Events

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army introduces us to the powerful private army that the U.S. government has made its Praetorian Guard for the “global war on terror.” Blackwater has the world's largest private military base, a fleet of twenty aircraft, and 20,000 contractors at the ready. Run by a multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls President Bush and his allies, its forces are capable of overthrowing governments, and yet most people have never heard of Blackwater. Author  Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation magazine and a correspondent for the national radio and television show Democracy Now!

The Fort Worth Center for Compassionate Communication
Presents
A 9-week Compassionate Communication Study
Based on “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall Rosenberg

At the Center for the Healing Arts
312 W. Leuda St.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
www.centerforthehealingarts.net/contactus.htm
Facilitators:
Owen Kinser and J Kendel Johnson
www.fwcompassion.org
Tuesdays 7 – 9 pm
June 24, 2008 – August 19, 2008
Focus on the Process
Observation
Feelings
Needs
Requests
Learn to speak in a way that inspires compassionate giving and receiving.
Learn to listen in a way that gets to the heart of what’s alive in you and others.
To register or ask questions, please contact:
 Owen Kinser at owen@fwcompassion.org or 214-289-6774 (cell)
J Kendel Johnson at j@texasdop.org or 214-532-3761 (cell)
We are requesting a payment range of $90.00 - $135 ($10.00 - $15.00 per class)
to cover expenses and support our work to spread this study to others throughout the Metroplex.
Please contact us if the minimum fee is preventing you from taking the class.
It is our earnest desire to make learning and deepening the practice of Nonviolent Communication available to everyone.
About Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand and diagnose—to think and communicate in terms of what is “right” and “wrong” with people. We express our feelings in terms of what another person has “done to us,” instead of a feeling independent of another person. We mix up our basic human needs with the strategies we’re using to meet those needs (we say “I want you to spend more time with me,” instead of “I’m really needing companionship”). And, we ask for what we’d like using demands, the threat of punishment, guilt, or even the promise of rewards.
At best, the habitual ways we think and speak hinder communication and create both misunderstanding and frustration. And still worse, they can lead to anger, depression and even violence. Marshall Rosenberg’s vision is to teach a much more peaceful and effective alternative.
 
Effective Communication Skills for Work, Family, Home and Community

Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication process provides a simple, effective method to get to the root of conflict, violence, and pain peacefully. By going beyond "active listening" techniques and examining the unmet needs behind what we say or do, NVC serves as a practical, transformative method to address the root of conflict and violence once and for all.
 
Much More than a Communication Technique

Central to the effectiveness of the Nonviolent Communication process is the intention we bring to any interaction—first and foremost, an intention to make a compassionate connection, rather than being tied to a specific outcome, being “right”, or on something you’d like the other person to do.