On October 31, 2008, in Uncategorized, by Bert Martin

 

Marshall Rosenberg’s 

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION

 

Language of the Heart

An Introduction to Non-Violent Communication 

Led by Susan Skye

 

Saturday January 31, 2009

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Vancouver First Congregational UCC Church

1220 NE 68th Street

 

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Marshal Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication process provides a simple, effective method to get to the root of conflict, violence, and pain peacefully. By going beyond “active listening” techniques and examining the unmet needs behind what we say or do, NVC serves as a practical, transformative method to address the root of conflict and violence once and for all.

 

 Susan Skye has worked and trained with Marshall Rosenberg.  She is a founding member of the Nonviolent Training Institute.  She has developed and offered training and coaching in self- development and communication skills since 1976.  Her skilled, relaxed presentation style creates a positive and powerful learning environment.

Participants will be introduced to:

• The fundamentals of Nonviolent Communication-the model and four steps,

• Skills that restore harmony and create understanding,

• A way of listening to hear the real message underneath words that are hard for you to hear,

• How to hear or express “No”, and

• A way to build relationships that last.

 

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$75.00 if paid by December 1, 2008  

$95.00 after November 1, 2008  

(Lunch included) 

 

For more information phone Kristina Martin, Christian Ed Coordinator/ Youth Director at Vancouver Congregational Church 360-693-1476 or emailkristina@vanucc.org.

 

* Continuing Ed credit hours available for teachers and medical personnel *

 


 

Letter from the Pastor: My New Spiritual Guide

On October 29, 2008, in Front Page, by Pastor Brooks

Dear Church Family and Friends,

When I got my puppy, little did I know he would become my new spiritual guide.  He may be cute and cuddly, but do not let the exterior fool you.  My puppy has taught me many lessons about patience, understanding, and dedication.  Undoubtedly, his method of instruction is unorthodox.  Like a Zen master who shocks one into realizing profound truths through comments or actions that at first seem outlandish, Joey sometimes initially upsets me with his “misbehavior.”  In such moments, I force myself to stop and ask myself what is the larger Truth that Joey is trying to teach me.
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Of Neighbors and Robbers

On October 29, 2008, in Sermons, by Pastor Brooks

New Testament Reading—Luke 10: 25-37

This past week I have been trying to update the parable of the Good Samaritan into a story about the current economic crisis hoping that this would help us to get a better grasp of its moral dimensions.  In doing so, it has been easy to identify the people who have been mugged and left by the side of the road gasping for help.  It has been the people who have been socked with foreclosures, looted of their retirement savings, pushed into the unemployment line, and stuck with the bailout tab.  What gets more tricky is determining who the robbers have been.  At first, I imagined the predatory lenders to be robbers who belonged to various crime syndicates, but as Jim Ferner noted in our Bible Study group, this does not really point the finger at another key culprit: the government which allowed and enabled the devious practices in the first place.
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Natalino’s Crossroad

On October 29, 2008, in Sermons, by Pastor Brooks

First New Testament Reading—Acts 4: 23-31

Second New Testament Reading—Acts 4: 32-37

“On a rain-drenched night,” a group of fifty settlers arrived at the house of Father Arnildo Fritzen.  They had been violently expelled from their homes and farms in highlands of Rio Grande do Sol, the southern most state of Brazil.   One might imagine that like the early Christians in our first reading they were wondering why this was happening to them.  Why must they suffer?  Father Arnildo’s house had little to no “heating or insulation,” so the “people…huddled together for warmth.”  “Many of them [were] crying.”  Like the early Christians in Acts, they turned to the scriptures for comfort and courage.  Father Arnildo read from Exodus.  He read to them of the hard times faced by the Israelites and how God heard their cry and delivered them from Egypt.  He read to them of David and Goliath, and there they found “great strength.”
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