Miki Kashtan
Miki Kashtan is a practical visionary pursuing a world that works for all, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She envisions, in great detail, local and global systems based on care for the needs of all life. Miki is the mother of the Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL) Community and now focuses all her energy there, with only specific and few engagements with individuals, organizations, or movements. In her work with individuals, she focuses on supporting movement towards rapid empowerment in service of the whole. In her work with organizations, she focuses on creating and supporting collaborative systems and processes. In her work with multi-stakeholder groups, she focuses on transcending polarization and advocating for solutions that work for everyone. Inner freedom, nonviolence, dialogue, collaboration, interdependence, leadership, systems, conscious use of power, and a commitment to structural change are the lenses through which she looks at every moment and interaction. Some of her deepest sources of inspiration are many feminist theoreticians, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Marshall Rosenberg, Mary Parker Follett, radical economics, and the commons movement, and the entire lineage of what she developed is here. Miki strives to bring together theory and practice, spiritual commitment and conceptual clarity, radical vision and practical applications, heart and mind, self and other, personal change and social transformation.
She is also the author of The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Create Breakthrough Solutions (2021), Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working together to Create a Nonviolent Future (2015), Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in Our Individual Lives, and The Little Book of Courageous Living (both 2014). Her Ph.D dissertation is also freely available: Beyond Reason: Reconciling Emotion with Social Theory. Miki writes all the time, mostly at The Fearless Heart where she blogs and shares learning packets about the NGL framework and other resources. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, Tikkun, Waging Nonviolence, Peace and Conflict, Shareable, and elsewhere.
Miki is an Israeli native with significant roots in Mexico and New York City. She lived in California for thirty-seven years before choosing to vagabond in search of learning about liberation and community. She is currently based in Catalunya and is part of a home pod and in the slow process of setting up an NGL community on land. She is inspired by the role of visionary leadership in shaping a livable future, and works toward that vision by living, applying, and sharing the principles and practices of Nonviolent Communication as they are expressed within the NGL framework. nglcommunity.org
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Wanting Fully without Attachment
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you want to befriend your needs and live without shame about them? Would you like to increase your inner freedom by letting go of attachment to outcome? Many of us equate letting go of attachment with giving up on wanting. This telecourse recording explores...
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Dialogue with Extended Family
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Many families are far more complex and varied than they used to be. In this recording, Miki works with participants, focusing on specific challenges they’re facing with family members. Listen In.
Keywords:- expression
- feelings
- honesty
- requests
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Groups Tip Series: Working with Frequent Interruptions
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: How can I deal with someone who is constantly interrupting and derailing our process?
Keywords:- conflict resolution
- groups
- collaboration
- Group Facilitation Tips
- interrupting
- facilitation
- facilitator
- sharing NVC
- teaching NVC
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Fear of Negative Consequences
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki responds to a participant’s question concerning fear of consequences when speaking with a manager at work. In this excerpt, she delves into the topic of choosing to inhabit nonviolence in the workplace, affirming that fear and nonviolence are incompatible...
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Courageous Living Towards the World We Want
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki leverages her extensive work with nonviolent social change activism, including ongoing work with the U.S. Department of Peace Campaign, to explore the use of NVC as a tool for effective social transformation. Individuals, activists, advocates and communit...
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Choice in Every Moment
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: This 31-minute audio with Miki Kashtan is packed full of power as she uncovers the dynamics of choice that are present 100% of the time, in every situation, regardless of the circumstances. She encourages us to reach for a consciousness that acknowledges our a...
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Can NVC Be Taught Without Using OFNR?
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan explains has developed a path to teaching NVC without relying on OFNR: Principle-based Teaching.
Keywords:
- teaching NVC
- teaching NVC groups
- facilitation
- facilitator
- sharing NVC
- naturalizing NVC
- OFNR
- strategies
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Committing to Creating Solutions That Work for Everyone
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen to Miki Kashtan explain the importance of intention in developing our skill at creating solutions that work for everyone. Neither fighting nor giving up are qualities of nonviolence, but rather a fierce determination to hold the needs of all parties may...
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Convergent Facilitation: Collaborative Decision Making: 5 Session Course
21 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/convergent-facilitationIf you’ve ever dreaded attending a meeting – or watched in dismay as your group collapses into conflict – know that a methodology known as Co...
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It's Not Just Me: A Systemic Lens on Individual Healing: 3 Session Course
7 items
"Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/it-s-not-just-meEver since the Women's Movement of the 60s and 70s, we have known that ""the personal is the political"" – that individual suffering and challenges...
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Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis: 3 Session Course
5 items
"Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/making-nvc-relevant-to-a-world-in-crisis2020 added three major global crises to our long and painful list of ongoing challenges:
- Public health crisis emerging ...
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Nonviolent Facilitation as a Path to the Future: 3 Session Course
6 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/nonviolent-facilitation-as-a-path-to-the-futureWhat does nonviolence have to do with group facilitation?
Miki believes that nonviolence is a way of being and living... -
Parenting without Obedience: Intergenerational Collaboration: 5 Session Course
18 items
Arnina Kashtan, Miki Kashtan and Lisa Rothman, Certified NVC Trainer:
This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/parenting-without-obedienceIf you answer yes to at least one of the questions below, then this course may be key to building the ...
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Supporting a Culture of Collaboration: 4 Session Course
10 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
One person cannot singlehandedly transform a culture and make it more collaborative, no matter how much you dedicate yourself to it. Transforming organizational culture requires attention and change at the systemic level. Learn which systems are crucial for a... -
Creating and Sustaining Strong Teams: 4 Session Course
10 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
In this course recording, you'll encounter new abilities and learn how to collaborate effectively from WITHIN a team. You'll be invited to build on interpersonal relationships, and branch out into the exciting challenges present when people work together ... -
The Building Blocks of Interpersonal Collaboration: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
There are a variety of reasons, but primarily it's because so many of us don't know how to effectively work through our differences. If you are like most of us, you will need support to re-learn how to transform differences into outcomes that benefit everyon...
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The Inside Job of Collaboration: 4 Session Course
9 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Although we are evolutionarily designed for collaborating with others when attending to our basic needs, the weight of the systems and cultural messages we have inherited interfere. Many of us are doubtful that collaboration is possible or effective, and mos...
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Embracing Nonviolence: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Gandhi spoke about applying nonviolence in thought, word, and action. The heart of the practice of nonviolence is a commitment to live through the powerful combination of compassion, fierceness, and courage, with an uncompromising willingness to stand for tru... -
Dialogue in the Workplace: 5 Session Course
12 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
One of the key challenges of engaging in dialogue in the workplace is that - while we are all equally human - the norms of the workplace make honest and open dialogue challenging, especially when power differences are present.
This course offers a plethora ...
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Dialogue within Communities: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Dialogue is a life-changing, heart-opening experience. It's collaboration instead of compromise. Join Miki for a practical, step-by-step framework to help you understand how a community develops, how to maintain or repair a community, and how this unique p... -
Using Role Plays for Sharing NVC: 3 Session Course
5 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
You've probably witnessed and participated in role plays that were powerful tools for inspiration, integration, or healing. You've likely also been in contexts where role plays fell flat, leaving people frustrated, confused, or disengaged.
If you're sharing...
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Dialogue with Anyone About Anything: 4 Session Course
4 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Listen to this course if you want to learn more about:
- How you might approach a difficult situation in a fresh, new way
- How solutions that work for everyone can just "appear" through dialogue - whether that means your family, your neighborhood, y... -
Taking 100% Responsibility for Every Relationship: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
When relationships falter, our habitual response is either to blame the other person (sadly frequent) or to blame ourselves. If only one or the other of us did something “right,” then the relationship would be different…
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Leadership Within Your Workplace: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Very few people occupy positions of such authority within an organization that they can singlehandedly shape its direction, culture, and focus. Most of us, often even those in position of apparent authority, experience ourselves as powerless within the organi...
