Offerings
Our mission is to empower organizations, schools, families, couples and individuals to achieve the vision of what they can fully be.
Upcoming Events
Self Care Leadership Project - 6 sessions starting Sep 22
This is a pilot project wherein we will take our self-care seriously, while not taking ourselves too seriously. The program will run from Saturday, Sept 22nd then 5 Tuesday evening sessions through December 11th. Themes: deep listening, embracing vulnerability, courageous conversations, beloved sanctuary, centering relationship & community care in social & political justice, heartfelt gratitude, the challenges of trauma, secondary trauma & reweaving our human fabric. A variety of NVC and mindful embodied experiences will be offered, and participants are welcomed to contribute to the offering and learning.
Starts on Saturday, Sep 22, 2018 10:00AM-2:00PM, then 5 Tuesdays, Oct 9, 23, Nov 6, 27, Dec 11, 2018 7:00-9:00PM | Trainer: Pam Orbach and Kristen Jawad | Location: Seattle, WA
An Introduction to Restorative Justice - 1 day workshop
A transformative methodology for community building and conflict resolution using a restorative approach. It is an invitation for a journey of discovery and learning ways to promote a Restorative Culture in our homes, our workplaces, schools, organizations, spiritual centers, and in the justice system. A day of inspiration and renewal.
Saturday, Oct 6, 2018 9:00AM-5:30PM | Trainer: Pam Orbach | Location: Bellevue, WA
Garden Project Open Work Party
This is going to be a celebratory day- working together, meeting whatever needs arise. Sharing food, connection, creativity and fun. We appreciate we all have different thresholds of how much physical activity we can do, we want anyone who would enjoy being with us to come, there will high and no physical exertion ways to contribute and be invaluable to the group on the day. Please be as creative as you like, bring yoru instrument, bring some food, just make sure you bring yourself! Come for all of it, and if you can make part of it, let us know what works for you... All needs matter.
Saturday, Oct 14, 2018 11:00AM-4:00PM | Trainer: Pam Orbach & Marisa Hendron | Location: Seattle, WA
On-Going Events
Garden Project - 10 meetings in 4 seasons
NVC teaches us to listen for and value our own and others needs, and make compassionate conscious choices . Can we apply these principles to the physical world around us, to all that lives. Pam Orbach (NVC Trainer), and Marisa Hendron (Horticulturalist and NVC practitioner), have formed a partnership to offer an ongoing once a month 6 hour hands-on series that will create ongoing community for a year, (all 4 seasons)
10 meetings starting in March 2018 | Facilitator: Pam Orbach & Marisa Hendron | Location: Seattle, WA
Restorative Justice - Restorative Circle Practice Group
This is an invitation to all who have been part of our facilitator trainings, restorative community learning, and for those who have not yet experienced restorative justice approaches to building community or restorative conflict transformation before.... please join us for connection, practice and deepening understanding and learning.
Every 2nd Thursday, 6:30-8:00PM | Facilitator: Pam Orbach | Location: Seattle, WA
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"Medicine for Hate" Conversation 2-Hour Workshop (By Request)
By arrangement at a time convenient for you. Consider hosting a 2-hour Medicine for Hate workshop in your living room, church, school, or conference room. Any size group. This is an interactive exploratory conversation that taps into our own experiences to find wisdom and understanding about hate. It offers an opportunity to engage differently with ourselves and others when we are at a loss, or when we find ourselves disconnecting from others as a result of hate speech, or acts of hate. Leaning into hate in order to heal, and open to others can offer empowerment. More details provided below.
Agreed Date & Time | Location: Your space. Your community.
Past/Planned Events
2018
An Introduction to Restorative Justice - 1 day workshop
A transformative methodology for community building and conflict resolution using a restorative approach. It is an invitation for a journey of discovery and learning ways to promote a Restorative Culture in our homes, our workplaces, schools, organizations, spiritual centers, and in the justice system. A day of inspiration and renewal.
Saturday, Act 25, 2018 9:00AM-5:30PM | Trainers: Pam Orbach & Susan Partnow | Location: Seattle, WA
Giving and Receiving for couples and pairs
This is an opportunity for you and your partner to nurture yourselves and explore giving and receiving together. What are your needs? Can you ask for what what's wanted? Can you fully receive? Can you hear feedback? What does caring for the 'We' mean?
Sunday, Feb 11, 2018 4:00-7:30PM | Trainers: Pam Orbach & Kristen Jawad | Location: Seattle, WA
2017
Giving and Receiving for couples and pairs
This is an opportunity for you and your partner to nurture yourselves and explore giving and receiving together. What are your needs? Can you ask for what what's wanted? Can you fully receive? Can you hear feedback? What does caring for the 'We' mean?
Sunday, Dec 3, 2017 | Trainers: Pam Orbach & Kristen Jawad | Location: Seattle, WA
Communicating and Connecting with Compassion - Level II 6-Week Course
[ONGOING] "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new sights, but in looking with new eyes." Marcel Proust. If you have begun the journey of being different, and doing things differently, This is an opportunity to continue beyond the basics and learn in community. This 6 week Wednesday evening Level 2 series is about deepening, expanding and practicing NVC. Join us, we will learn together.
6 Wednesdays: Sept 13, 20, 27; Oct 04, 11, 18, 2017 7:00PM-9:00PM | Trainer: Pam Orbach | Location: Greenwood, Seattle, WA
Introduction to Restorative Justice and Restorative Circles - 2-Day Workshop
Do you struggle with school discipline, school to prison pipeline, conflict in the work place, or do you want to increase awareness about your own sense of what justice is? In every relationship we have, we react and respond to conflict ways that increase or deescalate tensions. What if we establish agreed ways of dealing with tensions, or responding in ways that create more connection and growth? We will spend a day learning about and experiencing restorative practices. Join us.
Sat-Sun Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2017 9:00AM-5:00PM | Trainers: Pam Orbach and Andrea Brenneke | Location: St. Marks Cathedral, Capital Hill, Seattle, WA
Self Care: An NVC experience for Women (By Request)
"re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.” Whitman Practices for deeper self understanding and caring for your whole well being. A needs assessment around selfceare, and an offering of strategies that support meeting those needs. An evening of physical delights & soul nurturing
Sept 24, 2017 3:30PM-7:30PM | Trainers: Pam Orbach and Kristen Jawad | Location: Greenwood, Seattle, WA
An Experience of Silent Empathy with Choice for Some Light Touch
This will be an exploration of silent and touch empathy for self and other. We will practice mindful presence to explore empathy without words.
Medicine for HATE
"When hate becomes respectable, then it is particularly dangerous." Harold Thurman. Do you feel powerless when you hear hate speech, or witness acts of hate? - Are you struggling to find a way to engage with current political polarization at the dinner table? - Is there disconnection from people you care about, because their views are difficult to hear? Please join this interactive exploratory conversation to tap into our own experiences and find wisdom about the medicine for hate (inspired by conversation with Kit Miller, Director of the Gandhi Institute of Nonviolence in Rochester New York).
2015-2016
Communicating and Connecting with Compassion - Intro Level Course
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new sights, but in looking with new eyes." Marcel Proust. In these confusing times, there is a search to both be different and do things differently. This 6 week Wednesday evening intro to communicating and connecting with compassion is a response to a number of requests. Will you join the journey- we will learn and explore together?Bridging the Gap Between Parents and Teens
Would you like to have more harmony in your home? This workshop will build understanding and skills for honest and loving intergenerational communication. We will explore how to have care flow both ways between parents and their teens. Each week we will focus on different aspects of connecting with ourselves and our children. We will use fun experiential exercises to learn compassionate ways of parenting; Mindful living, Nonviolent communication and self care. Places are limited.
Nonviolent Communication
Do you wish you could communicate more authentically with others? Would you enjoy increasing your ability to be in touch with what you deeply long for? Would expressing yourself with strength and compassion support you? With increased awareness and skill, life can be more wonderful for you and the people you connect with
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The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be quiet and listen. ~ Rumi
Power
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
Mahatma Gandhi