Art Of Communication
with Danny Cohen
A 9 session foundation course
In partnership with Pardes North America
"Hi, I'm Danny and I'm in love with the art of communication. For me, it’s a profound, sacred, ever unfolding practice and art, and one which is eminently practical and crucial to the healing that is needed in relationships with others and ourselves. What I’m offering in this course has changed my life quite dramatically and supports me every day in effective and connective relating." Danny Cohen, Or Halev
Tuesdays Jan. 4 - Mar. 1 2022
Duration: 2 hour 30 minutes
Location: Zoom
9:30am-12pm PST/12:30pm-3pm EST/17:30-20:00 GMT /19:30-22:00 Israel time
This course invites us to transform our path of relating. It is based on the approach known around the world as NVC, (Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. NVC is a simple and powerful tool, rooted in radical honesty and a deep quality of empathy, which aims to connect human beings to their common humanity.
It provides clear and accessible tools for connecting with ourselves and relating to each other with compassion, paving the way for generative dialogue and integrative solutions that transcend the familiar options of win, lose, and compromise.
In this course we will learn the very concrete ways and means that enable these possibilities.
We’ll cover:
❀ How to be radically honest without being judgmental or demanding.
❀ How to stand firmly and effectively for your needs and assertively ask for what you want without triggering others into defensiveness.
❀ How to connect through conflict.
❀ How to express and hear a ‘NO’.
❀ The power of deep and attuned Empathy to dissolve anger, pain, fear and hurt.
❀ How to create the quality of connection that shifts conflicts and zero-sum tension to collaboration and creative solutions.
❀ How we can restore the sense of flow, interdependence, and agency.
And more…!
The course is primarily based on NVC and will include framings and inspirations from the world of Torah and Jewish spirituality as well as mindfulness practice.
We’ll Practice
Effective self-expression
Empathic listening
Empowering self-connection
Meet Your Teacher
Danny Cohen
Danny brings a rare integration of contemplative spiritual practice and wisdom traditions with trauma-informed therapeutics and practical tools for cultivating authentic human connection. His unique style opens people to radical change and transformation in everyday life and an embodied sense of new possibilities of being alive together.
Danny also has extensive psychotherapeutic training from both the Israel Hakomi Institute and Organic Intelligence™. A graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Danny was the founding director of Or HaLev Center for Jewish Spirituality and Meditation and a Guiding Teacher at Mindful Schools from 2016 to 2019. He has guided thousands of people around the world in both mindfulness practices and conscious communication skills. He currently lives in Israel and is a member of the Evolve Foundation core faculty.
Course sessions will be an integrated mix of demonstrations, introduction of key conceptual frameworks and communication practices, role plays and exercises to practice with situations from your own life, and time for questions and organic group learning process as they emerge.
The course sessions will be supported by assistants and include structured ‘Life Integration Practices’ and WhatsApp group between meetings.
If you missed the free 1.5 hour introduction session on December 7th, you’re welcome to email carrie@orhalev.org, and she will be happy to share the recording with you
Choose your rate
At Or HaLev, we believe in the spirit of generosity as an essential part of practice. We also acknowledge that financial abilities differ for everyone and we strive to make this class accessible to those who wish to participate, regardless of ability to pay.
Please consider paying at the highest rate that you are able to. Your generosity will help in supporting Or Halev's activities and in growing our community.
Standard
Covers the actual cost
of the course.
Supporter
Enables a scholarship for those who cannot afford the course.
Partial Scholarship
A partially subsidized rate
of the course.
Scholarship
A subsidized rate
of the course.
If the scholarship rate is financially unfeasible for you, please write to carrie@orhalev.org and we will do our best to make the course accessible to you.