April 13 &14, 2007: A Mediation Training In Nonviolent Communication

With

Ike Lasater & John Kinyon

What You Will Learn

• Help each party understand what is truly motivating the dispute

• Learn new skills for shifting thinking and speaking that create conflict

• Facilitate each party feeling heard and understood to their satisfaction

• Support the development of lasting win-win solutions

• As mediator, re-establish centeredness and presence when “triggered”

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a process for shifting ways of thinking and communicating that lead to destructive conflict. NVC helps create a connection in which new outcomes and creative solutions emerge that meet the needs of all concerned. The workshop will be very hands-on in its learning. You will receive an introduction to the NVC mediation model, followed by a series of demonstrations, improvised role-plays, and group harvestings of the learning and insights gained. In the role plays, you will have a chance to be both mediator and disputant. As observer, you will have the opportunity to move into the mediator’s chair and put into practice what you’ve just learned, and then receive invaluable feedback from those in the disputant roles and those observing.

Meet the Trainers

John Kinyon is a leading trainer of the international Center for Nonviolent Communication and a co-founder of the

BayNVC organization. He offers NVC training and conflict resolution to individuals, groups, and organizations in workshop, practice group, and coaching contexts. John has a background in clinical psychology and has started three businesses. He regularly co-leads 9-day international trainings with NVC founder Marshall Rosenberg.

See www.jbksolutions.com.

Ike Lasater offers mediation, consulting, and workshops with Nonviolent Communication in the U.S. and abroad. For 20 years until 1999 he engaged in active civil trial practice, co-founding Banchero & Lasater specializing in complex multiparty, commercial and environmental cases. He is on the mediation panel for the Northern California U. S. District Court, and for two decades served on the board of the Lawyers’ Club of San Francisco and other non-profits.

For more info on Ike see www.wordsthatwork.us.

Nonviolent Communication was developed over the past 40 years by Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. and is promoted by the Center for Nonviolent

Communication and over 200 trainers and many others worldwide in over 40 countries. For more info see www.cnvc.org..

"Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi

Who Can Benefit

• Mediators from all fields

• Human Resource Personnel

• Child and Family Workers

• Administrators from  all organizations and all levels

• Teachers at all levels

• Law enforcement and corrections

• Anyone interested in conflict resolution training

Registration Form

Scholarships available: contact Marsha Hupfel at tvmapresident@aol.com  Subject: Scholorship

We want all to come who want to come & not have their participation dependent on financial ability. If you are able, donations to the scholarship program are appreciated.

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Within every relationship, there is a possibility for conflict. How we view conflict informs us on how to deal with it. Some people prefer to avoid it. Others like to engage in the use of power. And others use conflict as a positive force for change.

Mediators have training to assist everyone to find ways to transform conflict into a positive, constructive avenue to a different way of being together in their future relationship(s).

Mediation is intended to facilitate communication between people and find solutions through clarifying their interests and needs and exploring all options at their disposal that best meets their unique situation and circumstances.

Nonviolent Communication can enhance all mediator’s abilities.
 

Mail registration with fees to:

TVMA-Spring Celebration
PO Box 51884
Knoxville, TN 37950
(865) 588-8862

Local Accommodations

1.  Maplehurst Inn (www.maplehurstinn.com) 523-7773

800 W. Hill Ave., Knoxville

Small B & B, so book early! Located downtown on the river. Breakfast buffet, free parking included.  Rooms range from $89-$149 Wireless internet access, cookies & snacks in the lounge areas, etc...



2.  St. Oliver Hotel   521-0050

407 Union Ave. Knoxville. 

Small hotel--book early! Near Market Square area-restaurants, shopping, etc. No breakfast.  Dial-up internet access available. Rooms range from $55-$180



3.  Holiday in @ Convention Center (www.holidayinn.com)  1-888-890-0242

525 Henley St., Knoxville

Rooms range from $102.50-$164

 

4.  Hilton Downtown  (www.Hilton.com)  1-865-523-2300

501 W. Church Ave., Knoxville

Rooms range from $134-$149

 

5.  Downtown Marriott (www.marriott.com) 1-800-228-9290

500 Hill Ave. SE, Knoxville

Rooms range from $149-$169