Miki Kashtan is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, and the NVC North America Leadership Program. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads workshops and intensive retreats in Nonviolent Communication and offers mediation, meeting facilitation, coaching, and training for organizations throughout the United States. She has been supporting the US Department of Peace campaign with monthly conference calls since 2005. From time to time she hosts a call-in show on the radio through KPFA, a listener-sponsored radio station in Berkeley, CA. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from University of California at Berkeley.
Miki is inspired by the contribution that NVC can make to social change movements and values sharing these skills with leaders and activists. She also particularly enjoys working with and coaching people interested in learning to teach NVC.
Miki is available to lead NVC trainings and can be reached at BayNVC.
Miki has authored:
“The Pain, The Anger, and the Hope: Women Peace Workers in Israel”, Magazine of Creation Spirituality, March 1992
“Nonviolent Communication: Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection in Communities”, Communities Magazine, September 1999
“No Enemies, No Demands”, Tikkun Magazine, September-October 2002
“Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution”, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, September 2002
“The Gift of Self: The Art of Transparent Facilitation”, in Sandor Schuman, ed., The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, Jossey-Bass, 2005
“Beacon for Peace in the Promised Land: Transforming Palestinian-Israeli Relationships with Nonviolent Communication,” with Hagit Lifshitz and Arnina Kashtan, in Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding Between Israelis And Palestinians, edited by Judy Kuriansky, Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2007.
"Miki, I really admire the way you are able to be so present in the moment and are able to respond so well to what you see and sense. Just watching you in action makes this course worthwhile to me."
— S.G., Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
”Miki's workshop was exceptional in giving an overview of the work, while calmly meeting the emotional challenges everyone brought to the table.” —Class Participant
with CNVC Certified Trainer Miki Kashtan
A Telephone Course (Telecourse) with Miki Kashtan, Certified CNVC Trainer, Author and Co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication and the North America NVC Leadership Program, from Oakland, California, USA
Sunday, February 1, 2009 - Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sessions alternate between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM PST to accommodate people in different parts of the world.
Fee for each 2-hour session: $30 USD: All registrants receive access to a recording of the session.
Fee for the 12 session package: $300 USD, save $60 USD. All registrants receive access to a recording of each session.
Do you want to deepen your capacity for presence with your clients? Would you like to gain fluency in being transparent? Are you excited about placing human needs at the heart of your approach? Do you long to maintain an authentic human connection both with yourself and with your clients? |
More and more therapists are attracted to the principles of Nonviolent Communication and to its invitation to enter a genuine, human relationship with clients. This telecourse, available as individual sessions or as a series, supports therapists in integrating NVC principles and skills into their clinical practice.
Each session will include a didactic presentation, opportunities to practice, and attention to case studies (supervision). You will learn how to bring NVC to your practice at three different levels: theoretical framing; methodology for responding to clients; and tools to pass on to clients.
Session 1 – Bringing NVC to a Clinical Setting
Sunday, February 1, 2009 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST (1:00 AM GMT on 2/2) — My Time Zone?
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Session 2 – Embodying and Using NVC with Clients
Sunday, March 1, 2009 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST (5:00 PM GMT) — My Time Zone?
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Session 3 – Empathy Practice: Focus on Need vs "Problem"
This session alone will be taught by Roxanne Manning
Sunday, April 5, 2009 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT on 4/6)— My Time Zone?
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Session 4 – Empathy Practice: Following vs. Leading
Sunday, May 3, 2009 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT (4:00 PM GMT)— My Time Zone
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Session 5 – Attending to Inner Experience: Self-Empathy
Sunday, June 7, 2009 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT on 6/8)— My Time Zone?
Session 6 – Attending to Inner Experience: Cultivating Transparency
Sunday, July 5, 2009 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT (4:00 PM GMT)— My Time Zone?
Session 7 – Working with Couples: Supporting Connection and Mutual Understanding
Sunday, August 2, 2009 • 5:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT on 8/3) — My Time Zone?
Session 8 – Working with Couples: Creating Possibilities Through Focus on Needs
Sunday, September 6, 2009 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT (4:00 PM GMT)— My Time Zone?
Session 9 – Cultivating Empathic Presence with Intensity
Sunday, October 4, 2009 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT on 10/5) — My Time Zone?
Session 10 – Responding to Trauma Using NVC
Sunday, November 1, 2009 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST (5:00 PM GMT)— My Time Zone?
Session 11 – Managing Group Process Using NVC
Sunday, December 6, 2009 • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST PST (1:00 AM GMT on 12/7) — My Time Zone?
Session 12 – Tips for Teaching NVC to Clients
Sunday, January 10, 2010 • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST (5:00 PM GMT)— My Time Zone?
All Sessions: 1 through 12
You may register for all 12 sessions: $300 USD, save $60 USD. All registrants receive access to a recording of each session. You will also receive access to recordings of sessions which have already passed.
Sunday, February 1, 2009 - Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sessions alternate between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM PST
Prerequisite:This class is open to everyone who wants to attend, but will not cover the basics of Nonviolent Communication. Most suitable for people with at least a few months of ongoing NVC practice. To learn the basics in preparation for the class, you can take the NVC Academy online introduction, or read the first 8 chapters of Marshall B. Rosenberg's book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life or get the basics of Nonviolent Communication through the book Choose Your Words - Professional Version which is available as of the end of February 2009.
Upon registration, you will receive an e-mail with complete instructions for how to access the call, and suggestions to maximize the benefits of your experience.
Note: All sessions of this telecourse are on the 1st Sunday of the month, except the last session which is on the 2nd Sunday of January 2010. Sessions alternate between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
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