Workshops
Speaking Peace & Living Nonviolently
What is Violent Communication?
If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, or judging what’s “right/wrong” with people—could indeed be called “violent communication.
What is Nonviolent Communication?
Nonviolent Communication is the integration of 4 things:
- Consciousness: a set of principles that support living a life of compassion, collaboration, courage, and authenticity
- Language: understanding how words contribute to connection or distance
- Communication: knowing how to ask for what we want, how to hear others even in disagreement, and how to move toward solutions that work for all
- Means of influence: sharing “power with others” rather than using “power over others”
NVC serves our desire to do three things:
- Increase our ability to live with choice, meaning, and connection
- Connect empathically with self and others to have more satisfying relationships
- Sharing of resources so everyone is able to benefit
About
NVC Boston & the Art of Empathy
Learn how to use language to connect and re-connect
Do you want more harmony in your family? More authenticity with your partner? Help with resolving ongoing conflicts?
NVC Boston is dedicated to sharing nonviolent communication (NVC) as a way to contribute to more connection and harmony in the world.
Workshops, Classes and ongoing Empathy Sessions
- Nonviolent Communication Mediation
- Conflict Coaching
- Facilitated Couples Empathy
- Customized Empathy Workshops and Seminars
- One-on-One Deep Empathy Sessions
NVC Boston Trainers
Link to: Gail Carroll
NVC Boston
Gail Carroll
Gail is a CNVC Certified Trainer bringing 20 years of personal practice and application of NVC to her teaching. Professionally, Gail co-organizes NVC programs, including the East Coast Mediate Your Life Immersion Program, which trains mediators and others on how to use NVC to better resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts. Gail also produces and organizes the week-long New York Intensive in Nonviolent Communication, an annual residential intensive held in New York State for all interested in the practice of NVC.
In her private client practice and in the numerous workshops and classes that she leads, Gail focuses on relationships, mediating conflict, and empathy. These concentrations stem from her own life experiences. Gail grew up in an often-chaotic environment and found that she did not know how to handle conflict. She would choose to avoid it altogether but when that wasn’t possible, her coping methods tended to be “freezing” or “lashing out.” Gail explains it like this: “I was all confused emotion and just didn’t know how to navigate conflict or frustration.” Later in adulthood when was faced with the challenge of raising a young daughter by herself. she sought out skills for understanding and communicating emotions. When she discovered NVC, she knew that she had found something life-changing.
Gail practiced NVC for several years before she graduated from Bay NVC’s intensive year-long leadership program in 2006, after which she launched her own practice and established NVC Boston. Through her practice of NVC, she has developed a stronger relationship with herself and a deeper understanding of her own emotions and needs. She has also fostered strong communication-based interpersonal relationships, including those with her daughter and partner.
As a teacher, Gail is known for her compassion, practice, and care. Her strong commitment to the transformative power of NVC and her own story of how it has brought authenticity, clarity, and compassion into all her relationships inspires both clients and students. One fellow teacher says, “Her commitment and integrity in living the process in her own life have met the needs for connection, peace, love, and support for so many of us.”
To contact Gail, email her at gcarroll@nvcboston.org or call her at 617-840-4898.
Link to: Amanda Price
NVC Boston
Amanda Price
Amanda is an NVC Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC). Her first exposure to NVC marked the beginning of a new way of being and doing in the world that instantly resonated – unlocking a door to a future paved with compassion, authenticity, and promise. She found NVC liberating, healing, and deeply aligned to what she’d been yearning for, having spent the better part of her childhood and adolescence navigating a fractured family system.
With a professional background in conflict mediation and organizational development, Amanda saw the opportunity NVC offers individuals, teams and organizations stymied by habits that inhibit true flourishing. Personally, her continued NVC learning and practice journey has enriched relationships with those closest to her, and most significantly, with herself.
Today Amanda enjoys wearing many hats as an independent trainer, facilitator, coach and consultant in the fields of communication and conflict skills. Her clients span the professional, public and personal spheres, where she finds inspiration engaging with others in exploring the significance and value of human connection and effective communication.
Notes a fellow NVC practitioner who invited Amanda to bring communication coaching and facilitated mediation to his workplace, “Amanda supported our staff with having difficult internal conversations. Her approach and care allowed participants to bring their best version to the table as their needs for understanding and safety were being met.”
Amana delights in supporting the discovery of what’s alive and most important for people - facilitating their engagement and communication with purpose, courage, honesty and empathy. She’s passionate about catalyzing new ways of connecting and communicating that enrich relationships in all realms of life.
You may reach Amanda via email at amanda@peaceintranslation.com or by phone at +1 (978) 761-1207. You may also visit her website, www.peaceintranslation.com.
Link to: Amber Carroll, LCSW
NVC Boston
Amber Carroll, LCSW
Amber Carroll, LCSW is a community-focused social worker, dedicated to working with others in the dismantling of systems of oppression while caring for one another and ourselves. In their work as a coach, trainer, and therapist, Amber pulls in threads from NVC, person-centered social work, and clinical psychology. Amber’s living experience as a queer person and a survivor of mental illness informs their approach to work with the self and others.
Click here to learn more and book a consultation with Amber.
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