Calendar for Leadership Program

Group A

9am PDT // 6pm CEST
October, 2022 - June, 2023

 

Link for Google Calendar: Group A

 

**Also offered at 7pm PDT // 12pm AEST ~ Click Here for Group B

Initial Conversations~ 3 hours

Let's welcome one another and set up our guidelines, the space, tone, rhythm and intention for our cohort learning community.

Practice and Explore: Streaming and Timing and Rhythm

Practices include SURF and empathic listening, the 5 Elements, beginning to shape your commitment. You are invited to incorporate SURF, 5 Elements practices, and somatic journaling daily.

The Responsible Self: Grounded Vision, Commitment and Trajectory

We are most powerful when we are ignited by what we care about and putting that out into the world. We organize around one simple question: “What do you care about?” The feelings and emotions that illuminate your answer become the springboard for self-growth, empowerment, and healthy relationships. Practices include SURF and empathic listening with a resource at your back, exploring a Moment of Ignition, & continuing to shape your commitment.

Practice and Explore: S.U.R.F., 5 Elements, Should/Choose

Practices include SURF, 5 Elements, exploring the experience of "should" and "choose to" in the body, and moving to Wind in the challenger/receiver role play. You are invited to continue your daily practice and journal about what you are noticing from the practices and exploring the quality of "joy."

S.U.R.F. Centering, Self Resourcing, Commitments

Explore A Moment of "Ignition" and your personal commitment in an empathic listening field, SURF, and Core Strategies. Learn tips for Somatic Journaling.

Practice and Explore: Commitments & Feedback

Practice SURF, holding empathic listening fields, expressing your commitment, giving and receiving somatic observations and feedback.

Shape Shifting and Inner Consensus

Shape-Shifting training develops “somatic impressions” — body/mind understandings — qualities of being that, over time, reveal the source of our deep needs, providing opportunities for profound insight and self-growth. It combines visualization, physical and linguistic features, forming a daily practice for managing feelings of being overwhelmed, listening with empathy, and for harmonizing conflict. Inner consensus is a deeply empathic listening process for unifying our inner resources, centering and empowering our choices, words, and actions.

Practice and Explore: Shape Shifting and Inner Consensus

Deepen your practice of Shape Shifting/5 Elements. Practice facilitating, holding, and witnessing Inner Consensus practice.

The Spiral Blend

Getting out of our own way and allowing empathy to extend to ourselves and others.

Bonus Session: Somatic Journaling with Judith Weinstock

Learn simple writing practices and prompts to support self-exploration, as well as opportunities to intersect practices you have already learned in this training with the practice of writing toward cultivating joy in journaling as a daily somatic practice. This will be a one hour session.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Somatic Autobiography: From Reaction to Resource

This practice is to foster an attitude of curiosity toward historical patterns in your behavior, to investigate these aspects of your life, and in time to learn to understand them. This leads to greater respect, honor, and appreciation of your history and reveals resources for healing and for having more compassion for others.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Join us for a Liminal Somatics Celebration!

Come as you are, where ever you are, and join us as we celebrate Faith and Ryan becoming the firsts to earn certification in Somatic Consensus! This will be a one hour session.

Tech Training

Learn how to lead a meeting on Zoom including the basics of Zoom settings and meeting options including breakout rooms, sharing screen, and more.

Finding Inner Consensus

When our verbal and nonverbal communication are aligned and emerge from a unified internal consensus, the power of the intention creates an energy field that attracts people, opportunities, and resources that make things happen. Working together and practicing this process for building an internal consensus and sharing it..

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Student Facilitated Practice Session with Alison Dunn

Exploring Social Identity and Cultural Context through Somatic Consensus and Theatre of the Oppressed practices.

Tech Training

Learn how to lead a meeting on Zoom including the basics of Zoom settings and meeting options including breakout rooms, sharing screen, and more.

Revisiting Inner Consensus

When our verbal and nonverbal communication are aligned and emerge from a unified internal consensus, the power of the intention creates an energy field that attracts people, opportunities, and resources that make things happen. Working together and practicing this process for building an internal consensus and sharing it..

Practice and Explore: Inner Consensus

A guided session for practicing and facilitating the Inner Consensus process

Student Facilitated Practice Session with Esin Erek

The Hollow Bone Practice and Choosing Decisively

The 7 C's

Deepening our understanding of, and relationship with, the 7 C's of Somatic Consensus

Practice and Explore: The 7 C's

Deepening our understanding of, and relationship with, the 7 C's of Somatic Consensus

Student Facilitated Session with Joanna Fodczuk-Garcia

Liminal Somatics + Art! Please bring paper and any art supplies you have at home (pencils, crayons, markers)

Refining a Commitment and Designing an Offering

Articulating a Vision and Developing Our Offerings

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Student Facilitated Session with Senovio Shish

How can we build resilience for racial justice work using SURF, Wind and Ground

Student Facilitated Session with Sandra Borgarts

Deepen our relationship with the 5 Elements by exploring a moment of ignition with one or more of the elements.

Rhythm, Space, Virtues

The more relaxed we are, the more aware we can be. The more we can feel, the more our emotions can point us towards what we care about. We transmit our state of being. When we are relaxed and present with others, those around us relax and respond in kind. This session is a distillation of NVC, a simple practice that brings living Nonviolent Communication into relationships over the long term.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Open Student-facilitated Session with Jen Franklin

An open space to gather together, explore Somatic Auto-biography, practice and support each other

Student Facilitated Session w/Guillaume Thouvenel

Shaping, Resourcing, and Empowering Your Commitment

S.U.R.F.I.N.G. Meditative Practice

Here we will move through different centers in our bodies, being curious and appreciative, notice any places where you feel emotional or physical discomfort. By learning to tolerate our own feelings with love and patience, we can increase our capacity for graciousness and dignity with others. Facing an experience in a relaxed, centered, balanced, and intuitive way. we can engage it synergistically, which will move us faster and farther than we might ever go alone.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Certification and Co-Creation w/David and Faith

Join us for a discussion about certification and co-creative community process.

Open Student Facilitated Session

An open space to gather together, practice, and support each other

Somatic Observations and the Signals We Give

Words convey a great deal; however, presence is where we radiate and transmit our whole being. Training our senses somatically increases the ability to listen and feel the rhythms within and around us. Over time, as training becomes more embodied, the underlying currents and cues in all interactions can become more deeply felt.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Open Student Facilitated Session

Save the date for a possible student led session. To facilitate, sign up using the calendly link at the top of the page. Details to be determined.

Open Student Facilitated Session

Save the date for a possible student led session. To facilitate, sign up using the calendly link at the top of the page. Details to be determined.

Refining Your Program and Somatic Consensus Coaching Distinctions

As we deepen into the work, we will refine the ways we share it and receive support in helping shape your own offerings/programs and Somatic Consensus coaching practices.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Student Facilitated Session w/Anke Krause

Focus on Spiral Blend: Resourcing yourself for connection in conflicts

Student Facilitated Session w/ Esin Erek

Explore Inner Consensus: a powerful practice to support us in getting out of our own way

7 C's of Embodiment

This session introduces 7 qualities - care, courage, curiosity, centering, creativity, confidence, and commitment - that support the journey towards the embodiment of an art. The focus here is on a way to cultivate skillful vulnerability that supports us feeling safe, resourced and empathic. This practice allows the intelligence of our hearts, intuition, and mind to work in consensus to guide our words, choices, and actions.

A Personal Path for Sharing Somatic Consensus Foundational Training

Faith and David will cover the basics for certification, share their experience, take questions and offer a path for creatively sharing Somatic Consensus. 

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Student Facilitated Session w/Quentin Shaw

To be determined

Leadership Qualities

In the session we will explore practices for organizing and empowering word and action by grounding ourselves in NVC consciousness. Leadership qualities such as honesty, integrity, humility, acceptance, empathy are learnable states of being. When you know deeply what matters and what you care about and you move from that place, you can powerfully lead yourself and others. Much of what we express is non-verbal. When words and action come out of an internal consensus, when we are deeply moved by the life that course through and around us, we can effect life affirming change based in loving protection for all.

Practice and Explore

Where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Student Facilitated Session w/Guillaume Thouvenel

Head, Heart, Belly and friends: towards inner consensus

Student Facilitated Session w/Sandra Borgarts

Empower your inner voice

The Practice of Community

In this session we will look at essential elements and pratices for healthy community to emerge within and around us. Just as in our lives a stage is never reached where we can say that we have finished studying life, there is always more to learn about what Community is. The daily tasks in community life at its most basic levels reminds us of our direction and purpose, renews our self esteem and affirms that our desire for community and connection is possible. It is the opportunity for comprehensive interaction, responsibility, and commitment.

Practice, Questions and Explorations

An open session where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Student Facilitated Session w/ Joanna Fodczuk

To be determined

Practice, Questions and Explorations

An open session where practice and sharing become more deeply felt and embodied. Build personal lifelong practices for becoming who you want to be. Develop skills that harmonize the conflicts within and around you Share what you love creatively and competently with others.

Completions and Beginnings

Completion of the Course, Take aways, Next Steps

Certification Path: Introduction

David and Faith will share the vision for certification.