Communication Dojo IN-PERSON 4-week Anger Series - starts June 5th, 2024

This is a 4-week committed series.

Class times/dates: 7pm to 9pm on June 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, 2024.

Earlybird price until May 15th 2024 - $159 per person

Sliding scale pricing $180 - $320 per person for the series (plus Eventbrite admin fee). The sliding scale pricing means we'd love to receive $320 per person for the series, since this price is chosen to support the sustainability of the Communication Dojo. However, we also want to welcome those for whom the $320 price is not affordable, so we're making a range of ticket prices available.

If the price is an obstacle please contact us about possible discounts at info@communicationdojo.com or through our "Contact" form at www.communicationdojo.com

"Nonviolent communication (or connected communication) has helped me and my partner speak in a much more conscious and effective way. It was a perfect transition and supplement to our prior couples therapy. It helps in every way, at work, with friends, with family, etc. I can't recommend these classes and Newt as a teacher enough. I wish we all had to take NVC classes in school, it would change the world." ~ Elise H., San Francisco

Dealing with Anger and Negative Judgments – Your Own and Other People’s - and Creating a Practice of Self-Connection

"Anger can be valuable if we use it as an alarm clock to wake us up - to realize we have a need that's not being met and that we are thinking in a way that makes it unlikely to be met." ~Marshall Rosenberg, PhD., from his book: Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life

When others speak while angry you might have a hard time hearing them, even though they really want to be heard. In this series we’ll practice ways to make it easier to listen and stay connected, even when there is a lot of anger. We’ll also practice methods of self-connection and self-understanding that help you figure out the true message of your own anger and that of others, and to extract meaning and direction from even the most painful judgments. Many find that if they get the true message of their anger, it comes back less often.

The Communication Dojo

The Communication Dojo is a learning environment designed for everyone, regardless of prior experience with "Connected Communication" (aka "Nonviolent Communication" (NVC)). This 4-week committed series format allows you opportunities to practice what you're learning between classes, then to come back the next week with questions. You'll build skills, knowledge, and community week by week.

"As soon as you concern yourself with the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others will weaken and defeat you." ~Morihei Ueshiba, Founder of Aikido

The Communication Dojo approach is inspired in part by teaching from martial arts. This is not a lecture series. The teaching is highly interactive and there will be plenty of experiential learning in pairs and/or small groups - “learning by doing.”

Some features of the Communication Dojo:

• Efficient use of class time to maximize learning
• High proportion of practice time in pairs – learning communication by communicating.
• Minimal reliance on “jargon” i.e. language that might be confusing or alienating for those not familiar with NVC.
• Online classroom for the series with:

---> Audio recordings of classes

---> Additional class notes

---> Handouts

---> Weekly practice requests

---> Extra videos and materials

• Daily post for the duration of the series with bonus material:

---> “Lifescripts” i.e.examples of specific dialogues and wording to bring the principles more alive and help you to integrate them

---> Videos

---> Articles

---> Quotations/Poetry/Readings to capture the essence of the topic

• Same cohort of students for the whole 4 weeks
• Practice requests each week
• Opportunity to form ongoing practice relationship with other students
• More week-to-week support in overcoming obstacles and forming new communication habits
• Class size typically between 12 and 30

Read more about Communication Dojo at www.communicationdojo.com