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The NVC Academy program, The Communication Difference: Create the Life and Work You Want, is a low-cost, engaging introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with highly-experienced trainers. Each trainer offers their own captivating focus and style to help you develop communication patterns that support your most important career, family, and community relationships.

Join Sarah Peyton for 6-weeks exploring time travel resonance and discovering new freedom, by turning trauma memories into life experience. Intrusive and traumatic memories can be transformed with warmth, accompaniment and resonance.

Learn how your brain experiences belonging and what gets in its way. See how compassionate shame-gazing can support your decision making in a way that fosters genuine belonging and integrity-rich self-acceptance. Celebrate the promises you made to yourself that kept you safe in childhood even as you make new commitments that are more life-serving. Increase your capacity for authentic self-expression in ways that enhance your sense of secure belonging.

Tarot cards, with images and archetypes dating from as early as the 1400’s, are a rich source of archetypal energy. In this masterclass session, we will be drawing cards to be represented in constellations for clients in response to clients’ questions, in an exploration of archetypes, fate, destiny and divination within constellation work.

What is happening in the brain with ADHD? Where does ADHD come from? Clients often bring their heavy burden of distraction and anguish from decades of unsupported ADHD. Research into ADHD and its effects, consequences, and strengths has been exploding. One of the most important things to know about ADHD is its relationship with trauma. This relationship opens a space for very effective support to happen in our constellation work. Join Sarah Peyton to explore constellation possibilities for clients with ADHD. 

Contracts that limit our life energy can lead to hopelessness and depression. When they are combined with negative self-talk, they can be toxic. Another facet of depression is hyperactivation of the anterior cingulate, which may have a contract to carry the pain of self and of the entire world. The release of these contracts in these two classes supports the reclamation of movement and agency.

In this workshop, Dr. Greenspun outlines the various ruptures that are both embedded in and contributing to the unfolding climate and environmental crisis. These ruptures include the internal defense mechanism of disavowal that leads us to split off our full awareness of climate disruption, the fractures between groups of people including various forms of polarization, marginalization and othering, and the split between humans and the more-than-human world characteristic of the modern Western world. 

What can relational neuroscience reveal to us about violence and the people who perpetrate violence? What are the personal, societal and systemic contributors to violence? Join Sarah to discover what the research shows about behavior change, and, most importantly, what resonance can do to support change.

While the scientific community has come to unprecedented international scientific agreement on the causes of climate change and what needs to be done to stop it, there remains significant contention about the issue. At least part of the reason for this is the different decision-making frameworks of those involved in the decision-making and a seeming failure for widely respected figures to coalesce the disparate voices around a vision of the future that we can work toward while also valuing the past contributions of fossil fuel and providing a safety net for those who have worked so hard in that effort.

Similarly to the way that our brain incorporates a violin as a part of the body the more it is played, our brain can be said to consider our addictions and addictive strategies to be auxiliary sources of necessary neurotransmitters. And similarly to the way that our brain makes contracts with us to keep us safe, our brains can be said to make contracts with us on behalf of our addictions.

Do you ever have clients who find it difficult to live with the demands their brain makes on them? Is the price for saying “no,” higher than they can endure? What are the brain patterns with OCD? What parts of the brain are involved in OCD? What does research say is helpful? Join Sarah Peyton to explore constellation possibilities for clients with OCD.

Family Systems Constellation has demonstrated to us the deep peace and sense of balance that comes from finding our right place in the family system. The anxieties and imbalance that are prolific with modernity lead us to the natural place of remembering that we have a right place in relationship to our Mother Earth as well.