NVC and Social Change
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Making NVC Relevant to a World in Crisis: 3 Session Course
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"Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
2020 added three major global crises to our long and painful list of ongoing challenges:- Public health crisis emerging from the Coronavirus infecting humans;
- Governance crisis manifesting especially in global protests against police brutality and gove... -
It's Not Just Me: A Systemic Lens on Individual Healing: 3 Session Course
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"Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Ever since the Women's Movement of the 60s and 70s, we have known that ""the personal is the political"" – that individual suffering and challenges often have their source in the social systems within which we live.How can we mobilize this insight in suppo...
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Convergent Facilitation: Collaborative Decision Making: 5 Session Course
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Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
If you’ve ever dreaded attending a meeting – or watched in dismay as your group collapses into conflict – know that a methodology known as Convergent Facilitation offers you possible solutions.It’s based on one simple experience: that people come together a...
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Equitable Facilitation: Supporting Equity through Leadership: 4 session course
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"Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer:
To get stuff done, groups need to come together.What happens when the group is composed of individuals who share the same mission, but who vary widely in their life experiences?
So many times, those groups start out with a clear sense of the ‘what’ that ...
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Finding Common Ground in Challenging Times: 4 Session Course
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"David Weinstock, Certified NVC Trainer:
Discover how to transform your life by aligning your actions with what matters most to you. David's 4-session course offers you practical, learnable skills that are crucial in today's world—skills like managing your moods, making decisive and values-drive... -
NVC & Social Change: Explore Systemic Issues with Compassion: 8 Session Course
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"Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer:
We've seen how Nonviolent Communication can provide immense personal healing, but questions have arisen on whether it can also contribute to meaningful social change. Roxy believes it can, on both the individual level and the systemic level. NVC for Social C... -
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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How does Parenting Impact Social Change?
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: What would it be like if we raised children who already knew how to be inclusive, who already understood climate change, and who knew that they had a role in keeping our planet liveable? Roxy Manning believes that how we parent can support the next generation ...
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Dialogue with the World at Large: 4 Session Course
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Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
A chosen, interdependent world… In most cases, that's sure not the world we live in today, is it.
But it could be the world we live in tomorrow.
And you can choose to be part of bringing that better world to life – to be part of a gradual, joyful transformati... -
Beyond Emotional 'Safety': Creating a Culture of Authenticity and Trust
Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer
Whether it is in the bedroom or the boardroom, authenticity and trust are the crucial elements of any high functioning partnership or organization. Come learn how to restore and build trust with each interaction while leveraging your power to create change (re...
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How to Serve the World in a Financially Sustainable Way
Alan Rafael Seid, Certified NVC Trainer
Discover how to transform money, business, and marketing into life-serving forces. In this session, you will learn a 9-Step "road map" for building a positive-impact and right-livelihood that aligns with your values and ethics. Come learn how to serve othe...
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Love in a Time of Climate Change
Rachelle Lamb, Certified NVC Trainer
Climate change does not exist in isolation. It happens in concert with anxiety, depression, and societal fragmentation – all indicators of trauma, imbalance, and separation. In this session, we will acquaint ourselves with the wisdom of making room for the di...
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NVC & Domestic Violence
Eddie Zacapa, Certified NVC Trainer
Healthy Intrapersonal Communication Skills for Perpetrators & Victims of Domestic Violence
This session explores how NVC can transform relationships that have experienced domestic violence. You will come away with an understanding of what constitutes domestic...
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NVC Zen: The Paradox of Responsibility
Aya Caspi, Certified NVC Trainer
How do we not take responsibility for other’s experiences while taking full responsibility for the impact of our choices? Come learn how to support the move from emotional “slavery” to emotional liberation, while still maintaining interdependence. You will come a...
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Purpose, Intimacy, and Choice: Creating Relationships that Defy Patriarchy
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer, and Emma Quayle
Patriarchal conditioning creates a deep groove of narratives about relationships. This is an introduction to a different pathway that questions relational dyads and rests on a deep alignment of purpose and values that we can have with many peo...
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Rainbow Connections: NVC for Q+
Kristin Masters, Certified NVC Trainer
Rainbow connections is a space to explore relationships with and for those who identify as lgbtq+. With realness and warmth, we will acknowledge what we have had to face, and at what cost. We can create the world we dream of by celebrating ourselves and our...
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Speaking Up As An Ally
Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon, Certified NVC Trainers
How to Keep People at the Table for Authentic Conversations About Race
When people we know say things that we hear as racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise oppressive, responding can be difficult. Using skill-building and practices, we wi...
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NVC for Real: Questions about NVC in Sticky Relationships
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer
Listen in as Roxy deftly responds to questions from participants about topics relating to conflict and major disagreements between loved ones and other important relationships, even those with power differences.
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Exploring Needs Behind Punitive vs. Restorative Approaches
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer explores responding to people who are committed to a punitive process rather than a restorative process. He suggests looking for what needs are met by the punitive process. Could those needs be met in a restorative process?
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What is the Role of the Facilitator in a Restorative Circle?
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares what the role of the facilitator is in a restorative circle.
- Creating space for dialogue/inviting participation
- Staying in the present moment
- Stays in service of agreements
- Collaborate as a team
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Why Do I love Restorative Circles?
Duke Duchscherer, Certified NVC Trainer: Duke Duchscherer shares that Restorative Circles have the ability to transform relationships. Groups may start with feelings of worry, anxiety, fear, anger, and even hatred. The dialogue process supports a shift to more ease, connection, and trust.
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Hit the Ground Running: How to Build and Sustain your NVC Business
Dian Killian, Certified NVC Trainer: Listen in as Dian shares her vision for spreading NVC through the world, and engages with participants in sharing their visions, and the areas in which they are seeking support. This session stresses the value of visioning work.
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- Worksplace
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How Privilege / Lack of Privilege Affects Women, Fishbowl Discussion
Dian Killian PhD and Mary Mackenzie, Certified NVC Trainer: Join Dian Killian and Mary Mackenzie for a provocative fishbowl discussion about how privilege and lack of privilege affect women.
What is a Fishbowl Process? The Fishbowl Process involves a small group of people — seated in circle — ... -
Create Space to Support Change
Itzel Hayward and Kathy Simon, Certified NVC Trainer: What is empowered speech and how does it link to interdependence? How do you speak in a way that increases the chances of being heard and creates space where individuals are more inclined to listen and act? In this excerpt from the 2021 course...