Teachıng from THE Heart

Nonviolent Communication in Education

Week-long retreat for educators

Bodrum, Turkey

28 April - 5 May, 2024

“Children need far more than basic skills in reading, writing, and math, as important as those might be. ​Children also need to learn how to think for themselves, how to find meaning in what they learn, and how ​to work and live together.”

– Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD., Founder of Nonviolent Communication

NVC helps to create an emotionally safe and ​supportive learning atmosphere where;

• students’ interest, motivation and ​performance is improved
  
• teacher-student-parent relationships are ​strengthened by empathic and honest ​dialogues
• conflicts can be prevented or resolved more ​skillfully
• power related issues are addressed with ​compassion, care and focus on nonviolence
• teachers are aligned with and nourished by ​their teaching purposes and values
  

This week-long retreat in Bodrum, Turkiye will take ​place from April 28 - May 5, 2024 and is designed as ​an Erasmus+ training opportunity for educators to ​come together to learn, practice and live Nonviolent ​Communication with each other. During this ​gathering we will build and improve our Nonviolent ​Communication skills so that we can benefit from ​them personally and professionally, including sharing ​the skills and activities with our peers, our students, ​the parents etc. to enrich our school communities.

* The photographs shown on this site are of the participants ​from the Netherlands and Turkey who attended last year’s ​Teaching From the Heart Retreat in Fethiye, Turkey.

• Self-empathy, self-compassion, self-care to support teachers alignment with their purpose, values and wellbeing
  
• Empathic listening to increase understanding
  
• Honest and caring self-expression to set limits and foster collaboration
  
• Compassionate dialogue to resolve conflicts
  
• Conscious use of power to create relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Appreciation, gratitude and feedback to nourish and honor growth and development

• Teachers/pedagogues from all stages
  
• School administrators
  
• Adults caring for children
  
• Professionals in the education field
  
• NVC practitioners who are interested in ​education as well
• Past participants

• Arrive, check in and settle in on ​Sunday, April 28th (after 2:00 pm).
• Check out and depart Sunday (before ​11:00 am), May 5th .
• Six days of sessions led by trainers.
• Session slots for participant led ​activities, such as best practices.
• One afternoon for integration time ​and a historical tour in Bodrum.

The program will be held at Karakaya Retreat in Bodrum, Turkey, close ​to the city center. It is a truly beautiful hideaway mountain location ​overlooking the Aegean Sea. The venue is dedicated to offering a wide ​variety of residential retreats, workshops and events in the healing arts ​and therapies to guests from all over the world. It focuses on a holistic ​lifestyle, working towards peace, and protecting our planet; while ​creating a space for a life-changing experience that encourages ​letting go, healing, self-awareness and overall wellbeing.

• Program (45 hours), materials and equipment
  
• Field trip to historical site, cultural activities
  
• All meals including coffee breaks
  
• Accommodation (7 nights)
  
• Local airport transfer
• Organizational support before, during and after the ​course
• Administration and participation certificates

Total price per participant: 1495 Euro*

For any questions and registration, please fill the form or ​contact Fatoş Ateş: fatos_attes@hotmail.com

*Invoices for Turkish organizations will have an additional 20% tax (stopaj) requirement.

Meet co-trainer Judy:

Judy is passionate about learning and sharing communication skills that ​improve wellbeing, bring awareness to core values and empower individuals ​to communicate in ways that strengthen relationships and enrich lives, ​especially in education and parenting. She is a supporter of NVC globally and ​offers workshops to individual groups, organizations and school communities. ​Judy has had the opportunity to experience the universality of NVC by ​working with and learning from trainers and participants from appr. 45 ​countries. She is 1 of 11 CNVC Certified Trainers in Turkey. She is a founding ​Board Member of the Nonviolent Communication Association in Turkey and ​is focused on bringing NVC to the field of Education. She has worked in ​schools in the USA and in Turkey and has held official positions on the Parent ​Teacher Association and Board of Directors at Istanbul International ​Community School.

Meet co-trainer Gizem:

Having started her NVC journey in 2015, she shares the richness of this life-​changing experience mostly with parents and school communities. She ​offers workshops and 1-1 support for individuals and organizations under the ​roof of “Compassion in the Family” community which she initiated in 2016. ​She works actively in the Nonviolent Communication Association Turkey with ​the intention to support the spreading of this awareness. She translated the ​new edition of “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall ​B. Rosenberg and several other NVC publications into Turkish. She is the ​consultant of NVC-based "Learning Partnership" Program, offered to ​teachers by "Another School Is Possible Association" for three years.

Meet organizer Fatos:

Through the Nonviolent Communication (NVC), in 2016, she encountered ​Vivet Alevi's training as a participant in the Another School is Possible (BBOM) ​- Another Teachers are Possible program. Since 2016, she has been ​volunteering with the BBOM Association. In 2019, funded by Sabancı ​Foundation, they became a participant in the Participatory and Peaceful ​Classes Project, a collaboration between Another School is Possible and ​Nonviolent Communication Association. She initiates projects to implement ​the teachings from various trainers on her Nonviolent Communication ​journey. Leading the 'A New Peace Language in Schools' Erasmus project ​with a school partnership in Europe, based on Nonviolent Communication, ​she aims to see these practices more widely adopted across different ​cultures. Her efforts within classrooms and schools, aiming for the widespread ​use of this language, continue with a passion for sharing her experience.

Meet assistant and empathy support Hulya:

Joy is what I want in my life; compassion, love and acceptance in my ​relationship with myself and others. My journey started with a week of heart-​to-heart communication and community building experience that I joined in ​2012. After this experience, where I was able to accept myself as I am for the ​first time and meet my strength, I decided to quit my corporate job and only ​do things that are meaningful to me until the last bowl of soup runs out.

NVC, which I met in 2015, was the language I was looking for, on the way to ​this meaningful world in which I wanted to live. As a person who has had ​difficulties in the classical education system, while preparing my trainings ​these days, I like to design trainings that will appeal to my own youth, and I ​have two motivations while doing this. The first of these is to support the ​participants to find their strength by increasing their connection with ​themselves and to turn towards what they will passionately offer to life. ​Another is to offer learning experiences by making room for different learning ​styles, artistic tools, creativity, movement and play. So far, I have had the ​chance to work with many trainers from Turkey and the International NVC ​community and to receive a wide range of training. While lifelong studentship ​continues, I have been offering trainings in different cities of Turkey and also ​online since 2016. So far, I have had the chance to offer training to teachers, ​parents, psychologists and social workers, school administrators, artists, ​people who want to include creativity more in their lives, and individual ​participants from different parts of Turkey and the world. In my own journey, ​vitality and creative expression are invaluable to me. Besides my workshops, ​dancing, singing, writing, playing with paints, making things with my hands ​and traveling with my backpack to different corners of the world serve my ​vitality the most.I keep discovering, playing and learning.

Excerpt from the book “Nonviolent Communication, A Language of ​Life”

From the bedroom to the boardroom, from the classroom to the war zone, ​Nonviolent Communication (NVC), which is founded by peacemaker and ​visionary leader,

Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD (1934–2015) is changing lives every day. NVC ​provides an easy-to-grasp, effective method to get to the root of violence ​and pain peacefully. By examining the unmet needs behind what we do ​and say, NVC helps reduce hostility, heal pain, and strengthen ​professional and personal relationships. NVC is now being taught in ​corporations, classrooms, prisons, and mediation centers worldwide. And it ​is affecting cultural shifts as institutions, corporations, and governments ​integrate NVC consciousness into their organizational structures and their ​approach to leadership.

Hundreds of certified trainers and hundreds more supporters teach NVC ​to tens of thousands of people each year in more than 60 countries.

www.cnvc.org