Are you ready for 2020? Given the most recent timelines regarding climate chaos, 2020 marks the beginning of what might be the most important decade of our lifetime. With the stakes so high, we’re each being called into our highest purpose. In this “all hands on deck moment,” many of us need to (re)learn how to lean on one another and practice robust collaboration and cooperation. Do you have the support you need to thrive in these uncertain times?

The legacies of domination cultures - patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism to name a few - have kept most of us separated from aligning to our deepest truth and calling. As a result, many of us are not equipped with the tools to connect to our inner wisdom, nor are we self-connected enough to collaborate in a way that reflects our deepest values. So even when we make a step towards beloved community - when we step outside the mainstream paradigm of "every person for themselves" - we find that it's a monumentally difficult task.

Undoing domination communication, as we see and teach it, is the process of relearning how to be in relationship, how to have both the autonomy and interdependence we need to reach our unique creative potential and align with our highest purpose in this time of global crisis. Language is a primary way we engage in relationship, so we focus on language as a way to transform our inner (spiritual/emotional) and outer (social/collaborative) lives. We believe that this work of relearning patterns of language and communication is essential to the work of bringing about what Joanna Macy calls, "The Great Turning."

*WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT GSYN*
"This class has been a revelation. I have encountered certain of my habits of mind and expression that I now see as blocks to authentic communication. But in the challenge of facing them, I am learning to give myself empathy, while learning a lot about empathizing with others. This has been a glimpse of a post dominance world, a palpable experience of a new paradigm. I want to continue!"
-Sarah C.

"This course has been a weekly reminder that the world can be full of abundance and love when we choose to see each other tenderly and look at each other without the lens the domination culture that surrounds us. I have felt held and supported to care for myself and others in a way that I want to share in every space I work in, but that is difficult to do without support."
-Helen C.

"This course is an open door to a lifelong opportunity for personal growth and connection with myself and others. It has positively impacted my life and these tools will be used for a lifetime. It's an invaluable course that everyone will benefit from."
-Rachel R.

**WORKSHOP DETAILS**
This workshop is a total of 16 hours of live, interactive small group instruction and guidance spread across eight Wednesday evening sessions beginning Wednesday, January 15 and concluding Wednesday, March 4. This is NOT a prerecorded or self-paced course, though recordings of the sessions will be available to participants after each session.

Classes will meet on ZOOM, an online video platform, from 7pm - 9pm CST.

This series is highly interactive and experiential. There will be ample opportunities to apply and practice these tools as we learn them.

While this workshop will be grounded in the practice and principles of Nonviolent Communication, it will be supported by an understanding of interpersonal neurobiology, a growing area of study that's adding to our knowledge of how humans thrive. Nonviolent communication is a practical and accessible way to apply these new findings - that humans thrive in relationships with warmth, resonance, and attunement.

**SCHEDULE**
8 Wednesday evenings, 7pm - 9pm CST.
First Session: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Final Session: Wednesday, March 4, 2020

**COST**
Sliding Scale "Pay from the Heart:" $360 ($45/class) - $144 ($18/class) for the 8-class series. Contributions over $200 meet our minimum financial needs to sustain this work. We request that contributions below $200 be reserved for those for whom food and/or shelter would be compromised. Comparable offerings run in the range of $300-$450.

We know that determining how much to contribute can be tricky for so many of us living in a "traumatizing and traumatized" economy (Mark Silver). We ask that you sit with the idea of "getting the support you need to thrive in 2020" and first decide if you'd like to join us. Then, once you've decided, check in with your body/heart to find an amount to contribute that feels both generous and within your means.

If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to us directly at contact@gettingthesupport.org.

**REGISTRATION REQUIRED**
Registration is required and space is limited!
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**A NOTE ABOUT WHITENESS**
We are a group of white-identifying facilitators committed to undoing white supremacy internally and systemically, and specifically in our facilitation of this class. That said, we acknowledge that an all-white facilitation team will in itself mean that some People of Color will not have the sense of ease and trust needed to participate. We are mourning this, and holding the dilemma of dismantling white supremacy while still being embedded in the legacy of white supremacy. Having said that, we welcome people of all racial identities.

**FACILITATORS**
Amanda Blaine is a white, cisgendered, straight, double-Ivy-League-educated, middle class, Jewish woman. And she’s hellbent on using every ounce of her privilege to leverage change. She wants to support you to learn the skills that make the difference between “heartbreaking waste of time” and “heart-opening, get-lots-of-important-shit-done-together collaboration.” She makes her home on Vashon Island, occupied Puyallup land near Seattle, Washington.”

Nicole Bauman is a white, middle class, queer, genderqueer, farmer, healer, movement builder and parent, rooted in community and organizing in the Rust Belt city of Elkhart, IN, on occupied Potawatomi territory. Nonviolent Communication has been an empowering tool for Nicole's own personal healing and transformation, and has also increased her capacity to show up more skillfully to communication, conflict and collaboration interpersonally and within the movement. Nicole is excited to share all of this with you!

Josh Blaine is a community song leader and organizer based out of Austin, TX (occupied Numunu and Tikan'watic territory) who's found that unlearning his patterns of white and male supremacy is best done in community. Since the Fall of 2017, he's been organizing other men who are committed to undoing male domination patterns by leveraging the tools of nonviolent communication as a backbone of the work.