Heartland Intensive

Real skills. Real change. Real heart.

The Heartland Program will again be held this year at breathtaking Unity Village. What begins as a training quickly becomes a community of individuals who enjoy supporting each other and who tend to stay in touch long after the final intensive. As co-trainer Lori Woodley says, “The Heartland Program’s got heart!” Lori leads the program with NVC Mediation’s John Kinyon and in cooperation with PeaceMatters.

Enroll in the Heartland Program if you want to learn how to “mediate” or navigate your life and develop the skills that will help you reach your goals. Just be warned: You may find so much value in this program that you discover yourself wanting to share it with everyone you know.

Participants report all kinds of benefits, but these tend to fall into three main categories.

You will develop the ability to be calm and present when experiencing or witnessing conflict.

When faced with conflict, most of us go into a state of fight/flight/freeze. This gets communicated to other people through tone of voice and body language and it tends to make the situation worse. The Heartland’s intensive trainings show you how to keep yourself in a centered, nonreactive space. Once you experience this, you begin to learn that conflict is not so bad and you can engage with it.

You will develop skills for handling conflict, starting with the skill of self-connection.

Once you can do that, you naturally become more able to connect with another person, or to help other people connect. By the end of the program, most people see a radical difference in their ability to approach and resolve conflict in their own lives. Further, many people develop a comfort level with these skills that allows them to begin mediating for others professionally. But the Heartland Program is not only for professionals. The skills we teach are everyday skills that can transform your relationships with family, friends, and coworkers, and even your relationship with yourself.

You will grow as a person.

We encourage you to bring your own conflicts into the training and practice with them. In addition to gaining the first two benefits, you may leave the training having already experienced a remarkable shift in your personal conflicts. Many people do!

“John [Kinyon] and Lori, I want you both to know how much I deeply admire and respect the remarkable dance of synergy the two of you exhibited as you ‘work’ together and created space for transformation. I am filled with overflowing gratitude for the opportunity to have experienced mastery and masters of the art and science of NVC.”

– Dr. Tom Boldrey, 2011 Mediate Conflict in Harmony with your Spiritual Practice, Dallas, TX

Registration:

You can also learn more by calling 816-500-8596 or e-mailing lori@nvcmediation.com.

Where:

Unity Village
1901 NW Blue Parkway
Unity Village, MO 64065-0001
(15 miles from downtown Kansas City)
Website: unityvillage.org

When:

May 31 - June 4, 2012 | October 11 - 15, 2012 | March 7 - 11, 2013

Recommended prerequisite: A foundation of an NVC class or workshop, or the equivalent. (Contact us for suggestions.)

What happens between the three intensive trainings?

The yearlong Heartland Program consists of three multi-day intensives spaced over 11 months, plus a commitment to these learning and practice activities between the intensives:

daily individual self-connection and skill-building practices
weekly telephone dyad and triad practice with fellow participants
monthly joint teleconference sessions with the trainers (including one in the month after the last intensive) to support next steps and the integration of the training into your life

What if I can’t commit to the yearlong program?

If you can’t commit to the full program, or aren’t sure whether you want to, you can attend the first intensive and decide at the end. The second and third intensives are open only to those who have attended the first intensive and who intend to complete the full program.

Tuition:

$875 for each of three intensives. Time-sensitive discounts apply.

If money is the only thing limiting your attendance, please e-mail lori@nvcmediation.com. In your message, please answer the five questions listed here.

Accommodations:

Call 816-500-8596 or e-mail lori@nvcmediation.com for information and reservations, or visit the venue website.

“Since 1995, I have participated in about a dozen NVC workshops, many with Marshall Rosenberg. After the first retreat of the Heartland NVC Mediation Immersion, my understanding and ability to use NVC on a daily basis jumped exponentially. The trainers break down each skill and give us ways to practice that just plain works for me. I am now able to take what I know and practice with anyone even if they aren’t at all familiar with NVC.”

– Cynthia Leveque, 2011 graduate