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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The Heart of the Matter: Connecting More Deeply to Your Feelings and Needs
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Do you want to increase your capacity to identify and connect with feelings and needs? Would you like to enhance your ability to translate judgments? Join Miki for this deep dive into feelings and needs.
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How to Enjoy Your Family Dinner
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: If you dread family gatherings because of family tensions, you can find ways to excavate through piles of hardened judgments and hopelessness, build on your inner strength, and engage with family conflicts with open-hearted curiosity, greater presence, and con...
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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.
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- 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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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
Time Investment: 8 hours 34 minutes, plus handouts
Recorded in 2018This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is als...
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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
Time Investment 3 hours, 43 minutes plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2016This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is als...
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Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis: 3 Session Course
5 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment 4 hours, 1 minute plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2020This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is also ...
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Nonviolent Facilitation as a Path to the Future: 3 Session Course
6 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment 3 hours, 27 minutes plus pdf handouts
Recorded 2019This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
It is als...
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Parenting without Obedience: Intergenerational Collaboration: 5 Session Course
18 items
Arnina Kashtan, Miki Kashtan Certified NVC Trainers and Lisa Rothman,
Time Investment 8 hours, 9 minutes plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2018
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Supporting a Culture of Collaboration: 4 Session Course
10 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 4 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2016This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
One perso...
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Creating and Sustaining Strong Teams: 4 Session Course
10 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 13 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
In this course recordi...
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The Building Blocks of Interpersonal Collaboration: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 20 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2015This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
There ar...
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The Inside Job of Collaboration: 4 Session Course
9 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 11 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
Although we are evolut...
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Embracing Nonviolence: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 3 hours 1 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2012This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
Gandhi sp...
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Dialogue in the Workplace: 5 Session Course
12 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 5 hours 45 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
One of the key challen...
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Dialogue within Communities: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 4 hours 20 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
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Using Role Plays for Sharing NVC: 3 Session Course
5 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 2 hours 22 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2016You'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, lea...
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Dialogue with Anyone About Anything: 4 Session Course
4 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 3 hours 2 minutes, plus PDF handoutsThis course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
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Taking 100% Responsibility for Every Relationship: 4 Session Course
8 items
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 3 hours 41 minutes, plus PDF handouts
Recorded 2014This course is part of the NVC Library subscription service. The subscription model allows for streaming (no downloads) as long as you maintain your monthly or yearly subscription.
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