Deepen your skills
with
Practice and Games.

Learn a new skill each week
&
Practice what you learn.

We'll go through one chapter each week of Marshall Rosenberg's book: "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life."

Class is designed so you can drop in any time, though students who take the whole class report life-changing results!

Do you spend the precious little "quality" time you have with your kids fighting over every little thing?

Do you find yourself resorting to punishment or bribery to get them to do things? Does it feel like you're missing some key skill to bring peace in your home?

In this four-week class, we'll teach you (and your spouse - bring them for free) a few, simple-to-master skills that will empower you to communicate with young people successfully. Using NVC*, Non-violent Communication, you'll learn how to respond to the young people in your life in a way that can transform potential conflict into win-win situations.

Bring your real - life challenges and we'll help you develop new ways of dealing with old stuck places.

Is talking to your parents like talking to a wall, sometimes? Do you feel like they still talk to you like you're a child?

Does even the simplest request, no matter how important, often end up in a fight?

In the first half of this four-week class will teach you how to talk to parents (and other grown-ups) so they treat you with the respect you deserve, and so they understand what it is you are trying to say. (We'll also give you a handout for your parents, suitable for attaching to the fridge, with suggestions about how they can listen better to you!)

In the second two weeks, we'll show you how to apply your new skills to those moments with friends and classmates when you know you want to say something, but it's hard to know just how to say it.

We'll also work on how to respond to mean or hurtful things other people say to you.

Philadelphia High School juniors and seniors will get 6 hours of community service upon completing the four classes.

All couples have disagreements, but why? Did you know that research now shows the single best indicator of divorce is the way a couple speaks to each other? In this class we'll explain what causes conflict, and teach you a few easy-to-learn techniques that will turn 80% of those potential arguments into opportunities for greater intimacy, instead of frustration and anger. The instructors will share with you their skills as professional couples mediators and NVC* instructors. Bring your spouse or come alone. This class will also be helpful for people between relationships seeking to improve their partnership skills.

Bring your real-life couples or personal conflicts, and we'll work together as a group, using NVC and Teamwork Mediation, to help you resolve them.

This will be an opportunity for couples who can't afford Couples Mediation or don't need a whole series of private sessions to receive help resolving issues too big for your current skills, but small enough to work out in a single, group session.

Attendees report learning as much or more from observing others as they do when it's their turn to mediate.

Deepen your skills
with
Practice and Games.

Deepen your skills
&
Practice what you learn with a partner between classes.

We'll work with your real-life situations, and develop more advanced listening skills

Class is designed so you can drop in any time, though students who take the whole class report life-changing results!