CONFLICT AS A JOURNEY OF HEALING & TRANSFORMATION
Being a Guide for Others Through Life’s Challenges to New Possibilities
5-DAY MYL IN-PERSON RESIDENTIAL RETREAT
January 28 - February 1, 2026
Teach Bhríde, Tullow, County Carlow
Ireland
FOR LEADERSHIP COACHES, MEDIATORS & THERAPISTS
MEET THE FACILITATOR
MEET THE FACILITATOR
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John Kinyon
John Kinyon has devoted his life and career to human connection and the ability to shift from conflict to understanding, compassion, and collaboration through empathic communication.
John trains individuals around the world in his Mediate Your Life (MYL) approach, and is a mediation and conflict coaching guide for people and organizations experiencing all forms of conflict, internal and external. He is a certified trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).
His MYL approach offers a map of consciousness based in the work of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that integrates a mediation framework, mindfulness, and trauma work. For over 25 years he has mediated conflicts and developed and delivered the NVC/MYL training throughout the U.S. and in countries around the world in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Mediate Your Life helps people navigate conflicts and challenges, inner and outer, in all aspects of life.
MEET THE ORGANIZERS
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Glenn & Darren
Glenn is a leadership coach, coach tutor, certified Nonviolent Communication trainer and mediator, relational coaching supervisor and Gestalt psychotherapist. Glenn works with individuals, groups and organisation and is passionate about the intelligent ways of working with conflict. He is very interested in the role that communication plays in our lives, both our communication with others and our internal dialogue. He supports organisations, couples and groups to explore their communication patterns, helping them find alternative ways of expression so that they can feel heard.He is an alumni of John Kinyon's Mediate Your Life training.
Darren is a broadcaster with RTE, Ireland's best known television and radio service. His training as a leadership and executive coach has given him a unique perspective for asking powerful questions and challenging conventional thinking. He works with individuals and teams and he specialises in communications, creativity, innovation, emotional intelligence, organisational change and effective leadership. Since being inttroduced to Nonviolent Communication, he is delighted to be supporting John Kinyon to bring his Mediate Your Life training to Ireland.
Come walk the sacred path of healing through conflict. This 5-day Mediate Your Life retreat invites leadership coaches, mediators, and therapists of all kinds onto a journey of renewal and learning—for those who feel called to guide others through the fire of conflict into the deeper waters of transformation in the heart of Ireland. Let the Irish ground hold you. Let the stillness teach you. Let this be the place where the next level of your work in the world begins.
This residential training is hosted at Teach Bhríde Holistic Education Centre in Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland, a former Brigidine convent and sanctuary for wellbeing nestled in nature.
You will learn the Mediate Your Life (MYL) conflict coaching and mediation framework, grounded in mindfulness, deep empathy, and the 3 Chair Model. Together we will explore how to support clients navigating inner tension, interpersonal breakdown, and the raw, unhealed pain of past experiences. We will practice the art of reconciliation—not just as a method, but as a way of being.
Through shared silence, guided practice, group conversation, and the beauty of the land itself, we will reconnect to what gives our work meaning: being a presence of connection and peace in a fragmented world.
Pricing
The first 4 to register will get an early bird rate of €500 / $585, the regular rate is €650 / $760.
Accommodation for a single room is €325 / $395 and €350 / $415 for an ensuite (all meals included for both rooms).
In this intimate workshop, you will learn more about John Kinyon’s Mediate Your Life (MYL) approach to conflict coaching and mediation and how it combines the international work of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with a mediation framework and mindfulness — dual and nondual. The MYL approach helps people navigate the transformative journey through conflicts and challenges in their lives — internal, interpersonal, communal — and to respond to the societal, global challenges we are now facing. This 5-day workshop retreat will give deep experiential learning and practice on the topics of: Mediating Conflict Internally, Interpersonal Conflict, and Reconciliation and Healing.
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