Note: this event begins at 10:00Am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern
Conflict often narrows our perspective and pulls us toward familiar reactions: defending, blaming, appeasing, withdrawing, or attacking. With change accelerating in our world and high stakes in so many areas, how can we remain connected to our humanity and to one another when a conversation becomes difficult?
Join Certified Nonviolent Communication trainers Roxy Manning, Ph.D., and Oren Jay Sofer for a free, interactive online session exploring three practical ways to meet conflict with more steadiness, clarity, and care. The session will explore how to:
Stay grounded when emotions run high
Listen for what matters without abandoning your own perspective
Speak honestly and skillfully across differences
The session will include teaching, guided reflection, experiential practice, and time for questions. It is open to those new to Nonviolent Communication as well as experienced practitioners.
You’ll leave with concrete practices you can use in relationships, families, workplaces, communities, and social-change settings. All registered will have access to the replay for three weeks. Email programs@orenjaysofer.com with questions.
Looking for additional training? Check out:
Living Peace Retreat: 4-day online retreat in Nonviolent Communication
Immersion in Nonviolent Communication: 8-month online training starts Sept 19-20
Say What You Mean: On demand online course with Oren plus live Q&A
About the Trainers
Roxy Manning, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, certified Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) trainer, and author of How to Have Antiracist Conversations and The Anti-Racist Heart. Since 2004 she has operated a private consulting business and regularly holds international workshops and intensives centered around nonviolent communication and social change issues. She has served as executive director of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication and focuses her outside efforts on working with the homeless population of San Francisco.
Oren Jay Sofer, a CNVC Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer, teaches workshops and retreats on meditation and communication internationally. His teaching emphasizes how awareness practice and communication training deepen one another in a synergistic manner. He holds a degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and is certified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma. Oren is a husband, a father, and the author of several books including Your Heart Was Made For This, and the best-selling title, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.