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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Free the Fox * Embrace the Hounds * Seduce the Inner Critic

Time:    Saturday, June 23^rd and Sunday, June 24^th:   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 23^rd.

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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

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