Conflict Resolution Clinics @ CB
Creating Connection with Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Giving Empathy to Others and Yourself
With Katharina W. Dress, MA
May 17, Wednesday | 5:30-7:30pm PDT
CB Members: $25 / Public: $45
Live Interactive Workshop on Zoom
Are you sometimes frustrated trying to help your mediation clients hear and understand each other in a new way, but they’re stuck in their heads and positions?
 
Ms. Dress’ workshop offers an introduction to the consciousness and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, and shows how they can help create deep connection and understanding between mediation parties with ongoing relationships. 
 
Using this model, we can move away from the specifics of "he said, she said" into the heart of the issue, uncovering the parties’ deeper needs that have not been recognized, honored, or met. 
 
Through a presentation, demonstration, and opportunities for participatory exercises, workshop participants will learn and practice a new way to develop and show empathy for others and oneself.
 
Key Learning Objectives
  • Introduction to the NVC language of OFNR (Observations, Feelings, Needs, Requests)
  • Practicing a needs-centered empathy process for others and oneself

Prerequisites: If you would like to register for Katharina’s second workshop on July 12, Pre-Mediation for Adult Family Conflicts, participation in this workshop or prior experience with the NVC Empathy Model are strongly recommended.
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TRAINER
Katharina W. Dress, MA
Katharina W. Dress, MA, has been a mediator since 2015 and a facilitator and trainer for 40 years. She has a Master's Degree in Communications from San Francisco State University and extensive conflict resolution skills training, including in Elder Mediation, Online Mediation, Conflict Coaching and Nonviolent Communication (NVC). She is founder and principal mediator at AGING IN HARMONY.

As a trainer, Ms. Dress offers her own conflict resolution skills and cultural competency workshops throughout the Bay Area and beyond and regularly assists other organizations during their Mediation trainings. For over 10 years she participated in the NVC-based Mediate Your Life training program offered by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater, as a learner as well as a member of the training team. Ms. Dress is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and is actively involved in the organization’s Elder Mediation Section.
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