INTL PEACEMAKER Receives Major Award, Leads Local Workshops

International Peacemaker Marshall Rosenberg is receiving a Bridge of Peace Award from the Global Village Foundation in Los Angeles just before he arrives in the Bay Area next week.

Presenting the award to Dr. Rosenberg will be Michael Nagler, founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Center at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future.

Following the award ceremony, Marshall Rosenberg will make a rare visit to the San Francisco Bay Area to present workshops open to the general public, March 28th through April 2nd.

"No army is able to prevent terrorists from poisoning our streams or fouling the air. We are getting to a point where our best protection is to communicate with the people we're most afraid of."
- Marshall Rosenberg

Dr. Rosenberg will be leading workshops on overcoming prejudice, healing emotional pain, and improving relationships.

These workshops will take place March 28-31 in Oakland at the Lake Merritt United Methodist Church, 1330 Lakeshore Avenue, and April 1-2 in San Francisco at the Women's Building, 3543 18th Street.

Through Dr. Rosenberg's work, thousands around the world have found new avenues to peace--within their families and communities, in schools, prisons, and between warring factions in some of the most violent places on earth.

Rwanda, Nigeria, Burundi, Croatia, Serbia, Russia, Ireland, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Palestine are examples of countries where Dr. Rosenberg's nonviolent communication (NVC) is taught.

"We have lived traumatic moments over and over again--moments of fear and panic, incomprehension, frustrations, disappointment, and injustice of all sorts, with no hope of escape--which made it even worse. The NVC process offers us a peaceful alternative for ending this interminable Rwandan conflict."
- Theodore Nyilidandi, Rwandan Dept. of Foreign Affairs; Kigali, Rwanda

This event is sponsored by Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) a nonprofit organization in Oakland which offers ongoing classes in Dr. Rosenberg's nonviolent communication process throughout the Bay Area.

BayNVC also facilitates programs such as the Restorative Justice Project at San Quentin and other area prisons and jails, and the global Peaceful Families, Peaceful World Project, supporting families in living with compassion and connection.

All contributions go toward furthering Dr. Rosenberg's work. Online registration is available at http://www.baynvc.org

SOURCE OF MARSHALL ROSENBERG QUOTE IN THIS NEWS RELEASE
http://www.cnvc.org/diankillian.htm (article discussing Restorative Justice; gives a good introduction to Marshall Rosenberg)

LINK TO THE BRIDGE OF PEACE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: http://www.globalvillagefoundation.org/news.html

MORE ABOUT BAY AREA NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
http://www.baynvc.org/mission.php

MORE ABOUT MARSHALL ROSENBERG'S UPCOMING BAY AREA WORKSHOPS http://www.baynvc.org/marshall_rosenberg_visit_spring_2006.php

"Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent communication connects soul to soul . . . It is the missing element in what we do."
- Deepak Chopra, author, Ageless Body and Timeless Mind

To read more about what Deepak Chopra has said about Marshall Rosenberg: http://www.wilddivine.com/DeepakNovemberLetter/

Complete schedule for all of Marshall's workshops in Oakland and San Francisco

Oakland - Tuesday, March 28, 7-9:30 pm, Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
Oakland - Wednesday, March 29, 7-9:30 pm, Overcoming Prejudice
Oakland - Thursday, March 30, 9:30-5:00, Healing Emotional Pain
Oakland - Friday, March 31, 9:30-5:00, Healing Emotional Pain, Day Two
(Healing Emotional Pain can be attended on Thursday only, or as a Two-day workshop.)
San Fr ancisco - Saturday, April 1, 9:30-5:00 pm, Basics of Nonviolent Communication
San Francisco - Sunday, April 2, 9:30-5:00 pm, Improving Intimate Relationships

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