CONTEXT

Click here for a description of how the individual series offerings relate to the NVC Tree of Life for an integration of Connection, Liberation, and Wholeness.

*** Click here to sign-up for the TBD FREE workshop "A Taste of Connection" as an introduction to the first series of the Yearlong Intensive ***

Overall Benefits of the Yearlong Intensive

the consistency of the sessions and practices over time supports developing new habits, changing behavior
relationships over time contribute to safety, trust, creating a supportive growth-oriented community
your personal growth will progress more rapidly with personalized coaching sessions
learning the material in the suggested sequence makes learning, deepening and retaining the practices easier
you will meet new people, and get to know them more deeply
you’ll save some money on sessions/services when taken together

Benefits of Conversational Connection Series (click here for Testimonials)

you will have more mastery and tools at your disposal for navigating conversations
interpersonal conversations will be easier and more satisfying
the people you interact with will enjoy being heard and understood
expressing yourself authentically will become more comfortable
you will experience a natural curiosity toward others
you will develop compassion toward others as you acknowledge everyone's needs
experience more trust and the joy of connection

Conversational Connection Series Weekly Agenda (each number is a different session)

1. Introduction to NVC, Observations vs. Evaluations
2. Needs vs. Strategies, Empathy
3. Requests vs. Demands, Conversational Context
4. Feelings Awareness, Responding to a Request, Self-Empathy
5. Honest Expression, Request to Understand Someone Else
6. Requesting/Offering Feedback
7. Street Empathy, Giving Appreciation
8. Facilitating a Flow of Connection
9. Flow of Connection Practice, Interrupting for Connection
10. Review of Processes, Flow of Connection Practice

Benefits of Free Yourself From Reactivity Series (click here for Testimonials)

You will feel inner peace, contentment and happiness more often
The frequency and intensity of your triggered reactions will diminish with practice
You will learn tools to find and maintain self-connection, and to return more quickly when you're triggered
Your community and peers will notice more stability in how you show up

Free Yourself From Reactivity Series Weekly Agenda (each number is a different session)

1. Foundation for NVC Self-Empathy, Embodiment of Feelings
2. Cultivating Wholeness, Life Energy of Needs, Needs Flower
3. Enlightened Inner-Giraffe, Triggers
4. Observations, Power, Karpman Drama Triangle
5. Blaming Words, Transforming Judgments, Hard-to-hear Messages
6. Self-Acceptance, Warmth and Integration
7. Appeasement, The Vortex of Submission
8. Vortex of Submission Continued
9. Beneficial Regret (“Mourning in Giraffe”)
10. Guilt & Shame, Healing Honesty Role Plays

Benefits of the Wild Heart Series (click here for Testimonials)

find inner peace, mental clarity and autonomy thru Self-Healing
become more grounded in yourself, reawakening dormant capacities
re-wild yourself while accessing natural compassion
develop enhanced self-empathy and self-healing skills by befriending subpersonalities
freedom from reactivity, reduced recovery time from triggers (working with the unconscious)
expanded windows of knowing, flexibility in strategies/outcomes
sense of connection and belonging to the natural world, reduced loneliness
increased autonomy, conscious choice and agency resulting in self-empowerment
re-discover your indigenous connection to the land, a re-wilding of how you show up in the world

Wild Heart Series Agenda

Cultivating Wholeness - Conscious Self (5 weeks)

1. Deep Imagination/Needs - West: Dark Beloved Muse — creativity, imagination, identity
2. Embodied Feeling - South: Wild Indigenous One -- embodiment, aliveness, movement
3. Present-Centered Sensing/Observation - East: Innocent/Sage/Trickster — presence, knowing, understanding, play
4. Heart-Centered Thinking/Requests - North: Nurturing Generative Adult — compassion, contribution, growth
5. Four-direction Circle for Cultivating Wholeness

Befriending Subpersonalities/Fragments - Unconscious Self (5 weeks)

6. North: Loyal Soldier
7. South: Wounded Child
8. East: Addict, Escapist
9. West: Shadow, Shadow Selves
10. Four-direction Circle for Self-Healing

OPEN VS. CLOSED GROUP, GROUP SIZE

Each of the two offering threads (Online Zoom, In-Person) will close (where new participants in a series are not allowed) if more than (16, 12) people respectively register for this Yearlong Intensive the week of February 18, 2024. The maximum number of participants for each offering thread is 24.

SESSION TIMES FOR EACH LOCATION

Online Zoom meets on TBD from 9 AM to 10:30 AM Los Angeles PST** (12 PM - 1:30 PM New York EST, 5 PM - 6:30 PM London GMT, 6 PM - 7:30 PM Berlin CET)

Note: The In-Person sessions do not have online participation (i.e. they are not 'hybrid" sessions).

** Time changes to PDT on 2nd Sunday in March in US, and back to PST on 2nd Sunday in November

DESCRIPTION

Each of the offerings below has their own description. The content of the In-Person offerings is generally the same as the Online Zoom offerings. Click on main title of each for more information:

1. Conversational Connection - Practical Skills for Communicating Compassionately

2. Free Yourself From Reactivity - Journey of Emotional Liberation

3. Wild Heart - Cultivating Wholeness, Self-Healing for the Self You Always Wanted

4. Integration, Practice and Support - Bring your real-life situations to the group

James Prieto guides towards wholeness, connection and integration of our natural selves by cultivating inner-resources, self-healing, and compassionate communication (NVC). James has a Center for Nonviolent Communication trainer certification (cnvc.org) and is certified by the Animas Valley Institute as a Wild Mind Practitioner (animas.org).

Would you like more information not covered here? Email James

Yearlong Intensive for Connection, Liberation and Wholeness (Coming 2025)

Compassionate Connecting

Guiding Toward Wholeness, Connection and Integration

Offerings

Online Zoom and In-Person in the KANSAS CITY Area