Upcoming Events
Events for June 09, 2012
CREATING THRIVING RELATIONSHIPS 06/9-10
Learn
Simple Tools That Keep Relationships from Falling Apart:
Nonviolent Communication meets Attachment Theory
Join Eric Bowers for this 2-Day Workshop Where You'll Discover:
- The most powerful thing you can do to improve all your relationships
- Communication skills that allow you to be empowered, honest, and kind
- How to create relationship boundaries that support closeness and autonomy
Okanagan Falls. June 9-10/12, 9:30am - 4:30 pm $125/day
or $225 for both days
$200 FOR BOTH DAYS IF YOU REGISTER BY MAY 24/12 (Max. 20 People)
TO REGISTER email eric@roadtocompassion.com or call 604.442.8811.
For more information call Joane at
250-492-6743, or Judy at 250-498-3538
Eric Bowers is a CNVC Certified Trainer with a passion for Attachment Theory,
Interpersonal Neurobiology, Movement, and Creativity.
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Events for June 23, 2012
HEAL YOUR CREATIVE SELF: An Adventure in Empathy - Vancouver June 23-24
Free the Fox * Embrace the Hounds * Seduce
the Inner Critic
Time: Saturday, June 23rd and Sunday, June 24th: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $250 - Limited to 25 people
Location: TBA - Vancouver or North Vancouver, BC
Where does our creativity come from? How is it an expression of our true selves? What stops us from letting our inspiration and sense of purpose flow into the world? How can we support ourselves and receive support to express the life energy within us?
Whether you want support to explore painting, poetry, music, performance or the art of dreaming yourself into the future, we invite you to join us for this 2-day workshop. Even if you don't believe you're creative, come and find your generative explorer...
In this workshop you will:
- Receive resonant, brain-changing support for the terror of facing the audience, the blank page or canvas
- Get empathy for performance moments:
- at the point of opening your mouth to sing,
- of lifting your hand to strum the guitar, draw or sculpt
- of closing your eyes to visualize the kind of life you long to live
- Learn to translate, teach and transform the Inner Critic
- Begin to create and sustain the neuroception of safety that makes creative expression possible
- Learn new findings in neuroscience, how our brains work with others and how to find and understand support
- Gain a basic understanding of your hemispheres' interplay in creativity
- Experience the power of depth support processes
- Have the opportunity to clear past performance trauma
- Learn to offer others life-serving responses
- Expand your capacity to receive applause and appreciation
We'll spend our time in large group sessions, smaller break-out group sessions, partner empathy and practice. There will be time to create and, if you choose, to share your creation with others.
Pre-requisite: Familiarity with Nonviolent Communication and ease in offering feelings and needs guesses. We'd love for each soul to be held with care and receive empathic support from the group as a whole so that everyone can feel safe to do the healing work she or he wants to do. If you are unsure whether your NVC experience is sufficient for you to enjoy this workshop, please email Eric Bowers at eric@roadtocompassion.com or Mika Maniwa ehmehm13@hotmail.com to arrange a time to discuss your concerns over the phone.
To register, please contact Mika Maniwa at 778-840-7902 or e-mail ehmehm13@hotmail.com We require a $100 non-refundable deposit to secure your place. The remainder is due on Sat. June 23rd.
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Based in
Vancouver, BC Eric Bowers owns and
operates Road to Compassion and is a CNVC Certified NVC Trainer. Eric has shared NVC throughout BC and in
parts of the US. He is passionate about
building community and supporting people to connect and come alive. He
offers NVC workshops, courses, and personal sessions that incorporate
Interpersonal Neurobiology and Attachment Theory concepts and principles.
Eric is also on fire for creative expression and loves to blog and write songs
based on his own adventures with coming alive. Find some of his music at www.cdbaby.com/ericbowers.
You can find Eric's blog and more information about Road to Compassion at www.roadtocompassion.com or at http://www.facebook.com/RoadtoCompassionNVC.
Sarah Peyton is a workshop and communication facilitator based in the "other Vancouver" near Portland, OR. Her offerings integrate the latest brain research with communication skills, focusing on how we hear and understand one another, effective ways to connect hearts, and what the cutting edge of neuroscience has to tell us about what happens in relationship. She is a regular contributor to the GAINS (Global Association of Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies) Quarterly. Her presentations are fun and inspiring, and she makes the abstract information about what happens in the brain accessible for all. She is available for phone sessions and will travel to provide day-long or longer offerings to small groups. Contact info: Sarah Peyton, peytwood@isomedia.com, (206) 579-1696. Check out her website: http://www.empathybrain.com
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Events for Aug. 19, 2012
RESTORING THE SOUL: 5-Day Residential Retreat on Bowen Island, BC
Sarah, Eric, and Mika are inspired to support you to unlock your painful
stories about yourself and others, and walk through the door of compassion to embrace your full self and your meaning in the world. If you are tired
of feeling numb or frozen, getting stuck and reactive, or feeling unsure about
how to counsel others while staying present and compassionate with yourself and
your own challenges, then join us for our RESTORING
THE SOUL RETREAT.
RESTORING THE SOUL: 5-Day Residential Retreat on Bowen Island, BC
(A 20 minute ferry ride from Vancouver,
BC, Canada)
August 19-24, 2012
with Sarah Peyton and Eric Bowers
Walk away from a five-day retreat with
your cells rejuvenated, passion reclaimed, and more hope and possibility about
community and your agency and empowerment in the world.
- Discover what blocks your vitality and keeps you frozen
- Reclaim moments of trauma that cut you off from life
- Receive compassionate, empathic support to explore the places of disconnection from your soul
- Come into full aliveness, so that painful and joyful emotions and experiences are all part of the dance of your life
- Learn integrative approaches/processes for self-connection
- Experience new levels of connection with self and others
- Take away specific integrative processes that will deepen your empathy with yourself & others
- Rejuvenate your counseling or empathy experience
- Depth processes that support trans-generational healing and integration
- Reclaim lost parts of your soul.
Our 5 days at Rivendell on Bowen
Island will flow through
large group sessions, smaller break-out group sessions, partner empathy and
practice, meals, and contemplative time--meditation, labyrinth walking,
connection with nature, self-empathy, rest, writing.
PREREQUISITE:
We welcome people with varying levels of experience with NVC, and
we'd also like to offer support and opportunities for learning empathy
before the retreat to those wishing to gain more confidence in giving
and receiving empathy.
We'd love for each soul to be held with
care and receive empathic support from the group as a whole so that
everyone can feel safe to do the healing work she or he wants to do.
If you are unsure whether your NVC experience is sufficient for you
to enjoy this residential retreat, please email Eric Bowers at eric@roadtocompassion.com or Mika Maniwa ehmehm13@hotmail.com to arrange a time to discuss your concerns over the phone.
LOGISTICS:
Arrive in the afternoon on Sunday,
August 19th and depart at noon on Friday, August 24th.
Limited to 25 people maximum.
Cost: Sliding scale $950 - $1250. And we also invite you to consider
the higher end to support our sustainability and our ability to include those
with less financial resources.
Includes tuition, food and shared
accommodation. A few single rooms are available. Bowen Island
residents need only pay for tuition and food.
TO REGISTER:
Please e-mail Mika Maniwa for a registration form: ehmehm13@hotmail.com
and send a non-refundable $100 deposit with a completed registration form to hold your place. Remainder
due July 15th.
Canadian residents: send a cheque
for $100 by mail to the organizer:
Mika Maniwa
#303-1885 East Pender St,
Vancouver, BC V5L 1W6
US residents: send $100 deposit by
PayPal to Sarah Peyton peytwood@isomedia.com
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