NVC & Boundaries
Prezzo
Financial Coresponsaility
Durata
1.5 Days
Informazioni sul corso
NVC & BOUNDRIES
Weekend Workshop
What a delicate human moment it is — the one in which someone says or receives a “no.”
“Can we make love?”
— No.
“Would you like to go for a coffee with me?”
— No.
“Would you like to work together?”
— No.
It takes such vulnerability to voice a request — to courageously share your heart and its dreams. And it takes just as much courage to stay true to yourself, not to please the other at the cost of your own authenticity.
So often we end up saying yes when we actually mean no — because we’re afraid of losing connection, or because “it’s the right thing to do.”
This weekend is an exploration of those delicate moments — their depth, their vulnerability, and the dynamics they reveal.We’ll begin by discovering our own boundaries and what truly matters to us, since so much confusion and pain arise when we don’t even know where our boundaries are.
We’ll learn to say no in a way that is authentic, safe, and connecting. We’ll learn how to receive a no without betraying the vulnerability that comes with it. We’ll learn how to transform the moment of giving or receiving a no from a wall into the beginning of a meaningful dialogue — one where you can be you, and I can be me, together.
“Words are windows, or they’re walls.” — Marshall Rosenberg
Teaching Style
Expect minimum 50-70% practice and exercises, demonstrations and other interactive ways to engage, and the rest it’s gonna be theory.
When? 12, 13 December
Friday 12th: 18:30 - 21
Saturday 13th: 10 - 18:30
Daily schedule:
Friday 12th
Arrival: From 17
Dinner: 17:30-18:30
Intro to our time together: 18
Workshop / Playspace 18:30 - 20:30
Saturday 13th
Arrival: From 9
Morning Workshop / Playspace: 10-13
Lunch: 13 - 14:15
Afternoon Workshop / Playspace: 14:15 - 17:30
Financially Supporting the Event: 17:30 - 18(:30)
Goodbyes: Until 19
We’ll have organic breaks to support us through the schedule.
Where?
Braschzeile 12-14, 14109 Berlin (Wannsee).
For this day and a half workshop, we’ll be able to gather in the privacy and calmness of a house in Wannsee. A large garden with solemn old trees offers the grounding and space needed to gently move into the vulnerability to meet ourselves and each other at our boundaries and in the pain of where they’ve been crossed.
It’s possible to sleep on site for a limited amount of people, priority it’s given to who comes from out of town.
Experience:
No previous experience it’s required, everyone is welcome. The exercises will allow deepening the NVC practice even when you already have experience with it.
Who is this for?
Space is limited to a group of 12 people (10 participants + 2 hosts).As we want to create a safe container to also explore our hurting parts, we would prefer people to join for the full weekend flow. If you can’t join the whole thing contact us and we’ll see if it’s fitting for you to join only one day or a part of the workshop.If you have already joined an Intro to NVC Workshop from Martina or Matthias you can probably skip Friday evening, though we’d rather you be present to connect with the group and warm up the practice again.
Price?
This event is neither charged, nor free.
We’re intending to create/ to play with a conscious systems-based approach to money and how it flows in between humans. We want resources to flow towards serving & nourishing life. As we are co-creating learning, developmental and healing spaces we want to care for what’s needed for people to attend as well as for what’s needed so that we can continue to co-create such spaces.
That’s why we’ll offer two systems of distributing (monetary) resources in between the people present in an attempt to make this event financially sustainable for everyone.
About the food
Dinner and lunch will be prepared in advance, let us know of any special food allergies
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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.