Course Leader: Carolyn Merry & Martina Hunt
Course Date: Tuesday 18 May
Course Options: Full Price - £70 Early Bird - £66
Course Timings: 9:30am for 10:00am-4:00pm
Course Code: D1827
Course Information: Includes Morning Coffee, Lunch & Afternoon Tea
Our communication habits may often fall short of how we would like them to be: leaving feelings of regret, what ifs, even blame & shame, resulting sometimes in communication breakdown with family, friends & in the workplace. Communicating compassionately calls us to soften our gaze upon another, speaking from the heart with love, for ourselves, & others. This course will provide participants with a deeper understanding of compassionate communication & opportunities for practice.
Course Leader Information:
Carolyn became the Leader of The Ammerdown Centre in 2025 from being Director of Place for Hope. She has been fascinated about the concept of peace since childhood and spent over 25 years working in the humanitarian, international development and peacebuilding sectors around the world, often in places of war, extreme poverty, repressive discrimination and exclusion of those most vulnerable. Her passion for nonviolence and peacemaking in its most holistic sense, is deeply rooted in her Christian faith and experiences around the world living and working beside people with different faiths, cultures, beliefs, worldviews and life experiences. Carolyn has qualifications in International Development, Human Rights Law & Advocacy and Conflict Transformation, and is an accredited mediator. Although Carolyn grew up in Australia, she settled back in her native UK in 2014 to focus on nurturing spaces for peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Carolyn loves the 4 different seasons here (& really loves snow), cycling, and time spent with God and nature on long daily walks with her dog, Pace (Italian for peace).
Martina has a passion for justice, peacemaking and nonviolence and brings many years of experience of developing, delivering and evaluating training and development programmes in the international, charity and academic sectors, including facilitating conflict transformation workshops with faith and community groups around the UK. Martina is also a Florist and a Spiritual Director, who facilitates retreats and workshops that interweaves themes of faith, nature and peace.
