Continued Education
Update as Of March 2014
City of Saskatoon Community Development Branch, Saskatoon, SK 2002 - present
Yoga Instructor
Provide instruction in Ashtanga and Hatha yoga to members of various
community associations
- facilitating introductory and introductory/intermediate yoga classes at provincial community centers since 1995 with over 600 hours teaching yoga, and integrating NVC life into Yoga since 2001.
Promotion of Canadian Yoga Alliance and Yoga through website lorettairis.com
Yoga Instructor Training, JNS Yoga, Yoga Central, Self- training, Saskatoon, SK 1992 – present
Certified in CPR First Aid Level C
YWCA, Saskatoon, SK, City of Saskatoon Leisure Services 1995 - 2003
Aerobic Fitness Instructor
Instruction of low impact aerobics and gentle yoga
Nonviolent Communication Training, 2001 – present
Ongoing self and group practice/study, home study course
Continuous online/live training with various certified Center for Nonviolent Communication (cnvc) trainers
Supporter at cnvc.org-Loretta Iris blog
Promotion of NVC through website lorettairis.com
Saskatoon Adlerian Society, Saskatoon Family Support Centre, Saskatoon, SK 1993 - 2001
Parent Educator
o Offered classes relating to parenting, miscarriages and grieving parents, parenting pre-school
children, step-parenting, single parenting and interpersonal communication
o Organized and participated in Day for Parents at St. Paul’s Hospital
Yoga Training
-Teacher training with JoAnn Sutherland, Yoga training with Patricia Dewar, Sanskrit Training with Braj Sinha, Compassionate Communication through the work of Marshall Rosenberg, Meditation Training through Jeanne Corrigal
-Self Lifetime Study of the following references:
-Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health by B.K.S. Iyengar (book)
-How to Use Yoga by Mira Mehta (book)
-Yoga Anatomy by Leslie Kaminoff (book)
-Yoga for Beginners by Mark Ansari and Liz Lark (book)
-Partner Yoga: Making Contact for Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Growth by Cain Carroll and Lori Kimata (book)
-The Art of Yoga by Sharon Gannon and David Life (Photography by Martin Brading) (book)
-Shakti Gawain- Creative Visualization (audio)
-Patsy Grey- Trust Your Instincts (audio)
-Rick Hanson via Sounds True –Meditations for Happiness, Meditations to Stress Proof Your Brain (audio)
-Rick Hanson & Richard Mendius via Sounds True-Meditations to Change Your Brain (audio)
-Thich Naht Hahn via Sounds True/Plum Village-various meditations (audio)
-Snatam Kaur -The Essential Snatam Kaur: Sacred Chants For Healing (audio)
-Venerable Lama Losang Samten (Mandela (sand) retreat/meditation training)
-Participation in Sanga with Saskatoon Insight Meditation Group sittings, walking meditation days, retreats
Yoga Practice
-Daily meditation and/or yoga practice, alternating focus on 8 limbs of yoga. In depth ongoing integration of Yama, Niyama, Pranayama, Prathayara, Dharana, Dhyana , Samadhi alongside with the Asanas commonly referenced in the West as Yoga.
~Drop in to local Yoga classes to meet needs personal learning, variety and community
NVC Training
-At home book study of first edition, "Nonviolent Communication-A Language for Life-Marshall B. Rosenberg" 2001
-Completion of book study of second edition, “Nonviolent Communication-A Language for Life”2010-present (3rd or 4th read)
-CNVC supporter 2010 -present
-Participation/ planning/co-hosting local practice groups- with local NVC members, 2010 to present
-Completion of NVC at home Training Course, 9 CD and ongoing completion of workbook 2011-present
-Study of "The Heart of Social Change" and "Getting Past the Anger Between Us" 2010
-Regina NVC workshop weekend with certified trainer Henry Wai 2011
-Saskatoon NVC workshop weekend with Margaret Cram Howie 2011
-Restorative Circles Saskatoon weekend training with certified trainer Duke Duchscherer 2011
-Intermediate NVC Training, Edmonton workshop weekend with certified trainer Anne Walton, fall 2012
-Completion of yearlong online Compassion Course 2012 with certified trainer Thom Bond
-Saskatoon NVC workshop weekend with certified trainer Glenda Mattinson 2013
Current and Ongoing NVC Related Projects
-Creating icons/original artworks for use and support for copyright integrity in Bay NVC publications as source of contribution.
-Offering and Creation of original artworks (thereby securing copyright integrity) for income/exchange with NVC members globally.
-Facilitation of NVC "A Language for Life" book reading group and learning support for local John Lake Parent Center, 2013-2014.
-Artwork creation for potential local Saskatoon NVC community website use
-Continuous collaboration with local NVC members to support their NVC offerings to our community
-Continuous organization/networking to create events for training and invitation for social connection with local NVC interested members
-Created Facebook NVC based community page, “Saskatoon Peaceful Families”2013-present
-Collaboration and NVC dialogue with provincial government political parties for policy change regarding Saskatchewan Social Service agencies (2013- preparation for review paper for Spring 2014 Session in House of Legislature)
-Author of March/April 2014 WHOliFE Journal Article titled, “Speaking of Compassion”.
NVC Practice
- Living Application of NVC within family (book reading and exercises with two adult daughters and one teen son, requested reading and digital download for family and friends) 2001 -present
-participant in Occupy Peace online group utilizing NVC process to respond to emergency empathy calls, 2011
-participant and facilitator on World Empathy Day-24 hour Global Tele-Empathy calls with certified trainer, Mair Alight, 2011
-contribution as cooperative admin (2013) and empathic responses in online Gentle Space for Requesting Empathy...NVC Facebook group 2011-present
-participant practicing empathic process in Facebook NVC Practice, NVC Witness, NVC Parents online groups 2012 -present
-participant in Yahoo NVC related groups : synergycommunication 2010-present, NVC Parenting 2010 -present, NVC Brain 2013-present, NVC certificationcandidate 2013-present
-participant and potential host in doodle- Skype based, “Empathy and Honesty - a practice group for 4 people” with Ivana Horakova, Czech republic