Connection Fellowship: Holiday Flip

In the upcoming Connection Fellowship, on Sunday November 23th, Jane Zawadowski will guide an interactive, Nonviolent Communication skills practice space.

If over the holidays you’ll have to be with people who are difficult, or are just hard to be with, and IF you have any desire to flip even some of the resisting and fighting into connect, first, yay, you’re amazing! Second, please come learn and practice how to have a better experience with those folks.
We will practice listening and speaking with concepts from Nonviolent Communication. We will role play, so you’re invited to bring in real scenarios from your life to work on. We will acknowledge and play with things we do that are usually not helpful. 
Join us to build a more compassionate, and mindful culture by practicing relating skills. Fill your tank by sharing in the intimacy and vulnerabilty that comes with being in authentic connection.
Jane invites you to this warm, safe space to connect with yourself more clearly, to be curious with your heart’s intention and with one another. Hopefully you walk away from our time together with practical tools and fresh inspiration to support you!

Sunday, November 23rd, 2025

- Doors open at 12pm

- Movement Warm Up at 12:30pm

- Bio Break at 12:50pm

- Skills Practice, 1pm - 4pm With a scheduled break, & no late arrivals after 1pm.

- Optional Potluck Social, 5pm - 6pm Please bring a veg dish to share.

We encourage taking care of your needs for energy by bringing beverages and snacks. We will have two formal break, and we welcome you to step away as needed throughout with self-guided informal breaks.
“Connection Fellowship” will be held in person at 1443 W. Jarvis Ave., Chicago, IL 60626.

(Street parking is available, but limited. There's an inexpensive garage one block south and one block east of the pottery. For public transport the redline train stops at Jarvis, which is a half block east of the pottery, and the 147 bus also at Jarvis, which is a one block west of the pottery)

Financial Contribution:

This workshop is donation-based. Please register for the event in Eventbrite, and contribute with the zelle, venmo, or the Eventbrite ticket option to secure your spot.

Suggested amounts are $22, $30, $42, + $50
Please give what you can, or what you want.

For more forms of payment please use Venmo: @RomanBoro, and Zelle: [email protected]. Then use the Free ticket option in Eventbrite to complete your registration to reserve your space.

Any amount is enough to attend. Work Exchange options are also available.

To ask questions, request a work exchange position, to sign up for the mailing list, or to request a late arrival contact Roman Borochin at [email protected]

Facilitators:

Jane Zawadowski is a candidate for certification in Nonviolent Communication with over 50 full days of training in NVC. Jane co-founded NVCDayOne, to provide online community sessions on NVC. Jane is also a mother of 3 teenagers, almost a fully-cerifird Resonant Healing Practitioner, 200-hour certified yoga instructor, LBS1-certified special education teacher, has a Masters in Criminal Justice, and is former community organizer.

Jane provides Nonviolent Communication coaching for individuals, families, and groups at: https://janefreedomwithin.wixsite.com/mysite. Through her work and play, Jane enjoys contributing to and co-creating more of the world we want to live in, where people receive accompaniment, practice self-connection, and have access to abundance and choice.

Roman Borochin is trained in facilitating guided dance and movement practices. He has studied Kundalini Ecstatic Dance Facilitation, Cuddle Party Foundations of Facilitation, Movement Medicine, & Capacitar International. He is also the founder of Ecstatic Dance Chicago, and Connection Fellowship.
For his warm up he will invite participants into exploring the sensations of personal and shared space through dance & movement.

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