Empathy for the Holidays: How to Really Enjoy the Holidays with your Family November 10, 2012

Do more than just survive your family this holiday season! Empower yourself to truly connect with and understand your “difficult” siblings or extended family. Transform your dread of annual conflict into excitement for genuine, authentic and even fun connection.

How?
Join communication expert and author Dr. Dian Killian to learn, practice and integrate Compassionate Communication skills in a one-day class on November 10, 2012.

Attending this class will help you to strengthen your relationships with family members, co-workers and intimate partners, as well as with yourself!

"What helped me the most was to understand the power of language, and how words we use all the time -- words we think are harmless -- are actually subtle forms of agitation and create angst in all of us. In this workshop, I learned to delicately choose my words to build relationships."
-- Mike Radice, Freelance Writer, Fall 2012

In this intensive workshop, we will focus on:
1. Deepening our emergency self-empathy practice when triggered so we can “re-calibrate” and respond effectively and in choice
2. Listening for what someone is saying “yes” to when we hear disagreement or a “no”
3. Practicing honest expression with connection---being authentic and honest about our views and experience in a way that’s easy for others to hear

REGISTER NOW: http://www.regonline.com/L2_fall12

Only $125 through October 13. Registration Oct 14—Nov 10 is $145.

Note: This program is limited to 18 participants. Early registration is suggested.

The facilitator, Dian Killian, Ph.D., is a Certified Trainer with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), founder and lead trainer of The Center for Collaborative Communication, and co-author of two books. Dian is widely known as a highly engaging, innovative and dynamic facilitator, bringing humor, warmth and insight to her program design, coaching, and training.
She facilitates retreats and in-depth workshops, including CCC’s annual Women’s Retreat and bi-annual NVCQ Retreat; she has also taught at the Omega Institute, and co-led an International Intensive Training (IIT) in 2011 with Marshall Rosenberg, the creator of the NVC model. She regularly teaches classes and workshops in New York City at the NY Open Center, Kripalu, the 92nd St. Y, The National Peace Academy, Life Labs, and more.

An executive coach, she is certified with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and teaches Collaborative Communication as a visiting faculty member in the Coaching for Transformation program. Dian has been a Certified Trainer with the CNVC since 2006, and began CCC, then Brooklyn Nonviolent Communication, in 2005.

REGISTER NOW: http://www.regonline.com/L2_fall12

CEUs available for for counselors and licensed social workers