Living Peace at Home and at Work

An Online NVC Retreat with Roxy manning & Oren Jay Sofer
JANUARY 20 – 23, 2022

Are you interested in developing skills to make peace at home and at work? The tools of Nonviolent Communication can support us with skills to navigate challenging situations with loved ones, in hierarchical workplace settings, and during these challenges times. With training, we can learn to stay balanced and make a difference for everyone whose lives we touch.

Join us for this special online retreat where we’ll delve into NVC as an embodied practice for transforming our lives, relationships and world. During this four-day retreat, you’ll learn ways to:

• Stay grounded and balanced in challenging moments

• Enhance your ability to listen well and speak with clarity

• Deepen intimate and family relationships

• Develop insight and self-mastery

This retreat is full with a short waitlist. Please add your name to the waitlist to be notified if a spot opens.

This online retreat includes two interactive sessions per day with teaching, practice and discussion: from 9 – 11 am and 1 – 3 pm PST, plus the option to join a one-hour empathy practice group each day (empathy groups will be offered at various times to accommodate times zones and work schedules).

Certain sessions will focus on applying Nonviolent Communication (NVC) at home and with friends, while others will focus on using NVC in the workplace. Typical topics include:

• Being in a partnership or being single

• Parenting or connecting with children in other contexts

• Communicating across any kind of divide

• Collaborating at work

• Helping others work through conflict

BayNVC Immersion Program

Participants may apply to continue their learning in the BayNVC Immersion Program, an 8-month intensive program that meets in the East Bay of the SF Bay Area one weekend per month February – September, 2022. Please download the info packet here.

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Who's it for?

This retreat is appropriate for those new to Nonviolent Communication as well as for experienced practitioners seeking to bring their practice to a new level. Previous retreats have drawn therapists, activists, teachers, health care providers, parents, writers, artists, engineers, life coaches, and many more.

Get support in key communication areas, including:

• Understanding internal conflicts or “stuck” places

• Making clear decisions

• Collaborating more effectively

• Resolving conflict with colleagues

• Working with clients, patients, and customers

• Growing communication skills with children

• Embodying nonviolence in social change work

Program Leadership

The Living Peace Retreat will be co-led by Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainers Roxy Manning, Ph.D. and Oren Jay Sofer, and will be supported by a team of experienced NVC assistants. Our leadership team is designed to provide significant coaching in small groups.

Retreat is full - click below to join a short waitlist.

The Living Peace Retreat
is sponsored by BayNVC

financial aid & accessibility

We wish to support all people who are passionate about this work to have access to it, independent of their current access to financial resources. We recognize that, because of various social and economic systems, some people experience financial barriers to participating in events with cost-based attendance.

We are explicitly inviting participation by people who come from any of the following communities. We know that when these people are included, all communities benefit:

• People with visible or invisible disabilities

• People who do not have white skin privilege and/or who come from communities who have been targets of racism

• Low-income/Poor or Working class people (please refer to this definition as a guideline when self-identifying in this category)

If you identify as part of one of the communities listed above and would like to be considered for a low-cost space, please apply for a scholarship. Preference will be given to those who are new to this work and who have not attended past events at reduced or no cost.

Scholarship requests? Please complete this form to request a scholarship.
Questions about this retreat? Feel free to email us here.

“Roxy is a natural healer with a huge capacity to hold pain and and create space for deep healing. I love the way Roxy facilitates groups; there’s something about her energy and the way she leans forward that inspires me and gives me hope.”

— Martha Lasley, Founder and Certified Coach, Leadership that Works

“I was blown away by Oren's ability to clearly, consciously, and potently articulate and bring to life so many teachings. The organization of his retreat was flawless, which made it much easier for me to see the connections between various ideas and practices. I would be thrilled to spend another retreat with Oren.”

— Retreat Participant

“Being able to tune in to myself and become more fully present while in the presence of challenges with loved ones has been revolutionary. This training is making me more attuned as a therapist.”

— Kitty Costello, Author and Psychotherapist, San Francisco, CA

“This practice has brought me closer to my family and friends than any other life event. I see the world as a more beautiful place now.”

— Laura W., Middle School Teacher, Oakland, CA.