Join us for a virtual event where we explore how to navigate and embrace strong emotions together.
About this Event

Accompanying Strong Emotions
Dates : 12/9, 12/11 and 12/13 (3 x 2 hour session)
Time: 9am-11am
Location: Virtual
Do people seem more edgy and argumentative these days? Would you like your own inner voice to be nurturing and supportive during challenging moments? Are you eager to support the emotional well-being of the people around you during these high-stress times? Could you use some easy-to-learn tools to help accompany strong emotions without using punishment, fear or rejection? Tools you could readily employ to mitigate conflict within yourself and others?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, this interactive online Resonant Language workshop will offer you many tools to move toward your goals.

Participants will learn practical strategies for accompanying strong emotions in themselves and others. Together, we will delve into verbal and somatic strategies to move away from brittle reactivity and into resilient responsiveness. You will leave this course with an understanding of how neuroscience and resonant language can help strengthen harmony and authentic connection.

This workshop is based on the work of neuroscience educator Sarah Peyton. Participants will receive an electronic study packet. Each session will be interactive and experiential. Please come ready to learn and practice.

Please Note: Training materials will be emailed to you prior to the start of the training.

Please review the following conduct statement:
We want virtual Maine Intentional Peer Support spaces to be safe, welcoming, and inclusive. Harassment, hate speech, and inappropriate behavior of any kind, verbal or in the chat/Q&A, will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to immediately remove any attendee we consider to be in breach of this conduct agreement. This includes anyone making racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory, offensive, or hateful remarks. Continued conversations that disrupt the topic of the class may also result in removal from class. Removed participants will not be able to re-join the session, or, if applicable, join any of the rest of the sessions in a day or series of events. In order to avoid the derailing of sessions we will not enter into conversations around why conduct was deemed inappropriate in the sessions themselves.

F acilitated by Peggy Smith

Peggy Smith is a certified trainer with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, with over four decades of teaching experience. She is at the forefront of bringing empathic thinking and communicating to our region.

Peggy holds a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a teacher in public and alternative schools for 32 years before devoting her full time energies to this endeavor. She offers trainings in a wide variety of venues. She has posted online a Courageous Communication curriculum developed over five years with men coming out of incarceration.

She has done a variety of trainings for the Peer community over the past 15 years both online and at several Peer centers. It is a special delighted when members of the Peer community choose to join her year-long NVC Integration Program.

A student of Mindfulness since 1991, Peggy has been ordained as a teacher by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She has a passion for helping everyone develop their innate capacity for empathy by integrating mindfulness into how we think and communicate.