Resilient Together

Do you lose your cool in heated moments, or struggle when others erupt around you? This training explores why certain actions push our buttons and how to shift those patterns. Through NVC, somatic practices, and neuroscience, you’ll map your triggers, recondition your responses, and learn self- and co-regulation. Gain resilience, composure, and the ability to transform reactivity into growth, healing, and deeper connection.

Do arguments leave you drained, stuck, or further apart? This training helps you transform conflict into a bridge for trust and understanding. Explore the roots of tension, learn practical tools to move beyond blame and defensiveness, and practice strategies for dialogue, collaboration, and repair. Through interactive exercises, you’ll gain skills to stay grounded, balance needs, and use conflict as a pathway to growth and stronger relationships.

This one-day training offers the foundations of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a practical path to connect more authentically with yourself and others. Through exercises, games, and role-plays, learn to transform blame and criticism into clarity, empathy, and compassion—building stronger relationships and a deeper sense of empowerment.

Most of us long for deeper listening, yet often find ourselves unheard - or distracted in our own listening. This one-day training explores the lost art of empathy through games, exercises, and practices that cultivate real connection. Gain skills to transform stress, improve relationships, and bring more compassion, healing, and joy into your life.

Do you ever hear blame, demands, or “truths” disguised as feelings? These common patterns disconnect us and fuel resentment. This one-day training offers practical tools from Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to shift from unconscious reactions to life-serving responses. Through games, role-plays, and guided practice, discover clarity, choice, and authentic expression that strengthen connection and trust.

Do you hold back your truth to avoid conflict, only to feel disconnected? Vulnerability is the bridge to authentic relationships. In this one-day NVC-based training, you’ll practice expressing feelings, needs, and requests with clarity and care. Through interactive exercises, discover how honesty can build trust, transform conflict, and bring more depth, courage, and freedom to your connections.

Do you struggle to ask for what you really want, fearing rejection, judgment, or a half-hearted yes? In this one-day training, you’ll practice turning demands into compassionate requests using NVC principles. Through guided practice, gain clarity, confidence, and creativity to express your needs boldly while staying open to “No.” Build skills to cultivate trust, collaboration, and deeper connection in all relationships.

Do you say “Yes” when you mean “No”? Or hear a “No” as rejection? This training helps you transform these moments into deeper connection. Learn to set limits with courage and compassion, hear “No” without resentment, and uncover the “Yes” behind every refusal. Through guided practice, you’ll gain clarity, confidence, and practical skills to honour your needs and others’—creating stronger, healthier relationships.

Join the Ecovillage Laboratory’s Winter Community Training Lab. In the first two months, Donal Gannon leads Resilient Together, a training series in communication, self-responsibility and community skills. Between weekends, we live what we learn: sharing daily life, tasks, celebrations and emotions. Later, we deepen into co-created community, cozy winter living and authentic transformation.