2009 05 14-17 GCC Report

The purpose of the GCC is to support the NVC Global Network in connecting and self-organizing to more effectively live and share NVC.

For us the NVC Global Network includes members of NVC circles/groups, CNVC-Certified Trainers, NVC certification candidates, and other NVC practitioners, supporters and interested general public.

By self-organize we mean to form, modify, dissolve and connect groups in order to meet needs - needs of group members, those the group is seeking to serve, and those affected by the group’s operation.

Through its members, the GCC has connected to over 60 NVC groups world-wide.

In 2008, the GCC focused on 5 areas:

1. Supporting Connection between Groups Through involvement in GCC-connected circles, GCC members sought to support NVC groups in connecting with other groups in their geographic areas who speak the same language for mutual learning and support.

2. Building the NVC Global Network's organizational infrastructure

   1. GCC members helped create the Europe-Africa Circle, the English-speaking Americas Circle and the Nordic Baltic Circle
   2. Developing GCC as the link between language/geography based groups and CNVC Governance (Leadership Team, Admin Team and CNVC Board).
   3. GCC wrote a first draft of a proposal for the creation and recognition of regional NVC Centers (as part of "World-wide Decision-Making Pilot" below)

3. Representative-based Composition Shifting from being a planning team of invited volunteers to being a group of representatives chosen by organized groups of NVC groups. At the end of 2008, our representatives include:

   • Anne Bourrit – French-speaking Network (includes groups in Europe, Africa and North America)

   • Irmtraud Kauschat – English-speaking Europe-Africa Circle

   • Jerry Koch-Gonzalez – English-speaking Americas Circle.

We continue to seek connection with other parts of our community, such as those who speak other languages (e.g., Spanish, Portuguese), and those in the area between Eastern Europe and Hawaii.

1. World-Wide Decision-Making - Pilot Eventually the GCC envisions operating as a fully-inclusive world-wide representative structure for decision-making. And that does not currently exist.

   In 2008, through the Certified Trainer Renewal Fee Proposals, we began experimenting - working with both the representative structure that does exist and mechanisms for individual input – to design a doable process for developing proposals that work for all interested NVC Global Network members. These can then be brought as a single integrated set to CNVC Governance for the next phase of an NVC “dance” to find strategies that will work for everyone affected.

2. Translation System A fully-inclusive world-wide network will involve having information / documents available in multiple languages. In 2008 we began development of a system to support this in happening. As a first step, the system is being set up to track:

   • Requests from CNVC Governance Teams to translators,

   • Translation work being done on a particular request by multiple translators, and

   • Completed and reviewed translations being provided to the CNVC Governance Team that made the original request.

   Our vision is that this system will also develop capacity in the future to handle requests through the GCC for communication from the NVC Global Network as whole to CNVC Governance.

We would like to acknowledge the contribution of everyone who was a GCC member in 2008:

• Jim and Jori Manske, the co-founders and GCC Coordinators from Nov 2006 through June 2008;

• Original members of “this” GCC who served through the first part of the year:

  • Andreas Basu (German-speaking member),

  • Kirsten Kristensen (English-speaking “Western” circle), and

  • Eva Rambala (English-speaking – other areas);

• The first official “representative” GCC members:

  • Irmtraud Kauschat (English-speaking Europe Africa Circle), and

  • Jerry Koch-Gonzalez (English-speaking Americas Circle);

• Anne Bourrit – who was both an original member of this GCC and has been confirmed by the French-speaking Network General Circle as their representative to the GCC; and

• Glenda Mattinson (GCC Coordinator starting in July, proposed by the existing GCC members to the Admin Team, which accepted the proposal).

We would also like to acknowledge all those who have served the NVC community in earlier versions of a global community circle (which have had various names); those who have worked to form and connect NVC groups in your language and geographic areas; and everyone who contributes to living and sharing NVC in your communities around the world.  

Together we are helping to create a world where everyone’s needs matter and are met peacefully. Thank you all! 

Plans for 2009

In the early part of 2009, we have continued our focus on all of the areas we worked on in 2008.

This has resulted in the addition of Milli O'Nair as a GCC member, who will help connect us to the NVC community in Australia and New Zealand.  And the forwarding to the Admin Team of the Certified Trainer Renewal Fee Proposals, which have been through multiple input / feedback rounds in three languages (English, French and German - see http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc5whkcr_7dq6gp2gq for more info). The Translation System continues moving toward implementation.

The next major initiative the GCC anticipates launching is currently being called "Resourcing the Network".  Its objective is to support the GCC and other NVC circles in sharing information and potentially collaborating on projects to access the resources, including money, to support initiatives that contribute to the realization of CNVC's vision, mission and aim.

(Prepared by Glenda Mattinson May 4, 2009, consented by the GCC)