🌿 5-Evening Cycle: Exploring Grief Through Nonviolent Communication

tuesday evening 18.30 21.30 CET

18th april/1st april/15th april/29th april/13th may

🔸 General Objective: Learning to navigate grief with presence and openness, cultivating an attitude of acceptance and transformation.

📆 Workshop 1: Embracing Grief as a Natural Process

🔹 Theme: Shifting our perspective on grief – from suffering to transformation.
🔹 Content:

• Understanding what grief means in NVC.
• Deconstructing cultural conditioning and resistance to grief.
• Guided practice: Observing personal attitudes towards sadness and loss.
• Empathic listening exercise in pairs.

📆 Workshop 2: The Posture of Acceptance – Connecting with the Life Within

🔹 Theme: Developing the ability to stay present with what is.
🔹 Content:

• Exploring the concept of "presence" and the "authentic heart of sadness."
• Guided meditation: Listening to bodily sensations related to unmet needs.
• Partner exercise: Expressing pain without trying to fix or change it.
• Learning conscious breathing and self-empathy techniques.

📆 Workshop 3: Moving Through Pain Without Resistance

🔹 Theme: Transformation through acceptance.
🔹 Content:

• Identifying judgments and resistance to pain.
• Practicing "sweet pain" as described by Marshall Rosenberg.
• Experimentation: Welcoming an unmet need and allowing it to be.
• Group sharing and reflections on personal experiences.

📆 Workshop 4: From Darkness to Light – Integrating and Celebrating

🔹 Theme: Celebration as a natural outcome of grief.
🔹 Content:

• Understanding the connection between grief and celebration.
• Guided visualization: Witnessing inner transformation.
• Gratitude ritual to honor what was lost and what is emerging.
• Creating a personal symbol representing one’s journey.

📆 Workshop 5: Autonomy and Freedom in the Grieving Process

🔹 Theme: Integrating this practice into daily life.
🔹 Content:

• Synthesis of key insights and anchoring newly discovered resources.
• Role-playing exercises to refine inner posture.
• Group dialogue on the impact of these practices in daily life.
• Closing ceremony: Personal commitment to continuing the journey.