A Systemic Lens on Individual Healing

Miki Kashtan, Certified NVC Trainer
Time Investment: 3 hours 43 minutes, plus handouts
Recorded in 2018

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 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴?

This course is designed to shed light on how the social context into which we are born affects our experience, and what we can do about it at the individual level within the paradigm of nonviolence.

𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲

𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭: 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

• Obedience as a core value of all patriarchal societies
• Shaming as a core socializing strategy
• Tips for offering immediate freedom and relief by bringing attention to the systemic context and releasing self-blame
• The either/or of freedom and belonging
• Practices for moving towards integration and inner freedom

𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮: 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲

• Why we need others: transcending self-sufficiency as a core element of modern capitalism
• The dual role of authentic love and honest feedback in the process of healing
• Practices for transcending the paradigm of separation

𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟯: 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

• Why social location matters in shaping experience: shining a light on narratives of deserving
• Power differences between practitioner and client
• Where individual responsibility begins and ends: releasing blame of self and other
• Moving beyond othering: empathic imagination as a tool for self-liberation
• Practices for embracing liberation for all