Presentations & Training

Presentations & Training


“Communication is to relationship what
breathing is to life.”  Virginia Satir



Because we work with such a diversity of organizations we
provide a wide range of presentations, speaking
topics,  programs and services to meet many different needs.
We have a dynamic three hour presentation and an intensive 16 hour
training program on Nonviolent Compassionate Communication.
Frequently we tailor-make programs or presentations to fit your
organizations unique needs.  Compensation for trainings is determined
on the basis of the organization’s ability to contribute. We even have
some scholarship funding available to organizations without a budget for
such training.

Our Seminars:

  • Prepare selected personnel to provide our training
    within your
    organization.

  • Involve the participants in applying the training to the
    most
    frequently encountered  on- the- job real life communication
    challenges.

  • Have a “Basic Skills Program” and additional
    modules customized to
    meet specific organizational needs.

  • Other services we provide:

    Mediation/conflict resolution including:

    1. Interdepartmental conflict
    2. Interpersonal conflict
    3. Customer disputes.
    4. Air clearing
    5. Termination disputes

    Organizational development including:

    1. Make meetings more effective.
    2. Solve particular systems problems.
    3. Teambuilding.
    4. Gossip reduction
    5. Increasing creativity/productivity
    6. Diversity training
    7. Sexual Harassment training
    8. Performance evaluations that maximize morale and learning
    9. Customer relations training
    10. Internal Communication Coaching and Training
    11. Negotiation & Dialogue Training


    Community Building and Developing Programs:

  • 1. Starting from Scratch - Initiating, building and maintaining Partnership Communities

  • 2. Healing Old Hurts within established communities- Helping Communities get through difficult times of change, political difficulty and
    trauma

  • 3. Converting from Old Paradigms to Compassionate Partnership organizational
    systems

  • 4. Intentional community development

Kelly has a ten minute demo video tape, with excerpts from some of his
talks.  This tape might be useful for anyone who wants to book a
speaking engagement or training but does not know Kelly, and would like a taste of his style.
To receive a video tape please contact us at: Kelly@LanguageOfCompassion.com


Call Kelly to book a Speaking Engagement or Presentation

Some of Kelly’s Speaking Titles:

  • Don’t
    Be Nice, Be Real - Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for
    Others, a book by Kelly Bryson MFT
  • Nonviolent Communication(sm) – A Language of Compassion

  • Empathy Has No Enemy

  • Compassion vs. Coercion

  • The Power of Innocence

  • 21st Century
    Relationships

  • Being Me and Loving You

  • Celebrating your
    Selfullness

  • Promote Power – Forget
    Force

  • Everyday Passion

  • Passionate Creating

  • Life Enriching
    Education

  • How to Stay Nonviolent in a
    Violent World!

  • How to Parent without
    Punishment (Or Rewards!)

  • How to Stay Fearless in
    a Fearful World

  • I also have given many Sunday Morning
    “Sermons” for churches of all denominations

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The Learning Modules

Differentiating observations from evaluations 1

Differentiating feeling from other forms of communication		 1

Identifying
our needs		 3
Expressing requests in present-positive-action
language		 4
Receiving the feelings & needs being express
through messages of others 		5
Liberating ourselves from slave morality 7
Connection with needs being expressed through
moralistic judgments		 7
Fully expressing anger 8
Translating static language to process language 8
Translating “Amtssprache” to language
acknowledging responsibility for our actions		 9
Accepting responsibility for our actions 10
Transforming “deserve” into Nonviolent
Communication		 10
Expressing how we are and what we are requesting 11
Building a feeling vocabulary 11
Expressing needs in intimate and work
relationships		 12
Expressing ourselves honestly in difficult
situations		 13
Accepting responsibility for our feelings 14
Differentiating requests from demands 15
Empathetically receiving how people are and what
they are requesting		 16
Empathy with ourselves 16
Empathy with others in distress 17
Empathy with people who are angry 18
Empathizing now with people you weren’t able to
empathize with then		 18
Empathy when people attribute responsibility to
you for their feelings		 18
Empathy with messages we have been afraid to
receive		 19
Empathy with “No”‘ 19
Painful memories 21
Expression and receiving gratitude 30
Celebrating the power we have to enrich life 30
Identifying the unfulfilled needs generating our
thoughts 		L
Expressing requests in positive action language N
Differentiating empathic responses from other
responses		 R-S
Responding empathetically when we haven’t met the
needs of others		 U
Expressing needs that are not easy to express W
Fully expressing anger X
Translating static evaluations into process
evaluations 		Y
Bringing conversations back to life Z
Deepening intimate relationships 5.e
Healing old pain 6.f
Hearing and saying, “No” 7.g
Differentiating “responsibility to” and
“responsibility for” 		8.h
Expressing requests to groups 10.j
Exchanging money in harmony with nonviolent
communication		 12.l

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