Sri Lanka: Ten-Day International Training
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The Islander Center - Sri Lankan NVC venue
We are offering a 10 day residential training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) from Feb 1-10th, in Sri Lanka, in conjunction with The Sandhi Institute
We have an international team with rich and varied experience. This is a wonderful opportunity to receive such training for an affordable rate – even with flight costs, it may be work out to be same or less than the cost of other NVC courses of this length. And for some people, the added value of coming to this part of the world and connecting with NVC folks here and exploring before or after the course is of course unmeasurable.
The location is a beautiful training Center in northern part of Sri Lanka, near a national park and close to an ancient Buddhist holy city.
Participants from Sri Lanka will be people working in community mobilization at grass roots level, NGO staff working with war victims and people in camps, staff of NGOs working in development sector, journalists, University students, etc., Both Sinhalese and Tamil (Training will be done in English with translation provided for both of our local languages). We are also anticipating few people from neighbouring India and perhaps Singapore who will join us.
We are only making about 10 places available for folks from outside of Sri Lanka since the purpose of this training is to contribute to healing and reconciliation and community building within Sri Lanka. I would recommend that you act quickly and register soon if you want to get a place.
What will you learn?
Beginners will learn basics of NVC as well having opportunity to practice NVC conflict resolution
skills. Those with NVC background will be able to deepen their understanding and skills. Everyone
will be supported to apply it in their work or life context. The training is designed to meet all the different learning needs of participants.
What will you have gained at the end of the training?
How to…
• See conflict as an opportunity to connect more deeply with yourself and others.
• Express your authenticity clearly and strongly without blame, criticism, or attack.
• Understand compassionately what is motivating others’ words or behaviour.
• Increase mutual respect and trust in communication.
• Improve understanding and better connection in relationships whether with colleagues or family and friends.
• Support others in their communication through formal or informal mediation.
• Gain clarity about yourself and what your needs are and finding powerful and effective ways to meet them.
• Manage strong emotions such as anger, shame and guilt in self and learn how to respond constructively when expressed by others
Why do you need to be at this training?
This training will bring together a community of people who are committed to embodying the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in their own lives and sharing it with others. Residential trainings enable greater depth than non-residential trainings, thereby contributing to a
deeper sense of community. It’s a rare opportunity to learn from international trainers with many
years of wide ranging experience.
The view from the Center
The venue:
Islander Center,
Anuradhapura
Sri Lanka
Dates:
Feb 01 – Feb 10, 2010.
Is this training for you?
This training is open to everyone interested and looking for tools to strengthen relationships and
reach for conflicts with hope The training will be led in English with translation into Sinhala and Tamil
How to register?
Email the Sandhi Institute to request a registration form. Fill in the registration form and mail to them before January 11, 2010. After we receive the registration, we will send you details about how to make the reservation deposit. In order for us to hold a seat for you, we need to receive a deposit of 75 Euro by January 15. We expect this training to fill quickly so please send in your registration as soon as possible so we can keep a place for you.
Registration Contact address
Email: training[at]sandhi.org (please replace the [at] with the ‘@’ sign)
Tel: +94 (0)11 288 2659 (Monday- Friday 9-5)
Web: http://www.sandhi.org
About the Retreat Center:
Islander Center is situated in the North Central province bordering Anuradhapura – Puttlam Road, adjoining Wilpattu National Park. It is a training center for organic agriculture run by Sewalanka
Foundation. The main conference hall, lecture hall, and dining room are situated facing a beautiful lake. It can be imagined as a village in the jungle with natural beauty.
Transport will be arranged from Colombo for morning of Feb. 1st via a bus – please let us know if you would like to be included in this and we will contact you with details. All others will need to make your own transportation arrangement directly to the Center.
Fees for the training:
Fees including all tuition, accommodation and meals (see below). Fees are on a sliding scale (pick between these figures based on your financial means)
- For International participants from outside Sri Lanka: 500 – 1200 Euro.
Accommodation and Meals:
Included in the fees are:
- Accommodation in shared rooms with beds, pillows and sheets provided.
- Three meals a day, and morning and afternoon tea.
- The Center provide delicious vegetarian food, cooked on premises with most of the produce organically grown from their own grounds.
A note on the fees
In order to support this valuable work, the accommodation is being donated by the Sewalanka Foundation. They only ask that we cover the cost of food. We are committed to making this training available to all people from Sri Lanka who want to learn and not to exclude people due to lack of funds. Due to the limits of our resources, we are not attempting to provide this commitment to international participants & people within Sri Lanka who have access to a 1st or 2nd world economies.
We encourage you to find ways to raise funds for yourself to be able to participate. This training is not being funded by any donor organization. The trainers are working as volunteers and are covering their own costs. So far an American couple – Ellen and Richard Gaudreau – have given seed funds to cover costs. However, we are anticipating more scholarship requests than we have funds for. If you give above the low end of the requested scale, you will be supporting those who cannot afford to pay and need financial assistance in order to attend this training.
Trainers:
Shantigarbha, NVC trainer
Shantigarbha (Chris Warren) is an international NVC trainer certified with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC.org). He grew up in the UK and studied Latin, Greek and
Philosophy at Oxford University before joining the Western Buddhist Order. He now leads NVC workshops in Europe, the USA and Asia. He also acts as an organizational consultant to companies and communities in the UK, US, India and Sri Lanka. He writes on NVC for two UK magazines and has appeared on Sri Lankan television on ‘Good Morning Sri Lanka’. He’s currently writing a book on a Buddhist view of empathy. His website is seedofpeace.org
Jeyanthy Siva, NVC trainer
Jeyanthy Siva is Founder & Director of the Sandhi institute. She is an international trainer in Communication, healing and empowerment. She trained in NVC with Marshall Rosenberg (CNVC) and the founders of BayNVC. In Sri Lanka she has taught NVC, freedom through releasing grief and conflict resolution skills in many different parts of the Island – with health-care professionals, teachers, university students, staff of organizations, multi-religious clergy, journalists & others. She also conducts trainings in Europe, USA & Asia. She has given several interviews on Sri Lanka television & is currently writing a weekly column on NVC for a Sri Lankan newspaper.
Liv Larsson, NVC trainer from Sweden
Liv Larsson is a certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication with The Center for Nonviolent Communication. Trained by Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of NVC. She has worked with Communication training, team and leadership development, and mediation since 1992. Her current
focus is communication, conflict management and particularly mediation. Based in Sweden she works there as well as internationally.
Kay Rung, NVC trainer from Sweden
She is the mother of Neo 5, and author of six books on communication and mediation. Part of her life experience, has been traveling around the world where she has worked with people from different cultures.
Kay Rung works as empathy trainer, mediator & publisher. He started to learn and teach NVC 1997/98. Has a deep passion to contribute with tools for connection, cooperation and understanding. Kay offers communication trainings for schools, organizations and workplaces in Sweden and around the world.
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