Trainer

David Weinstock

Organisation

Michael Uhlig

More Information / Booking

The venue

Sampurna

Workshop with David K. Weinstock (USA)

"Becoming what you need!"

Practices for Embodying Nonviolent Communication

from 05 to 09 November 2023
in Schlangenbad-Bärstadt

It's of the utmost importance to organize around what you deeply care about these days.

And having access to learnable skills such as managing moods, taking decisive and skillful actions, and relating to others with grounded compassion is crucial.

At the heart of my sessions, you'll find simple life practices that can give you access to those learnable skills.

These practices can help you:

Find intuitive guidance for bridging divides

Connect to deep needs that have been habitually ignored

Discharge the anxiety held in old, embodied reactions

Make decisions and take actions that align with your values

Cultivate resources for more enjoyably and capably building relationships

Combining NVC and somatic techniques increases your capacity to organize yourself physically, emotionally, and linguistically. It offers daily and lifetime practices for attuning to your body's signals and the present, direct, and immediate experience of the life you're living. It brings you face to face with the history you've embodied, your deeper self, your greatest gifts, and the motivation to live more compassionately in the world. Along the way, you'll be aligning your words and actions with everything you most deeply care about, and have some good fun!

Whether you're just beginning to learn NVC or are an advanced trainer, you'll find valuable knowledge in this course. I hope you can join us.

David

Sessions will include:

· Daily Mind/Body movements and meditations

· Demonstrations with participants

· Work in pairs, small groups, and the whole group

· Conversations, time for sharing and questions & answers

· Silent integration time

· Somatic journaling

· Music and some good fun, all in beautiful surroundings

Teachings will include practices & processes on:

· Self-Empathy/Compassion

· Transform Core Beliefs and Core Strategies

· Healing Conversations, deepening relationships.

· Cultivate Authentic Presence

· Establish healthy boundaries that promote powerful inclusivity

· Learn to transform anger into life lessons

· Make decisions and take actions that align with your values

· Nurture intimate connections and cultivate community

Booking

Workshop planning:

Arrival on Sunday, 05 Nov. 2023

until 4:00 pm	check in
5:00 pm	Get together followed by Dinner together (day guests must be registered for dinner)

Monday, 06 Nov. - Wednesday, 08 Nov. 2023

9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Workshop
6:30 am - approx. 7:30 pm	Dinner (day guests must be registered for dinner at Sampurna)
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm	Common time (participation if interested)

Thursday, 09 Nov. 2023

9:00 am - 4:00 pm	Workshop
4:00 pm- 4:30 pm	Time to say goodbye
4:30 pm	individual departure

Workshop rate:

Early bird rate when booking
until 31.07.2023 420,00 €*
*Accommodation and meals are not included in the seminar price, please contact Sampurna Seminarhaus

Normal rate at the time of booking
from 01.08.2023 520,00 €*
*Accommodation and meals are not included in the seminar price, please contact Sampurna Seminarhaus

Additional :

Please..

book your daypackage with or without Dinner (mandatory, if you book no overnight stay at Sampurna-Seminarhaus)
your overnight stay (not mandatory)

...directly at Sampurna-Seminarhaus. They will offer you a special room- / day-rate for the workshop.

Special Notes:

We recommend that you take out cancellation insurance in case of a necessary cancellation.
The workshop will be held in english.
The number of participants is limited to 25 person!

Distances/Arrival to Sampurna Seminarhaus: (Link)

by car
via Wiesbaden - A66 direction Rüdesheim - exit on B260 direction Eltville/Walluf/Martinsthal/Schlangenbad - on B 260 near Wambach - in the center of Wambach exit to Schlangenbad Bärstadt (turn to left)
approx. 25 minutes by car

by train
via Wiesbaden Hbf. - get off at Walluf Trainstation - continue by taxi to Bärstadt approx. 15-20 min.

by plane
from Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA) Continue by taxi, S-Bahn or rental car approx. 45 minutes.

We are happy to assist with the transfer from Frankfurt am Main Airport (FRA) or from Wiesbaden Central Trainstation or if you need a taxi.

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David Weinstock

is an international trainer of Nonviolent Communication, a Somatic Coach, and author of “Becoming What You Need”: Practices for Embodying Nonviolent Communication”. He has brought his leadership, community, and team-building trainings to a wide audience in schools, prisons, organizations, and businesses around the world. He is a respected master goldsmith(www.goldmuse.net). He is an Aikido instructor and co-founder of Peace Dojos International, an organization that works for peace and justice by means of community service and training for self-mastery distilled from the martial arts.

All of David’s work--in particular his present organization, Liminal Somatics(www.liminalsomatics.com)--is committed to developing our capacity to value what each of us brings to the circle, to reclaim community and appreciate the necessity of honoring diversity for the sake of creating a nurturing world for generations to come.

David and his wife Judith co-founded an intentional community with eight other families in 1990. We came together committed to developing our capacity to value what each of us brings to the circle, to reclaim community and value diversity for the sake of creating a nurturing world for generations to come. To this day the community has practiced consensus decision-making and embraced NVC foundations. We are now a four-generation community with adult children that were born and raised here.

Sampurna Seminarhaus

Am Tiergarten 1
65388 Schlangenbad-Bärstadt

is located in a small village in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Forests, vines, meadows and fields offer the perfect environment to unwind in the beautiful nature.

The workshop rooms as well as the rooms and all surrounding lounges offer the perfect environment for our workshop to let go, allow new experiences and concentrate fully on the workshop. Further information about Sampurna Seminarhaus can be found under the following link: Sampurna-Seminarhaus

Schlangenbad-Bärstadt belongs to the town of Schlangenbad, a small spa town in the Rheingau-Taunuskreis.

We recommend all participants to stay overnight in the Sampurna Seminarhaus.

Due to the limited number of rooms, you should make a reservation as soon as possible!

The rooms, which can be booked from "de luxe" to "standard" and single to multi-bed rooms, are booked and paid directly at Sampurna Seminarhaus.

For accomodation you have different choices:

The room-rate for the whole training (includes 4 nights, breakfast, small breaks during the training with coffee, tea, fruits, nuts and buiscuits, lunch, dinner, parking, internet and sauna)

Singleroom Comfort (youu have your own bathroom) 548 € per Person

Singleriom Standad (you have to share the bathroom) 508 € per Persom

Doubleroom de luxe (you have your own bathroom) 548 € per Person.

Doubleroom Standard (you have to share the bathroom) 468 € per Person

Room with more beds 428 € per Person

Tent or Camper 348 € per Person.

If you like to stay only for the training at Sampurna, without accomodation, you have to pay

a daytime-rate of 260 € (includes lunch, dinner and breaks for 4 days per Person)

a daytime-rate of 180 € (includes lunch and breaks during workshop for 4 days per Person).

All food id in a high biological quality and vegetary! You have to choose between vegetaran an vegan. If you any kind of intolarances please let us know, we will consider it.

Other accommodation options are available in Schlangenbad and Bad Schwalbach.

Do you have any questions? Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We look forward to seeing you and wish you a good time until then.

Yours

Diane and Michael Uhlig

What NVC trainers have to say

I was breath-taken by some of the examples he brought, and filled with hope connecting to the possibilities of teaching NVC through these examples. I was also very impressed with David’s presence and ease as a facilitator. It seems that more and more NVC practitioners are including the body in their work; David has his own unique way of doing that and I just hope that as many people as possible could access his work.

François Beausoleil executive coach and trainer

Foremost in my mind is my excitement and joy in how deeply the Aikido movements actually support and facilitate the embodiment of NVC consciousness as I understand and hold it. I was enthused to use some of the movements the very next weekend in a workshop I gave. I sense that David has the ability to deeply self- connect, to be transparent and available to the moment, to hold an empathic presence with others and to share his gifts with humility.

Loren Swift Psychotherapist and Certified NVC Trainer

What I experienced very powerfully throughout the day was your sincerity of presence and embodiment of NVC consciousness. I felt so touched, embraced by that essence of NVC through you. I enjoyed having movement and experiential learning being center-stage in the way you structured the day. As many of us expressed, the quality of connection and the learning environment you created were deeply nurturing and supported us in living the practice.

Lucy Leu NVC Trainer and author of The NVC Workbook

I love the opportunity to pay attention to what is happening sensation-wise in the body, to explore what stimulates that, what it means, and how I can become more empowered to choose to better meet my needs based on that awareness. I am still meditating on some of the awareness’s I got on Saturday.

Barbara Larson Certified NVC trainer

found what he presented to be engaging and compelling. I suspect his approach may be unusually effective in helping certain concepts “stick.” I found David’s Aikido and movement based metaphors for NVC ideas to be powerfully engaging. Now, several months later, I still vividly remember his demonstration of “stepping off the line” to let jackal energy pass one by, supporting staying grounded in and hearing in NVC consciousness. This is an image I would want to use myself in a conflict situation, and which I would potentially teach to my own students to present his work in a workshop here.

Bob Wentworth NVC Trainer

I continue to work with some of your exercises and ways to use and adapt them. Glad to have the new tools and experiences to draw on.

Selene Aitken Certified NVC Trainer

I have been leading NVC workshops in prisons in Washington State through the Freedom Project since 1999, David to be highly skilled in Nonviolent Communication and he has many tools and talents to enhance his teaching of NVC, making it a fun and highly experiential workshop. He uses music, somatic awareness and aikido to support others to a deeper understanding of NVC consciousness, coupled with high energy and compassion to others.

Janice Eng NVC Freedom Project Trainer

In my experience, David Weinstock fully lives the teachings that he offers which include 'living alignment with oneself'. Specifically, I have learned how to 'reprogram' visceral responses by integrating one's head, heart and gut in a holistic way with David! This way of being with NVC speaks to me deeply as its hold the aspects of NVC! In my opinion, David shines a light on really living the consciousness first and foremost as an avenue for then fully embracing the practical skills; an approach that embodies integrity and presence!

John Clark Executive Coach and Trainer

Thanks for such a heart opening workshop! The Somatics and Aikido really resonated with me, and “fleshed out” (pun intended) the NVC “training wheels” I’d been learning. I love that you are into sharing this work. I can think of so many friends who would love your work. I’m excited to practice with my husband Jack, and with friends who are interested.

David is one of those rare teachers who tune in completely to his audience. You feel heard, seen and empowered through his work and that is a great gift. His skill as an Aikido master blends forcefully with his creative program of Somatic Consensus. You leave with a deep awareness of your own embodied habits, and exciting new skills to help you return to center, stay neutral in crisis, and lead with your heart. I can’t recommend him and his workshops highly enough.”

The feeling is so subtle that I can’t be sure, but I have the feeling that changes are already happening inside/through my body and my being as a whole. Like it is more aligned and that the whole body is engaging in decision making processes, a better equilibrium between the rational mind, the feelings and the instinct…

The session is very meaningful and exciting for me. Gives me a sense of integration & deepening for what we’ve done together so far + provides me a possibility for a multi-dimensional practice. Thank you

I couldn’t recommend this subtly powerful journey into ourselves more highly. I am still discovering so many riches from it daily. Thanks always to David and our beautiful group

This course will put you in touch with another world within yourself and others.

It´s great to drop in everyday during a month to a group of people who have similar interest in learning. I experienced several ways to integrate NVC with body and those techniques are easy and powerful.

This group has been a lifeline for me in this time! I have found such deep value in practicing empathy and cultivating the qualities that I would like more of in my life. I feel so held by the group and David.

NVC is not the same before and after this course - It shifted such an important inner-work of centering and finding deeper balance within the everyday life.

Cynthia Burell

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