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About the Workshop

About the Presenter

Attuned Listening Skills for Professionals, Parents, Partners 
with Kathy Simon, Ph.D.
 
Communication is at the core of our relationships and everything we do, but communication is complicated.  It requires listening well, even when we don’t like what we hear; it requires speaking our truths in ways that can be heard, even when the audience isn’t particularly receptive.
 
Based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication© (NVC), this interactive workshop will highlight the listening side of the equation— attuning to others in ways that bring mutual understanding and a sense of new possibility.  Please come ready to practice; we will try out some of the skills that are introduced. Whether or not you are an experienced listener, this workshop will deepen your skillset and help you show up even more fully in all of your roles. 

​ Kathy Simon, Ph.D, studied English and Hebrew Literature at Harvard, then earned a teaching credential through the Stanford Teacher Education Program and went to work as a high school English and drama teacher.

After five years of teaching, she returned to Stanford for a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Teacher Education. After writing a book called Moral Questions in the Classroom, she went on to direct the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), a national non-profit school-reform organization focused on creating more equitable, flexible, personalized, and meaningful schools. In her family and professional life, she has tried to embody the ideas of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and since 2006 has taught and coached communication in a wide variety of contexts. She has also been blessed to be a faculty member of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute (MTEI) since 2006, where one of the core principles is "how we talk matters."

​When not teaching or working with clients, she loves to hike in the redwood forests in the hills of Oakland, California and to camp and hike in the wilderness.

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