NVC Resources on Social Change

Taking Responsibility for Sustaining Life on Earth

Video • 5 minutes •

Video
5 minutes

Listen in as Miki challenges participants to step beyond the comfort or discomfort of their lives, and encourages them to instead take responsibility for their part in sustaining life on this planet, and more.

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Sociocratic Meeting Facilitation: For All the Meetings in Your Life (6 Session Course)

with Greg Rouillard, John Buck and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

Audio • 7 - 9 hours •

Audio
7 - 9 hours

Join CNVC Certified Trainer Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Greg Rouillard and Certified Dynamic Governance (Sociocracy) Consultant John Buck for this six-session course recording to learn how to transform your method of meeting facilitation. Many NVC organizations have begun using sociocratic tools, including circle meetings and decision making by consent, with satisfying results.

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The Building Blocks of Interpersonal Collaboration (4 Session Course)

with System Administrator

Audio • 5 -7 hours •

Audio
5 -7 hours

Don’t know how to effectively work through differences with others in your organization? You are not alone… Like most of us, you simply lack the training and skills – and that’s what you’ll acquire listening to this course recording. Join Miki and learn specific tools and tips that work – for everyone!

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The Inside Job of Collaboration (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 5 - 7 hours •

Audio
5 - 7 hours

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 most of us lack both the faith and the skills to live collaboratively, regardless of cultural imperatives. Miki helps us navigate this terrain.

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The Circle Of Care, The Circle Of Trust, And Nonviolence

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

Part of nonviolence is having an infinite circle of care that includes simultaneous care of ourselves, others and groups: no one is beyond the pale. Plus, it's about having an infinite trust in the possibility that we can reach someone's heart even if we don't now know how -- since regardless of what this other person has done, they have the same needs. Without this kind of trust, nonviolence...

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Applying Mindful Compassionate Dialogue To Violence In Ukraine

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

Practice Exercise • 12 -17 mins •

Practice Exercise
12 -17 mins

How to maintain conscious connection and compassion as you grapple with the tragic violence in Ukraine? Here we'll look at dissolving enemy images we have, inviting mourning, maintaining self connection that benefits our global community, creating ideas for action, acknowledging the power of what we envision, and engaging in an exercise for applying consciousness and skills to an imaginary...

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Responding to Current Escalating Issues of Our Time

with NVC Academy Staff

Audio • 33 minutes •

Audio
33 minutes

With the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Roxy Manning, Francois Beausoleil and the Nonviolent Leadership for Social Justice training team explore how we can bring a needs-based consciousness, together with a critical awareness of systemic/structural inequities, to embody a new and transformative way forward.

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Open-Hearted Disagreement

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 6 minutes •

Audio
6 minutes

Miki demonstrates how to work with judgmental thinking, offering a two-step process to shift from right/wrong thinking about our disagreements to a more open-hearted state of being.

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Invisible Power & Privilege - Part 1

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

In groups, relationships and society we may not want to dominate or take away from others’ access to power, to choice, to participation in decisions, nor to shaping the vision and direction of the dynamic. And yet how do we do it anyway without knowing it? Discover how privilege operates on a societal level and becomes so invisible in groups. Learn why the conversation is usually excruciating...

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Developing Compassion for Humans, Animals and All Life (4 Session Course)

with LoraKim Joyner, DVM

Audio • 5 - 7 hours •

Audio
5 - 7 hours

Join LoraKim Joyner to investigate how merging science, the social and emotional intelligence of humans, animals and other species and Nonviolent Communication can bring a greater sense of belonging and wholeness to your life, and care and justice to the lives of others.

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Viewing Needs Through an Equity Lens

with Roxy Manning

Article • 4 - 6 minutes •

Article
4 - 6 minutes

"All humans share the same needs" -- tragically, this idea can hide the reality that some people with less power in society have needs that go unmet to a greater extent, much longer, and with more dire consequences. Often, when the marginalized bring up experiences related to their membership in a certain group, their pain isn't acknowledged, and focus shifts to the listener's discomfort. The...

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Finding Systemic Solutions to Systemic Problems

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 23 - 34 minutes •

Article
23 - 34 minutes

Society gives us short-sighted explanations about human nature, life and what’s (un)changeable. The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting that explanation. Our current social order upholds impoverishment, police brutality, and is leading us towards our extinction. Change begins with people mobilizing resources towards a vision that holds systemic care for all, plus engages shared risk and...

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Creating and Sustaining Strong Teams (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 5 - 7 hours •

Audio
5 - 7 hours

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 toward a shared purpose.

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Supporting a Culture of Collaboration (4 Session Course)

with Miki Kashtan

Audio • 5 - 7 hours •

Audio
5 - 7 hours

Transforming organizational culture requires attention and change at the systemic level. Learn which systems are crucial for any organization to establish and clarify whether that organization is collaborative or not, and then learn how to create and strengthen a collaborative organization.

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Becoming Regenerative

with John Kinyon

Trainer Tip • 3-4 minutes •

Trainer Tip
3-4 minutes

The regeneration movement employs practices for healing our planet from damage, and boosting Earth sustainability. Environmental and social degradation is deeply connected -- as it comes from the same extractive, exploitive mindset of economic and related systems. Connecting with universal consciousness and needs underlying conflicts, we connect with commonality of all planetary life. This...

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Can We Un-Skew Resource Distribution?

with Miki Kashtan

Article • 14 - 21 minutes •

Article
14 - 21 minutes

In learning how to re-invent the economic system so that it distributes resources in a way that includes as many people's needs as possible, we would need to be in a process of mutual influence with one another. However, addressing resource distribution can be complex when people in different social locations have 1.)a different sense of what's considered "enough" 2.) different capacities to...

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Understanding White Privilege as a 21st Century Leadership Capacity

with Shakti Butler

Video • 1 hour, 41 minutes •

Video
1 hour, 41 minutes

Working on social justice and racial equity? If you include attending to white culture and privilege as part of that work, you'll reap important benefits. Understanding white culture — along with its embedded historical privileges — provides valuable insight into a larger system of inequity.

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Understanding and Transforming Anger

with LaShelle Lowe-Chardé

Article • 6 - 9 minutes •

Article
6 - 9 minutes

Anger can alert us that a need may be threatened. When anger lives in someone as a well-worn habit, it arises from a place of dissociation from one’s heart and is entangled with misinterpretations, a deep sense of threat, a history of pain, and social conditioning that isn’t life-serving. Read on for how intention, mindfulness, and specific actions can change that habit.

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Integral Awareness and Practice for NVC Practitioners: Deepening NVC with Ken Wilber’s Integral Framework (6 Session Course)

with Alan Rafael Seid

Audio • 7 hours, 30 minutes •

Audio
7 hours, 30 minutes

This telecourse recording gives NVC Practitioners a guided tour of Ken Wilber’s work, a meta-theory (theory of theories) that includes as much knowledge and wisdom from as many sources as possible. You will explore how NVC and Integral Framework mesh, overlap and complement each other.

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How To Deal With Ourselves When We Are Less Than Perfect

with Kathleen Macferran

Practice Exercise • 30 minutes •

Practice Exercise
30 minutes

How we treat ourselves when we fall short of our own ideals, desires and hopes can profoundly affect the quality of our lives. Learn how to identify your triggers and reactions, to mourn falling short, and to practice self-connection and self-empathy.

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