Miki Kashtan

In this section, I answer questions A and C with narrative replies, as whole-number responses are not possible in my case.

1. QUESTION A (# of training days)
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This report is a hybrid between reporting on BayNVC as an organization and reporting on my personal activities. Inbal is currently facing treatment for cancer, and is not currently finding a way to prioritize this report.

Our work continues to be intertwined with the activities of many other people within BayNVC, and BayNVC continues to have meaning and contribution that we want to include in this report even if they are not directly about our personal activities, because this organization is itself part of the unfolding dream that we carry of contributing to the transformation we long for.

For BayNVC: 2009 marks a major transition for BayNVC that is still ongoing: Kit Miller, who was our director for 5 years, left at the end of May 2009. We have not identified a replacement for her, and have only an interim director for now. Stay tuned for a year to know what happened…

For Miki: Also, towards the end of 2009 Inbal was, once again, diagnosed with cancer. This has had a profound effect on me in a variety of ways: her stepping down from being involved with the work; the intensity of involvement with supporting her; the shift in my support network, of which she was a core part; and the emotional experience of having this happen. At the time of writing this report Inbal is still actively engaged with a primary focus on her health and well-being.

As 2009 started, I was planning to focus primarily on writing a book and some teaching. As the year progressed, I became involved in the search process to replace Kit; in fundraising activities for BayNVC; and later in supporting Inbal. My entire year changed dramatically because of these two major events.

a. Approximately how many training days did you have this year?: (Please enter only a whole number representing the approximate number of days of training you provided, so we can calculate the total number of training days provided by the people creating these reports. NOTE: For this purpose, a half day is 2 to 4 hours. A full day is 5-8 hours.)

BayNVC as a whole offered about 609 days or partial days of training in 2009, the equivalent of about 330 full days of training. We sustained this with the support of 24 trainers other than Inbal and myself, 7 of them certified trainers from other parts of the world. Most of the trainers we have worked with, including certified trainers, are graduates of the BayNVC Leadership Program Inbal and I co-founded in 2002.

Over the course of the year Inbal shared NVC for 48 days, the equivalent of 31 full days. I shared NVC for 105 days, the equivalent of 78 full days.

The above numbers do not include practice groups offered in the San Francisco Bay Area by BayNVC trainers, which likely amount to an additional 50 days overall.

The table below summarizes the variety of events we offered in 2009. The extent to which BayNVC has grown beyond our own activities is clearly visible in this table.

(Numbers below correspond to Inbal - Miki - John Kinyon - Out-of-Area Certified Trainers - Others)
INTRODUCTIONS (including 5 introductions to parents)
0-0-0-0-31
PRIVATE EVENTS (Groups and organizations)
1-0-0-3-70
SERIES (anywhere from 3 to 12 weeks long, mostly 8 or 12 weeks)
0-0-5-0-33
WORKSHOPS
2-19-4-5-5
ONGOING PROGRAMS (see below)
1-0-1-1-1
TELECLASSES
0-39-0-0-0
Conflict Hotline Live TV Show
0-10-0-0-1
NVC Clinic for Therapists
0-0-0-0-5
RETREATS (various formats and locations, including CA, US East Coast, Poland)
0-3-3-0-1
OUT OF AREA WORKSHOPS (in Spain, Switzerland, and Israel)
0-3-0-0-0
MISCELLANEOUS
0-2-0-0-2
Grand Totals
4-76-13-9-149

Our ongoing programs focus primarily on leadership development, and to a lesser extent on deepening skills for personal growth. Leadership Development is one of BayNVC’s strategic directions, both in terms of training new generations of people capable of sharing NVC with others, and in terms of supporting existing leaders in the world to have more capacity for power-sharing and collaborative leadership.

We are also hosting the Mediation Program for Ike Lasater and John Kinyon, another option for people to immerse themselves deeply in NVC skills with a unique focus.

PLEASE NOTE: any events we hosted that were led by other certified trainers are likely to also show up in their reports. It is beyond our technical ability to separate this out.

2. QUESTION C (# of people trained)
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It is impossible to have an actual number. We track everyone who registers for our events, and estimate the number of people who attend organizational trainings. However, we have no easy way of avoiding counting people twice. On the other hand we don’t track people who come to practice groups, and so these two errors may cancel each other out. This year we are also counting the people who attendee NVC Academy teleclasses with Miki (didn’t do before; it wasn’t such a significant number), and again we have no way of cross-checking duplication. Lastly, we are estimating how many people are watching the Conflict Hotline based on youtube hits.

Inbal: 183
Miki: 2557
Others: 3198
Total: 5938

These numbers do not include the people who are reached through other media.