Collaboration and Communication: Cultural Offerings Workshop Series Using Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

To nurture a Next Economy flourishing for all life, like a gardener tends to a diverse and thriving garden, we must sow seeds of collaboration, peacefully resolve conflicts, and cultivate positive relationships in our communities and homes.
Sounds beautiful, but we know that living from that vision isn't easy. What happens when there's tension or conflict? These workshops are a fun and engaging way to increase your effectiveness and joy in relationships even when they are hard. While we focus on work environments, the skills practiced in these workshops are effective at home and in all your relationships.

These individual workshops are available as stand-alone offerings, however together they work to reinforce each other as a tapestry of skills, woven together to address the main areas of difficulty you might face in relationships. This series is designed to empower you to be a force of positive change, creating environments where your values, leadership, and authenticity flourish. One of the benefits of doing the whole series is to significantly strengthen your muscle of self-advocacy and self-connection in the face of disagreement or misunderstandings. Whether you are new to NVC or have extensive experience, participants at all levels have found profound value in this approach.These workshops are online.

More Information URL
https://go.lifteconomy.com/culture-offerings

Registration URL
https://www.lifteconomy.com/culture-offerings-registration

The Culture Offerings workshop series includes:

+NVC Basics for Surfing Workplace Waves: This workshop will introduce you to perspectives useful for navigating relationship challenges. You'll learn how to de-escalate situations and ensure that people feel heard, even during disagreements. You will learn and practice techniques to enhance your inner awareness and clarity, and help you understand the motivations of others in workplace tensions.
Friday September 6th, 2024 10AM - 1PM PST

+Offering Feedback In The Workplace: a transformative two-part workshop designed to refine your feedback skills through the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Over six hours, divided into two sessions, you'll engage with self-connection tools, structured feedback approaches, and somatic exercises to enhance both verbal and nonverbal communication. This workshop goes beyond typical workplace interaction, providing insights that are applicable in personal relationships and community engagement as well. Whether you're new to NVC or a seasoned practitioner, this experience will deepen your understanding and empower you to communicate with empathy, clarity, and authenticity in all areas of life.
Part I: Friday September 27th, 2024 | 10AM - 1 PM PST
Part II: Friday October 11th, 2024 | 10AM - 1 PM PST

+Staying Grounded Under Fire at Work: Learn how to receive challenging interactions with more ease and playfulness. Embark on an enlightening journey with 'Staying Grounded Under Fire,' a workshop designed to bolster your ability to remain centered and connected to your values, even amidst challenging interactions. This experience goes beyond workplace dynamics, delving into techniques for long-term groundedness and immediate response to triggers, ensuring balance and presence in all aspects of life. Through role-plays, you'll transform theoretical concepts into practical skills, while exploring your inner realm to break reactive patterns and manage difficult emotions effectively.
Friday October 25th, 2024 10AM - 1:30PM PST

+How To Have Conversations About Race: Join us for 'How To Have Conversations About Racial Justice,' A two-part workshop that supports you to embody our values and ideals while advocating for justice in conversations about race. Grounded in compassion and empathy, this workshop will provide practical tools and insights for navigating complex racial issues with integrity and understanding. You will engage in a blend of self-reflection and group exercises, learning to apply Nonviolent Communication (NVC) techniques to foster connection and enhance your impact in these crucial conversations.
Part I: Friday November 1st, 2024, 10AM - 1PM PST
Part II: Friday November 15th, 2024, 10AM - 1PM PST

For more information about each individual workshop and to register visit our website https://go.lifteconomy.com/culture-offerings

More Information URL
https://go.lifteconomy.com/culture-offerings

Registration URL
https://www.lifteconomy.com/culture-offerings-registration

Facilitator Bio: Phoenix Soleil helps people bring their values and passions to their connections and conversations so they can make a difference and have more fun making that difference. She is an artist, activist, and educator with a deep interest in the intersections of community, emotional intelligence, and trauma. She teaches and practices Insight Meditation and is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). NVC is a powerful modality that helps us connect with others and our own emotions and values for more effective and healing interactions. She incorporates art and play using it as a tool to make the learning experience more engaging and fun.

Since 2018, she has served as a partner and co-owner at LIFT Economy, a worker-owned cooperative consulting firm dedicated to creating, modeling, and sharing a racially just, regenerative, and locally self-reliant economy that benefits all life. As a worker cooperative, all co-owners practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC), which is essential to their DNA and theory of change. They integrate NVC into their conflict resolution policies and utilize these skills to ensure effective and empathetic communication throughout their organization. Their extensive consulting experience with thousands of businesses has reinforced that communication and collaborative skills are essential for sustainability. Phoenix leads their Nonviolent Communication public workshops (Cultural Offerings).
Additionally, living in intentional communities has been part of her journey. Her experiences have given her an in-depth understanding of the complexities and challenges associated with communal living, collaborative work, and collective decision-making. She is particularly passionate about assisting individuals and organizations in cultivating healthy, thriving cultures. She is also deeply involved in improvisational theater, freestyle rap, dance, and writing. Currently, she is working on an Afrofuturistic sci-fi novel.

Over the years she’s conducted workshops and training sessions on communication, racial justice, and meditation for various organizations, including Google, the Kellogg Foundation, UC Berkeley, the Insight Meditation Society, and the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. She also facilitates mediations and restorative circles. 

You can listen to her engaging discussion with Sharon Salzberg on fierce compassion and self-care at a presentation for Google Talks. You may explore more about her work and insights through various videos and audio recordings available on her website, https://www.phoenixsoleil.com/

SAVE ON THE SERIES
Although each of these trainings are valuable individually as stand-alone offerings, we believe that they're more transformative when taken as a series — allowing more opportunities to build skills over time and in community.

To make the series as accessible as possible, we're offering all four courses (six trainings) for $500 - a savings of 25%.
Register here and save 25% when you sign up for the series: https://go.lifteconomy.com/culture-offerings 

LIFT Economy is an impact consulting firm dedicated to creating, modeling, and sharing a racially just, regenerative, and locally self-reliant economy that benefits all life. As a worker cooperative, all of our co-owners practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC), which is essential to our DNA and theory of change. We integrate NVC into our conflict resolution policies and utilize these skills to ensure effective and empathetic communication throughout our organization. Our extensive consulting experience with thousands of businesses has reinforced that communication and collaborative skills are essential for sustainability. Phoenix Soleil, one of our worker co-owners, is a certified NVC trainer and leads our Nonviolent Communication public workshops (Cultural Offerings). Learn more at LIFT Economy https://www.lifteconomy.com/