The Center’s weekly Zoom group to learn and practice Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is reopening to all interested Sangha members.  Meetings will resume on Thursday, March 16, and continue until June 8.

We’ll be meeting at a new time — Thursdays* from 1:00 – 2:00 Eastern — with a simple, beginner-friendly curriculum that requires no homework.

You don’t have to attend all meetings, although for beginners, its helpful to come to as many as possible. Our one request is that you arrive a few minutes early. 

Once we have covered NVC basics, other topics we’re considering working with are NVC and the Eight Worldly Winds,** Marshall Rosenberg’s belief that the verb “to be” is particularly violent, and the intersection of NVC and the third division of the Buddha’s Eightfold Noble Path: Right Speech.

Request to join the goup here.

• Private Instruction is best served by attending the entire sitting which begins at 7 p.m. Eastern
  
• Around 7:30 p.m. an announcement will be made that breakout room invitations are being sent. 
• If you want PI, accept the invite. If you don’t want PI, decline it or do nothing.  
• Upon accepting the invitation, you’ll go to your own breakout room and be there alone. The Private Instructor will join you there. 
• When you arrive in your room, unmute to prepare for PI, then continue facing the wall in zazen. 
• When you hear the instructor’s hand bell, swivel around to face your device. You’ll bow to each other. State what practice you’re working on and begin.
• When PI is over, the bell will ring and you’ll bow to each other again. The instructor will move on to the next breakout room. You’ll return to the zendo (main session) by clicking the blue “Leave” button. Choose “Leave Breakout Room”.

• Private Instruction is best served by attending the entire sitting which begins at 7 p.m. Eastern
  
• Around 7:30 p.m. an announcement will be made that breakout room invitations are being sent. 
• If you want PI, accept the invite. If you don’t want PI, decline it or do nothing.  
• Upon accepting the invitation, you’ll go to your own breakout room and be there alone. The Private Instructor will join you there. 
• When you arrive in your room, unmute to prepare for PI, then continue facing the wall in zazen. 
• When you hear the instructor’s hand bell, swivel around to face your device. You’ll bow to each other. State what practice you’re working on and begin.
• When PI is over, the bell will ring and you’ll bow to each other again. The instructor will move on to the next breakout room. You’ll return to the zendo (main session) by clicking the blue “Leave” button. Choose “Leave Breakout Room”.

• Private Instruction is best served by attending the entire sitting which begins at 7 p.m. Eastern
  
• Around 7:30 p.m. an announcement will be made that breakout room invitations are being sent. 
• If you want PI, accept the invite. If you don’t want PI, decline it or do nothing.  
• Upon accepting the invitation, you’ll go to your own breakout room and be there alone. The Private Instructor will join you there. 
• When you arrive in your room, unmute to prepare for PI, then continue facing the wall in zazen. 
• When you hear the instructor’s hand bell, swivel around to face your device. You’ll bow to each other. State what practice you’re working on and begin.
• When PI is over, the bell will ring and you’ll bow to each other again. The instructor will move on to the next breakout room. You’ll return to the zendo (main session) by clicking the blue “Leave” button. Choose “Leave Breakout Room”.