Workshops offered by all trainers

Through guided meditation followed by dyad exercises, you will get to reveal your personal Core Values, those long-term needs that feel like the foundation under your feet. Knowing your core values becomes a personal scaffold for growing your relationships, and supporting you through decisions.

The art of restoring a relationship that has been harmed through your words or actions. Self-empathy, receiving the other unconditionally, and creating a fierce and loving relationship. Featuring those cases where you were unaware of harm perceived by the other – such as micro aggressions. Expect roleplays and exercises and an intrinsic experience of what it feels to have restored balance.

Sometimes, feelings words don’t really catch the other person’s experience. Or the other is not in a relationship with their feelings. Metaphors can serve as a shortcut to what really matters. In this session, you will learn and practice how to use metaphors in empathy without imposing something on the other. It lightens the conversation while offering synchronized accompaniment. As  in the  aerial acrobatics.

In this class, we will look at the identities we humans carry with us – and what they mean to our ability to connect from the heart. We will look at the barriers to a connection that cultural norms and power differences have prompted on us, and find our personal language to promote eye-level connection anyway. Expect to explore how your multi-faceted identity – especially those aspects you are not aware of – influences you and others, and how to bypass them through acknowledgment of yourself and the other person.

  Have you ever been told not to be so harsh on yourself? Did it support you toward inner peace – or did it just add another layer to your self-criticism?

Many of us have an inner commentary track that ongoingly points out what we shouldn’t have said or done, that we should look differently; simply that we are not good enough. It can be exhausting and draining.                                                                                                                                                                             In this workshop, you’ll learn to recognize the voice of your inner critic and understand its origins. You will discover why it exists and how it is intending to protect you. Through acknowledging its noble purpose,  you will practice how to transform your inner critic from a harsh judge into a supportive ally.

The workshop is experiential with theory from NVC and Internal Family Systems, IFS. Expect a demo and partner exercises. 

                                                                                                                                                                                         This could be an important workshop for you if you struggle with self-doubt and negative self-talk, and want to improve your self-esteem and confidence. And you’ll learn a simple process to support your practice buddies beyond this workshop.

Explore creative, somatic approaches to the fundamentals of Nonviolent Communication.
We’ll uncover how habitual responses become embodied and how new, life-serving habits can take root through intentional practice.

Learn the S.U.R.F. Centering practice—Shape, Unify, Resource, and Field—to deepen empathic presence.
This mind-body approach helps clarify emotions, clear blockages, and cultivate an embodied field of listening grounded in needs and presence.

This practice draws on Tai Chi, visualization, and language to explore five elemental energies—ground, water, wind, fire, and space.
Each element reflects a core human need and offers insight for navigating internal and relational overwhelm with more grace and harmony..

IOur core strategies often reflect early survival needs. This session helps identify and transform those embodied patterns.
Through breath, awareness, and empathy, we’ll learn to meet reactivity with compassion and shift toward inclusive, intentional responses.

Gratitude holds both joy and grief. In this session, we’ll explore mourning and celebration as powerful pathways to healing.
Embracing both expands our emotional capacity and fosters deeper connection—to self, others, and the sacredness of life.

This session introduces seven core qualities—care, courage, curiosity, centering, creativity, confidence, and commitment.
Together, they form a foundation for honest, heart-led, and skillful communication rooted in embodied NVC consciousness.

Internal mediation aligns thought, feeling, and intuition, helping you access clarity and compassion from within.
By practicing internal consensus, we cultivate the same presence and skills that foster group harmony and shared understanding.  

This integrative map guides you through the body’s signals during conflict and overwhelm.
By slowing down and listening deeply, Spiral Blend helps shift reactive patterns into empathic presence and collaborative action.

Leadership begins from within. This session explores somatic practices to align your words and actions with your deepest values.
We’ll cultivate embodied presence, honesty, empathy, and grounded choice—qualities that empower personal and collective leadership.l.

Anxiety is just a normal stress response and yet, when it is occurring too often, it can become a mind pattern that can lead us to anxiety disorders. 

We will talk about what is going on in our brains when anxiety becomes too persistent and interferes with our daily life, and how to break the pattern.

When we forgive others, we make more space in our hearts. The more space we have, the easier it is to be compassionate and self-connected. Forgiveness is sometimes hard because a wish for revenge or deep pain and a wish to forgive are fighting. That’s why many people don’t really forgive, they just suppress.

We will learn how to forgive others and ourselves through four steps that will lead us a deeper place of ourselves and help us in genuine empathy and self- empathy.

How NVC can support us to grow through levels of consciousness. When we open our hearts wide enough and connect with Needs, we connect with aspects of our consciousness that – rather than missing – are already complete and full. 

Ceremony is powerful beyond the mind, because it follows our nature, which is beyond it. Coming together, opening our hearts, being vulnerable, and helping each other with naked presence will be parts of this ceremony. It will deepen the process of radical forgiveness and integrate it more easily into life.

All of us have feminine and masculine aspects in us. 

Carl G. Jung describes them as Anima / Animus, we know Jin / Jang in Chinese and Shiva/ Shakti in Eastern philosophy. We will talk about what is their role in the journey to authenticity and learn to look at and transform their past pains to open the qualities behind in order to become more whole and present.

When we are looking for feelings and needs, we reach deeper into ourselves.

When we leave our mind behind and start to be in touch with our body, It takes as even deeper. We will explore parts of our psyche through elements of the dance therapy approach and go to places, that reveal themselves easier when we just make space. With movement, we will go into the field of life and explore how we express and live ourselves in it.

We are in a constant decision-making process. Many of the choices we make are routine, some even don’t require much attention. In this workshop, we will explore how to make conscious choices when we are facing inner conflict, as these choices we make, may have an important impact on our lives. We will learn and practice how to resolve inner conflict by getting deep embodied contact to live in us, our feelings and needs, and search for strategies that support life in us. A simple yet powerful tool to use in daily life and practice.

Connecting and keeping a connection to life in us in any given moment enables us to speak and act aligned, with peace, and empathy, express honestly and find the courage to show vulnerability, allowing others to connect to us. Using the process of deep self-empathy, we can utilise our body intelligence to change our responses to inner or outer stimuli and connect to our needs rather than experiencing triggers and experience strong unpleasant feelings and emotions. It can also help us understand and internalise a path to embody and connect to our inner world, feelings and needs with more ease and confidence.

I often hear that NVC is a serious practice and should not be taken lightly.  At he same time, I get feedback from participants, that their family, friends, or colleagues struggle to learn NVC, as it involves lots of pain, vulnerability, and commitment (and it’s not fun). As much as learning and sharing principles of NVC may be a deep and emotionally intense process, there are also many ways of learning and sharing NVC with your dearest ones and workshop participants where people are more likely to dive into exploring NVC with ease, play and more creative and still efficient and enriching ways. We will be exploring a series of playful exercises you can use in many situations with more relaxed and less formal ways.

I find requests the most tricky part of NVC. In this workshop, we will mainly focus on small and important details, how to create requests that may serve and enrich your life and at the same time support others to be able to hear it and give them more choices of saying joyfully yes to it. We will be deeply engaged in the principles of inter-dependence and use most of the time to practice by moving through the space of request staps.

This offering focuses on lively exploration and discussion of NVC consciousness and linguistics in
relationship to parenting, both as children being parented and as being parents to children. We will
integrate David Weinstock’s somatic practices to identify strategies we learned as young people that
may no longer support who we wish to be in present time. We will practice aligning “head over heart,
over belly”, to explore and identify the inconsistencies that occur between our hearts and our lips, and
to gently hold the grief that we feel when our actions don’t match up with who we wish to be. 
Through the lens of “re-parenting” ourselves, we create the space to choose new strategies that more
successfully serve us as adults. Whether we are already parents, or are choosing to have children, this
class offers tools to support our longing to show up as the best humans we can be, especially when we
are challenged to “re-parent” ourselves while in the daily process of actually being parents.

This offering is an exploration of the NVC distinction of needs and strategies, specifically in the context
of sexuality.  We will invite a lively conversation to illuminate enculturated assumptions around sexuality
to support the development of the conscious choice of sex as a mutual strategy that can meet many
different kinds of needs. We will integrate David Weinstock’s somatic practices to support exploration
and alignment of “head over heart, over belly” in the context of how we engage in sexual relationships,
what need we are longing to fulfil, the grief we may feel in needs not met, or meeting one’s needs at the cost of another’s not getting met, and how we can consciously move toward choosing sex as a strategy
to joyfully meet mutual needs.

This offering is an exploration, discussion of, and practices to inform and develop our universal need for
community.  Integrating David Weinstock’s somatic practices, we can develop our muscles toward a
more fluid experience of the dance between “me and we” to support our communal life.  Living in an
intentional community since 1991, we are conscious of the “long arc of time” that invites us to witness,
fight and forgive smaller grievances and to bring more compassion into our collective desire to create a
more beautiful, compassionate world for all life on the planet. 

In this workshop, we will focus on experiencing finding a win-win solution. First, we will raise our awareness of needs, feelings and strategies we use to fulfill our needs. By engaging in exercises we will work on our conflicts to see what is it that prevents us from finding a solution that is best for both parties. And lastly, the safe space we create will let our imagination run free and find unique win-win solutions. The experience will help us apply this skill in other conflicts as well. We will go home ready to take on the world with our minds open. 

In this session, we will take up learning how to ask for the moon (if that is something that will meet our needs ). With a quick warmup activity, we will remind our subconscious selves about everything we know about needs, feelings, and strategies. Working in pairs we will address our personal conflicts to see how we could enrich your lives by learning how to ask for what will in fact fulfill our needs. Requests that actually do make our lives more wonderful have a few particularities and we will explore that too. When we hit that homerun though … we will celebrate too.

Argh, regret, self-blame, blaming others – feelings and states that we are struggling to overcome in our lives. And we get better with each practice. And it takes time, but our capacity grows. You are kindly invited to explore calming down techniques from meditating to EFT and find your favorite. 

In this workshop, we will focus on freely feeling our feelings, whether they come in the form of thoughts, sensations or emotions. It sounds too simple to be true, but our bodies have been protecting us from feeling in order to manage our lives. The space I am offering welcomes stuckness and breathing will move it. Feelings guide us to our needs, and in that space we become free to choose how to move in our lives. 

There are many voices inside our systems, each doing its part to protect, navigate, maintain, or manage the course of our lives. Some of these parts are louder than others, some more tired, some more sassy and some more afraid than others. We will take time to listen to a few of these parts and see how offering space for their realities and acknowledging their needs can help us feel free and whole. 

We said something we didn’t mean. We apologize. Life goes on. And then… we again say something we don’t mean. We apologize and life goes on. How about we stop and see where the thing we didn’t mean stems from? Which core belief is it attached to and what need does it feed? Once we arrive and feel whatever got stuck when this core belief was formed, we can choose to care for this need in different, more life-enriching ways.

Different roles trigger different needs, and as parents, we might feel overwhelmed, frustrated, inspired, and blessed at the same time. The container that holds the different roles we play out in our lives is our identity. How do we go about listening for needs and finding strategies that work for us holistically and not only for some of our parts? And furthermore, how do we as adults lead our families in this consciousness?

I am driving home from an afternoon lecture I just had, drained and proud and tired and hungry and also maybe a bit restless, excited, and sad. All of these feelings – I know – are pointing to a whole list of unsatisfied needs. And I’m too something to address them, so I stop to get high on some chocolate wafers. Huh, I just feel better altogether. Well, there is some sickness and some guilt, but hey, overall, I feel better. Happy to arrive home at last, I hug my kids, kiss my husband, and then, surprisingly, snap at one of my kids for asking for some fun and connection. The unsatisfied needs I delusionally met with food, asked for my attention again, now more loudly and fiercely.  

How do we sense what we need when we eat, and how do we take care of ourselves in a more sustainable way?