Conflict can actually be an opportunity for learning, for connecting more deeply, for healing, and even for opening new possibilities.

Three things can be true at once: we live in a conflict-averse culture, deep collaboration inevitably involves conflict, and we yearn for more generative and grounded ways to move through conflict together. With skillful communication, rooted in empathy, we can discover that conflict can actually be an opportunity for learning, for connecting more deeply, for healing, and even for opening new possibilities.

En este taller de 5 semanas, cultivaremos nuestra capacidad para conectarnos con nosotros mismos y con los demás, practicaremos habilidades de comunicación no violenta y desarrollaremos resiliencia ante los conflictos en nuestras relaciones laborales.

*A continuación se detallan las tarifas, la escala móvil y las opciones de becas.

Too often, when we pour ourselves into work we care about, with limited resources and growing challenges, we find ourselves experiencing tension with the very people we are most aligned with, despite our best efforts. It is disheartening, exhausting, and frustrating. Conflict can slow down the momentum of our shared work or, worse, it can lead us to step away from collaborative efforts entirely. 

The problem with tension and conflict is not that they exist, but that the legacies of a domination paradigm (e.g. capitalism, patriarchy, white supremacy, scarcity) have left us without the skills we need to find learning and growth in the conflict that inevitably arises.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offers us a toolkit to deepen our own embodied self-connection and build our capacity to relate to ourselves and one another with empathy, so that we can show up more fully and authentically to our work in the world, and build strong, collaborative relationships along the way. 

Together, we will learn and practice new/old ways of communicating that bring us more deeply into alignment with our values, our purpose, and into connection with one another, as we work to build the world we long for.

During this 5-week, online workshop, we will explore practical strategies for undoing domination and instead orienting towards partnership. Each two-hour session will include interactive content and practices to engage with real-time examples from your work and life. You will have the opportunity to be paired up with another participant for practice in between sessions. 

A shared experience with colleagues can make it easier to bring this language and these skills into your working relationships, so we encourage you to sign up with one or more of the people you work with! This course will support you, and the colleagues and collaborators who join you, to:

• Understand empathy: what is it and why does it matter in working relationships? “How can I listen with empathy and compassion, both with others and with myself?”
• Explorar la CNV como práctica de atención plena incorporada 
• Aumente su capacidad para sintonizar con las sensaciones corporales como una valiosa retroalimentación de su sistema nervioso que le indica lo que es importante para usted.
• Desarrollar la conciencia y el vocabulario del lenguaje resonante, incluidos los "sentimientos" y las "necesidades", así como la comprensión de la ciencia del cerebro que explica por qué funciona este tipo de lenguaje.
• Prepárese para las conversaciones difíciles y disponga de más herramientas para "limpiar" después.
• Fomentar la conexión manteniendo la autenticidad personal
• Identificar los patrones de la cultura de la dominación y desarrollar una orientación basada en las necesidades que le permita deshacer la dominación.
• Desarrollar una práctica de escucha empática con un compañero entre sesiones como herramienta fundamental para dotarse de recursos y aparecer mejor en los conflictos y la colaboración.

Este taller no pretende ser un foro para resolver conflictos activos entre nosotros, sino más bien un lugar en el que recibir apoyo para cultivar las habilidades que nos ayudarán a afrontar más eficazmente los conflictos en nuestras relaciones laborales.

Since we first offered this workshop in 2020, we have refined and adjusted it! Past participants have found it very valuable to repeat the series, so consider joining us again for a refresher and new material if you have taken this workshop in the past!