Marcia Christen, Certified Trainer and Assessor with
the International Center for Nonviolent Communication
Creating a more life serving world is possible.
My passion is supporting individuals, families, and organizations to remember and relearn relationship and community skills to connect that remind us of our interconnectedness. I have found NVC helps increase awareness, compassion, collaboration, and effectiveness.
Learning Nonviolent Communication.
Nonviolent Communication is based on the principle of Ahimsa — the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart." ~ Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC
Nonviolent Communication is a way of being in the world that has the purpose to serve life and to create connection in such a way that everyone’s needs can be cared for through natural care. “What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart. All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.” Marshall Rosenberg
The form of NVC helps us to shift and move towards a quality of connection among people where we learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others and where everyone’s needs are valued and get met through compassionate giving—out of the joy of contributing to another human being.
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One on One Empathic Coaching
Do you long to understand yourself and others? Long to get support while building relationship skills? I provide one on one coaching where you receive empathy and learn self-empathy, how to hear hard to hear messages, how to transform judgment into the precious Human Needs we all share, and how to speak in ways that lead to more collaboration, understanding and companionship.
Mediation and Conflict Transformation
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From disconnection to connection. Do you need support to navigate conflict and disconnection? I provide consultation, facilitation and mediation for conflict transformation including pre-meetings, various restorative processes, post meeting and decision making facilitation. I have studied and learned from various Restorative Practices. Combined with Nonviolent Communication mediation we can create a container for getting to the heart of issues and then finding ways to care for all the Needs in ways that really work.