<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i>Freedom of the Heart - How to Find Joy by Dissolving Blame and Resentment</i></span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Nonviolent Communication Workshop at LCUUC!</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Friday, October 27 and/or Saturday, October 28</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have ever considered learning more about Nonviolent Communication, this is a great opportunity.  An internationally certified NVC trainer will lead this 1.5 day workshop at LCUUC on Friday evening, 10/27 and Saturday, 10/28.  You can learn about the basics of this powerful practice, which helps us understand how to communicate from the heart with compassion.  We will also learn how to let go of blame and resentment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is based on the principles of nonviolence.  With NVC we learn to hear our own deep needs and those of others.  Through its emphasis on deep listening – to ourselves as well as others – NVC helps us discover the depth of our own compassion.  NVC can be seen as both a spiritual practice that helps us see our common humanity, using our power in a way that honors everyone’s needs, and a concrete set of skills which help us create life-serving families and communities. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you are interested, please open the attachment below, or open this link:   <a href="http://empathiccoachingrevolution.com/the-blame-free-state-program/hartland" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(84,141,212)">http://<wbr>empathiccoachingrevolution.<wbr>com/the-blame-free-state-<wbr>program/hartland</span></b></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Registration and payment can be done online or mailed in to church.    </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Deadline for early bird registration is this Friday, September 22.</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please contact me (<a href="mailto:kerryduma@gmail.com" target="_blank">kerryduma@gmail.com</a>)  if you have any questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Peace,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kerry (on behalf of the LCUUC NVC Practice Group.  Our group will begin meeting again in November – newbies welcome!)</span></p></div>