Registration
Click here to register online or see below for other registration options.
We request that participants plan to be in attendance for the entire intensive to support the quality of connection, learning and trust we hope to create. Please make travel arrangements to support the following arrival and departure times:
Retreat starts Saturday, July 23, 2011
- On-site Registration - 4 pm Saturday
- Dinner - 6 pm
- Opening circle - 7 pm
Retreat ends at 4 pm on Saturday, July 30, 2011.
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If you are flying to the retreat, note that the Black Mountain Preserve Retreat Center is approximately 1.25 hours from Sonoma County Airport, 2.5 hours from the San Francisco airport and 3 hours from the Oakland Airport.
Financial Contributions
The requested financial contributions for the intensive, which includes your tuition, meals and accommodations, are as follows:
$1140 - adult shared (3 or more)
$1300 - adult double occupancy
$------ adult single occupancy (no more availability)
$ 570 - children ages 4 - 11 in a shared room
free - children under 4
Financial Assistance: It is our greatest desire that all persons who want to come to The Diversity Retreat be able to do so. As part of our commitment to ensuring class diversity, we do not want access to funds to be the only barrier for attendance. If you would like to attend this retreat and do not have funds to pay the requested contributions, please contact us. We would like to be in dialogue with each person interested in attending to see if together, we can identify a combination of financial assistance, fundraising, and payment plans that would enable you to attend.
We will be using contributions greater than the minimum to make this event as inclusive as possible. Applications for assistance may be downloaded by clicking here for a PDF file, or here for a Word doc. Forward completed applications to Barbara Kochan, retreat organizer, at Barbara.Kochan@LearnNVC.org, or mail to the address below. Scholarships will be awarded based on the following criteria: financial need, potential for utilizing an NVC diversity consciousness toward social change or offering NVC to diverse communities including commitment to working with currently underserved populations. Applications for financial assistance should be submitted by June 1, 2011. Applications will be processed as they are received. All applicants will receive responses by July 1, 2011.
Payment schedule: We request full payment of tuition at the time of registration. However, we need to receive a minimum deposit of $400 to reserve your seat. You may either pay the full contribution at the time of registration or pay the minimum deposit and the remainder of your contribution by July 1, 2011. Payments after the initial registration can be made online through PayPal or payments via check can be mailed to Barbara Kochan (see section on how to register below). Due to fees for processing credit card payments, our preference is for payments made by checks. If a different timing for the payments is needed, please contact Barbara Kochan at Barbara.Kochan@LearnNVC.org.
Refund Policy:
If you cancel on or before July 6, 2011, your fees will be refunded minus a $100 administrative fee.
If you cancel after July 6, 2011, your fees will be refunded (minus the $100 administrative fee) only if we can fill your place in the training with another participant. If we are unable to do so, your fees, minus the portion of your fee paid to the facility and the $100 administrative fee will be refunded.
How to Register: This year, we will use Constant Contacts, a secure, online registration service to process our registrations. Click here to go to their site to register for the NVC and Diversity Intensive: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=wjwrcxcab&oeidk=a07e367u5tf6c60884c
- Initial credit card payments can be made online at the time of registration through Constant Contacts' website; subsequent credit card payments can be made through PayPal.
- Checks, made payable to New York Intensive, should be mailed to
- NVC & Diversity Intensive
c/o Barbara Kochan
1325 Sacramento St., #3,
Berkeley, CA 94702-1235
- NVC & Diversity Intensive
If you are very uncomfortable with the online registration, contact Barbara Kochan at Barbara.Kochan@LearnNVC.org and she will assist you.
Volunteers: There are many ways that participants can support this event being as inclusive, hospitable, inspiring and meaningful as possible. We welcome your input, assistance and contributions – which also serve to keep expenses down and increase affordability.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this training, all participants, including psychotherapists (MFTs or LCSWs) will be able to:
- Increase awareness of the challenges facing persons from diverse backgrounds and address those challenges effectively.
- Learn to communicate in ways that meet needs for satisfying connection with others of a different social or ethnic background.
CEU Provider: Nonviolent Communication Santa Cruz
Provider number: PCE 4534 MFT/LCSW
This 7-day retreat meets the qualifications for 49 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
The CEUs we can provide are recognized by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Boards in other states may or may not recognize these CEUs; however, it will be up to the training participant to check with their state's Board.
CEU application packets will be available at the event.
There is a separate processing fee of $5/unit for the first 6 CEUs, $2/unit for each subsequent CEU, paid separately, at the end of the event. ($102 for 42 CEUs.)
We are committed to making The Diversity Retreat accesible to those who do not currently have financial resources to contribute the requested amount for tuition or room and board. Some of our participants have been able to raise funds to support their attendance from their community. Others come from communities that simply do not have access to any disposable income to support the participant's attendance, no matter how much they value and need the skills the participant will learn.
We dearly want the consciousness, healing and skills we are offering to be available to everyone, especially to those who could benefit from the increase in internal resources this training can produce. Your gift is essential in making this work possible. It helps to cover the costs of room and board for participants, and helps to make it possible for the trainers to continue doing this work (in previous years, some trainers have received little or no income in order to support inclusivity).
If you would like to make a donation to support our work and inclusivity at the intensive, you can do so right now via PayPal by clicking here: