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Learning Events
(This is your last chance for now: Maja will be traveling and is currently not scheduling anything in the Bay Area beyond February 2011.)
Handouts
Here is the most recent handouts for this program:
Individual Sessions
Custom designed work to help you master your challenges and build capacity for work or daily life.Contact Maja for more information.
Maja Bengtson has been deeply involved with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for over a decade. She has worked with the leadership of BayNVC since 2001 (including two years as Development Director), and she co-founded Words That Work with Ike Lasater in 2003. She has facilitated NVC trainings at various Bay Area workplaces, and has offered public workshops on workplace communication.
As a coach, trainer and facilitator, Maja incorporates NVC into all of her work, along with her intuitive and heartfelt understanding of human dynamics. Maja is certified as an Integral Coach, a Core Connexion facilitator, and "rebirthing" (transformational breathwork) instructor, a student of Conscious Embodiment and a long term meditator. She holds a MA in clinical psychology.
Maja is the founder and president of Inner Leadership, Inc. in Berkeley, CA. Welcome to read more about her ideas and offerings on this website.
- Saturday, Jan 29, 1-5pm: Basics workshop
- Sunday, Jan 30, 1-5pm: Intermediate workshop
(This is your last chance for now: Maja will be traveling and is currently not scheduling anything in the Bay Area beyond February 2011.)
Handouts
Here is the most recent handouts for this program:
Individual Sessions
Custom designed work to help you master your challenges and build capacity for work or daily life.Contact Maja for more information.
Maja Bengtson has been deeply involved with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for over a decade. She has worked with the leadership of BayNVC since 2001 (including two years as Development Director), and she co-founded Words That Work with Ike Lasater in 2003. She has facilitated NVC trainings at various Bay Area workplaces, and has offered public workshops on workplace communication.
As a coach, trainer and facilitator, Maja incorporates NVC into all of her work, along with her intuitive and heartfelt understanding of human dynamics. Maja is certified as an Integral Coach, a Core Connexion facilitator, and "rebirthing" (transformational breathwork) instructor, a student of Conscious Embodiment and a long term meditator. She holds a MA in clinical psychology.
Maja is the founder and president of Inner Leadership, Inc. in Berkeley, CA. Welcome to read more about her ideas and offerings on this website.
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Flex Your Empathy Muscle
– Embodied NVC as Personal Practice
My work with communication is primarily founded on Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as formulated by Marshall Rosenberg, but naturally informed by my background in other schools of thought. I consider NVC to be a great model for communication that is both compassionate and powerful.
This program offers a way to add your body and specific movements to your learning process, to make it more concrete and use more of your wholeness. It also offers a way to make NVC into a personal, body based practice, one that you can do on your own time, with the result of becoming more empathic, present, relational and authentic.
Read more
My blog has articles that relates to this topic, as well as room for YOUR comments and questions:
• Learning through the body (July 2010)
• Changing the Brain (October 2010)
• What are you practicing? (November 2010)
• Authenticity and Belonging (January 2011)
Feedback from Students
In the months since I began sharing "Flex Your Empathy Muscle" I have gained some new insights which is informing the future work. I also want to share these with people like you, who are interested in learning Nonviolent Communication (NVC) through embodied practice.
Distinction with Ease
Many students are enjoying the gestures and moves we use in this program. They seem to support our clarity about where we are in the "NVC model" and in the back-and-fourth flow of conversations. For example, I worked with a group of coaches on capacity building around listening and empathy, and all agreed that the different poses/moves made it easy to distinguish what action and focus was called for. The "clients" in those role plays also reported feeling heard in that significant kind of way that creates opening and deepens presence.
Forming New Habits
The main motivation I had for putting together the "NVC Kata*" was to create a way for students to "practice NVC" on their own, to embody and inhabit the principles and parts of the NVC model through repeated movement. In an ongoing group we started hearing of changes in people's lives a few weeks into regular, repeated practicing:
"I was open and curious when I started doing the embodied NVC class… After just a few classes, I found I was able to access empathy much more easily and naturally in my everyday life! It was quite amazing to me that this was happening without my needing to think about it. Empathy started to be my first response to situations! This is the deepening into NVC consciousness for which I have been longing."
"I am finding that there is more room for me to choose empathy when in a conversation, as if taking in and reflecting what I'm hearing has become an option as readily available as my habitual way of arguing my point."
I will continue to gather feedback and update this page.
Warmly,
Maja
– Embodied NVC as Personal Practice
My work with communication is primarily founded on Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as formulated by Marshall Rosenberg, but naturally informed by my background in other schools of thought. I consider NVC to be a great model for communication that is both compassionate and powerful.
This program offers a way to add your body and specific movements to your learning process, to make it more concrete and use more of your wholeness. It also offers a way to make NVC into a personal, body based practice, one that you can do on your own time, with the result of becoming more empathic, present, relational and authentic.
Read more
My blog has articles that relates to this topic, as well as room for YOUR comments and questions:
• Learning through the body (July 2010)
• Changing the Brain (October 2010)
• What are you practicing? (November 2010)
• Authenticity and Belonging (January 2011)
Feedback from Students
In the months since I began sharing "Flex Your Empathy Muscle" I have gained some new insights which is informing the future work. I also want to share these with people like you, who are interested in learning Nonviolent Communication (NVC) through embodied practice.
Distinction with Ease
Many students are enjoying the gestures and moves we use in this program. They seem to support our clarity about where we are in the "NVC model" and in the back-and-fourth flow of conversations. For example, I worked with a group of coaches on capacity building around listening and empathy, and all agreed that the different poses/moves made it easy to distinguish what action and focus was called for. The "clients" in those role plays also reported feeling heard in that significant kind of way that creates opening and deepens presence.
Forming New Habits
The main motivation I had for putting together the "NVC Kata*" was to create a way for students to "practice NVC" on their own, to embody and inhabit the principles and parts of the NVC model through repeated movement. In an ongoing group we started hearing of changes in people's lives a few weeks into regular, repeated practicing:
"I was open and curious when I started doing the embodied NVC class… After just a few classes, I found I was able to access empathy much more easily and naturally in my everyday life! It was quite amazing to me that this was happening without my needing to think about it. Empathy started to be my first response to situations! This is the deepening into NVC consciousness for which I have been longing."
"I am finding that there is more room for me to choose empathy when in a conversation, as if taking in and reflecting what I'm hearing has become an option as readily available as my habitual way of arguing my point."
I will continue to gather feedback and update this page.
Warmly,
Maja