Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Silver Spring, Maryland (Metro accessible, plenty of free parking)
Suggested Contribution: $90-$180 per couple, sliding scale (you are invited to contribute as high on the scale as you can, with ease and joy)
Pre-Requisites: None
To Register: Please email Lynd Morris to reserve space at this event.
How many times have you expressed something to your partner that was really important to you but you didn’t feel heard in the way you’d intended? Or how many times has your partner expressed dissatisfaction for the way you’ve listened (or not listened) to him or her?
It was this decades-old “disconnect” that led my husband, David Steigerwald, and me into our exploration of Nonviolent Communication. We’ve learned a lot about ourselves, each other, and how to stay connected even when we are upset since our introduction to NVC in 2004. Now we’d like to share with other couples the skills and practices that have been most effective in bringing us more deeply into relationship with each other.
This year, David and I plan to offer a series of workshops to help couples understand each other while enhancing/restoring the hope, joy, and love that drew both partners to each other in the first place. These trainings are designed for all couples--from NVC newcomers to those in which one or both partners have many years of NVC experience. We'll be offering NVC practices in ways that are playful as well as meaningful. Because we'll be coaching participants in exercises designed to enhance relationship, we request that both partners in each couple attend.
The first workshop will be held on Saturday, April 17, from 1:00-5:00 p.m. The suggested financial contribution for this training is $90-$180 for each couple, based on a sliding scale of contributing the highest amount you can, with joy and ease. Please contact me, Lynd Morris, if you have any questions or concerns about the requested contribution.
Want to come but can't make it on April 17?
We hope to offer this workshop on several occasions to make the training more accessible to everyone who wants to take part in it. If you and your partner are interested in participating in one of our "NVC for Couples" workshops but you'd can't make it on April 17, please contact me for information about how to sign up for our next couples workshop.
Lynd Morris is an NVC trainer certified by the global Center for Nonviolent Communication. She graduated from the 2005 North America NVC Leadership Program and has participated in the NVC LIFE Program since it began in 2006. For nearly 5 years she has led NVC classes and workshops in Maryland and Virginia and has participated in or assisted at numerous NVC trainings across the United States. Lynd is a founding member of Capital NVC and is a member of the Still Water Mindfulness Practice Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1997, she was ordained as a lay member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing.
David Steigerwald has participated in NVC trainings since 2004 and assisted at most of the workshops and classes offered by Lynd. He can be heard singing bass with the APL Scats and playing bass with the rock band, "White Chichuachua." His sound designs are heard in several community theaters in the Metro DC area.