NVC and Habits

Join Susan Wildin, MD, Certified Professional Coach for the workshop series, Living Peace, an online experience in connection to others and to yourself. The workshops are based on the work of Marshall Rosenberg on Nonviolent Communication, and will explore the basic elements of Marshall’s work in the context of our own lives. There will be a 2-hour workshop each month on a Sunday from 1:30-3:30. Please make note of the following dates and topics:

Choose Connection! January 10, 2021
Choose Self-Compassion! February 7, 2021
Choose Empathy! March 7, 2021
Transforming Anger into Compassion. April 11, 2021
Choose Honesty! May 2, 2021

Dates and Times: One Sunday each month, 1:30-3:30 pm CT, Jan 2021 thru May 2021

Cost: Susan requests $25 per session or $100 for the series to support her work and any amount would be appreciated.

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Would you enjoy less hassle and more connection with the children in your life? You are invited to an 8-week, online, weekly course on Heart-Centered Parenting facilitated by Susan Wildin, MD, CPC. Susan is a retired developmental behavioral pediatrician and a transformational life coach with 12 years of experience in Nonviolent Communication.

Heart Centered Parenting is for parents of children of all ages, grandparents, educators and anyone else who has contact with children. We will meet online on Saturdays from 10 am  to noon Central time from January 16 to March 6, 2020. Sessions are designed to build on one another, and you can still participate if you need to miss one or more sessions. The format will be 1 hour of topical teaching and practice and one hour of role play with real life issues in each session.

Registration is required so you can have handouts and the Zoom invitation prior to the meeting. I request $180 for the 8 week course and any amount will be accepted gratefully. Please contact me at susan@wildins.net if you need to request a dialogue about the fee request or have any other questions.

Where: On Zoom online

When: Saturdays from 10am-noon Central time from January 16-March 6, 2021

NVC and The Religious Experience: The Alignment of Needs Consciousness and Spirituality (PART 2)
– Karen Starz & Jamil Popatia


The founder and author of Nonviolent Communication, the late Marshall Rosenberg, was deeply interested in the common thread found in the world’s great religions and wisdom traditions. Drawing from some of them, Rosenberg was able to language some of the core beliefs and values as universal human needs; the heart of Nonviolent Communication. Despite this, the topic of religion and its potentiality within the framework and paradigm of NVC remains largely unexplored in circles of learning and teaching of Nonviolent Communication.

HoustonNVC invites you to explore the intersection of religion with Nonviolent Communication in this unique course offered online this winter. The content and structure will build upon the Religion and NVC course offered in the fall of 2020, although having attended the first course is not a prerequisite. Sessions will be led by 2 seasoned Facilitators/Trainers who have spent much of their adult lives in search of beauty and meaning aligning their unique religious beliefs with the practice and spirit of Nonviolent Communication.

All belief systems are welcome whether they are religious, secular, or atheistic. You’re invited to bring tough questions and have courageous dialogue.

Dates: Tuesdays from February 2nd through March 9th, from 7-9 pm CT

Cost: $290
Payment plans available upon request.

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The Skills of Facilitated Conversation: Mediation the Nonviolent Communication Way

Are you ready for a new way of mediating? Are you longing for solutions to come easily? Do you find it exhausting dredging up the same details over and over?

“All it takes is a lot of patience, the willingness to establish a human connection, the intention to follow NVC principles until you reach a resolution, and trust that the process will work.” -Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

For six sessions over 12 weeks, we will explore mediation in community from the perspective of a Nonviolent Communication consciousness. Guiding us through this journey are two CNVC Certified Trainers, Karen Starz and Michael Dillo, who have a passion to connect people in a human way so that they can enjoy contributing to each other’s wellbeing.

In this process, when connection is valued rather than details, solutions tend to come easily. Learn how to connect using observations, feelings, needs, and (doable) requests. Walk away with the confidence that connection is always available and accessible with patience.

This is not your typical legal mediation style. Come with an open mind and a willingness to share and practice. We will be using real-life experiences as role-play. Tools will be offered in presentations from Karen, Michael & video-clips from Marshall B. Rosenberg. Participants will be able to practice individually in smaller groups in break out rooms.

For graduates of this mediation course, we have a 6-week Mediation Practice Group starting April 30th, 2021, also 10 AM – 12 PM Central Time.

Karen Starz MA, MAEC, and CNVC Certified Trainer

Karen is a consultant, coach, speaker, and facilitator. The connection with Marshall Rosenberg’s work and NVC came naturally and peaked further, ongoing exploration into the foundations of NVC. Her background spans many areas, from interpersonal relationships, to businesses, schools, and non-profit organizations. Other services she provides include mediation, conflict resolution, and curriculum writing. Her approach to NVC is based on embodying the whole of nonviolent consciousness to create an automatic, empathic, somatic response and awareness. Karen aims to bring social change through learning, and is particularly interested in the spiritual connection that NVC fosters. One way she embodies this aim by contributing as President of Houston NVC.

See more at www.karenstarz.com

Michael Dillo, Assessor and CNVC Certified Trainer

Michael in his “first” life was a professor for civil engineering. In his PhD thesis he specialized in underground constructions and tunneling in rock, what paved his way from his home country Germany to Switzerland in the early 1990’s. As much as he enjoyed living in this beautiful country, he started to feel increasingly dissatisfied with his job as an engineer and was disheartened dealing with technical questions all day. He struggled with with fear of change and a lot of messages like: I “have” to pay for my family, I “have” to finance my house, my insurances, my car, the vacation…

In 1997 he was inspired to attend a workshop with Marshall B. Rosenberg to find some answers to his questions and fears. During the first three day-seminar, he received some fundamental life-changing answers. However, it took him quite a while to understand the difference between intellectually understanding NVC and internalizing it. For many years he began to connect with feelings and needs as he had never done in life before – he began to empathize with himself and others.

In 2002 trust in himself had grown so much that he was able to quit his engineering profession without feelings of fear or guilt. Again and again, he was fascinated by and grateful for the experience that things, people, inspiration, and even money come “by chance“. He has been a CNVC Certified Trainer since 2004 and started to work worldwide. In 2013 he was asked to join the CNVC Assessors Team of the German-speaking part of Switzerland and the CALF Team in the USA. He is passionate about supporting certification candidates on their path to deeply integrating NVC while heading for certification.

See more at www.frei-raeume.ch

When: Every other Friday from February 5th through April 16th, from 10 am – 12 pm CT

Where: Online

Cost: The requested amount is $240 for the six-week series. We are committed to making our workshops accessible to all. To request tuition support, email Karen Starz.

To Register: click here

For an in-depth learning of the fundamentals of Nonviolent Communication and a journey through “Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life“ by Marshall Rosenberg, please join Bren Hardt, CNVC-certified facilitator, in an 8 week study: Making Life Wonderful.

If you are eager to know and follow your own heart, to discover a path to inner freedom, to start creating a world that seeks to value and meet the needs of everyone including you, then join Bren Sundays from January 10 to Feb. 28.

This 8-week, highly interactive learning community will explore the transformative practices in Marshall Rosenberg’s book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Ed. (Puddle Dancer Press, 2015).  If you apply what you read, discuss, and practice, you will feel the magic of empathy, become a proponent of self-empathy, and understand how to bring presence to any situation for collaborative problem solving.

Course is perfect for the beginner, or a sound refresher for returning practitioners.

What if I can’t attend live? While live attendance is preferred, sessions will be recorded and sent via email to those who sign up for the series.

• What is unique about this course? Rosenberg’s compassionate communication framework is a powerful tool we can use to make authentic, heart-to-heart connections. Being heard, understood, and accepted is one of the most powerful gifts we can offer one another. It is also a gift that those around us desperately need. This group provides an opportunity to create peace in the world by creating peace within ourselves, as well as between ourselves and all with whom we speak.

The requested amount is $180 USD per participant for the 8 week series. You will also need to buy a copy of Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life.

Houston NVC supports all economic levels and does not turn away participants. Please contact Bren at bbhardt@gmail.com to make a request for tuition assistance or scholarship, as needed.

BEFORE CLASS:  Please read the introduction and first two chapters of Marshall Rosenberg’s “Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life” and come ready to practice. If you have never used Zoom as a meeting option, come a few minutes early to get settled with your technology.

Dates and Times: Sundays at 3-5 pm CT from Jan 10, 2021 to Feb 28, 2021.

Cost: Requested Contribution of $180

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Finding Common Ground in Challenging Times with David Weinstock

• Learn how to speak your truth with confidence
• Increase your ability to live with inner and outer harmony
• Discover new tools for creating and deepening connections
• Expand your capacity for holding others with compassion
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The “Let’s Work Collaboratively” Coaching Program with Dian Killian

• Bring NVC to work in radical game-changing ways
• Enjoy greater collaboration with your colleagues
• Expand your team’s effectiveness
• Experience more empowerment and ease with your boss
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Taste of Compassionate Leadership Free Video Conference with Jim & Jori Manske

• FREE program that meets on the fourth Saturday of most months
• Experience a taste of living within an empathic community
• Enjoy short yet powerful training/practice sessions with our trainers
• Learn concrete skills and steps for practicing compassion and leadership
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Would you like to bring Compassionate Communication to your group? Whether it is a school, a professional group, a gathering of friends or a spiritual based organization, we have a diverse group of NVC trainers in our area ready to create workshops or presentations to address your group’s specific needs.

Email us at info@HoustonNVC.org to learn how our highly qualified trainers can support you and your group.

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