Training

Defensiveness and needless power struggle can wreak havoc within families, the workplace, and communities. We provide training in cutting edge communication skills that are specifically designed to:

  1. inspire others to drop their own defenses and be more open to genuine conversation;
  2. express our own thoughts, feelings and beliefs so that we can speak with clarity — even passion — while having more ability to create greater understanding, even in high-conflict situations; and
  3. create effective boundaries and predict consequences in a manner that is most likely to prompt increasing competence and reciprocity in others.

Scientific data is provided to clarify how and why our methods are so successful. Trainings are dynamic and interactive, including exercises, role-play to model skill sets, practice and debriefing. We have extensive experience in tailoring our training to a wide range of specific needs and goals in programs of various lengths.

Personal

Individual — Couples —
Families

Professional

Corporate — Education — Law — Government — Healthcare plus…

Community

Organizations —
Social Change — Spiritual

For more information about trainings, please contact us!

Speeches & Conferences

Both Sharon Strand Ellison and Ami Atkinson Combs are exceptional speakers who fully engage their audiences, using spontaneous humor, along with moving stories that bring to life the techniques they teach for eliminating defensive and power struggle in our interactions at home, at work and in community. They each bring their own unique ability to inspire participants and make the concepts and practical skills for communicating with non-defensive power very accessible. They are available to speak at conferences in person as well as virtually.

For more information about speeches & conferences, please contact us!

Coaching

Between them, Ami and Sharon have over 50 years of coaching experience. With their down-to-earth, inviting, non-judgmental, honest, caring styles they are each adept at establishing the kind of relationships with clients that prompt and support growth. Sharon and Ami use and model the PNDC paradigm in a way that inspires clients to gain insights, digest concepts and make the skill their own. Coaching can focus on a particular issue or person of concern, and can also be applied to more generalized patterns, situations or relationships. Sharon and Ami find that the interactive format of Mastermind classes and other types of group coaching can add great benefit. On occasion they do some short-term coaching for individuals, couples or parents.

For more information about coaching, please contact us!

Community

Over the decades, tens of thousands of people have heard Sharon and/or Ami speak at conferences, participated in workshops, webinars and retreats, and benefited from PNDC materials. After many requests, as well as much thought and planning, an on-line community is on its way! This will be a place where members can receive more regular information and support — from Sharon, Ami and each other — to sustain and enhance the practice of communicating with non-defensive strength, power and compassion.

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