About the Event

Nonviolent Communication is a practice of empathetic connection. A way of communicating with awareness, compassion, and understanding. Not just with others, but with yourself and past generations, too.

In this 6-session course, Sarah Peyton will lead an exploration and a celebration of the power of Nonviolent Communication to help you reach past generations and align yourself to receive the flow of love from grandparents, great-greats, great-great-greats, and beyond. This receiving may also open you up to have more energy and warmth for yourself and your children, too!

Whenever we talk about our connection with past generations, we begin to touch on the impact of collective trauma on our family line, so that is where we will begin. Each class will feature NVC-empathy dialogues with yourself about your ancestors, or in role plays, with your ancestors.

Collective trauma is the trauma that happens when the tragedies of history impact whole groups of people. This type of trauma includes, but is not limited to, natural disasters, colonization, loss of land, migration, famine, war, and genocide.

These traumas can show up in your personal experiences as:

• Emotional repression
• Low self-esteem and lack of self-love
• Complex PTSD and PTSD
• Child abuse
• Sexual abuse and assault
• Addiction
• Mental illness and instability
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Suicidality
• Poverty
• Becoming lost in fundamentalism
• And all the other Adverse Childhood Experiences

The good news is Nonviolent Communication is a beautiful remedy for the significant impact of these experiences upon our family lines!

NVC can help you:

• reclaim the lost voices of ancestors that have been left behind, or silenced
• re-establish connections, trust, attunement and autonomy within family systems
• identify and release family patterns of limitation
  restore the flow of love and energy from past generations

  What you can expect each week:

  Session 1: How collective trauma becomes personal trauma
  Conversation #1 with an ancestor: Empathy for experiencing collective trauma

  Session 2: Connecting with our Ancestors
  Conversation #2: Finding the needs we are meeting by not believing in/calling on our ancestors

  Session 3: Introduction to Unconscious Contracts
  Conversation #3: Finding unconscious contracts that block the flow of love

  Session 4: Feeling the flow of love between generations
  Conversation #4 with an ancestor: The ancestor has empathy for you

  Session 5: Introduction to the time travel empathy process
  Conversation #5: Time travel empathy for an ancestor

  Session 6: Conclusion: Questions and empathy explorations

  Disclaimer

  This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.

Cost and How to Register

*NVC Library members get 20% off their registration fee using code NVCL at time of checkout

BONUSES

About Sarah

Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.

Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.

Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.