NVC TRAINING INSTITUTE OFFERS:

THE LIVING ENERGY
OF NEEDS

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE
A Seven-Day Intensive

With Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye, Wes Taylor,
Jeff Brown, Gregg Kendrick & Gina Lawrie

  • August 7 - 14, 2010
    SEEG, Germany
  • July 10 - 17, 2011
    Corona, California USA

"The Living Energy of Needs" supports the ongoing development of foundational NVC skills and consciousness. In addition to supporting core NVC skills, we have continued to develop our training over the years to help participants practically access and live from a deeper dimension of needs. We weave the experience of the living energy of needs throughout the training, as the core dimension from which we learn and live the NVC process.

 

Recent Enhancements & Changes

In the Spring of 2009, we evolved the structure of our "Living Energy of Needs" sessions based on recent feedback and on our own desire to better align the content with the current focus of our work.

The changes include the following:

  • Inclusion of sessions on extending a needs-based consciousness into groups and communities. We especially want to bring awareness of our own learning community that we are co-creating. These sessions focus on defining the "We," creating a shared purpose, and recognizing personal accountabilities to the "We" (sample of new addition to Participants' Manual).

  • Inclusion of "Integration Sessions" – based on repetitive feedback that people need time and space to digest their learning, we have created opportunities for each participant to make personal choices of how to enhance and distill their learning. During these sessions, the trainers do not offer any formal teachings or practices.

  • Removal of sessions on presentations, mediation, and training design.Until we develop a trainer track, we want the full resources of our training to concentrate on personal and group processes within the foundations and intermediate tracks.

 

Foundations and Intermediate Tracks

In the Fall of 2008, we expanded our Seven-Day Training, “The Living Energy of Needs” to include different tracks of learning for people at different places along the NVC learning continuum. In most of our trainings we now offer both a foundations track as well as maintaining our prior focus on an intermediate track of NVC skills development.

The foundations track focuses on developing both the basic skills of NVC as well as the consciousness of the living energy of needs. The two tracks share many sessions and then separate to do practice, each at a level that most supports learning. The foundations track is open to anyone ... whether brand new to NVC or wanting a more firm foundation. If you have fewer than twenty hours of NVC training, then you don't meet the pre-requisite for our intermediate track; consequently, for the benefit of your own learning and the learning of the larger group, we request that you place yourself in the foundations group.

In the intermediate track, our intention is to support people who have already developed these foundational skills to enhance ease in natural language NVC, in embodying “the living energy of needs” and in deepening & refining skills in all aspects of NVC.

By differentiating these “tracks of learning” within the Seven-Day Intensive experience, we can provide each person with training that matches a person’s learning needs, thus providing a higher quality experience.


In the words of recent participants…

“This is a totally new dimension of NVC that I never knew existed. It really resonates with my spiritual experiences.”

“I’ve been practicing NVC for 3 years and I am excited about the way your training is touching into a level of depth that is unexpected. Now I can experience needs not as something lacking, but as a fullness.”

“I’ve been dealing with this issue for years, and today, for the first time, using this simple process [of transforming a core jackal belief with the living energy of needs] I felt complete freedom with respect to this limiting core belief.”

 

The training will include opportunities to:

Identify your current strengths and growing edges in the application of NVC in your daily life

Learn an in depth process for self connection that transforms pain into life-supporting energy

Understand the core belief structures that shape our experience and perception and see their relationship to needs

Deepen your understanding of the domination and partnership paradigms and the role of needs in each paradigm

Understand the spiritual foundation of NVC

Learn and live with a dynamic community of people who share a life-serving vision

 

Benefits of this Training

1. An Intensive Retreat Experience 

  • Immerse yourself in the NVC consciousness. 
  • Renew and refresh your spirit. 
  • Connect with others who are seeking to live from this way of understanding our experience.

2. Concentrated NVC Processing and Growth 

  • What are your unique challenges in living the process? 
  • In what situations do you find yourself responding in ways you don't like? Or simply not knowing how to respond? 
  • This retreat will offer focused opportunities to identify these situations and to do the work to experience the shifts that will take each of us to the next level of NVC consciousness. 
  • Sample topics include: 

    • dealing with reactive triggers
    • staying connected with yourself in tough situations
    • dealing with emotional intensity (including anger)
    • giving and receiving honest feedback

3. Support for a Variety of Learning Styles

  • While the majority of the workshop is designed to provide experiential learning, there will also be opportunities for those who enjoy learning by observation, and those who benefit from enhanced conceptual understanding of the principles that underlie NVC. 

The Training Team

The current NVC Training Institute (NVCTI) training team includes Robert Gonzales, Susan Skye, Wes Taylor, Jeff Brown, Gina Lawrie and Gregg Kendrick. We typically schedule four trainers at each NVCTI "Living Energy of Needs" event with an expectation that 55 to 60 participants will attend. If the number of participants is less than our expectations, then we reserve the choice of sending fewer trainers. We are committed to having at least one trainer for every 15 participants. The specific trainers assigned to each training can be found in the detailed description of that training.

 

Join “The Living Energy of Needs” to strengthen your NVC skills and deepen your ability to access the consciousness and life enriching energy of needs beyond the simple identification of them. 

For those who were left wanting more of the types of experiences created in our Advanced Trainings - here it is! We look forward to co-creating this training with you!