Restoring Connections

11/01/2025

Musings and Winter Offerings 2025 - https://mailchi.mp/4daf62692504/musings-and-winter-offerings-2025
Live in SW Wales? Would you like to join a training teaching the basics of healthy communication starting 30 Jan? Or you want some online training and would enjoy the variety of workshops offered in the Romanian NVC festival in February? Read my newsletter to find out more...

11/01/2024

Musings and winter offering in Pembrokeshire - https://mailchi.mp/012fd327a4eb/autumn-and-winter-offers-in-pembrokeshire-16190489

07/01/2024

I have a new NVC (Nonviolent Communication) evening course running in North Pembrokeshire (in person) starting on 1st February and there are still places available.
Do you know anyone who might benefit from learning NVC - for example, someone who feels at a loss about how to be heard in their relationships or at work or wants to learn how to hear what a loved one is trying to say even when they are using accusatory language? Maybe they are a teacher and want to bring these skills to children?
If they live in Dyfed (Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion) would you be willing to let them know that this course is available?
Have you learned NVC with me and are willing to say a few words in the comments about your experience to help others know what to expect?

14/10/2023

I was excited to discover that Puddle Dancer press have just published a comprehensive compilation of quotes from the founder of Nonviolent Communication. Opening my copy today reconnects me to our true human nature at a time when dark clouds abound through the many bitter conflicts ablaze in the world.
Thank you Marshall for bringing your compassion, knowledge and skills to provide a communication map for us to navigate the tragic strategies we have all been trained to use when our needs are not met.

22/09/2023

Another 6-week Level 1 NVC training offered in person in Pembrokeshire. Don't live locally? What about joining me for a winter retreat in early 2024? - https://mailchi.mp/5f6ac764853e/autumn-and-winter-offers-in-pembrokeshire

08/09/2023

Is an Autumn retreat, with a focus on deep self-connection, support to be brave or to figure out a more nourishing way forwards in your life what you are needing?
Would you like to join a small group in a lovely house in Lewes and build that connection and exploration together?
We are meeting 23-28th October 2023 and there are still a few places left.
Room types (single, shared, double) done on a first-come basis.

Click here for more information and to book: https://pennyspawforth.com/nvcretreat-oct-2023

25/08/2023

Summer for me has been a time to garden, swim in the sea, catch up on tasks and admin, visit friends and reflect. And now Autumn is approaching and I turn my mind back to what I see as being needed and what I want to offer. I have various group offerings to help people communicate and listen with more compassionate truth...often not easy yet there are maps that can help us and Nonviolent Communication is one I know and trust. I will be offering beginners evening classes as well as offerings to help people integrate their fledgling knowledge. If you are interested in NVC, have a look at my website and head over to the events listings: https://pennyspawforth.com - they are all in person in Pembrokeshire...

Based online and in Pembrokeshire, Wales, I support people find greater ease in body, mind and relationships through the use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Mediation, Conflict Resolution and the Alexander Technique.

13/08/2023

Autumn NVC Offerings - https://mailchi.mp/7ccd82cafe27/autumn-nvc-offerings

10/04/2023

These times call for a different way of speaking - join me in learning NVC - https://mailchi.mp/324154bd96ea/nvc-reflections-and-offerings-at-the-end-of-a-year-15369001

17/02/2023

These times call for us to speak up and speak out and do it in better more compassionate ways than our culture has trained us to do - Nonviolent Communication teaches us how - if you live in SW Wales there are still a few places left on my Level 1 training. Is one of them yours? More info can be found here: https://www.pennyspawforth.com/level-1-nvc

16/11/2022

Yesterday evening we had our monthly NVC (in person) practice group. Three people took time to share their pain and be received empathically. Each were transformed by the space - the reflective empathic responses and the compassionate witnessing did it’s magic yet again. We all reflected afterwards that the world needs many many more spaces like these.
Do you belong to a space like this? How is it for you?