5-DAY MYL IN-PERSON RESIDENTIAL RETREAT

January 28 – February 1, 2026

Teach Bhríde, Tullow, County Carlow
Ireland

FOR LEADERSHIP COACHES, MEDIATORS & THERAPISTS

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.

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.

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, mindfulness — dual and nondual — and trauma healing. 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.

Workshop Outline

Day 1 — Opening Evening — MYL 3Chair Model, Map(s) of Conflict, Self-Connection Process, and Elements of Empathy in Speaking and Listening Process

Day 2 — Mediating Conflict Internally in Coaching

Day 3 — Mediating Interpersonal Conflict as Coach and Mediator

Day 4 — Mediating Reconciliation and Healing of Hurt as Coach and Mediator

Day 5 — Closing Morning — Integration, Deepening, and Beyond the Workshop

Daily Schedule

9am-12pm – Morning Session

12-2pm – Lunch and Break

2-5pm – Afternoon Session

5-7pm – Dinner and Break

7-9pm – Evening Session

General Learning Structure for Sessions

Self and Group Connection ~ 15 minutes

Presentation ~ 15 minutes

Demonstration with Participant(s) ~ 30 minutes

Break Out Group Peer Practice and Feedback ~ 1 hour

Group Harvesting – Sharing and Questions ~ 30 minutes