Creating a No-Fault World with Nonviolent Communication

Sunday, April 13. 6:00pm-7:30pm. Shaw Room.

Description 

Practice staying compassionately connected even while engaging in difficult conversations using empathy, honesty, and clear requests that search for solutions to meet everyone's needs. This workshop is based on Nonviolent Communication (NVC): a practical process for communicating with power and compassion. The purpose of NVC is to ensure that individual needs are valued equally and fulfilled in ways that contribute to connection, harmony and peace. Through interactive dialog, games and role-playing, we will learn to transform blame, anger and criticism into respectful, constructive communication, and to resolve conflicts peacefully.  

Presenter Bios 

Douglas P. Dolstad and NW Compassionate Communication Training Team

A northwest native, Douglas is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication and the Training Coordinator for the Northwest Compassionate Communication. He is the co-founder and lead trainer of the NW Compass Family Camp and is on staff with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg at International Intensive Trainings. Douglas has offered NVC in a wide variety of settings and also enjoys NVC mediation and organizational consulting. The co-founding teacher of a local school based on whole brain learning, he has an extensive background in experiential education (Huxley and College of the Atlantic) and was also the co-founder of Pure Sound – an environmental educational organization modeled on a blend of the Hudson River Clearwater organization, Outward Bound and the Student Conservation Association – an organization his parents were the first field supervisors for back in the 1950’s and, later, Executive Directors. Doug is a musician, actor, storyteller and believes we are on the threshold of the Age of Compassion.  

Sura Hart

Sura Hart has over 25 years experience in the field of education—teaching young people in classrooms and after school programs, as well as teaching teachers, school administrators, and parents. Her vision is a world where everyone's needs are valued and where people have skills to effectively meet needs for themselves and others and to resolve conflicts peacefully. Sura has been a certified trainer with the global Center for Nonviolent Communication since 1999, and has served as project director and contact person for integrating Nonviolent Communication in U.S. Schools since 2000. She travels extensively to offer trainings, school consultations and keynote talks, and also works locally with colleagues in the Northwest Compassionate Communication organization. Sura has co-authored, with Victoria Kindle Hodson, three books: The Compassionate Classroom: Relationship Based Teaching and Learning; Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Co-operation; and The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict & Foster Relationship Intelligence. They also created The No-Fault Game, a visual, kinesthetic, hands-on tool to support people of all ages to communicate with compassion and resolve conflicts peacefully. The No-Fault Game is being used in families, schools, therapists offices, businesses and everywhere people communicate.  

Barbara Larson

Barbara has been sharing the process of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a Certified Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) since 1999. She has worked in numerous International Intensive Trainings with Dr Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of NVC, served on the international CNVC board, and is a member of the CNVC Trainer Certification team. Barbara is a founding member and board member of Northwest Compassionate Communication. Barbara’s diverse trainings are inspired by her mission to live her values of compassion, community and social change by sharing the process of NVC.  

Kathleen Macferran

Kathleen is one of approximately 250 people worldwide that has been certified as a Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). She has offered Nonviolent Communication (NVC) training to schools, community groups, churches, hospitals, families, correctional officers, and prison inmates. She is one of the trainers for the Freedom Project, an affiliate organization of CNVC that strengthens community safety through supporting the transformation of prisoners into peacemakers. In addition to working with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, Kathleen has been the Music Director of the Rainier Chamber Winds for the past 16 years. She appears with the Rainier Chamber Winds on the MMC Recordings, Ltd. and RCWinds Recording labels. Kathleen views the music ensemble as a wonderful metaphor for social organization since the well-being of one individual clearly depends on the well-being of all.