Fall Festival 2026 ~ NVC Santa Cruz
About this Event
Mark your calendars for October 24th & 25th for a weekend of enriching and connecting workshops for beginners through more experienced practitioners. All levels are welcome and accommodated! Come for the whole weekend or just the parts that interest you.
We are using compassionate pricing to meet our needs for generosity and your needs for contribution. This means you are welcome to register to attend for any amount that works in your budget. Here is some context to help you decide on an amount:
- Sustaining: A sustaining donation of $301+ helps us continue our mission beyond this retreat.
- Maintaining: A maintaining donation of $300 helps us cover our overhead costs for this retreat.
- Supported: A supported donation of $35-299 will be gratefully accepted as we welcome all interested parties, regardless of ability to pay.
Please register by Friday May 8th to help our logistics flow smoothly.
WHAT TO EXPECT Full schedule TBA
SATURDAY & SUNDAY 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM at Simpkins Swim Center/Live Oak Meeting Rooms (Santa Cruz)
Over both days, we’ll offer:
- A dedicated beginner’s track of workshops with Jean Morrison, Eric Huang, and Caren Camblin to grasp the fundamentals, encounter NVC in a new way, or just get a refresher.
- An experienced practitioner’s track of workshops with Kristin Masters and Caren Camblin, and others
- More workshops open to all levels, with the above trainers, plus guest trainers to be announced.
NOTE: "experienced pracitioners" does not necessarily mean "advanced," but just that you've taken at some workshops and/or read Marshall's book and have some facility with the basics on NVC.
FULL SCHEDULE OF OFFERINGS to be posted by early September
ABOUT THE TRAINERS
Caren Camblin, she/her
Caren has been learning and practicing with NVC Santa Cruz since 2005 and has been a member of the Core Team of trainers since 2020. At UCSC she teaches “NVC and Social Justice,” a revolutionary, immersive course developed by Christine King, in which students live, learn, and practice together in a themed residence hall. She credits NVC with radically informing all of her relationships—in the classroom, with friends and family, and crucially, with herself.
She is deeply interested in the underlying philosophical foundations of NVC and how the application of NVC can be used to interrogate and unseat systems of domination and oppression. As an academic, she loves hashing out your questions—please bring them!
Caren is a Senior Lecturer at UCSC, a registered yoga teacher, and owns a body positive, LGBTQIA+ inclusive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school called NIJI DOJO. More at www.nijidojo.com or contact her at [email protected].
Eric Huang he/him
I discovered nonviolent communication seven years ago at a nine day international intensive training. I was at a low point in life and unhappy in every part of it.
It changed my life.
Every relationship improved immediately, especially the closest ones my partner, my kids, and my work environment. I enjoyed my volunteering as a soccer coach and coach instructor.
Eventually (now), after seven years of practice I really enjoy spending time with my parents. I'm so grateful that I got to this time now while they're still alive.
I spent more than 25 years in tech in marketing. Before that I spent two years in environmental engineering after studying the topic for seven years.
I've coached thousands of kids and hundreds of parents in a volunteer soccer league to become “better” players, coaches, referees, and volunteers. I spent the last seven years fully immersed in nonviolent communication, trying to learn and grow and do hard things. And occasionally eating lots of snacks which is easier. I hope you'll join me for one of my sessions. I'm grateful that I get to teach alongside people I respect and admire. Let me know how I can support you?
Kristin Masters she/they
Kristin was first exposed to NVC by Jean in 1995 in a workshop at San Quentin. Since then, she has drawn from NVC principles and frameworks as essential in a Venn diagram (with JEDI and Work That Reconnects) as she facilitated, mediated and coached folks toward trust, collaboration and purpose. She was certified in 2010. She added the trauma informed Resonant Language/Healing work of Sarah Peyton in 2014.
She specializes in Grief & Gratitude work She is now an AiT (assessor in training) and has trained internationally. She welcomes inquiries about individual and organizational work.
Kristin Masters - Center for Nonviolent Communication https://share.google/m7sJvgr2f29pvv6XN
831-246-0730
Jean Morrison she/her
Jean jumped head-first and heart-deep into NVC at an Intro to NVC in SF offered by founder, Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D. That experience catapulted her to a 40 year career in learning, integrating, and sharing NVC in various parts of the world within a wide variety of settings and circumstances (ask her!). Her approach is mindful, playful, and fruitful for living this “language of life.” With her MA in Psych, and immersive studies in the Typology of the Enneagram, The Work of Byron Katie, and influences from Buddhist thought and ‘lifelong learning’…and in being a mom…Jean finds NVC to be the living form of being present to whatever circumstance is naturally occurring within and around her.
She is a founding member of NVC Santa Cruz and GROKtheWORLD.com (NVC games, books, and materials), author of Communication FUNdamentals, and Feelings on Parade. She works mostly now with individuals, couples, and small groups. [email protected]; 831-685-2326
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