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Entering the Spiral Blend
Orientation, Centering & Pendulation
Meet the map. Establish S.U.R.F., embodied attention, resourcing, and moving between Vantages.
Four-month Foundation · Ten modules · Limited cohort
The Spiral Blend
A Somatic Map for Embodying Nonviolent Communication
Move from reaction toward resource, relationship, and compassionate action.
There is more than one place from which to meet this moment.
Why this work
You know the language.
Can your body find it?
You may understand empathy, needs, observations, and honest expression. Yet in the heat of a real moment, the body can take over. Old patterns return, attention narrows, and the words you speak may not express what you truly mean.
The Spiral Blend is built for that gap.
It brings NVC off the page and into your living body—so self-connection, empathy, choice, and compassionate action become available when you need them most.
Open full mapA living map
More than
a sequence
The Spiral Blend is not a rigid set of steps. It helps you recognize what a moment is asking for: body awareness, space, self-empathy, support, listening, honesty, shared strategy, or action.
Through repeated practice, the external map becomes an internal guidance system. You learn to pendulate among the Vantages with greater flexibility, care, and choice.
The learning journey
Four months of
guided practice
Across ten modules, you will move from noticing reaction toward greater resource, relationship, shared understanding, and compassionate action. Each module introduces one movement of the Spiral Blend and offers practices for bringing it into daily life.
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Come Home to the Body
Notice before acting
Recognize breath, sensation, emotion, posture, attention, and impulse before explaining or reacting.
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Wind — Self-Regulation
Create enough space to choose
Use breath, movement, widened attention, and Shape Shifting to interrupt automatic reactions.
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Core Strategies
Recognize what your body learned
Meet defending, withdrawing, appeasing, controlling, or freezing with curiosity and discover what each serves.
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The Ground You Stand On
Listen for the need beneath it
Move toward embodied self-empathy and stand for what matters without standing against another.
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Resourcing Our Relationships
Bring support around you
Receive support from people, places, ancestors, community, nature, and future generations.
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Empathic Connection
Enter the Empathic Listening Field
Practice deep listening, timing, humility, empathic imagery, and the art of the empathic guess.
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The Empathy–Honesty Pulse
Move between receiving and expressing
Work with relational rhythm, anger, boundaries, Common Ground, and protective force.
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Mutual Strategies
Create possibilities that care for the whole
Bring inner and outer consensus into relationship, include concerns, and let next steps emerge.
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Compassionate Action
Choose, speak, commit, and act
Integrate the Vantages through grounded choice, authentic expression, and embodied power.
Practices for a lifetime
Simple enough to use.
Deep enough to grow with you.
The modules introduce these practices in sequence. Over time, they become an interconnected body of learning you can return to in daily life.
S.U.R.F.
Shape · Unify · Resource · Field
Shape Shifting
The Five Elements in practice
Empathic Field
Listening without losing yourself
Inner & Outer Consensus
Hear every voice
The Spiral Blend
A map that becomes inner guidance
Compassionate Action
Embodied choice and commitment
Practice together
The work
comes alive.
Our trainings are shared across cultures, generations, and settings. The work comes alive through movement, attention, empathy, honesty, and practice together.
Presence is not a personality trait.
It is a practice.
Embodiment develops through practice, reflection, relationship, and returning again and again. This program is held as a learning community—a place to experiment, make mistakes, receive support, and bring the work into daily life.
Limited to approximately 30 participants for meaningful connection and guided practice.
Where this comes from
Four streams.
One living practice.
Nonviolent Communication
Needs, empathy, honesty, and life-serving action.
Somatics
The body as a source of intelligence, learning, and transformation.
Aikido
Centering, blending, timing, and power without domination.
Consensus & Community
Hearing every voice and practicing conflict, accountability, and repair.
David Weinstock has practiced Aikido and Nonviolent Communication for more than four decades. He trained with Marshall Rosenberg, studied somatic coaching with Stuart Heller and Dr. Richard Strozzi, embodied presence with Wendy Palmer, and Aikido within the lineage of Koichi Barrish. Since 1990, he has lived in an intentional community he co-founded—an ongoing laboratory for relationship, consensus, conflict, and repair.
Teaching and trainer path
Become a Somatic
Consensus Trainer
David Weinstock will lead the Foundation together with a support team of experienced Somatic Consensus trainers, bringing attentive guidance, varied perspectives, and care for the learning community.
The four-month Foundation is the shared beginning. Those who complete it and want to deepen may apply to continue into a one-year trainer program.
Deepen your embodiment
Live the Spiral Blend under pressure and in relationship.
Learn to facilitate
Guide individuals, partners, and groups through the Vantages with care.
Develop your presence
Find your grounded teaching voice within a community of trainers.
The Trainer Program is optional. The Foundation stands on its own as a complete introduction to the Spiral Blend and the core practices of Somatic Consensus.
Begin close in
One breath.
One body.
One next step.
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