NVC in Prescott
Contact:
Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication
337 N. Rush St.
Prescott, AZ 86301
E-Mail
Phone: (928) 771-2420
Website: http://prescottnvc.org
Robert Gonzales PhD (Director)
In addition to ongoing classes and workshops, Robert offers private coaching for individuals and couples.
For a current schedule, visit the Prescott
NVC website
Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication
The Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication is an organization whose vision is a world where everyone's needs are met peacefully. Our mission is to contribute to this vision by facilitating the creation of life-serving systems. We do this by living and teaching the process of Nonviolent Communication, which strengthens the ability of people to compassionately connect with themselves and one another, share resources, and resolve conflicts. As as Arizona non-profit educational organization, we offer local support for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, a global organization whose vision we share.
The purpose of Nonviolent Communication™ is to strengthen our ability to inspire compassion from others and to respond compassionately to others and ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves and hear others by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing, feeling, needing, and requesting.
" Words are windows or they're walls,
They sentence us or they set us free,
When I speak and when I hear,
Let the healing flow through me." |
This approach to communication emphasizes compassion rather than fear, guilt, shame or coercion as the motivation for action. It is about getting what you want for reasons you will not regret later. With these processes, you can empower yourself to make conscious, responsible choices, so others will hear the way you want to be heard.
| "I went into NVC looking for a way to improve the quality of my marriage. I've come away with a realization that great healing can happen in my marriage, my world, and myself when I connect in a clear and conscious way." - D.M., NVC participant |
What is Nonviolence?
The term "nonviolent" as we use it in Nonviolent CommunicationTM is more than "not being physically violent". Nonviolence represents a way of being conscious with the accompanying intent in thought, word, and action. The two terms that are most related are the Sanskrit, "ahimsa", which means "harmlessness" and "satyagraha" which translates as "the force of truth". So the spirit of nonviolence means that when I am in contact with any life form, my message to that life, in thought, word, and action is, "I will not harm you. I will not violate the integrity of your being." I am guided by my awareness of the force of truth, because I sense in the depth of my being that all human beings are only trying to fulfill life-giving, universal values and needs. When I see that, I know that when I hear any form of communication, no matter how hostile, critical, or judgmental it seems, that it is an attempt to express unmet needs, values, and desires. This awareness stimulates compassion, which I see as a prerequisite to and a result of nonviolent communication. Compassion and nonviolence are not the same, but intimately related processes in deeply and authentically connecting. Nonviolent Communication offers a spirit and powerful tool for inspiring compassionate connections with oneself and others.
"All attacks and criticisms are tragic expressions of unmet needs."
- Marshall Rosenberg, founder of Nonviolent Communication
"I love this communication process. Connecting more authentically and compassionately with myself and others has brought a greater joy and aliveness into my life. I cannot recommend NVC highly enough." L.B., NVC participant |
The Prescott Center offers:
Communication Counseling
- Assists individuals in gaining heightened awareness of self-defeating communication patterns, and transforming such patterns into more effective and fulfilling connection with oneself and others.
- Assists couples in removing blocks from intimacy, while honoring the autonomy and integrity of each person.
- Bring peace to families by providing awareness and skills that enhance listening and understanding.
Communication Training
- One to three-day workshops
- Ten-week skill building classes
- Practice and support groups
- Introductory and ongoing classes and groups are designed to deepen the practice of skills and learn a new language of honesty and empathy to apply to participants' lives in all relationships, personal and professional.
Consulting and Mediation for businesses and organizations
Participants in our programs strengthen their ability to:
- Resolve personal and group conflicts
- Build cohesive work teams
- Make meetings more productive
- Enlist cooperation while introducing change
- Transform hostile confrontations into cooperative exchanges
- Express appreciation
About Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B.Rosenberg, Ph.D. is the founder and director of educational services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Nonviolent Communication TM training evolved from Dr. Rosenberg's quest to find a way of rapidly disseminating much needed peacemaking skills. The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged out of the work he was doing with civil rights activists in the early 1960's. Since the inception of the Center, the response to Nonviolent Communication training has been extremely positive. It is seen as a powerful tool for peacefully resolving differences at personal, professional, and political levels. Training in NVC is now offered on all five continents by a team of about seventy certified trainers and is supported by hundreds of committed volunteers who help organize workshops, participate in practice groups, and coordinate team building.
Robert Gonzales, Ph.D.
Director of the Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication:
Robert Gonzales is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication. He has been working with this approach for fifteen years and is committed to sharing the skills and knowledge which will assist people in more satisfying and fulfilling communication in their personal and professional relationships. Robert provides the training, communication counseling, and workshops through the Prescott Center for Nonviolent Communication.
| "What I've gained from my study and practice of Nonviolent Communication is the ability to connect more deeply, more genuinely, and more effectively with myself and others. It also has assisted me in meeting my spiritual goal to be present in every moment. I feel more alive." - R.W. NVC participant |
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