Couples Coaching

I help you work towards your mutually agreed relationship goals, support you to improve your communication, navigate conflicts and habitual behaviour patterns, build empathy skills, and examine enemy images you may have of eachother. We work to rebuild trust and formulate requests and agreements. I teach essential skills to bring more connection and harmony in your relationship. I always see you separately for a private session before we all meet together. This work is invaluable for couples even when things are going well.

90 mins

Practice Groups

This is for graduates of any Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication, including online courses. Together as a group we review the basics, then build on our skills by practicing with eachother via role-plays, games, and fun activities. We hone our empathy skills and develop confidence using our new way of communicating. Re-familiarising ourselves with the principles of Nonviolent Communication, we can develop a deeper understanding of the wider implications of this work in our lives. This is a very powerful support to implementing lasting change, and connecting with others on a similar path.

2 Hrs

Individual Coaching

I help you to access your own inner wisdom, to know yourself, be clear about what you need, and be able to ask for it. I support you to establish clear boundaries and attend to self-care. We work on communication, developing an understanding of others, navigating conflicts and life obstacles, honing empathy skills, and overcoming limiting beliefs and behaviour patterns. And I teach you skills to make meaningful change in your life.

60 mins

workshops

Together as a group (over a weekend, or 5 x 2.5 hour weekly sessions) we explore what it is to be human and how our ideas and beliefs have shaped our experience of the world. We examine the way violence creeps into our thoughts and language causing conflict in our relationships. I reveal the common obstacles to communication, how to navigate conflicts, and understand the motivations and behaviours of others and yourself. Through gaining Empathy skills, you develop the capacity to be less triggered and more calm, to show up in your relationships with more self-responsibility, clarity, compassion, and honesty. Bringing you more ease, self-understanding, confidence, and peace.

A Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication.

2 - Days * Half price for NVC Graduates

Mediation

I help you to navigate a conflict, seeing you separately first to establish boundaries and support you to connect with your needs. We discover any enemy images you may have of each other before we all meet together. In the mediation, we slow it right down, and I guide a supported dialogue between you, making sure that you both get to speak, be heard, and hear each other, and we then formulate requests and agreements.

Allow 3.5 hrs  

Restorative Circle Practice

As a follow on from the Restorative Circle Training, we gather in a circle to role-play real-life scenarios brought by the members of the group. We call this a “semi-simulated circle”. It is best if only one member of the group is affected by the conflict. The group members take turns co-facilitating the process, and we allow 1 hour for the circle. In this way each time a different member of the group has an opportunity to practice this role and gain valuable experience asking the questions, holding the space, tracking, and translating dialogue. The role-play practice is followed by half an hour of feedback for the facilitator, and questions.

2 Hrs

Restorative Circles Training

This training is for graduates of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Developing skills to lean into conflict with curiosity rather than avoiding or supressing. Through practice we experience the power of empathy to de-escalate conflict. Covering the format of the RC process, the questions to ask, the guiding principles, and how to set up a restorative system in your community whether that be a family, workplace, group or club. I provide an opportunity to experience all stages of the RC process via role-play.

10 hrs

Trainings for Men

Explore what it is like to be a man today, navigating the me-too movement, consent, gender, domestic violence, feminism and masculinity with empathy, respect, awareness, and self-care. See how ideas and beliefs shape your experience of the world, and how judgements, assumptions and expectations creep into your thoughts and language causing conflicts in your relationships. Discover the blocks to communication, learn to navigate conflicts, and to understand the motivations and behaviours of others and yourself. Grow in your capacity to be less triggered and more calm. Show up in your relationships with dignity, self-responsibility, courage, clarity and honesty.

A Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication

12 hrs

Workshops for Couples

Together we explore the complexities of being in a life partnership. How past wounds and beliefs shape our experience of love. How judgements, assumptions and expectations creep into our thoughts and language causing conflict in our relationships. We discover the blocks to communication and how to navigate conflicts, to understand the motivations and behaviours of our partners and ourselves. You work towards being less triggered and more calm. You find ways to show up in your relationship with more self-responsibility, trust, clarity and honesty. You practice making amends and showing appreciation in practical, effective ways, building more resilience and harmony in your relationship.

A Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication. Friday - Sunday

3 Days

Walking Practice Group

For graduates of any Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication, including online courses. We meet at a cafe, over coffee, I introduce the topic for the day, and give instructions. We partner up and complete a beautiful walk together exploring the topic, in dialogue or in silence. We stop periodically to check in, ask questions, and be given more exercises. We finish back at the same cafe and have an optional lunch together. Various locations will be explored within the stunning Fleurieu Peninsula SA.

During Autumn and Spring.

Allow 2 hrs

Empathy Circles

For graduates of any Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication, including online courses. We gather as a group and sit in circle to hold space for eachother in a safe/respectful/ comfortable/welcoming environment. This is a space of non-judgement, deep listening, presence, and connection. We practice giving and receiving empathy to one person at a time. I am in the circle with you, supporting the dialogue, offering guidance, contributing, witnessing. This is a place where no-one is fixing, sympathising, or advising. We honour eachother’s life experience and acknowledge that each one of us is the expert on ourselves. By holding a dedicated space for eachother, we create a space to be seen and heard, to navigate our own inner landscape, finding solutions and ways forward for ourselves that are uniquely ours. We can also access our own healing by being witness to the healing of others.

2 hrs

Online Practice Groups

For graduates of any Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication, including online courses. We work with what is alive in the group. Focussing in on a current issue, I will offer coaching to one or more participants, and provide education relevant to the issue raised. It is an opportunity to bring questions that you are grappling with, issues that are unresolved for you, and ask for support. You will see that there are so many similarities between us all, and even though our lives, situations, and responses will be different, we will connect with each other’s stories because as humans, we share the same needs.

2 Hrs