Nonviolent Communication — Peace Catalyst International

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a powerful resource that can help peacemakers experience life-giving connection. NVC can transform our ability to care for ourselves while improving the quality of our relationships with people around us.

In this course we will share with you an understanding of NVC that not only retains all its power to support connection but also adds an awareness of power, privilege, and equity issues necessary for building peace within our wider society and community. We invite you to experience this new integrated approach to NVC, created by expert trainer Roxy Manning, Ph.D., in this new course, NVC for ALL.

Over the course of eight sessions, we will cover the fundamental concepts of Nonviolent Communication, and then go even further. As we explore the four steps of the basic NVC model, we will include strategies to help decrease the likelihood of perpetuating existing social inequities. We will learn about the ways some uses of “nonviolent” and “peacemaking” language can inadvertently replicate larger societal structures that silence and disempower people from historically marginalized groups, and we will look at ways to use Nonviolent Communication to lift up and discuss inequities when they exist, rather than contribute to silencing and erasure.

If you’re excited about learning Nonviolent Communication in a way that can support your desire to address larger systemic inequities in addition to supporting personal change, please join us!

IN THIS COURSE WE PLAN TO:

Identify what’s important in any situation
Enhance self-awareness and our capacity to name our experience in the moment
Promote fierce self-knowledge and self-advocacy
Strengthen our capacity to acknowledge and lean into interdependence
Name systemic, oppressive conditions and their internalized impacts on our communication and relationships
Acknowledge harm and impact in order to support healing and repair
Develop our capacity to listen to anyone to get to the heart of the matter, even when we disagree with them
Support healing and repair both interpersonally and in our communities
Explore creative strategies for healing that are aligned with our values
Recognize and celebrate cultural attributes

+ Course Dates and Time

FORMAT & TIME

The entire event will happen online via Zoom. Tuesdays at 6:30-8:30pm Central Time.

DATES

February 15
March 1
March 15
March 29
April 12
April 26
May 10
May 24

+ Course Structure

The course will include:

Ample class time for practice and questions
An option to pair up with an empathy buddy for learning and healing
Practice exercises to work on between class meetings
Reflective journals and worksheets

Our class will be limited to 20 participants. For this reason, we request that you only register if you intend to attend at least 7 of the 8 sessions. To get the most out of this course, we request that you plan to allot 1 - 2 hours per week outside of class to practice what we are learning, both on your own and with an empathy buddy.

For this series only, Pam and Peter will teach NVC for ALL while receiving in-depth mentoring directly from expert trainer Roxy Manning to ensure that you get the most cutting edge thinking on how to address long-standing inequities. We are thrilled to be offering this comprehensive approach to NVC that integrates needs-based consciousness with a critical awareness of power and privilege.