The NYCNVC Peer Leader Program

	The 2013 Leadership Program Applications Being Accepted
May-Dec 2013 This program is designed to provide ongoing support and opportunities to teach NVC. By providing an abundance of experience and support, this program provides learning and growth with velocity. It presents a unique opportunity to integrate the skills involved in being an NVC Facilitator or Trainer while developing and supporting your own practice in your community. It is designed for people who have been studying NVC for (usually) one to five years and hold an intention to be a "Certified Trainer" with CNVC or NYCNVC or an "Independent Trainer" or a "Dedicated Practitioner." We are looking for program applicants who are leading or intending to lead a practice group (or equivalent) and are interested in gaining practical NVC training experience at retreats and intensive trainings. Questions and Applications If you have questions or are interested in applying, please call 646.201.9226 or email coursecoordinator@nycnvc.org For a full listing of NYCNVC workshops and programs CLICK HERE
	Learning & Living NVC Throughout this 8 month program, participants work with Trainers and Coaches to devise and implement practices and strategies to integrate NVC skills, practice and consciousness into their own lives while supporting others in their communities. Skills include expression, empathy, self-empathy, making requests, dialogue, connecting to feelings and needs on deeper levels and all that goes in to seeing and being in the world as a Compassionate human. The program consists of: 1) Introductory Programming Participate in and learn how to facilitate introductory workshops. Discovery Weekends - 2 - Participate in and learn how to build a workshop curriculm and respond to the emerging needs of different groups. CLICK HERE for more information. 'First Mondays' and 'The Compassion Map' - at least 1 - Participate in and learn how to introduce people to NVC. Receive coaching and feedback on how to meet each new participant where they are and answer any questions that may arise. CLICK HERE for more information. 2) 4-day Residential Intensives - Participate in and learn to facilitate intermediate and advanced workshops - Three per year (Thursday thru Sunday). Leadership program participants will participate in a special track that includes trainer/facilitator meetings throughout the Intensives. 1) Empathy Intensive CLICK HERE for more information. 2) Self-Empathy Intensive CLICK HERE for more information. 3) Request Intensive CLICK HERE for more information. 3) Coaching Calls - 16 half hour sessions - 2 per month for 8 months - These are intended to provide personal growth and understanding, to assess your growing edge and to employ practices to move in the direction you want to go. CLICK HERE for more information. Includes Certification Status/Planning and/or Goal Status/Planning Includes support for your own local Practice Group - 10 week group, 1 per week, (2 1/2 hours ea) - Some time during the program, we will support and guide you in organizing and delivering your own practice group, including promotion, format and content. This is a program intention (or option) not a requirement. 4) Empathy Sessions - 1 per week (1 hour ea) with your own Empathy Buddy from the program. CLICK HERE for more information. 5) Tele-Workshop Calls - optional - 3 possible calls per month. These are designed to help the NVCNYC community and the NYCNVC Leadership community stay connected and growing. Teaching & Presentation Skills Knowing and living NVC is requisite to sharing it. Developing organizing, teaching and presentation skills is the next key to becoming an effective teacher. The program includes development in: Presence Voice Diction Full use of your body Eye contact Emotional honesty NVC "modeling" Teaching through stories, examples and roles plays Documentation and exercises Training logistics and conventions Event planning and outreach Through the combination of training experiences and opportunities along with coaching feedback, peer feedback and student feedback, participants constantly track and develop vital training skills. Certification Deliverables This program supports participants from CNVC Certification Candidacy through Pre-Assessment to Final Assessment and Certification. This includes: Creating Journals - providing formats and topics Video production - At our intensives, we provide video cameras and files Certification Roles Plays Creating written materials including NVC concepts and differentiations Training logs and feedback forms Finances At NYCNVC we strive to make NVC learning, comfortable, safe and fun, while preserving accessability and affordability. Through alliances with, and the support of, other non-profit organizations, the entire monetary outlay for this 7 month program is less then many single college courses. The tuition rates for our "non-residential" workshops are reduced through the support of local non-profits such as the Dispute Resolution Consortium at John Jay College. The unusually low food and lodging rates for our "residential" Intensives are subsidized through the generosity of the Lifebridge Foundation. Most of our residential Intensives take place at Life Bridge Sanctuary, where comfort and beauty abound. Our meals include vegan, vegetarian and flexaterian choices and are delicious and exciting... of "gourmet" quality. The program cost includes: 2 Discovery Weekends, 3 4-Day Intensives, 16 personal coaching sessions, up to 27 tele-workshop conference calls, all with a CNVC Certified Trainer. It also includes all materials, including paper or electronic copies of exercises, forms and curriculum. For residential trainings this also includes food and lodging. (This does not include food/lodging for the Discovery Weekend. Or train/bus/air travel to the programs.) Total Cost: $3200.00* Financial aid may be available. Please call Kumari at 646.201.9226 to discuss your learning goals and financials. A chart of the cost breakdown and logistics is available during the interview.