BayNVC Immersion Program (BIP)

The BayNVC Immersion Program was created to provide in-depth and on-going learning for people committed to increasing their skill and consciousness in NVC. Through intensive learning as part of a group that stays together over 9 months, participants build community and develop the skills to support internal, interpersonal, and social transformation.

Description of the Program

The BayNVC Immersion Program begins with a six day residential intensive (retreat), and continues with 8 weekend workshops, March through October, which will meet in Oakland. The program will include empathy-partner relationships and other phone and email practice opportunities.

The program offers these opportunities:

• Intensive practice of NVC within a warm community, over an extended period of time.
• Activities designed to enhance your understanding of NVC and your capacity to live it in varied contexts
• Opportunities to learn how to share NVC with others, if you would like to
• Empathy buddies who accompany your learning and growth throughout the program

2012 Program Dates:

February 3-8: "Living Peace" Residential Retreat at Ben Lomond Quaker Center

Weekend workshops:

March 10,11:      Empathy When Its Hard: Translating Enemy Images

April 14,15:      Self-connection, Self-Acceptance, and Desire for Growth

May 5,6:      Authenticity and Vulnerability

June 2,3:       Taking Responsibility -- Making Requests and Hearing Them

July -- choose your weekend:      Empathy Intensive

August 25,26:        Mourning, Healing, and Reconciliation

Sept. 29,30:        Mediation

October 20,21:       Power, Resources, Choice

The 2012 program will be led by KATHY SIMON.

Kathy Simon, Ph.D., has been practicing NVC for more than 15 years and teaching it for 6 years. She led the Living Peace retreat and the BayNVC Immersion Program in both 2009 and 2010, and especially appreciates the chance to work with a small, warm community of dedicated practitioners. Along with the Immersion Program, Kathy also leads NVC trainings for organizations and works with individuals, parents and couples to integrate NVC into their personal lives. A former high school English and drama teacher, Kathy guided student teachers at Stanford University and co-directed the Coalition of Essential Schools, a nonprofit school reform organization. Kathy is the author of Moral Questions in the Classroom and co-author of other books on education and school reform.

Read testimonials from program participants.

Download the complete information packet for the 2012 BayNVC Immersion Program.

Download the application for the 2012 BayNVC Immersion Program.