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Turkey 2023


International Intensive Training (IIT) by the Center for Nonviolent Communication

Begins: Friday, October 06, 2023
Ends: Sunday, October 15, 2023

Audience: Open to All Experience levels

English, Turkish
Format: In person
Sirince Mahallesi, Kayserkaya Sokak No:20, Selcuk, Izmir, 35290, Turkey

Join us for this residential retreat in Şirince, Turkey (06 - 15 October, 2023) that will help you bring nonviolence and peace into all areas of your life.

Building Bridges Across the Divided

In this IIT we come together to explore what can bring us to the table even if we are about to lose hope. We want to investigate together how Nonviolent Communication (NVC) can support people out of the polarization trap (separation) into mutual understanding, connection and finding ways of collaboration to create new possibilities.

When it comes to different viewpoints and/or intense emotions in a group, we tend to split off through arguments. The purpose of a dialogue is to open a space to listen and to be heard. When we sit in a dialogue circle, it is possible to understand the intense feelings and thoughts through expressing and hearing them. Our perspective stretched out by connecting to the heart's longings behind the arguments of each other. These conversations reveal mutual understanding that occurs change. So could we enter a space of cooperation.

In this event, you can discover skills that will help you improve the quality of your relationships, deepen your inner peace, and increase your contribution to the world.

This 9-day immersion experience into Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will offer learning sessions, home groups, coaching and feedback from skilled trainers, and a community environment where you can learn and practice the key skills of NVC.

Our team of Certified Trainers will share both the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique applications. We expect a group of approximately 50 to 60 people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.

People around the world are using Nonviolent Communication skills to transform conflict, create resilience in their relationships, and build a world where everyone's needs matter and are met collaboratively.

We will create a dynamic learning laboratory that will show you how to create a more compassionate and peaceful culture in your life at home, at work, and in your community by learning how to:

  1. Speak from the heart
  2. Practice deep, non-judgmental listening
  3. Build self-empowerment from the inside out

The cost of this training includes two components: 1) Tuition; and 2) Room and Board. Click below for details.

      3 STEPS TO YOUR IIT EXPERIENCE WITH CNVC:

      FUN FACT

      The name of the venue “Stoa” is a word identified with a tradition of philosophy that has thousands of years of history and is still relevant. While we do not claim to be Stoic, we believe that we are making progress by adopting many important principles of Stoicism, sometimes without even realizing it. Chief among these is that the Stoic tradition is a quest for the good life. According to this tradition, the establishment of a good life involves a search for a stillness that wants to go beyond conflicts. Serenity, on the other hand, according to the Stoics, is nothing but living in harmony with nature in a broad sense, because nature is a perfect design.

      IIT training team for Turkey 2023

      Introducing the Certified Trainers you will learn from and meet during your stay. Each will share the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique approach and passion for NVC. You'll also connect with many like-minded people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.

      IIT organizing team for Turkey 2023

      THE 3 MAIN GOALS OF CNVC'S INTERNATIONAL INTENSIVE TRAINING (IIT)

      The purpose of this intensive training is to give you the opportunity to live the process of Nonviolent Communication in community over an extended period of time, in order to develop the mindsets and practical tools to help you in three areas:

      Personal and Professional Relationships

      • Increase connection and closeness with the people you love.
      • Speak in a way that inspires compassion and understanding.
      • Initiate difficult conversations with more ease and confidence.
      • Remain centered and peaceful when receiving difficult messages.
      • Express and receive anger fully, safely and respectfully... yet powerfully.
      • Resolve long-standing conflicts and heal painful relationships.
      • Parent children from the heart and move beyond power struggles into cooperation.
      • Translate criticism, judgments and blame into life-serving messages.

      Inner Transformation

      • Shift patterns of thinking that lead to depression, guilt and shame and that perpetuate pain.
      • Transform anger into self-understanding, thereby increasing inner peace.
      • Enliven yourself by expressing and receiving gratitude.
      • Learn to embody unconditional love.

      Contribution to others and Social Change

      • Share NVC in ways that transmit and model its power to transform and inspire others.
      • Create educational systems where students love learning and teachers love teaching.
      • Learn to engage in effective, lasting nonviolent social change in the tradition of Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
      • Facilitate meetings and support group decision making in a power-sharing, collaborative, and consensus-based ways.
      • Support holistic and human-based workplaces.
      • Engage with others at work and in the community to foster openness, trust and authenticity.
      • Support mutual understanding and connection when working in colonized countries.
      • Foster restoration and harmony by mediating conflicts and helping to resolve differences among others.
      While we will prioritize these three areas in the curriculum, there is also room for co-creation. There will be opportunities for you to request specific topics and applications to support you in living and sharing NVC at work, home, and in the community as well as internally in how you relate to yourself.