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With Lori Grace, Robert Plath, Christy Michaels and Ritch Davidson
Join us for an incredible evening to deepen your capacity to forgive by increasing your understanding of compassion and empathy using NVC, also known as Compassionate Communication.
We will practice extending our forgiveness towards ourselves and others. In so doing, we create more peace in our lives. We will be using Compassionate Communication (NVC) and other strategies to come to this more forgiving state of being. Each participant will have a chance to bring up a particular issue in one's life and work through barriers to forgiveness in a small group with one of our facilitators.
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Lori Grace, MA (Psych) led our closing forgiveness meditation on Forgiveness Day. She has both studied and taught different forms of communication work for the last fifteen years, including Compassionate Communication (NVC) for the last ten. She thinks that her involvement in Compassionate Communication has greatly helped her expand profoundly her capacity to forgive by deepening her ability to empathize with both others and herself.
Robert Plath is a practicing attorney in Mill Valley, CA and is the founder and executive director of
the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance. (www.forgivenessalliance.org) Mr. Plath teaches Forgiveness workshops for Marin Services for Women, in Kentfield, for chemically dependant women. Robert also facilitates Forgiveness workshops for Community Action Marin for the mentally ill and the homeless. Robert considers Forgiveness to be the greatest healer of them all. As Bishop Desmond Tutu says, “ Without forgiveness, there is no future.” Studies have proven that Forgiveness has the power to heal every illness. Robert founded International Forgiveness Day, which will be celebrated globally for the 13th year on Sunday, August 2, 2009.
Ritch Davidson has been studying Nonviolent Communication since 2002 and in 2005 completed the nine-day International Intensive Training (IIT) led by NVC founder, Marshall M. Rosenberg, PhD and other NVC certified trainers, including Robert Gonzales. He has since participted in a number of workshops with Robert Gonzales, including a week-long training on the Embodied Spirituality of NVC. Ritch has been co-teaching and leading Compassionate Communication Practice Groups since 2005. He is also the Sr. Vice Emperor for Playfair, inc., an international consulting company that offers management seminars and playfulness trainings for over 100,000 people each year. www.playfair.com
Christiane Grace Michaels, MA, has been a student of A Course In Miracles for over 10 years. She has a Master's degree from Goddard College in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in the co-relationship between Eastern Religions and Transformative Psychotherapy. She has been a student of Compassionate Communication/NVC for many years and co-leads many of Celebration of Love's Practice Groups.
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This evening is a fundraiser for the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance
What is the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance?
Mission Statement
The Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax-deductible organization whose mission is to evoke the healing spirit of Forgiveness worldwide. We declare that “Forgiveness Is the Greatest Healer of Them All” and that “Without Forgiveness There Is No Future”
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Please also join us for more NVC:
Compassionate Communication Practice Groups, at Sunrise Center and Open Secret Bookstore
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Empathy and Forgiveness — 2010
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Friday, May 14 |
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Thursday, August 12 |
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Wednesday, September 15 |
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Wednesday, October 6 |
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7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
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S. Marin, TBA — call for location and directions |
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$20 paid by 4 pm the day of; $30 thereafter |
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Register and pay online — Early Registration ONLY |
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Preferred, not required. Drop-in okay 415-924-5483 |
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