In our 9th year, TEACH FOR LIFE! draws educators from around the world to come together in a living laboratory to create a Compassionate Classroom. Expect five days of a nurturing retreat environment, learning self-care as an educator, care for others in the educational environment, and care for our wider earth community. Learn how to live your values, to listen deeply, to express courageously, and to have fun doing what you love. Your facilitators & teachers: CNVC trainers Sura Hart & Jean Morrison, with Teach for Life! Associate Educators Team. 3 CEU credits or 30 contact hours available. For more information, please contact registrar Cindy Foss, clcfoss@cableone.net/ 928.778.1097.
•• Teach for Life! is also happening in the San Francisco Bay Area, July 6-11. For info: www.nvcsantacruz.org
Points
Co-create a life-enriching & engaged classroom
Deepen Nonviolent Communication skills
Model and practice life-serving processes and structures for learning
Learn activities for sharing NVC with young people
Create a fun, safe, nurturing learning environment
Create a network for ongoing support
Care for your own needs as well as the needs of student, teachers, administrators and parents
Create partnership relationships based on mutual respect and cooperation
Significantly reduce conflict
Communicate Effectively
Put democratic values into practice
Who is it for?
Educators with familiarity of NVC from public and private schools, school administrators & home schoolers who want to learn and practice NVC in a community of peers, with a seasoned training staff dedicated to bringing the skills of compassion to school communities. For questions about content, CEU's, or scholarships, please contact the registrar, Cindy Foss, clcfoss@cableone.net/ 928.778.1097
Registration and deposit info:
A deposit of $300 will hold your place and help us make our deposits to the venue. CHANGE IN DUE DATE: May 15th, 2010. Balance due: June 15th, 2010.
All payments can be made online via credit card, or by mail by sending a check to "Northwest Compassionate Communication" Attn: Cindy Foss, 815 Malia Way, Prescott, AZ 86303.
Full refund of deposit, minus $50 administrative charge, until May 20th. After May 20th, we'll return 1/2 of your deposit until June 15th. Cancellations after June 15th: you will receive a full refund, minus $550. Questions about the registration or payment information? Contact our Teach for Life! registrar/organizer, Cindy Foss /clcfoss@cableone.net.
EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT: Tuition discounted 20% ($760 instead of $950) if you register and make a deposit of $300 online by May 15th.
GROUP DISCOUNTS (for Tuition cost) if registered by May 15th:
2 people register together for 25% discount each; 3 get 1 free; 4 get 1 free and one for 1/2 price (tuition)
COMMUTER RATE PER DAY: Lunch is $40 per person; if wanted: breakfast is an additional $10, dinner is an additional $16. Commuter rate per day without lunch is $26.
What to bring:
For Northwest summer weather, please bring comfortable clothes that can be layered, and a bathing suit if you like to go swimming in the Puget Sound.
You might enjoy having: flashlight, camera, journal, musical instrument, poems or songs to share.
Online registration:
If you wish to register more than one person please complete a separate registration for each person. You may make one payment under one person's name for all the people that you register. When you register the additional people covered by the initial payment, enter $0.00 as the payment amount for each of those people. Please put your name in the "comment field" when you register each of those other people so we will know who paid for them.
You will be able to select your donation amount on the next page. The requested donation is between $300.00 and $1500.00.
