• Explore the complexities of how gender and power impact everyday life
• Understand how unconscious bias influences your perceptions
• Discover how NVC can disrupt patterns and transform conversations
• Know how to keep showing up for equity, no matter where you are in the world

Wednesdays, April 9-May 14, 2025 (six sessions)
9:00-11:00am Pacific (California) Time
Online via Zoom

In a world where gender dynamics and power shape our experiences differently across cultures, how can we create meaningful equity? 

Breaking Barriers invites women and allies from around the globe to come together in a six-session journey that explores the intersections of gender, power, and identity. Rooted in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) principles, this course offers practical tools to confront unconscious bias, challenge stereotypes, and engage in dialogues that foster real change.

Whether you're familiar with NVC or new to these ideas, this course is designed to meet you where you are. 

Through this journey, you will have the chance to:

🏵️ Explore how gender and power show up in different contexts
🏵️ Learn how to navigate these complexities with curiosity and compassion 
🏵️ Gain the skills to build inclusive environments—in both your personal relationships and professional spaces
🏵️ Contribute to a world where every voice matters 

This is more than a course… It’s an active workshop designed for massive growth!

Together, we’ll break through the barriers that hold us back and step into a deeper understanding of what equity can look like for all of us.

What to Expect: 

• Session 1: Gender and Power: Seeing the Invisible and Naming What’s Real
  Explore how gender power dynamics impact everyday interactions and how unconscious bias influences your perceptions. We'll start by naming what often goes unseen.
• Session 2: Speaking for Equity: How Compassionate Dialogue Transforms Gender Dynamics
  Discover the power of Nonviolent Communication to disrupt patterns of inequality and transform conversations about gender and power in ways that bring people together.
• Session 3: Going Deeper: Practicing NVC to Break Through Gender Barriers
  Build your capacity to engage in difficult conversations about gender and power, practicing real-world scenarios that help you stay grounded, clear, and compassionate.
• Session 4: Standing Together: Allyship and Collective Action for Gender Justice
  What does it mean to be an ally across different gender experiences? You'll explore how to take meaningful action and co-create spaces where everyone’s humanity is honored.
• Session 5: When It Gets Hard: Responding to Resistance with Clarity and Compassion
  Resistance is part of the experience of confronting gender bias. Learn how to stay compassionate and hold firm to your values when facing pushback, while continuing to create the space for real dialogue.
• Session 6: Building for the Long Haul: Integrating Dialogue and Action for Lasting Change
  Pulling it all together, we’ll look at how to sustain these conversations and actions in your daily life. We’ll explore how to keep showing up for equity, no matter where you are in the world.

Join Roxy for a special Q&A Webinar on March 5th!

Roxy will be holding a special free Q&A event in honor of the International Women’s Day, which is celebrated in many countries around the world. It’s a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. 

SIGN UP HERE

 
Meet Your Trainer: Roxy Manning

Roxy brings decades of service experience to her work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms within individuals, communities, and organizations. 

Rooted in her experience as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant, Roxy’s passion for cultivating resilience and equity comes from seeing the vast inequities in the ways different communities were resourced throughout her development and education. 

She has worked and consulted across the U.S. with businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations wanting to move towards equitable and diverse hiring practices and workplace cultures, as well as with individuals and groups committed to social justice in Sri Lanka, Japan, The Netherlands, and Thailand.

Her own inner work coupled with her professional experience has grown her capacity to meet people with varying levels of education, disparate life experiences, and the most intense feelings in ways that help them feel heard, respected, supported, and loved.

 
Bonuses

Video recordings of every session
Forum discussion available in the classroom
Lifetime access to the classroom
Zoom sessions feature translated captions available in 30+ languages

Payment Information

Registration Fee: 
Early Bird 20% discount: $370 until March 19 ($462 after)
NVC Library members: $296 until March 19 ($370 after)*

Payment Plan:
Make 4 payments of $102 if registered before March 19*

*NVC Library members get 20% off their registration fee using code NVCL at time of checkout