Train For Life Communication

Our Goal: To support educators in creating schools and classrooms where compassion, respect and cooperation naturally thrive and where the joy of learning is palpable. We envision our young people with skills to create life-serving systems within themselves, with others and in their future social and political organizations, thus empowered to create a peaceful and sustainable world.

The Educators Institute is designed to:

Co-create a life-enriching classroom
Strengthen Nonviolent Communication skills
Model and practice processes for learning sucess
Teach activities for sharing NVC with students
Create a fun and safe nurturing environment
Create a network for ongoing support

By participating you will practice skills that increase your ability to:

Care for your own needs as well as the needs of your students
Create relationships based on mutual respect
Inspire cooperation
Reduce and resolve conflicts
Communicate effectively
Put democratic values into practice
Have less stress, more fun

Training Team: John Cunningham, Sylvia Haskvitz, Jean Morrison, and Sura Hart, co-author of The Compassionate Classroom

Prerequisite: Basic familiarity with Nonviolent Communication
Tuition, Room & Board: $995-1250 sliding scale
CEUs: 3 CEU credits or 30 contact hours

Friendly Crossways Retreat Center is one hour from Boston and Hartford and an hour and a quarter from Providence. It is in a rural setting surrounded by conservation land, and offers organic gardens, and comfortable rooms and meeting spaces. See the virtual tour at friendlycrossways.com. We will help organize car pools.

For More Information or Registration:
Peggy Smith
207-789-5299
E-mail

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