Course Recordings Now Available!

Course Dates: October 30, 2015 - May 13, 2016
This course if over, but you can still purchase the session recordings and get the handouts!

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"The master's tool
will never dismantle the master's house."
– Audre Lorde

A lot of social change work begins as a reactive campaign. You see a problem and fight to correct it through a familiar push-pull struggle with the powers that be. This course offers you the chance to instead design campaigns that: 1) start from a positive vision; and 2) boldly blend your vision into every action, throughout and beyond your campaign. It includes recognizing that patterns of domination exist within social movements, especially social-structural power and the dynamics of privilege, which often tear up movements. Learning to face and shift these patterns nonviolently is an essential step toward building powerful alliances that can take on the largest systems in the world.

You'll learn how you can:

Mobilize your privilege for the benefit of all – and move beyond guilt, shame, and defensiveness;
Empower yourself to engage effectively with those in positions of privilege relative to you – without draining your own resources;
Build alternative institutions that anchor and embody your vision on any scale; and
Mobilize the combined power of dialogue, constructive program, and nonviolent resistance in designing long-term campaigns for systemic change.

Part 1: Social Change and Nonviolence

Why take this course?

When you think about working for social change, you probably envision familiar nonviolent tactics: lobbying, rallies, perhaps civil disobedience. For some activists, that's as far as nonviolence goes: it's a campaign tactic.

But the legacy of nonviolent heroes like Martin Luther King and Gandhi runs much deeper than that. These leaders embraced nonviolence as a way of life. They committed to not harming or shaming anyone – including opponents – and to taking huge personal risks in service of a vision. They brought potent tools to their resistance campaigns, dialogued across differences, and created new systems and institutions that embodied their values.

This 4-week course is an opportunity to connect with love, truth, and courage – the three pillars of nonviolence – and build your capacity for bringing them into every facet of your work. The moment your actions and values come into alignment, transformation will begin within your movement. The energy and vision you'll unleash will then spread to the people and systems you want to impact – even those standing in the way.

If you're already committed to a nonviolent life, you can expect to find new ways of putting your principles into practice! If you're attracted to activism and trying to discern where your path lies, this course can help you understand how to approach activism from the perspective of nonviolence.

Benefits

PART 2: Working with Others for Change

Why take this course?

How is it that a group passionately committed to shared goals and common values can still have a terrible time working together? Many movements for change – regardless of size – have been plagued with internal conflict, unacknowledged power plays, and bitterness. This course offers you an opportunity to apply the principles of nonviolence to how people in groups and organizations work together. You can learn to relieve and transform patterns that impede effectiveness, and to unleash greater capacity for collaboration and success.

Benefits

Part 3: Creating a World that Works for all

Why take this course?

A lot of social change work begins as a reactive campaign. You see a problem and fight to correct it through a familiar push-pull struggle with the powers that be. This course offers you the chance to instead design campaigns that: 1) start from a positive vision; and 2) boldly blend your vision into every action, throughout and beyond your campaign. It includes recognizing that patterns of domination exist within social movements, especially social-structural power and the dynamics of privilege, which often tear up movements. Learning to face and shift these patterns nonviolently is an essential step toward building powerful alliances that can take on the largest systems in the world.

Benefits

Register for
Working for Transformation - Parts 1, 2 and 3

 

Purchase Course
Recordings Only
   $262.50
(25% off original course fee of $350.00)

   

Sessions last 2 hours - 24 hours of recorded sessions.

October 30, 2015 - May 13, 2016
 

What Happens After I Register?

Upon registration, you will receive an email with complete instructions on how to access the course.

All registrants will receive access to all course recordings.

About Miki Kashtan


Miki Kashtan is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC) and Lead Collaboration Consultant at the Center for Efficient Collaboration. Miki aims to support visionary leadership and shape a livable future using collaborative tools based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication. She shares these tools through meeting facilitation, mediation, consulting, coaching, and training for organizations and committed individuals. Her latest book, Reweaving Our Human Fabric: Working together to Create a Nonviolent Future (2015) explores the practices and systems needed for a collaborative society. She is also the author of Spinning Threads of Radical Aliveness: Transcending the Legacy of Separation in Our Individual Lives, and The Little Book of Courageous Living. Miki blogs at The Fearless Heart and her articles have appeared in the New York Times ("Want Teamwork? Encourage Free Speech"), Tikkun, Waging Nonviolence, Shareable, Peace and Conflict, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley.