Practice LIVING FROM WHAT’S ALIVE
nestled in the Panther Creek Campground (near the Pacific Crest Trail)

FACILITATORS & CO-HOSTS:
Vika Miller, MA and CNVC Certification Candidate
Bradford Blackwood
Caitlin Sills
DATE and TIME:
Thur, July 26, 2018 (arrive 6:30pm)
Fri, July 27, 2018
Sat, July 28, 2018
Sun, July 29, 2018 (depart 4:30pm)
LOCATION:
Panther Creek Campground
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
NF-65 and Warren Gap Road
Carson, WA 98610 USA
(60 Miles east of Portland, Oregon)
Save $50 when you
register and tent with a friend!
Registration closes July 25
(or when the last spaces fill)
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DETAILS:
We’ll be sharing our usual open-hearted, real, deep, playful connection in this beautiful wilderness retreat setting.
Come join us for:
- Camping and easy to moderate hiking in the woods below and/or along the Pacific Crest Trail
- Campfires, laughter, and stories
- Community Satsang, exploring questions and sharing wisdom about the things that are most important to you. Choose from these topics and suggest your own:
- Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Safety
- Brain Calming Tools
- Creating Choice Regardless of Circumstances: Managing Reactivity and Reclaiming Presence
- Healthy Boundaries
- Resonant Empathy and Connection
- Safety, Respect, Trust: What Do These Really Mean and How Can We Cultivate Them?
- The Missing Operator’s Manual for Your Brain
- The Magical Powers Created When We Combine Neuroscience, Attachment Theory, and Nonviolent Communication
- Ask for one or more of these, and/or request your own when you register, we’ll create it together!
- Presence Practice – time enough throughout the weekend for everyone who’d enjoy it to receive the transformational support of compassionate, resonant empathic community
- Compassionate Noticing – experience the astonishing resonance and healing power of this luminous mindfulness practice that deeply empowers your capacity for presence and choice during challenging moments (so you can practice NVC/stay in alignment with your values and commitments even when you’re upset)
- Tai Chi for Thriving – takes tai chi basics (straight back; movement around the core; the energies ward off, rollback, press, & push; and slow and intentional movement) and flavors them with Thriving Life basics: present moment awareness and aliveness, feeling into your own body, boundaries, understanding intention. The result? A blossoming felt-sense, lived experience of Thriving Life principles and values
- Your full choice to participate in whatever moves you, at any time = practicing living from what’s most alive in you at any time. (Click here to download your free “Living From What’s Alive” Guide)
- Steep yourself in delightful, authentic connection
- Nourish your well-being with your Thriving Tribe in a natural paradise
* JUST A FEW SPACES LEFT *
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ABOUT your HOSTS:
Vika Miller, MA, Brainspotting Facilitator, and CNVC Certification Candidate, has been reconnecting people to their authentic values and power — and to each other — for more than 30 years. She’s been integrating Nonviolent Consciousness principles into her work for more than 18 years, has taught NVC to inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary, and now is delighted to include key findings from Neuroscience and Attachment Theory research in in her offerings. Vika lives in Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
You’ll enjoy Vika’s authenticity, warmth, clarity, playfulness, and passion.
Bradford Blackwood is an avid NVC practitioner and longtime member of our Presence Practice community now living with his young son Milo in Reno, Nevada.
Bradford has an infectious sense of fun, a deep love of nature, a delightful empathic presence, and a beautiful, warm heart.
Caitlin Sills, our beloved Retreat Coordinator, is a Portland, Oregon entrepreneur and member of our Presence Practice community.
Caitlin is passionate about play, integrity, and authenticity, has a deep love for her wonderdog Loki and other animals, totally digs camping and being in nature.
Her warm and caring heart plus her deeply comforting command of details makes her a huge gift to our retreat community.
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WHO IS THIS RETREAT FOR?This retreat is for anyone longing for more authentic connection with themselves, Life/Nature, or others, including anyone who’d love a welcoming place to practice living from what’s alive.Please feel welcome to click on these links for some helpful background information about:
- The Thriving Life approach to NVC
- Presence Practice
- Compassionate Noticing
- Tai Chi for Thriving
- Note: “Compassionate Noticing Conversation“ (CN-Conversation) is a delightfully social, conversational form of Compassionate Noticing. In CN-Conversation we DO interact with each other about what’s arising in each of us. It’s like a “present moment, noticing-what’s-arising, resonant, conversational Ping-Pong.”
Beginners are warmly welcomed!
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