NVC in Group Settings
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2 itemsArticles: NVC in Group Settings
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Exploring Conflict Agreements: Building Restorative Systems Across Communities
Jo McHale, Ceri Buckmaster, Certified NVC Trainers and Sarah Ludford:
Here are five practical ideas from Ceri, Jo, and Sarah for creating simple agreements with any group you are working with when conflict arises!
This video presents various examples of conflict agreements used by different gr...
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Create a Simple Restorative Agreement For Your Group
Jo McHale, Ceri Buckmaster, Certified NVC Trainers and Sarah Ludford:
Conflict is normal and natural and yet we are still often surprised by it and unprepared to deal with it. You will come away from this session with the tools for creating simple agreements with your group about what to do when...
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Peace Starts At Home: 6 Session Course
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Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
“I will do everything in my power to resolve every conflict, however small.” – Thich Nhat Hanh, from the 4th precept as printed in For a Future to Be Possible
When asked how we can create peace, the Dalai Lama suggested that we start at home. Through the prac... -
Becoming a Change Agent Everywhere You Go: 4 Session Course
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Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed - or locked into passivity? This course offers you a way out. Learn to change the way you perceive leadership, and you'll help yourself respond more powerfully and proactively every day of your life - wherever you are - a... -
Feedback without Criticism: 5 Session Course
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Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Learn to Give Feedback without Criticism
- Overcome the dread about writing performance evaluations
- Trust your capacity to meet challenges when offering feedback
- Become excited about creating a learning culture in your organization
- Learn how t... -
Embracing Leadership within Yourself: 4 Session Course
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"Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer:
Join Miki as she covers a lot of territory, defining leadership, helping us lead when we're not in the leadership chair, showing us how to have power in every moment and engage our fear instead of let it run us. Get some powerful leadership tools you can put... -
Dialogue with Anyone About Anything: 4 Session Course
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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... -
Dialogue within Communities: 4 Session Course
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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... -
The Inside Job of Collaboration: 4 Session Course
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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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The Building Blocks of Interpersonal Collaboration: 4 Session Course
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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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Creating and Sustaining Strong Teams: 4 Session Course
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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 ... -
Supporting a Culture of Collaboration: 4 Session Course
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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... -
Nonviolent Facilitation as a Path to the Future: 3 Session Course
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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... -
Convergent Facilitation: Collaborative Decision Making: 5 Session Course
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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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Equitable Facilitation: Supporting Equity through Leadership: 4 session course
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"Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer:
This item is also available for purchase as a download.
https://www.nvclibrary.com/products/equitable-facilitationTo get stuff done, groups need to come together.
What happens when the group is composed of individuals who share the same mission, but who ...
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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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Supporting NVC Consciousness Especially When Others Don't Know NVC
In this clip from the Reclaiming Strength and Hope event, Duke Duchscherer explores how to live Nonviolent Communication (NVC) even when others around you are unfamiliar with it. He shares how creating simple, shared systems—especially for conflict—can help families, workplaces, and communities s...
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Adding Active Bystander Skills to Your NVC Toolkit
Lore Baur, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you ever seen something happen that made you feel uncomfortable and you didn't know what to do? That's the "bystander effect:" a well-researched and commonly experienced phenomenon. Training can help you overcome it, enabling you to discern what to do and ho...
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Equitable Facilitation: Navigating Attention, Needs, and Impact in Group Dynamic
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Roxy Manning shares that facilitating equitable group dynamics involves tracking attention, needs, purpose alignment, resources, and impact. Identifying patterns in attention distribution, centered needs, and maintaining alignment with the purpose enhances inc...
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From Control to Collaboration: Reclaiming Shared Decision-Making
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares how decision-making can move beyond either/or thinking into true integration—where your needs matter and so do others'. She speaks to the vulnerability and power of co-creating choices rooted in mutual care, not control. Miki invites us to ...
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From What's Fair to What's Possible
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: So many of us have been taught to solve conflicts by what is "fair." However, Miki Kashtan states that fairness is a separating concept. In this video, she describes how when we do not have the conditions to care for all needs involved, when we live within sep...
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Functional Empathy that Supports Connection and Efficiency
Roxy Manning, Certified NVC Trainer: Have you ever been in a meeting where the agenda is full and someone gets triggered? Did you get stuck in an empathy spiral that leads to a never ending meeting? Roxy Manning differentiates between healing empathy and functional empathy, and how you can be bot...
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Holding the Group's Needs
Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer: Miki Kashtan shares a tip on holding a group's needs while empathizing with a single person in the group.
This is an excerpt from Miki Kashtan's 7 part course Naturalizing NVC Language, which is also available in the NVC Library.
Keywords:
- acceptance...
