I didn't even get into the EMU – the conference center – yesterday. Just ping-ponged back and forth to workshops in the various classrooms.
The first was Kristin's. Here I've been living with her for 17 years, and ever since she started teaching NVC four or five years ago, and this is the first class of hers I've ever been to. It was cool. It was impressive to see her get into the heads of kids and parents she's never met and role play the conflicts between them. You could feel the shift, as the parent realized – wow! A solution to this problem that's been destroying my relationship with my kid. Granted, I didn't take much new stuff from it – I've had lots and lots of one-on-one instruction, and know her pretty much like the back of my hand, maybe better because even though the back of my hand goes everywhere with me, she's more interesting. It was still well worth it, and I did get some new stuff from it – which is the really amazing part.
Then I met Bonnie Tinker, lesbian activist extraordinaire and co-founder of Love Makes A Family, an organization dedicated to marriage equality.
I think I'll take her workshop on effecting social change today.
3 comments:
Isn't Bonnie just terrific! I had a great time in the workshop with both of you. You have a very nice blog. My older site is tshofner.net, but I usually post my new entries to several, including the blogspot one.
Cheers!
Terri,
She's pretty awesome! I enjoyed it so much, too. Thanks for linking to my blog... and following it! I feel honored.
Sweeeeeet! I didn't know Kristin taught NVC. No wonder, that's seriously amazing. I'm so glad that you both share in that...and I love seeing it worked out in your lives.
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