Description
This workshop is an opportunity to learn and experience how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can enhance your mindfulness practice and deepen your relationships by bringing more presence and compassion into daily life interactions. NVC is a communication process based on the principles of nonviolence and humanistic psychology. NVC tools and skills increase empathic understanding and reduce conflict in everyday interactions, giving participants the chance to connect with their own emotions and values—and also with others—for more effective and healing conversations and relationships, whatever the setting.
Phoenix Soleil is a certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainer with a large focus on teaching and doing restorative work. Phoenix is a graduate of the Spirit Rock Community Leader Program (CDL5). She serves as partner and co-owner at LIFT Economy, a worker-owned cooperative consulting firm practicing and using NVC to create, model, and share a racially just, regenerative, and locally self-reliant economy that benefits all life. Phoenix has led workshops on communication, racial justice, and meditation for organizations including Google, the Kellogg Foundation, UC Berkeley, the Insight Meditation Society, and the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, and has taught at meditation centers including the East Bay Meditation Center, Portland Open Door Meditation Community, Portland Dharma House and Insight Community of the Desert.  Â
Learn about Phoenix at go.lifteconomy.com/leadership and phoenixsoleil.com.
Attending an online workshop
- We will use Zoom for this workshop. Before your retreat begins, be sure to download Zoom and familiarize yourself with using the program, including the chat feature. Specifics about how we will use Zoom during your workshop will be covered initially; however, we cannot provide technical support.
- We ask that you treat our virtual meditation hall as if we were together in person, in the same room. The teachers and other yogis benefit significantly from your full presence and careful attention.
- Join each session of the workshop a few minutes early. This supports the teachers and your fellow participants.
- Ideally, power off phones and smartwatches for the entire time scheduled for the retreat each day. Please don’t check your devices during breaks. We suggest you put an “away” message on your email and voicemail and leave your devices in another room during workshop hours.
- Please keep your video on during our time together as much as possible. This supports a sense of connectedness and sangha.
- You will receive a welcome email from CIMC that includes the Zoom link, retreat schedule, and further information a day or two before your workshop.