"From Conflict to Connection" Course
Prezzo
300-500€
Durata
9 Weeks
Informazioni sul corso
A conflict is a call for connection.
It’s two hearts craving to be heard when there are no ears to listen.
Let’s learn how to pick up this cue and truly connect to each other and ourselves through it.
We’ll do it through communication, which is part of every connection: family, work, romantic, intimate, friendship, and to oneself.
Let's embody a compassionate way to transform the conflicts that might arise in it.
About approaching NVC
We will start a journey as a community to go beyond right and wrong, to get in touch with all of life and to connect through communication in all its forms. We will learn how to express what is alive in us in a way that is authentic and real and yet still increases our chances to be understood by the people listening to us.
We will step by step build more skills to listen, express and connect in our real life, while having a safer space to go back to for support, learning, and re-centering the nonviolent consciousness we will start to embody.
What you are gonna learn:
What is the origin of conflict? How can we develop compassion for it and see it as an opportunity
Responsibility, why is it so tricky
What feelings are, and their role
How to be together in reality
How to foster connection and understanding by really listening (to others and yourself)
How to move from conflict to connection and feel like a team
How to be touched by what is important to me, and to you
How to express and how to receive a “no” (how to understand and deal with rejection)
How to ask for your dreams, without having a demanding energy
How to navigate a conflict and resource yourself in it
How to repair the hurt that happened in connection
Why gratitude is so hard to receive, and how it can fuel connection
I experienced learning NVC as a revolution that allowed these points to be integrated into my life. I hope and trust it may support you similarly, and I want to acknowledge everyone's uniqueness. We are looking forward to witnessing your personal evolution.
Learning style
Our focus is on the embodied aspect of NVC, so classes will not look like a seminar. To practice and integrate NVC, we implement a mixture of 30% theory and 70% interactive practices such as exercises, demonstrations, role plays, and processing of real-life situations emerging during the course. So, be ready to tackle your real life!
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Desired amount of experience
No amount of experience is required to join this course.
When?
The course will consist of 9 sessions of 2.5 hours each, once a week:
Tuesdays 17:30 - 20, Starting 23 September
All dates: 23 - 30 September; 7 - 14 - 21 - 28 October; 4 - 11 - 18 November
Where?
Online, on Jitsi Meet.
You won't need to download anything.
Number of participants
The number of attending participants can go from a minimum of 5 to a maximum of 20. There might be one or more assistants joining us to support you on your very personal learning journey.
Price
The cost of the course is between 300 and 500 euros.
We offer a sliding scale as everyone has a different income and financial situation, and we intend to leave you as much as possible the freedom to contribute out of your means and free will.
The payment takes place in two steps:
1) A prepayment of 100 euros before the beginning of the course to reserve your spot
2) The completion of the payment one week before the end of the course, so that your payment comes from gratitude and not only from a sense of duty
About money
Money is our favorite strategy to care for the sustainability of our offerings. It's very flexible and easy to direct towards what supports contributing to me, depending on the moment. Your contribution also supports a sense of mutuality in us.
At the same time, we are open to other possibilities if this one prevents you from joining. Please contact us if that's the case.
Materials
At the end of every session, you will receive a summary of the main points touched during the session and a recording of the lesson (for viewing, not downloading), which will be available until 2 weeks after the end of the course.
Registration steps:
1) Read the terms and conditions (I know, I also never read them, but I would really love to be on the same page with you on this, to make sure we are both at choice). By registering, you agree and consent to them.
2) Send an email to martinapescenvc@gmail.com with:
Subject: “From conflict to connection course”
Content: your name and surname + anything you’d like us to know
3) Complete the 100 euros prepayment by sending money to
Name: MARTINA PESCE
IBAN: IT65 Z036 4601 6005 2631 6114 217
BIC: NTSBITM1XXX
Please write “your name and surname” in the message description
or Paypal: martinapescenvc@gmail.com
Il tuo istruttore
Martina Pesce & Matthias Flury
Martina Pesce
My mission is to contribute to a world where everyone can be heard and seen, by others and themselves.
Hi, I'm Martina. I came in contact with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) through a relationship where I started to grasp the beauty of this tool. After 3 years of self-study and occasional practice, I was touched by how this communication allowed me to connect with my mum in conflict, so strongly that I felt love for her for the first time in 20 years.
Unsatisfied with the lack of mental health support in the neuroscience research field, I decided to switch careers and dive deep into NVC. I trained as a mediator, counsellor and trainer at the Connecting2life school (Yoram Mosenzon). It was a two-year-long process of embodying the tool and then learning how to transmit it so that it could sink in the body. For a year I've been holding my workshops, courses and 1:1 practice.
My approach is based on practice and embodiment. I found NVC very revolutionary and with that respect, I like to let sink in our system a few bits of info at the time, rather than an overwhelming waterfall of theory.
Matthias Flury
Hi. My name is Matthias. To be honest with you, I’m incredibly hesitant to write this short biography about myself. Part of the resistance comes from a fear of not being enough - it’s an insecurity that often comes alive since for many years of my life my need for connection wasn’t met, no matter what I tried. Out of this experience I’m shy to show and present myself, even to an unknown reader, to not go through the pain of rejection again. Another source for this hesitation is that I’ve got an idea of how I need to present myself here as a teacher. “I need to sell myself well and in a way that will make you trust me and curious to learn from me”. And I’m worried that I’ll try to perform as something I’m not in order to achieve that. Underneath the pressure of trying to be perfect I’m certain I’ll lose something incredibly important. I’ll lose connection to myself and with that any hope of actually contributing value to you.
That’s why I’ll start this introduction of myself like this. I’m looking forward to meeting you and exploring together how we can connect to our feelings and unknown desires. How we can hold space and lovingly meet each other exactly where we are in our authentic selves. This is the place where relationships gain intimacy and depth, where love grows and where life begins to make sense.
Just in case you actually want to know about my background: I started learning about NVC in 2019, took my first lessons with Empathie Stadt Zurich in 2020, and completed my education in 2023 with a course about teaching and embodying NVC by CNVC-Trainer Yoram Mosenzon. I regularly support NVC-teachers as an assistant in their courses and occasionally teach myself. If you have any questions you can reach me at matthias.flury@mail.ch.