Datum
06.05.2027 - 09.05.2027
Veranstaltungsort
Lebensgarten Steyerberg
mit Yoram Mosenzon
Connecting in Conflict: From Polarization to Togetherness
How conflict can become an opportunity for deeper closeness
06-09 May 2027
With CNVC certified trainer and mediator Yoram Mosenzon (Connecting2life)
In English, with consecutive translation into German
Do you enjoy conflicts?
For many people, conflict is something to avoid, fear, suppress, or win. Yet conflict can also be one of the most meaningful opportunities we have: an opportunity to understand ourselves more deeply, to truly get to know another person, to build trust, to heal old wounds, and to discover new possibilities together.
In school, most of us learned mathematics, history, and languages, yet very few of us learned how to navigate human relationships, disagreements, hurt, anger, disappointment, or differences of opinion.
This workshop is dedicated to learning the art of dialogue: how to stay connected when it matters most, how to transform conflict into cooperation, and how to create relationships that are both honest and caring.
Navigating Conflict as a Core Skill
No matter where I travel in the world, one thing is always the same: every human being experiences conflict.
Some people express it loudly. Others keep it hidden. Yet all of us encounter moments of frustration, misunder-standing, disappointment, hurt, fear, and tension.
We experience conflicts with our partners, children, parents, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and sometimes even within ourselves.
The question is not whether conflict will happen.
The question is: What do we do when it does?
Can conflict become a doorway to deeper understanding rather than distance?
Can differences become a source of creativity rather than separation?
From Polarization to Togetherness
One of the greatest challenges of our time is polarization.
Whether in intimate relationships, families, organizations, communities, or politics, we often become stuck in opposing opinions. Each person or group is convinced that they are right and the other is wrong, and dialogue slowly turns into debate, defensiveness, persuasion, or withdrawal.
Whether it is a couple struggling to decide which school to send their child to, or nations disagreeing about how to respond to climate change or AI, the challenge is fundamentally the same: we need to find ways to work together.
When we remain at the level of opinions, we easily experience one another as opponents. Separation grows, and we all become more alone.
In this workshop, we will practice how to move beyond the level of opinions and polarization and enter a dialogue that allows togetherness, understanding, compassion, creativity, and cooperation to emerge.
We will Explore and Practice
❀ How to connect in conflict and transform it into deeper trust, understanding, and creativity
❀ How to navigate differences of opinion without losing connection
❀ The power of empathy and its ability to transform relationships and dialogues
❀ How to express yourself honestly without blame, criticism, or judgment
❀ How to work with inner conflicts and competing parts within yourself
❀ How to stand for what matters to you while staying connected to others
❀ How to transform polarization into cooperation and shared purpose
And much more…
About Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a practical approach to communication, conflict resolution, mediation, coaching, and personal development.
Used throughout the world in organizations, businesses, schools, prisons, families, communities, and intimate relationships, NVC offers concrete tools for creating understanding, cooperation, and connection.
At its heart, NVC helps us transform the way we speak and listen so that even difficult conversations can become opportunities for understanding, healing, and collaboration.
NVC takes you from your meditation cushion into real life – it helps you live your deepest values in relationships and in countless day-to-day situations.
It can profoundly transform the way you communicate with yourself and others, moving it toward a quality of deep compassion.
Learning style
You will be invited to work on examples from your own life in an interactive and safe learning environment. We will practice Nonviolent Communication through demonstrations, role-play and exercises in order to integrate NVC values and language more into our daily lives.
The way we teach is: 30% Theory and 70% of Practice/Demonstration/Learning from LIVE situations that are happening in the here and now. Our focus is very much on the Embodied aspect of ‘Nonviolent Communication’, so be ready to dive.
Extra support
We will have assistants accompanying us during this course.
| When
06–09 May 2027 Start: Thursday at 14:00 Daily Schedule: Breakfast: 08:30–09:30 |
Breaks There will be a 15-20 minute break approximately every 1.5 hours, 1-hour-and-15-minute lunch break 1-hour dinner break |
Where
Lebensgarten Steyerberg e. V., Ginsterweg 3, 31595 Steyerberg
Language
The workshop will be held in English, with consecutive translation into German.
Practices in small groups (pairs or trios) may be conducted in either English or German.
Fee
A sliding-scale contribution of €400–€800 (excluding food and accommodation).
→ The choice of fees depends on your income and free will. The idea behind a sliding scale is that we all have different current financial situations, and we like to be flexible so that your financial contribution fits your financial situation as well as your personal wish to support us.
→ When paid by a business, it is the highest fee on the scale
Food and Accommodation
Accommodation Prices (per person, per night)
- Apartment (single occupancy): €72
- Apartment (double occupancy): €56 per person
- Single room with private bathroom: €67
- Single room with shared bathroom: €57
- Double room with private bathroom: €51 per person
- Double room with shared bathroom: €42 per person
- Multi-bed room with shared bathroom: €30 per person
- RV/Camper with access to a shared bathroom: €29 for the first person; €14 for each additional person
- Tent with access to a shared bathroom: €14 per person
All room prices include bed linen and towels.
Meals
Three full meals per day: €54 per person per day.
Organizer
Zentrum Gewaltfreie Kommunikation Steyerberg e.V.
info@gewaltfrei-steyerberg.de
To book your place
To book your place, simply follow the 3 steps below.
If you have any questions please contact Petra at: info@gewaltfrei-steyerberg.de
1. Read the Terms & Conditions below (Many of us never read ‘Terms & Conditions’… and, we would recommend you to read this one to be sure we’re together and on the same page).
2. Fill in the: registration form.
3. Complete the €150 non-refundable prepayment (pay to connecting2life directly here.)
Important: If you encounter any difficulties while making your payment, please take a screenshot of the error and send it to us at info@connecting2life.net.
We’ve recently experienced a few payment issues and are still trying to identify the cause. Your screenshot would be a great help in resolving the problem. Thank you!
Regarding the remainder of the payment
We ask that you pay the remainder of the course fees within 48 hours of completing the workshop. We prefer that you pay at the end because we like people to know what they are paying for. We do this because we wish for your payment to be more connected to gratitude than to a sense of duty. If you prefer to pay earlier, that is also welcome.
‘The regret period’
We process a refund for your prepayment only if the cancellation occurs within 14 days from the date you made the prepayment, and if your cancellation request is made at least 5 days before the course officially begins.
Terms and Conditions
Connecting2life, through the art of dialogue, is deeply valuing a movement toward a world where everyone’s needs matter. This means everyone’s needs are heard, recognized and deeply considered.
We would like to check if you agree to the following points. If you have a request for something to be written differently in these ‘terms and conditions’, please contact us directly. We are open to a dialogue to figure out a text that works for both of us:
❀ If you decide to leave the training at anytime before the end time of the course, you engage yourself in paying the full participation fee.
This is in order to care for our energy in organizing a course, as well as due to the fact that otherwise your place could have been offered to someone else from the waiting list
❀ In case there are less than 9 participants for a course in Amsterdam / 20 participants for a weekend workshop or a year long training, connecting2life reserves the right to cancel the course no later than 7 days before the course is due to start. In such cases we will refund the pre-payment within 2 weeks of the cancelation announcement.
This is in order to care for the sense of balance of our trainers
❀ It is your personal responsibility to inform the trainer/s of your health status (physical and mental), and/or use of medication, etc.
This is in order to create safety and clarity for you and the trainer.
❀ Neither connecting2life nor its trainers are liable for any physical and/or psychological damage you claim to have acquired due to participation in the course/training.
This is in order to have a shared agreement about the notion of ‘self- responsibility’. We encourage you to speak up when things do not feel safe to you in any way. We encourage you to be in gentle listening with yourself and take any measurements to take care of your well-being. Safety is really important to us, and each person needs different ways to care for it. We deeply care to support you in that.
❀ The participant will recompense any damages they cause to movable and immovable property on the property the course/training is held.
This is in order to have a shared agreement about the notion of ‘self responsibility’.
❀ About Online course recording:
→ Unless stated clearly otherwise on the website: Online meetings will be recorded (Video) and shared with the group for a view. Also participants who joins the ‘recording only’ option and participants joining the course within 3 weeks after the start of the course will receive the recordings of the sessions they have missed.
→ The recordings will be shared with the option to be viewed (not downloadable) with Google Drive, Vimeo or any other platform
→ The recordings will be available for viewing until three weeks after the last session, after which they will be taken offline
→ You are committed to keeping the recordings exclusively for yourself and not sharing them with anyone else. This ensures that we respect everyone’s privacy and choices, including those of the trainer.
We offer recordings in order to support the participant’s learning, as well as, as much as possible, to care for the privacy of all involved.
❀ During the courses, we may suggest sharing your contact details with other participants for practice outside the sessions. You can withdraw your consent at any time by sending us an email.
❀ In case of a complaint, here is the complaint procedure in steps: Complaint process
❀ Confidentiality: All communication with connecting2life (within and outside the course) will be dealt with confidentiality. Our participant’s info is saved on our google drive.
❀ To book your place we ask a non-refundable prepayment. You are asked to pay the rest of the payment within a week of the very end of the course (we like people to pay when they know what they pay for, so that payment is more connected to gratitude and less to being a duty). If you prefer paying it earlier, this is welcome as well.
❀ ‘The regret period’: A refund of your prepayment will be processed only if the cancellation occurs within 14 days from the date of payment and at least 5 working days before the course officially begins. Refunds are issued within 14 days of the cancellation request.