This informative, inspiring workshop introduces a revolutionary way of thinking and speaking that is spreading around the world, bringing peace and connection to relationships everywhere.

In this workshop Thom will guide us through a process of learning, understanding, and slowing down to ultimately experience the beauty and practical application of needs awareness.  

This workshop expands on the practices discussed in Thom Bond's Oct. 25th Keynote session, CBD 2023: Compassionate Communication: The Art and Science of Getting Along with Thom Bond. Summit attendees are welcome to register for one or both of these sessions. 

Thom Bond is a thought leader, author, peace educator and mediation consultant. He is best known as the creator and leader of  The Compassion Course, a comprehensive online training, that has served over 32,000 participants in over 115 countries, in 19 languages.  He brings 38 years of human potential study and training experience to his work as a world-renowned writer, speaker and peace educator. His passion and knowledge of Transformation, Nonviolent Communication and compassionate living, combine to create a practical, understandable, at times humorous, and potentially profound approach for learning and integrating skills that help us experience more compassion and understanding. He is described as concise, inspiring, sincere and optimistic, applying transformational and spiritual perspectives to real-life situations.

Thom is also a founder and the Director of Education for The New York Center for Nonviolent Communication, (a United Nations Civil Society Organization) and the founder and Director of Education for Bushfield Farms (a demonstration farm, educational center, and artist colony, focused on sustainability and social reform).  He is a former member and Advisory Board Member for the Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations.He has been featured in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Vogue,  Yoga Magazine, and is a regular guest on podcasts throughout the internet.
 

The Art and Science of Getting Along with Thom Bond is part of the free Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 24- Nov. 2, 2023.

The full Summit schedule is posted at: http://contemplation.stanford.edu/summit. All events are FREE and online.

Registration opens September 12, 2023