Training Services

Non-Adversarial Communication Training

General Workshop Information

Do you need to move people past acrimony to durable and mutually satisfying resolution? Would you like to better serve your clients in highly charged situations? Do you want to enhance your ability to work with others to transform conflict into solutions?

This experiential, practical two-day Non-Adversarial Communication workshop is perfect for:

Collaborative Law Professionals
Conflict Resolution Practitioners
Business Professionals and Leaders

When you learn the skills of Non-Adversarial Communication (NAC), you will be able to communicate more confidently in challenging situations with clients, colleagues, and employees. With practice, NAC skills can be used to enhance and accelerate:

Conflict Engagement & Resolution Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration Problem Solving & Decision Making Trust Building Team Development Partnership Agreements

Leadership Development Coaching & Mentoring Performance Management & Feedback Cross-Cultural Understanding Negotiations Client Satisfaction

For Collaborative Law Professionals such as attorneys, real estate agents, financial specialists, therapists, and social workers, Non-Adversarial Communication skills will enable you to:

• Identify your clients’ deepest needs
• Effectively handle strong emotions
• Work in partnership with other professionals

For Conflict Resolution Practitioners such as mediators, attorneys, therapists, coaches, consultants, and managers, Non-Adversarial Communication skills will enable you to:

• Effectively handle strong emotions
• Help people in conflict see each other as human rather than as the enemy
• Create agreements that people want to keep

For Business Professionals and Leaders Non-Adversarial Communication skills will enable you to:

• Make better, more sustainable decisions
• Work with conflict instead of avoiding or ignoring it
• Obtain improved results by building relationships

Our public and private NAC Workshops are designed to create a deeper understanding of our perceptions and experiences. From this place of greater awareness, beneficial, creative, and sustainable strategies are developed. As a result, collaborative teamwork improves, necessary conversations happen, relationships deepen, stress and frustration decrease, and productivity grows.

NAC listening and speaking skills go beyond a communication "technique" and can be implemented immediately to give feedback, create buy-in, and express appreciation. We have trained collaborative law professionals, conflict resolution practitioners, business professionals and leaders, and their respective clients, to use NAC skills to build trust, prevent disagreements from escalating into arguments, and create mutually satisfying solutions.

Facilitators

Tom Bache-Wiig and Arlene Brownell, Ph D., are specialists in the dance of communication, and authors of Non-Adversarial Communication: Speaking and Listening from the Heart.  They have taught Non-Adversarial Communication since January, 2002.  Each has over 20 years experience as facilitators, coaches, and mediators. They work with depth and integrity to create an engaging learning environment where insight, compassion, and practical application thrive.

Arlene, Tom, and their associate facilitator/coaches, provide expert coaching, male/female perspectives, targeted insights, and NAC modeling and demonstrations. Based on Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication™. The classes are built on rigorous instructional design and adult learning principles. Arlene and Tom create a highly personal learning environment with a 1:10 maximum facilitator/participant ratio. Additional NAC certified facilitator/coaches join the team for groups over 20.

2008 Training Dates

February 1-2 
May 2-3
October 3-4
December 5-6

Investment

Early Registration (14 Business Days Prior to Training Date)	Late Registration (Less Than 14 Business Days Prior to Training Date)
$385 / $395 (CLE)	$435 / $445 (CLE)

Reduced fee when 2 or more sign up together by early deadline.  Fee includes: 15 hours of training, light refreshments, participant materials, a signed copy of Non-Adversarial Communication: Speaking and Listening from the Heart, and one post-workshop group practice session.

CLE: Accredited for 15 Colorado and 7 Ethics Continuing Legal Education credits (CLE) (2008 renewal pending).

Registration

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