Speak Your Truth

Express Yourself with Courage, Clarity and Care

Do you struggle to express what truly matters to you without fear of judgment or conflict?
… Avoid honest conversations to keep the peace, only to feel resentful and disconnected?
… Get bothered by conversations or meetings that don’t seem to be pleasing anybody, or go around in circles without reaching understanding or resolution?

Would you like deeper, more authentic connections?
… Skills to express yourself in ways that strengthen relationships instead of breaking them?
… And communicate your feelings, needs, requests and limits with confidence and care?

Vulnerability: The Key to Connection

Opening your heart and sharing what’s real—without knowing how it will be received—can be both terrifying and transformative. Vulnerability is the bridge to deeper connection and the courage to live authentically. Many of us try to appear perfect, stay guarded, or judge ourselves and others because we’re afraid of being misunderstood or rejected.

In this training, we’ll explore how to navigate vulnerability and honest communication using the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). You’ll learn to express yourself in a way that honours your inner truth while cultivating connection, respect and understanding.

We Explore:

• Intentional communication: How to align your words with your true intentions.
• The paradox of vulnerability: Why we crave others’ openness but resist revealing our own, and how to bridge this gap.
• The power of authenticity: How showing up authentically creates space for growth and connection. Learn to shift from fear to courage when expressing yourself.
• Foundations of honest expression: Skills in expressing each of the four components of NVC—observation, feeling, need and request
• Balancing transparency and care: Ways to honour your truth while cultivating trust and safety
• Awareness of protective mechanisms: How perfectionism, numbing or avoidance might be shielding you from deeper connection—and how to gently overcome these patterns.
• Key distinctions: How to distinguish between judgment-based “honesty” and authentic self-expression grounded in feelings and needs.

You Can Gain:

• Connection through honesty: Experience how sharing your inner world brings trust and deepens relationships.
• Key relational skills: Tools from NVC to express yourself authentically and compassionately.
• Confidence: The ability to approach difficult conversations with clarity and intention.
• Transformed conflict: Tools for speaking your truth without blame or judgment, so you don’t escalate conversations into conflict.
• Self-awareness: Notice and understand your vulnerability as it arises.
• Freedom: Release the grip of judgments, assumptions and fears that block your authentic voice.

We will journey together in an experiential and interactive exploration, using individual and group processes, games, exercises and meditations to integrate the teachings.

This is a safe, supportive space to practice new ways of relating to yourself and others. Together, we’ll explore how honesty and vulnerability can become pathways to connection, growth and freedom.

Are you ready to speak your truth with courage, clarity, and care?

No previous experience required.
Still, it can be helpful if you attend ‘Communicate to Connect’, ‘A Language of Life’ and/or ‘Power Up!’ trainings sometime before.  Explained here

This is 1 of 2 related training days over the weekend.
These are part of a series of 8 independent, yet mutually supportive, training days spread over 2 months.
This series runs parallel to a similar series in Órgiva, Granada. So you have 2 opportunities to attend each day or weekend.

To discover all the training days in both Órgiva and Yator, as well as the ongoing learning and support groups, and all the practical details, see here

This can also be part of a live-in Resonancia Community experience: anything from a full weekend, including 2 training days and shared ecovillage life… right up to the entire 2-month program for an immersive community exploration that continues beyond. Explained here