Workshops and Trainings
To book your seat in one of our workshops either contact us directly or follow this link to do an on-line booking.
If you do not see a workshop near you at this time, please contact us and we can tell you when one is coming up, or we may be able to arrange one.
If you get a group of min. six people together we are happy to set up a workshop near you for your group and your seat will be free. We will provide flyers etc. Contact us for further details.
The true spirit of our work
The true spirit of our work is to bring more joy and happiness to everybody’s lives, and the best way we have seen to achieve this, is through improving and deepening relationships, opening to a rich and vibrant life experience.
We support and empower you to do this by:
- Giving you the communication skills to listen and express from the heart, allowing a deep connection and more intimacy to flourish in your relationships.
- Giving you the skills to communicate authentically with confidence, and through mutual respect and cooperation, find ways for everybody to get more of what they want in life.
- Giving you the skills enabling everybody to treat each other with care and understanding, giving and receiving in a natural flow of joyful collaboration.
- Inviting you on a journey to open up to the world, expanding your world through opening your heart and senses to experience a richness of life that will make your heart sing.
Compassionate Communication
We are happy to offer a range of the topical one or two day workshops and trainings based on Compassionate Communication:
- Communication Skills for Increasing Happiness
- Healthy Relationships
- Intimate Relationships
- From Conflict to Connection 1 & 2
- Conflict Resolution
- Empowering Parenting - From Conflict to Connection, Respect and Cooperation
- What's Making You Angry?
Learning how to handle anger - From Anger to Constructive Action
- Expressing and Receiving Anger Safely
- Living Authentically
- The Art of Conscious Relating
- The joy of Listening with your Heart and being Heard to the depth of
your Soul
- The Living Energy of Needs - Connecting with the Joy Within
- Creating the Life you Really Want
You will find further description of these workshops and trainings below.
Communication Skills for Increasing Happiness
aka CC
Foundation Training
If you want to improve your relationships in all areas of your life and have more heartfelt connection, ease and peace in your life, this training will give you the ability to achieve that through:
- Giving you communication skills that increases connection and ensures mutual understanding.
- Increasing your awareness and ability to connect with what is really going on inside you and others.
- Showing you the most effective ways to get your needs met, and get more of what brings joy and happiness to your life.
- Increase your understanding and fluency in using Compassionate Communication.
For more details follow this link to: Foundation Training Details
or click here to download PDF flyer.
Healthy Relationships
Relationships where everybody wins and everybody is nourished is the aim of this workshop.
In getting there we will be looking at each being responsible for themselves and their own "stuff" and contribution. Topics include boundaries, untangling the past, making requests, finding common ground and working together towards creating a relationship we can both enjoy.
The skills from this workshop can be applied in families, between partners, in the workplace and in any other relationship.
Intimate Relationships
If you are longing for more intimacy and genuine connection in your relationship or are exhausted from endless patterns of behaviour that lead nowhere, then this two day workshop is a gift for you. It will help you bring a new vibrancy, joy and deep connection into your relationship.
In this workshop you will learn how to do this through:
- Focused exercises for increasing connection, intimacy and trust.
- Learn how to breach and resolve issues in a way that connect rather than disconnect.
- Honouring all feelings without getting stuck in the ocean of emotion, by finding the concrete actions that help you get what is important to you.
- Changing destructive habits to habits that build and enhance your relationship.
- Ability to express yourself with authenticity, asking for what is important to you.
- Bringing partnership consciousness into your relationship – being “us” instead of you and I.
If you want to experience rich, vibrant relationships with loving care and a feeling of truly knowing each other, then the best way we have found, is through connecting deeply, sharing what is most precious and nurture safety and trust.
To help you experience this we offer you:
- Ways to develop closer bonds and sharing more deeply.
- Tools to move through the fears towards greater intimacy.
- Exercises and behaviours to honour each other and the relationship.
- Awareness of how to nurture safety and trust.
- Attitudes and communication that sustain the intimacy in relationships.
You will learn much more, and in essence they are key life skills for keeping intimate relationships vibrant and real.
The skills and practice are equally important and useful whether you come with your partner or on your own to learn and practice these key life skills.
The content of this workshop is not only for intimate relationships with a partner, but applies to all relationships where more openness, intimacy and trust are desired.
Click here to download PDF flyer for this workshop.
From Conflict to Connection 1 & 2
We all experience conflicting interests and strategies in our interactions with others. How skilled are you at turning a seeming conflict into an opportunity for connection?
If you want to learn how to handle both inner and outer conflict effectively, learn how to say “No” in a constructive connecting way, and would like to relate to others in a more compassionate way, then this workshop is for you.
Among other things this training offers to:
- Increase your ability to hear others and understand their actions in ways that allows you to stay connected in challenging situations.
- Teach you how to identify the underlying most important issues.
- Enable you to turn what is most important into a point of connection.
Conflict Resolution
This workshop will give you a structured and proven method to engage actively with conflict to obtain a resolution. This is for you whether the aim is resolving a conflict you are part of or you have a mediator role.
The skills you will learn are equally effective in private life or in the workplace.
Empowered Parenting - From Conflict to Connection, Respect and Cooperation
If you would like a family where loving care, connection, natural respect and freely given cooperation is the way of life, then the best way we know to achieve this is through empowering parents to understanding how to allow this behaviour to develop naturally and having the tools to do it.
This workshop helps you get there in many ways, including:
- Bringing awareness to the behaviours and language that sabotage your best intentions.
- Providing basic conflict resolution skills and awareness.
- Showing how to inspire giving.
- Developing ways to stay connected with your children.
- Giving you tools to involve your children in achieving what everybody wants.
What's Making You Angry?
Learning how to handle anger
What is behind anger is often surprising. Getting to know and understand the cause of anger is crucial to enable you to move through it and equally important when anger is present in someone else.
In this workshop you will gain insights into anger and how it can be managed towards positive outcomes and even to increase connection, trust and understanding.
From Anger to Constructive Action
If not handled with awareness anger often leads to destructive outcomes. In this workshop you will learn how to turn that around and use the energy behind the anger as a constructive creative force to get more of what you want in your life.
You will be given and practice a step by step approach to getting the gift out the anger and treat it as a precious resource to create more happiness.
Expressing and Receiving Anger Safely
Anger is a valuable natural feeling. It is how it is expressed that causes problems and sometimes leads to painful outcomes and people getting hurt physically or emotionally.
Anger can be very frightening to be near and having some basic skills to help you receive the expression of anger in a safe(r) way can be crucial to how a situation develops and ends.
Would you like to:
Empower yourself to manage and express your anger in a safe way and benefit from the valuable insights it can provide - and be able to help others do the same?
Be able to use anger to contribute to happiness and improve your life instead of destroying it?
This workshop provides:
- A clear understanding of the nature and cause of anger.
- Tools to make anger your friend, helping you to learn from it.
- Practical skills to manage your anger safely when it arises.
- Practical skills to help diffuse other peoples' anger in a way that is connecting and constructive.
Living Authentically
Living authentically contributes to peace in your life. It also increases trust and the possibility of deep honest connection. Being true to yourself brings joy, harmony and freedom to your life.
By using your feelings and thoughts to remain honest with yourself you are able to also live in an authentic manner. In this workshop you will learn tools and practise these skills to live more authentically - being you.
The Art of Conscious Relating
- Learn the dance of communication without stepping on each others toes.
- Recognise when your 'buttons' get pushed, and change your typical reactions.
- Address conflict with an open heart without giving in, or giving up.
- Recognise and heal your blind spots in a gentle and empowering way.
- Move toward a partnership paradigm.
The joy of Listening
with your Heart and being Heard to the depth of your Soul
- The Living Energy of Needs
Experience the joy of living in the awareness of the beauty of your own needs and the needs of others. This workshop is focused on the spiritual dimension of Compassionate Communication, how we relate to our selves, to life and to each other.
If what you are seeking is something truly life changing, then this could be the workshop for you. This workshop focuses on the living energy of needs and seeing the beauty of the need as taught by Robert Gonzales.
It is about connecting with your life force, your essence and the life force in others. You will get tools for deep personal transformation in this extraordinary workshop.
Click here to download PDF flyer for this workshop.
Connecting with the Joy Within
Description coming soon.
Creating the Life you Really Want
In this workshop we explore a deeper understanding of yourself, enabling you to better meet your core needs. Then we look at how you may be blocking what you really want most of all. Lastly we guide you through a process of developing a plan to achieve your goals and give you tools to overcome common obstacles along the way.
Participants are encouraged to start a goal focus and support group to help everybody stay on track with their plan.
Investment
Participation in a two day workshop or training requires an investment of $200* ($150 conc.) and 15 hours of your time.
Participation in a one day workshop or training requires an investment of $100* ($70 conc.) and 7-8 hours of your time.
You can repeat any of our workshops or trainings at half price.
Repeating a foundation training (even if you did it with another trainer
the first time) is $100.
(When you make your booking please state who you did the training
with, where and when)
If you book more than one workshop for yourself, you get
a multi-booking rebate of 15% off each new training.
To reserve your seat we require a deposit of min. $50* per workshop. Details of how to make a payment can be found on our bookings page (follow this link) or call us if you have any questions.
* Please note price may vary according to venue, location and amount of travel involved.
Bring a friend or arrange a group
If you would like to bring friends along you get a rebate of $30 for each friend.
If you get a group of min. six people together we are happy to arrange a workshop for your group near you, and your seat will be free. Price for other participants may vary according to venue, location and amount of travel involved. We will provide flyers etc. Venue can be a private home and this often creates a nice relaxed atmosphere. Contact us for further details.
Group bookings and tailored training
We also take group bookings. If you are part of a group and would like to arrange a special training for your group (friends, special interest group or perhaps for your workplace) you can contact us for further details.
Sponsorships
We believe that Compassionate Communication skills should be available to everybody, and we know that these skills contributes to a more joyful world for all of us.
If you believe that learning Compassionate Communication will make a significant difference to your life and the investment stops you from coming, we do have a limited number of seats we offer at reduced rates through our sponsorship program. Just contact us and we will do our best to assist you.
You may also consider "bringing a friend" or "arranging a group".
Sponsors
Giving something valuable to someone else and making a definite positive difference to the lives of others is most satisfying.
If you would like to join our list of sponsors for any amount, we will sign you up. When a request for sponsorship arises, and it matches your sponsorship criteria, we will contact you to confirm if you are still interested in sponsoring.