an exploration and a celebration of the power of Nonviolent Communication to help you reach past generations and align yourself to receive the flow of love from grandparents, great-greats, great-great-greats, and beyond. This receiving may also open you up to have more energy and warmth for yourself and your children, too!
Whenever we talk about our connection with past generations, we begin to touch on the impact of collective trauma on our family line, so that is where we will begin. Each class will feature NVC-empathy dialogues with yourself about your ancestors, or in role plays, with your ancestors.
Collective trauma is the trauma that happens when the tragedies of history impact whole groups of people. This type of trauma includes, but is not limited to, natural disasters, colonization, loss of land, migration, famine, war, and genocide.
These traumas can show up in your personal experiences as:
- Emotional repression
- Low self-esteem and lack of self-love
- Complex PTSD and PTSD
- Child abuse
- Sexual abuse and assault
- Addiction
- Mental illness and instability
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Suicidality
- Poverty
- Becoming lost in fundamentalism
- And all the other Adverse Childhood Experiences
The good news is Nonviolent Communication is a beautiful remedy for the significant impact of these experiences upon our family lines!
NVC can help you:
❤️ reclaim the lost voices of ancestors that have been left behind, or silenced
❤️ re-establish connections, trust, attunement and autonomy within family systems
❤️ identify and release family patterns of limitation
❤️ restore the flow of love and energy from past generations
What you can expect each week:
Session 1: How collective trauma becomes personal trauma
Conversation #1 with an ancestor: Empathy for experiencing collective trauma
Session 2: Connecting with our Ancestors
Conversation #2: Finding the needs we are meeting by not believing in/calling on our ancestors
Session 3: Introduction to Unconscious Contracts
Conversation #3: Finding unconscious contracts that block the flow of love
Session 4: Feeling the flow of love between generations
Conversation #4 with an ancestor: The ancestor has empathy for you
Session 5: Introduction to the time travel empathy process
Conversation #5: Time travel empathy for an ancestor
Session 6: Conclusion: Questions and empathy explorations
Disclaimer
This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.
Meet Your Trainer
Sarah Peyton is an author, international speaker, and facilitator with a passion for weaving together neuroscience knowledge and experiences of healing that unify people with their brains and bodies.
Sarah herself struggled with depression and intergenerational trauma for most of her life. Learning about relational neuroscience saved her life and changed her family, her relationships, and everything she knows to be true.
She comes to this with firsthand knowledge of what it’s like to grow up with un-held trauma and unsupported pain. Funny, touching, and filled with personal stories and up-to-date research on our nervous systems and how they interact with each other, her presentations change lives and invite self-acceptance and self-compassion.
