This page contains comments from the staff and trainers about the current Compassionate Leadership 2008 program.
Jori Manske writes,
My involvement with this team of trainers and the participants of our Compassionate Leadership program has been deeply connecting, enriching and fun! Together we have built a supportive community of co-leadership focused on deepening the consciousness and skills of Nonviolent Communication, and evolving our own uniquely meaningful leadership plan.
The extensive format includes working together with others who are experienced in NVC during and between retreats, over approximately 8 months, we have developed ever-increasingly authentic relationships with ourselves and each other as we learn and grow together.
We focus on building skills for organizing and sustaining communities such as power-with structuring, efficient connecting group decision-making, facilitation, and mediation. Each member brings and shares their unique experience. I bring my passion and experience with NVC and developing and sustaining cooperative communities that contribute effectively with decades of experience in business, relationship, and community, extensive facilitation and mediation experience since 1992, and sociocracy experience since 2004.
Would you come play with one of our newly forming communities? If you would like to talk about participating, please connect me by email, Jori@cnvc.org, or phone, 505-344-1305.
Warmly,
Jori Manske
505-344-1305
CNVC Certified Trainer and Mediator
& Board Member of The Center for Nonviolent Communication®
Rodger Sorrow writes,
I want to share with you my excitement, enthusiasm and passion for the Compassionate Leadership program I will be offering in 2009 with Jori and Jim Manske and Kathi Aichner. This passion comes from my wanting to contribute to NVC going forward in the world and the wonderful experience we are having with the 2008 program. I imagine peace on the planet in our lifetime and believe it is possible. I want to work with and support those who share this vision. I want to contribute to the development of NVC knowledge, skills and consciousness in others and especially in those who want to teach NVC and share it with organizations and communities.
In the Compassionate Leadership program we will co-create a community that will support each other in taking NVC forward in our lives, our relationships, our organizations and our world. Participants will have the opportunity to create a personal leadership plan for doing this. There will be support to create the plan, work the plan and empathy when we're stuck or just don't want to in our leadership pod sessions. There will be private phone sessions with trainers, an empathy buddy system, and group teleconferences to provide a continuity of support, connection and community between our retreats.
I invite you to call or email me if you have questions. I hope you will join us.
Warmly,
Rodger Sorrow
Certified Trainer, The Center for Nonviolent Communication
Tel 805-687-6961
rodgersorrow@verizon.net
A message from Kathi Aichner on Compassionate Leadership 2008
Hello to each of you reading this. I am writing because I would like you to know what it is that excites me about Compassionate Leadership that I will be offering with Rodger Sorrow, and Jim and Jori Manske beginning in late February of 2008.
I invite you to consider Compassionate Leadership if you want support in attaining self-reliance and self-assurance in your personal use of Nonviolent Communication. I have been given the gift of self empowerment, skills in which I can return to that precious, peaceful calm within. I can think of nothing that would give me more joy that to give this gift to you.
For me, leadership is about supporting a rising up and then letting go. I want to share ways that will allow each of you to reconnect with your heart. Having the tools and knowing how I can use them to support my ability to reconnect with myself has been freeing. I want give you this freedom. I see giving of this gift as my strategy towards world peace, bringing peace to others, one heart at a time.
Also I want to share that recently I had the opportunity to attend a training offered by Dominic Barter on Restorative Justice. I am very excited to have this learning and look forward to the opportunity to share this amazing (yes, my label) program with you. I was surprised to learn it is not only being used within the justice branch of government in Brazil, but in schools and within family units as well. Perhaps you will be as inspired as I am for this process that incorporates the skills of Nonviolent Communication in a highly usable way.
If you find you would like more information about Compassionate Leadership I invite you to go to www.compassionateleadershiptraining.com. I would be happy to talk with anyone who would like more information. You can reach me at 805.434.1704. I look forward to hearing from you.
If you would pass this along to anyone you believe might enjoy knowing about our program I would be most grateful.
Thank you for your time, Kathi Aichner
Co-Founder in 2001 of Communication from the Heart
www.communicationfromtheheart.com
CNVC Trainer Candidate
Paso Robles, CA, USA
Jeanne Northsinger wrote:
Hello,
This is an invitation to those of you who, like me, are more interested
in the use of NVC in your personal life than in formal teaching of NVC.
The processes that are being created for Compassionate Leadership 2008
support personal growth and consciousness as well as more outward
directed development.
Whether your goals are to share NVC consciousness in the world or
transform internal issues, this program and these experienced trainers
will support you in clarifying those goals and provide resources for
moving toward them. In designing your leadership plan, you will
determine your focus and direction.
The private sessions with a trainer were one valuable part of
leadership group for me (two years ago). Each session was tailored to
my specific need at the time of the appointment. I chose to address
early childhood issues. The result was the resolution of pain I had
been trying to heal for nearly 60 years!
If you have any question as to whether the focus of Compassionate
Leadership 2008 is for you, please call me or one of the trainers to
discuss your concerns.
Sincerely,
Jeanne
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Jeanne Northsinger
Coordinator, Compassionate Leadership 2008
Jim Manske wrote:
Greetings Friends,
Happy New Year!
I'm touched in the moment remembering both the struggles and the pleasure
I've been experiencing these past few days in Munich at our first
"face-to-face" meeting of the Global Community Circle. It was a little
like riding a roller-coaster of pain and pleasure as our international team
discovered together some of the challenges of "leadership" within our NVC
Network. I feel both grateful and gratified by remembering the joy of
living NVC together within our GCC team. Such warmth, aliveness, creativity
and connection!
Before I got involved in Nonviolent Communication, I had a view of
leadership that was more linked to "leader as dominator" or "leader as
tyrant" as I looked through the eyes of my own programming. I saw almost
all authority as the source of fear, punishment, and coercion. Through
practicing NVC I have begun a process of healing my own "authority wounds"
and have begun to experience leadership as a meaningful and joyous quality
of partnership that acknowledges the gifts we can all offer one another. I
see it as natural to seek the leadership of someone with more experience and
training if I want to learn or integrate skills or head in a direction I'd
like to go. Likewise, it seems to meet many needs within me and within
others when I offer my experience, talents and learning to someone who seeks
it. It continues to become clearer in me how we can all learn to lead one
another with no one paying the price of domination as long as we remain
committed to the clarity of our intentions.
During the Compassionate Leadership training that I will be offering in
partnership with Jori, Rodger Sorrow, and Kathi Aichner, I expect to deepen
my understanding of the relationship of compassion and leading and gain more
clarity about the distinction between domination and leadership. I feel so
curious to know who will decide to share this adventure with us. I am
imagining a diverse group of people joyously sharing an intention to connect
and to integrate the skills and consciousness of Nonviolent Communication.
I see us all coming together in community experiencing one another in a safe
and nurturing environment designed to cultivate an ongoing awareness of the
needs that we all share. I foresee inspiring projects emerging from our
time together that will enrich and nourish our hungry, thirsty planet. I'm
excited to invite you to consider joining us as we explore "Compassionate
Leadership" during 2008.
If you feel curious to know more, would you be willing to look at our
website? If questions or concerns remain in you, I'd love the chance to
connect about them. And, if you're ready to apply to attend the course, you
can begin the process either on the website or by contacting our registrar,
Jeanne Northsinger. I'm grateful for your consideration.
Warmly,
Jim Manske
1.505.344.1305
http://compassionateleadership.squarespace.com/