International trainings
International trainings and events
Since 2000, Savanna ConneXions has had the pleasure of bringing international NVC trainers to Finland to provide workshops, trainings and other events. See below for the next opportunity!
Upcoming events
First time in Finland:
Embodied Communications
Making Life Real
A Modern Awareness Practice
This training is postponed. The dates, location and the prices will be changed.
Elontuli, Karjalohja, March 24th–26th, 2023
Will be postponed, we will update the future dates as soon as we know them.
Prices (incluce the training and room and board in Elontuli)
- Early bird until Jan 15th, 2023: 550 euros
- After Jan 15th: A sliding scale of your choice: 600, 650, 700, 750, 800 euros*
Enrolments After you have filled in this form you will receive an invitation email with more information and payment instructions. Please fill in before February 15th, 2023 (and January 15th for Early Bird price). We will welcome about 30 participants.
Pat shares about the meaning of this course:
Awareness of your body’s sensations, how your mind works, and the importance of your emotions is crucial to unlocking the wisdom of communicating honestly with oneself and others, especially when the stakes are high and emotions are piqued. Integrating your body, mind, emotions, and connection to others is what I call “Making Life Real.”
Because of technology, our sedentary lifestyles, and our choice to live fast-paced, busy lives, we are becoming increasingly disembodied. As a result, we lack a connection between purposeful physical activity and our inherited, fully embodied nature.
Because of our choices, with our consent, we drift into unhealthy tribalism. Being aware of the necessity of a deeper collaboration is essential if we are to solve our individual, family, communal, and worldwide problems.
Pat shares about his background:
I met Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais in 1981 while attending a five-day somatic workshop, Awareness Through Movement. I opened the Feldenkrais Center of Austin in 1985. His ideas are the cornerstones of what I do today.
In 1997, I experienced the same excitement and connection with Dr. Marshall Rosenberg and added his process, known as nonviolent communication (NVC), to my work.
Finally, in 2007, I added restorative justice (RJ) to my personal and professional practice. I studied with Dominic Barter of Brazil. His work supports community members in building justice systems so that their justice reflects the cultural framework of those most directly affected.
The principles of these modalities harmonize in surprising ways, creating lasting changes in my life and the lives of my clients and community. I call the synthesis of these practices Embodied Communications.
‘By my body’s action, teach my mind.’ – William Shakespeare.
Pat shares about this course:
Through Awareness Through Movement (ATM) classes, you will develop a new somatic sensitivity through these fifty-to-sixty-minute meditative movement lessons. These somatic explorations will change ineffective habits restricting your freedom of movement and thought. This process is not about correcting defects or treating an illness but is about revitalizing growth, development and personal evolution.
This somatic aspect of embodied communication is unique and is the root of all development. What most people find intriguing are the unreasonable effectiveness of light touch and the various benefits of neuroplasticity employed.
We will also have sessions involving communication skills—specifically, my interpretation of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communications, also known as Compassionate Communication. You will organize your actions, create order from disorder, and make sense of the nonsense by understanding why we act in ways connected to human needs.
We will have breakout sessions at the end of every day to discuss what we are learning from one another and share our findings with the community.
The quote from Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais summarizes it all: “In those moments when awareness succeeds in being at one with senses, feeling, thought, and movement, the carriage will speed along on the right road. Then man can make discoveries, invent, create, innovate, and ‘know.’ He grasps that his small world and the great world around are but one and that in this unity, he is no longer alone.”
The course offers these benefits for physical, emotional, mental and community resilience
- Reducing physical, psychological and emotional tension
- Sleeping better and waking rested
- Developing deeper, relaxed breathing
- Having a more upright posture
- Improving your biology
- Enhancing your coordination
- Creating spontaneous, well-thought-out actions
- Learning to trust in your intuitions
- Using concrete steps to becoming more present
- Enhancing communication skills
- Learning about the unreasonable effectiveness of a light touch
- Creating order in the disorderly and making sense of the nonsense
- Living an even more fulfilling and connected life
Obstacles or Challenges
- Do you blame others for your difficulties?
- Are your disagreements creating more stress than resolution?
How do you know you will benefit from this course?
- Do you notice that you are about to say something that will create difficulty for yourself and say it anyway?
- You say yes when you would prefer to say no.
- You would like help getting the cooperation you desire.
- Do you wake up thinking about unresolved difficulties, dreading the day’s activities?
- You find yourself thinking about your struggles in a loop-the-loop fashion, and the thoughts return at the most inopportune moments.
- You are overwhelmed more than you like.
- Would you like a better relationship, although it is already good enough?
- Or, hell, maybe just for fun, you want to get a little better at something specific or at everything you do?
Comments on Pat’s work
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There are very few practitioners who both surprise and impress me with their skill-these days-Pat is one of them. (Will R.)
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* About the sliding scale
We would also like to give people with different economical resources a possibility to participate in this training and therefore we request of you to pay an amount of your choice extra (anything above 600 euros), which goes to Savanna ConneXions scholarship account and which we will then use to support those, who do not have resources right now. In case you pay more than the minimum request, you are helping us forward your gift and contribute to the wellbeing of more people!
Past events
THE MIDNIGHT SUN IIT FINLAND 2022, Kiponniemi, Jyväskylä, July 2022
International Intensive Training (IIT), a 9-day intensive training together with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
STEPPING STONE EVENT, an advanced training for optional Certification Candidates
17–20 September, 2021, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Towe Widstrand, Sweden and Shona Cameron, France, CNVC Certified Trainers and Assessors from the ESEAT Team (=English Speaking European Assessment Team)
HEALING OF THE WOUNDED HEART AND LIVING AS AN ADULT – Advanced training
26-28 July, 2021, in Kiponniemi, Vesanka, Finland
Kirsten Kristensen, CNVC Certified Trainer, family therapist, mediator and CNVC board member from Denmark.
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
A HELPING HAND! An advanced mediation training
17-18 April, 2021, in Zoom
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Mediator and Author of the book Helping Hand from Sweden.
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
A HELPING HAND! An advanced mediation training
12–13 December, 2020, in Zoom
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Mediator and Author of the book Helping Hand from Sweden.
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Break free and stand tall as you share NVC!
16–18 November 2018, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Shona Cameron, CNVC Certified Trainer and Assessor, UK
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Intimacy with Life
9–13 July 2018, Espoo
Robert Kržišnik, CNVC Certified Trainer, Slovenia
Noa Ilay Shilo, Israel
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Retreat: The field where we meet
8–12 February 2017, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Robert Kržišnik, CNVC Certified Trainer, Slovenia
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Embodying the Spirit of NVC
19–22 February 2016, The Friendship Inn, Kruusila
Robert Kržišnik, CNVC Certified Trainer, Slovenia
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Anger, Guilt and Shame
18–20 October 2013, Espoo
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Sweden
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Nonviolent Communication based Mediation Training
28 February – 9 November 2011, Tuusula
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Sweden
Kay Rung, empathy and mediation trainer, Sweden
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
The Power of Empathy
24–26 April 2009, Pernaja
Jeyanthy Siva, international trainer, mediator and coach, Sri Lanka
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Me in the World – the World in Me
7–9 April 2006, Karjalohja
Liv Larsson, CNVC Certified Trainer, Sweden
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Continuation NVC Training with Marshall Rosenberg
27–29 August 2005, Espoo
Marshall Rosenberg, CNVC, USA
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland
Conference – Nonviolent Communication as a process in victim-offender mediation and other conflict situations
5–6 June 2004, Helsinki
Marshall Rosenberg, CNVC, USA
Patricia Dannahy, CNVC Certified Trainer, Young Offenders Project in Prisons, UK
Dow Gordon, former prisoner, Freedom Project Core Team Member, USA
Thomas Ekbom, Prison and Probation Services, Sweden
Allan Schurmann, police officer, Danish Center for Conflict Resolution, Denmark
Juhani Iivari, Research Director, Finland
Hanna Savanna, CNVC Certified Trainer, Finland