We are delighted to welcome Certified Trainer, Kathleen Macferran (USA) to Romania to lead this 3 day interactive workshop. 

This workshop will be an exploration, through practice, of facilitation skills that help groups thrive . We will explore a broad range of topics to support effective, inclusive facilitation. We will look at:

• facilitation styles we can draw from
• our own preconceptions as facilitators about our roles
• inner blocks or challenges that get in our way of facilitating effectively
• how our own grounding and self-care can enliven groups.

All participants are welcome, whether you have a multi-year facilitation practice or are just beginning. Bring your own facilitation challenges to work with. We will be learning from each other while harvesting the wisdom and experience of all participants.

 The principles and practices in this workshop will come from, but are not limited to, the practices of Nonviolent Communication. Some familiarity of Nonviolent Communication is recommended. 

Cluj Hub
22-26 Ferdinand Street 
Cluj-Napoca
ROMANIA

Good connections to the international airport and by train from Budapest. 

3rd to 5th October 2024

Thursday to Saturday, 09:30 to 17:30 each day

Light refreshments will be served at breaks.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity!

Whether you’re building on years of experience or just taking your first steps into facilitation, this workshop is your opportunity to become the kind of facilitator who not only leads but inspires. Join us. 

Kathleen is from the USA and holds a vision for a peaceful, just, and sustainable world. She is committed to co-creating a world where peace replaces violence, love replaces hate, equity replaces inequity, and all people live meaningful lives.

She has worked as an Assessor with CNVC since 2010. For 20 years, she served as a workshop facilitator for the Freedom Project of Seattle, WA, an organization that supports healing and restoration inside and outside prisons through Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness, racial equity, and anti-oppression.

Kathleen travels internationally offering facilitation, system building and conflict transformation using practical skills that lead to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities. She has worked with individuals, community groups, businesses, schools, colleges, faith-based communities, hospitals, families, prison inmates, and correctional and law enforcement employees.

Prior to her work with nonviolence, Kathleen spent much of her life bringing harmony to communities through music, including two decades as a classical music conductor and leader of a nonprofit organization, and seven years as a public school music teacher.

Listen to Kathleen introduce the course

Kathleen is co-author with the late Jared Finkelstein of  Choice. She is the author of the children’s books  How Giraffes Found Their Hearts and How Giraffes Got Their Ears. She also is the conductor for Giraffe Tales a children’s CD setting those stories to music.

Visit her website where her TEDx talks, books, and music can be found.

We want to make our work accessible to all, and at the same time take care of our financial sustainability so we can continue this work. You know better than us how much money you have access to, so we ask you to choose from three tuition prices:   €195 or €295 or €395.
You will receive exactly the same course no matter which price you choose. 

If even the lower price is more than you can afford, please  contact us and we are confident we will find a solution together.

The price includes tuition, materials and light refreshments – it does not incude accommodation or meals. The location is central and there are many accommodation options.