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Free Class:
Introduction to Kalapa, with a focus on our East Module:
Interpersonal Effectiveness and Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
11am-1pm US Pacific Time
on Zoom
Part class, part gathering for connection and networking!
Your free registration includes the recording!
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About This Free Class:
In this two-hour session, you'll meet other people committed to their own personal growth & development, we'll do a brief introduction to Kalapa, and we'll focus on our East Module which covers Interpersonal Effectiveness and Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
NVC is a process for creating the quality of connection out of which people spontaneously contribute to one another's well-being.
Nonviolent Communication, which was named out of a sense of alignment with Gandhi's movement of truth-telling and compassion, is a world-famous, proven, time-tested methodology for:
• Offering compassionate understanding to others,
• Knowing when and how to ask for that same understanding for yourself,
• Creating mutual understanding without coercion,
• Speaking your truth in a clear, powerful way that is more likely to lead to harmony than conflict,
• Preventing and resolving misunderstandings and conflicts,
• Creating exceptional personal and professional relationships.
What is Kalapa?
Kalapa is a school for Positive Change Agents!
If you are committed to your own personal and professional growth & development, and you want to be part of the solution instead of the problem,
We'll teach you best practices for how to live in harmony within yourself, with others, and with the Earth!
Each of our 8 modules includes Mindsets, Tools, Skills, Resources, and Community.
Come to our events so you can network and connect with people like you who are committed to being part of the solution and to an ongoing path of learning and growing!
About the presenter:
Alan Rafael Seid ("Rafa") works with Changemakers who struggle with how to make a bigger difference and manifest their vision.
He is known internationally as an engaging speaker, presenter, facilitator, and coach. He has thousands of online subscribers and followers as well as clients on every continent except Antarctica.
One of Alan’s driving motivators has been helping humanity deal constructively with global-scale issues such as climate change and species extinction.
Since 1994, he has made a career of learning, integrating, and teaching some of the most powerful tools and modalities for living in harmony within ourselves, with each other, and with the planet.
Alan began studying Ken Wilber's Integral Framework in 2000 and attended Integral Institute's "Integral Ecology and Sustainability Seminar" in 2004.
Alan is also a Certified Trainer in Marshall Rosenberg's process Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and has worked with individuals, couples, and families, as well as with clients in the academic, nonprofit, government, and business sectors.
Alan's former clients include Antioch University Seattle, University of Washington Business School, and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Pre-pandemic he spoke at the United Nations conference titled Unlocking Your Emotions to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Alan is the author of several forthcoming books, including one on communication skills for resolving conflicts.
Alan also holds a certificate in Permaculture Design, which he practices in the foothills of Washington State’s North Cascade Mountains, USA, where he lives in community.
The video below tells you the Big Why behind Kalapa in the form of a thought journey, uncovering 12 Conditions that call you to your highest, also known as The Changemaker's Mandate
Kalapa is a word from Sanskrit that means unit or bundle.
Kalapa is a school, a community, and a curriculum.
Kalapa was founded as an integrated bundle of Best Practices for Changemakers, Evolutionaries, Cultural Creatives, and Positive Change Agents.
Specifically, it's an empowerment curriculum and developmental pathway for Positive Change Agents — defined as people committed to their own growth and development as well as to being part of the solution rather than the problem. In other words, leaving the world a better place than they found it.
We think Positive Change Agents need 5 things: Mindsets, Tools, Skills, Resources, and Community.
The Kalapa Curriculum is comprised of 8 modules, organized along the directions of the compass — North, South, East, West, and The Corners.
Each module is comprised of a Core Competency (something people can get better at) as well as one or more Best Practices (tools, processes, methodologies, or modalities).
Each module also has its own version of the Big 5: Mindsets, Tools, Skills, Resources, and Community.
We produce online educational content, short classes, long workshops, and events.
Learn more at theKalapa.com
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