Experience the power of harmony in your group

For Organizations, Schools, Businesses, Communities, and Families

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Group Facilitation

Experience inclusive facilitation

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Nonviolent Communication Training

Learn effective communication

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Community
Empathy Circles

Be heard and seen with compassion

Group Facilitation

 

I work with you to co-develop the structure and process for your meeting/event, to successfully realize your group’s purpose. I am skilled in bringing forth everyone's gifts in collaboration and including the needs of group members, while staying focused on the common vision.

Forms of Facilitation

Mediation

Interpersonal Conflict Resolution, Trust-building, Empathy and Compassionate Communication

Healing

Supportive space for healing the impacts of a traumatic event or a challenging situation the group is facing together

Meetings

Cultivate: Alignment of Vision, Inclusive Decisions, Heartfelt Connection, Effective Feedback, & Appreciation of one another’s gifts

Staff Retreats

Team-building Activities for Organizations, Businesses, Creative Projects, Community Groups, & Youth Programs

Events & Ceremonies

Heartfelt Leadership for Festivals, Conferences, and Milestone Events: Birth, Death, Union, Separation, and Youth Rites of Passage

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Explore how my facilitation could serve your group

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Nonviolent Communication

Training tailored to address your
group's current needs and challenges.

NVC (aka Compassionate Communication) is a communication process that supports us to relate compassionately. NVC gives us a practical and effective map for transforming habitual reactions (judging and blaming ways of speaking and thinking) into conscious connections that value everyone's needs.

3 Areas of Focus:

• Being self-aware
• Expressing honestly
• Listening with empathy

A 4 Part Process:

• OBSERVATIONS~ neutral witnessing of our experience
• FEELINGS~ the present emotions or sensation in our body
• NEEDS~ the heart of what is important to us, what we value
• REQUESTS~ actions that will enrich life and meet needs

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Benefits of integrating NVC in to your group:

Effective feedback: encourage growth in one another’s contributions
Trust building: empathize with one another & have accountability
Creative power: harness and focus the collective creative energy
Gratitude: appreciate each person’s contribution
Shared Values: clarify what unites you, align on values
Collaboration: join your gifts in harmony, strengthen solidarity
Self-expression: value every voice and express honestly
Compassion: have compassion even amidst conflict

NVC orients to creating connection
through understanding one another’s needs.
Having this as a priority supports coming
to solutions and goals that address
the needs of all involved.

READ MORE ABOUT NVC

Training Formats and Rates

2 HR Taster

Experiential Introduction

1/2 Day & 1 Day Intros

Practical Application Introduction

2 Day Workshop

Weekend immersion with specific focus

8 Week Course

2 hrs/ week for integrated learning

Follow up Group Coaching and Personal Sessions are also available to support further integration of the NVC process. 

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Explore how Nonviolent Communication Training could serve your group

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Community Empathy Circles


A compassionate space to express yourself
and be heard, seen and held with empathy

The mission of Community Empathy Circles is to grow compassionate and harmonious relationships as the fabric of thriving communities.

Supporting groups to learn Compassionate Communication tools for empathy, and experience a facilitated Empathy Circle. Groups will receive guidelines for self-facilitation, and have access to follow-up Circle Facilitation or Coaching. 

 

Why Circles?

The circle is a simple "social technology" for cultivating equivalency and solidarity in groups, inherently building commUnity.

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Empathy Circles are offered as an Open Invitation Event or for a Specific Group
They can be hosted in schools, organizations, churches, community halls, or living rooms.

What does an Empathy Circle involve?

 

1.    Connecting as a group through simple relating exercises

2.    Learning the Circle Process and the
       Compassionate Communication approach to Empathy
 
3.    Creating a context of heart-centered mutual support

4.    Sharing one person at a time
      - Someone shares their experience
        through words and/or movement
      - We witness with heartfelt presence
      - We respond with inspirations, appreciations, and insights
       Another person has a turn...

5.    Harvesting our learning and speaking our gratitudes

6.    Standing together in a closing circle

Benefits for Participants

 

Be heard, seen, and held with empathy, in community

Embrace your life challenges with compassion

Connect with what your heart yearns for

Feel the power of your voice and aliveness in your body

Experience nourishing support

Give others heartfelt compassion

Facilitation

I support participants to connect with the present experience in their body, witness their thoughts and emotions, and offer questions of inquiry to deepen compassion and embodied empowerment.

Our Purpose is to EMPOWER .  Our Action is EMPATHY . Our Structure is a CIRCLE

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Explore hosting a Community Empathy Circle for your group or community

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What people are saying about Melody's facilitation

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presence

“I greatly appreciate Melody’s presence as a facilitator. She is able to flow with the need of the group in the moment. I feel safe around her. She is transparent, elegantly synthesizes ideas, keeps things on track and is sensitive to dynamics in the group. She set the groundwork for what is to come. By going through these considerations now, things will be infinitely easier in the future.”

 

Eli Mead, Osteopath

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empathy

“My team and I were in dire need of support around interpersonal communication. We had developed a pattern of violently communicating with one another. Throughout a number of in-person and virtual sessions that Melody facilitated, she helped us navigate these communication discrepancies and develop a healthier way of communicating.  She provided a space in which we were able to share our experiences and have them reflected with empathy by her and members of the team. In this process we were also able to recognize our own and each other’s needs. We were beyond grateful for the support she provided us. I found that my experience working with Melody surpassed all of my expectations.”

Sam Sebastian, Co-Founder New Moon Festival

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listening

"I have been a participant in a couple of Melody’s workshops, and have been awestruck with her ability to connect with people. Melody has a natural talent when it comes to listening; she is genuinely curious about peoples struggles and breakthroughs with equal interest. I see her as listening with her whole body, totally present. Her listening gifts are also seen in the questions she poses. Her questions help people to really understand what is happening on a deep level, beyond our stories."

Patricia Rawson, Employment Strategist at Community Futures

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focused awareness

“Melody brings a focused awareness to our group that has enabled us to plow through challenging, complex issues and reveal a clear path toward understanding and resolution. She inspires trust and has a sensitivity and intuitive grasp on how to field our needs and extract information and present it back to us in a more cohesive and organized and workable fashion. She was very spontaneous in dealing with situations as they arose so that the group could find resolution through troubling circumstances. It often seemed like Melody was so connected to our creative process that she could have been part of our community.”

Laura Wilensky, Greensong Sanctuary

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embodies the work

“Melody not only teaches this work, she embodies this work. It was really profound watching her work with our group. If you want relationships in your organization to be as compassionate, effective and clear as possible, start with Compassionate Communication.  Having staff use Compassionate Communication in the workplace can transform service delivery, meetings, productivity, ethics and morale.  I highly recommend Melody in helping make this happen for your organization.” 

 

Lynnene Lewis Director of Quality Assurance and Family Programs Kootenay Family Place

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support

“When we had our first meeting I was anxious, wondering if I would be heard and able to speak my truth. Afterwards, when going into a meeting with Melody, I was excited and calm, knowing that I would be supported and knowing resolution and clarity will be obtained.”

Hope Mead, Greensong Sanctuary

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When we join our gifts in harmonious collaboration, we harness our collective creative power to realize our vision in the world!

— Melody Lucian