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DAY 1

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ALICE Leibowitz

Grounded Resistance

Alice Leibowitz, Founder of Conversations Against Fascism, is a longtime activist and facilitator who supports progressives and changemakers to find hope and keep their sanity in the face of rising fascism, genocide, and other global crises.

Alice is the creator of the Deep Activism framework for applying the tools of personal transformation to creating a world where everyone is safe, valued, and free. Through her Grounded Resistance Facilitator Training, she teaches others to lead their communities from despair and outrage to engaged inspiration.

Free Gift: Ground Your Resistance cheat sheet

You can learn more about Alice at: https://linktr.ee/conversationsagainstfascism
 

What you’ll learn:

  • What it means to ground your resistance
  • The difference between Floppy, Reactive, and Grounded Resistance
  • Why it’s so critical to be grounded in yourself and in reality when facing major global crises
  • What it takes to have your actions be truly grounded
 

Yvette Erasmus

A practical guide to staying regulated, relational, and courageous when the world feels unstable.

Yvette Erasmus is a clinical psychologist, podcast host, and founder of The School of Human Connection. She integrates attachment science, nervous system regulation, and nonviolent communication to help individuals and communities build relational integrity in polarized times. Through her teaching, writing, and her podcast Conversations from the Heart, Yvette explores how to protect human dignity without losing our humanity. Her work centres on relational courage, protective boundaries, and the practice of returning non-love with love.

🎁 Grab your free gift from Yvette: Grounded Resistance: 5 Practices for Protecting Human Dignity in Polarized Times: A practical guide to staying regulated, relational, and courageous when the world feels unstable.

What you will learn:

  • Understand what happens to your nervous system during times of political threat and why it shapes how you respond and resist
  • Learn how to resist dehumanization without losing your own humanity in the process
  • Discover the concept of the “protective use of force,” and how it differs from punitive approaches in polarized environments
  • Gain clarity on what it means to organize for something, not just against, and what building a pro-human future truly requires
 

Aya Capsi

Resisting with love

Aya Caspi brings her unique blend of vision, practical clarity, and deep commitment to the transformative power of Nonviolent Communication to settings as varied as schools, parenting, mediation, nonprofit organizations, social change communities, and media. Aya has served as an educational consultant on several preschool series, creating original curricula and advising on show development and scripting. Aya has been sharing the work of NVC internationally via online classes and in-person retreats. She continually grapples with the joys and challenges of being raised in Israel and finds deep open hope in applying NVC to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

🎁 Here is Aya’s free gift, Reclaiming Life with Nonviolent Communication. You can access it here

What you will learn:

  • What resisting with love means.
  • What NVC brings to this.
  • How we can resist without reinventing the same violence we are trying to oppose?
  • Aya's experience using these tools to heal a rupture with an antisemitic neighbor in an online chat.

Elia Paz

Resilience with Death

Elia is the founder of Mindful Compassionate Dialogue (MCD) - a comprehensive system and map that describes the process and skills necessary for cultivating thriving relationships. You can learn more about MCD through Elia’s podcasts, blog and recently published books - Life-serving boundaries and Creating a Fulfilling Relationship. She has been serving as a trainer and guide for over 20 years. Her journey includes a graduate degree in psychology, meditation practice, certification as a trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and in-depth training in somatic approaches to therapy.

🎁 Grab your free gift from Elia: Video series on Mindful Relationship Dialog Competencies

 

What you will learn:

  • Elia's brush with almost dying and how it became a portal to emotional resilience.
  • How examining your relationship with death can help you stay grounded and present.
  • Discover practical tools and practices to navigate fear with more stability and clarity.
  • Understand what it takes to cultivate and maintain wisdom and compassion during challenging times.
 

Rodger Sorrow

Difficult Conversations - Connecting Across Political Differences

Rodger Sorrow is a Certified Trainer and Assessor for The Center for Nonviolent Communication and founder of Choose Connection.  He brings an abundance of knowledge and skills from education and experience combined with enthusiasm and compassion.
Rodger's style blends authenticity, laughter and play with learning. He shares his love of the outdoors through a class at SBCC’s School of Extended Learning, 'Nature and Self-Healing'. As an Assessor with CNVC, he accompanies certification candidates in their shared journey of learning, living and sharing NVC.  Rodger is available for private sessions with individuals, couples, families, and customized trainings for groups and organizations.

🎁 Grab your free gift from Rodger : Basics of Compassionate Communication handouts

What you will learn:

  • What Nonviolent Communication (NVC), also known as Compassionate Communication, is.
  • How NVC can support difficult conversations and connection across political differences.
  • How to stay self-regulated and present during difficult conversations.
  • What it feels like to get re-triggered, and how to return to the intention to connect with yourself and the other.

ALICE Leibowitz

Graceful Political Conversations Across Difference

Alice Leibowitz, Founder of Conversations Against Fascism, is a longtime activist and facilitator who supports progressives and changemakers to find hope and keep their sanity in the face of rising fascism, genocide, and other global crises.

Alice is the creator of the Deep Activism framework for applying the tools of personal transformation to creating a world where everyone is safe, valued, and free. Through her Grounded Resistance Facilitator Training, she teaches others to lead their communities from despair and outrage to engaged inspiration.

Free Gift:  Ground Your Resistance Cheat Sheet

You can learn more about Alice at: https://linktr.ee/conversationsagainstfascism
 

What you’ll learn:

  • The three ways of being that make dialog across difference possible
  • Alice’s story of bringing curiosity to a very polarized conversation with a family member about Israel-Palestine
  • How she brought a counter-protester into the Occupy Wall Street movement, just by being willing to listen to his complaint
  • How to stay in relationship with someone who starts attacking you personally in a conversation

WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH YOUR VIP ALL ACCESS PASS:

  • Unlimited access to Ground Your Resistance Show’s interview replays & gifts (valued at $2,997)
  • One 1-on-1 Lead the Change Strategy Session (valued at $597)
  • One ticket to the Ground Your Resistance Intensive, where you'll gain the skills to meet this moment with resolve & clarity (valued at $1,497) 
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