VANCOUVER: Inviting Wholeness, Sharing Power (Session 4 of 5)

Inviting Wholeness, Sharing Power:
A 6-month exploration of Compassionate Communication, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Restorative Systems

with Eric Bowers and Mika Maniwa

With our passions for authentic connection and interdependent community, we are excited to offer a six-month program to invite wholeness and share power within ourselves, with others, and as a community.

This six-month program will include five weekend meetings, four optional meetings, and ongoing empathy calls. The program will be a rich combination of learning through planned and spontaneous exercises, roleplays, games, and discussions, and learning through how we interact with each other while building our community. In other words we intend to learn together while co-creating a meaningful sense of community in which we organically explore inviting wholeness and sharing power.

What to expect:

Inviting Wholeness, Sharing Power will be explored in three areas:

1. Inviting Wholeness and Sharing Power in Ourselves
- Processes to transform fears and limiting beliefs and stories that
disconnect us from our wholeness
- Skills for finding more inner calm, clarity, and empowerment
- Processes for nurturing a compassionate inner witness
- Building Shared Power with ourselves

2. Inviting Wholeness and Sharing Power with Another
- Sharing your truth in ways that honour your integrity
- Listening in ways that connect you to another’s humanness
- Co-creating healthy boundaries
- Staying self-connected during conflict with another

3. Inviting Wholeness Sharing Power in Community
- Expanding awareness of needs: yours, others and those of the group as a whole
- Collective decision-making that supports a group’s shared vision
- Co-creating restorative shared-power systems

Dates:
Saturday & Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
-Oct. 29-30, 2011
-Nov. 26-27, 2011
-Jan. 21-22, 2012
-Feb. 25-26, 2012
-Mar. 31–Apr. 1, 2012

Also includes:
At least one hour-long empathy call with Eric
Four optional meetings in-between sessions at Mika’s.
Weekly telephone calls with rotating empathy buddies

Maximum 15 participants.

Sliding scale: $1,250 to $750

Location: Downtown Vancouver, BC

To register or for more information: please e-mail Eric at eric@roadtocompassion.com
Or Mika at: ehmehm13@hotmail.com or phone 778-840-7902

To hold a space for you we request a $100 non-refundable deposit. Payment schedules can be worked out before Oct. 29th

Links:
Nonviolent Communication: www.cnvc.org www.bcncc.ca www.roadtocompassion.com
Interpersonal Neurobiology: www.empathybrain.com
Restorative Systems: www.restorativecircles.org
Dynamic Governance: www.socionet.us www.governancealive.com

Eric Bowers, CNVC-Certified Trainer
www.roadtocompassion.com
I’m inspired by how NVC, IPNB and Restorative Systems support people to find their aliveness and power and share it in ways that work for everyone.

Mika Maniwa, Independent Facilitator
I care deeply about building community and am fascinated by the challenges of connecting across differences. In this program I want to embrace conflict and support mutual understanding.