Leadership

Restorative Circles offer ways for individuals, families, groups and communities to establish connection, discover meaning and recover power on profound levels. They create a forum for connecting empathically across differences and reaching agreements that support safety and well-being, both personally and within society.

This systemic approach guides communities in choosing how they would like to respond to future conflict – proactively preventing or diminishing harm – while also giving participants a real-life experience of the practical power of nonviolence to seed understanding and change in challenging contexts.

Developed in the shanty towns, schools, courts and prisons of urban Brazil, Restorative Circles are being used in a wide variety of contexts and countries, where creating the conditions for social justice, group cohesion, resilient relationships and personal healing are recognized as interconnected and vital.

The Circles support dialogue rooted in open-hearted clarity and tangible power-sharing - calling us to rethink our view of and response to living with others, while engaging with the challenge of consciously strengthening community well-being. The results open up revolutionary possibilities for furthering a culture of peace.

In these dynamic two days, Dominic Barter will present the evolution and practice of this work, and its application to diverse areas of our personal and collective lives. Through hands-on exploration of key concepts, grounded in a step-by-step process and illustrated by real world examples, we’ll apply the learning to participants’ issues and increase our ability to see and act from our shared humanity. Finally, we’ll rehearse the development of this new resource in a community of which we are part.

This event will be filmed; you will have the choice to not appear on the videotape.

Dominic Barter began developing restorative practices and systems in the mid 1990s, inspired by the social complexity of Rio de Janeiro, his adopted home, and his study with Marshall Rosenberg in Nonviolent Communication. Since 2004 he has been the training program director and consultant to the Brazilian Justice Department’s Restorative Justice pilot projects, in collaboration with UNDP, UNESCO, the Special Secretariat for Human Rights, local communities and State Secretaries for Education. In 2008 Dominic was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Restorative Practices. He coordinates the Restorative Justice Project for the international Center for Nonviolent Communication.

CO-CREATING THE RESOURCES FOR THESE EVENTS AND THIS WORK:

We are committed to making this work available to all who request it.

It is offered in the spirit of a gift.

There is no specific fee required in exchange for participation. We invite those who come to do so in the spirit of receiving a gift.

We see us all as sharing power capable of creating the conditions for the world we want to live in. To support the exercise of this power, information on the financial resources used in developing and presenting this work will be shared during the evening. We hope this will support those participants who so choose to contribute financially toward meeting the event's costs and supporting the on-going work.

For those interested, we also welcome contributions before the event, which help to offset upfront costs.

How to have dialogues with the teens you love about Growth, Change, and Sexuality

A Telephone Course (Telecourse) through NVC Academy

4 consecutive Tuesdays, September 8 - 29 • 3:00 - 4:30 PM PDT (10:00 PM GMT)

Registration and more info at: NVC Academy, here.

http://nvcacademy.com

Are there one or more youths in your life with whom you would enjoy:

• Having the conversations you may be most terrified of having?
• Sharing scary honesty: Hearing theirs and expressing yours?
• Cultivating a relationship that embodies trust, appreciation, and mutuality?
• Learning how to re-center and remain connected to needs "no matter what is thrown your way"?
• Developing a capacity to "be with what is", even if that includes having pain from your own teen years stimulated?
• Creating boundaries in a "power-with" way that invites compassionate communication & wise action?
• Deepening NVC skills and integrating it in a way that responding empathically becomes the first response?
• Releasing enemy-images that "fog up" seeing the beauty that lay within yourself and the youth you care about?
• Laughing more with the intensity of life?

If you answered yes to any of the above this class may be for you.
If you're willing to "walk in the dark" and "live on the edge of
honesty" then this class is definitely for you. Through story,
role-play, journaling, and discussion we will learn how to enrich and
enliven the relationships we have with the people we call teens.

Pacific Leadership and Training Program (PLTP) with Susan Skye

For the last three years, I have offered an ongoing training/coaching program for people wanting to integrate NVC skills and consciousness at a deep level. Feedback from those who have participated (some for more than one year) report enthusiastically that it has hugely supported their internal healing and greatly contributed to the strengthening of their skills and consciousness. 

It is my intention to have this be an opportunity to learn and be together in the energy of the partnership paradigm and to explore what it means to live it. I am also excited to pass on the breakthrough concept/process of the 'Living Energy of Needs."

We will focus first on internal process work using the "Transforming the Pain Process" and "Core Jackal Beliefs" process. Having offered these processes now in many countries, the feedback is clear that they are powerful and transformational; the second half of the program will continue the internal growth but shift more to using NVC skills in relationship, work, family. Though this is focused on learning skills and deepening conscioiusness, it is my experience over the last three years that deep friendships, fun and community also grow from our time together.

The PLTP meets monthly for nine sessions beginning in February of 2010. 

Basic skills and understanding of NVC is required. I would prefer individuals who participate in this program to have the inner emotional foundation to be able to express feelings and needs honestly. This is not designed as a beginner group.

The commitment is for the entire year. 

Tuition Scale: $ 1.250 - $ 1,500  (you choose) for the year's program.

Non-refundable minimum deposit:  $ 400 to hold a space. Balance due by start of program or by special arrangement with Susan.

Dates: Saturdays: February 20, March 20, April 17, May 15, June 26, July 17, September 4, October 9 and November 13, 2010.

Location: Portland area

Time: Monthly Saturdays from 10 am to 5:30 pm

Make checks payable to:  Susan Skye

In limited instances Susan is willing to create a payment schedule. In that event, you agree to pay for the entire series, whether or not you attend.

Refund Policy:  In the event that Susan cancels, all payments will be refunded in full. No refunds for the year will be given unless a person has attended at least four sessions consecutively or has a severe emergency.

Mail checks to:

Susan Skye

5264 Bonita Rd

Lake Oswego, 97035

For further information contact:

Susan: 503.245.5735

E-mail: susanskye@gmail.com

other info and trainings: nvcti.com

For detailed information about this workshop, please go to our website: http://www.nvcti.com/creatingsystemicchange.html

Over the years we've had a lot of people in our trainings express
interest & excitement about bringing NVC into businesses &
organizations, and now we have developed a training to support those
who are venturing into this territory.

With his background
in owning & managing small businesses, Gregg has focused the last
eight years on facilitating needs-based consciousness in
organizations—first in his own 19-year-old business, and then as a
consultant to a variety of businesses & nonprofits including a
4-1/2 year engagement at a company that does pharmaceutical studies.

The intention within our work is to foster the fullness of needs-based
consciousness—the living energy of needs—such that we not only impact
the human relationships within the organization but we systemically
transform the organizational processes, strategies and structures to be
in harmony with this consciousness.

OUR INTENTIONS WITHIN THIS WORKSHOP

Share our experience of NVC/DSG as processes for organizational development

Develop NVC skills & needs-based consciousness, beyond the
intrapersonal & interpersonal, to encompass groups of people with a
common mission & aim

Learn to introduce NVC to people within businesses & organizations through inspiring rather than selling

Expand the mission of any organization so that it becomes a "living organization"

Introduce Dynamic Self-Governance (Sociocracy) as a framework to hold needs-based consciousness

Experience circles as the core organizational unit and explore the
dynamics within those circles that fulfill the needs of the
participants and the needs of the whole

Invite hands-on
practice of essential NVC organizational skills in facilitation of
meetings, expressing & hearing disagreement without blame,
mediating conflicts and coaching

Explore how common
processes—e.g. meetings, employee reviews, hiring, terminations of
employment, email communications—are transformed to create an
environment of authenticity, connection & mutual interdependence
within the organization

Witness—and learn the skills of—a new leadership that emerges in living organizations

Learn the crucial role of systemic feedback for a living organization to thrive

Varied Learning Modalities

Large group sessions
to enhance awareness of significant concepts using short lectures
combined with role play demonstrations and somatic "whole body"
exercises.

An integral Business Simulation
throughout the workshop provides a common context for dynamic learning
through role plays and group interactions … every participant has a
role in the business

Each participant co-creates and participates in a small group of three to five people called an Affinity Group
which has scheduled time to meet each day of the workshop with the
purpose of practicing and integrating core concepts and applying the
workshop material to your real-world situations

Each day has scheduled Personal Integration
time in which each participant makes choices as to how to best
integrate the material, e.g. an information discussion with another
participant, personal reflection, taking a walk, etc.

We
encourage you to "get out of your head," tap into your creativity and
experience the core concepts and awarenesses using somatic movement exercises and simple percussion instruments.

Each evening we invite everyone to a Community Meeting
to celebrate and mourn our experience of the day, to offer feedback,
and to reflect on how we are doing at creating community.

On the final evening of the workshop, we host a Grand Finale Celebration where each participant is invited to express how we intend to carry this transformative work out into the world.

We invite participants to offer session of their own that they want to share with other participants in Open Evening Sessions 

Each participant receives a comprehensive 100+ page Participant Workbook that includes session notes, drawings and diagrams, and supplemental resources. See the following sample from the Workbook:

Co-CreatingtheLearningEnvironment.pdf

Intended Participants

Business owners, managers and NVC/DSG "champions" who want to integrate NVC/DSG into their businesses and non-profits

Consultants who want to facilitate the integration of NVC/DSG into client organizations

Certified & non-certified NVC trainers who want to facilitate the integration of NVC/DSG into client organizations

DSG (Sociocracy) consultants who want to understand how NVC integrates into DSG

Vision
The 9-month Facilitate Change program supports the development of social change leaders and their organizations to create the change they wish to see in the world. By applying the consciousness and skills of compassionate, Nonviolent Communication to social change projects, Facilitate Change fosters “compassion in action” at a personal, group, and international level, taking tangible steps towards creating a world where human needs are peacefully met.

Dreaming Big: Eyes on the Prize
Through sharing an NVC-based approach to social change with an ever-widening circle of activists, our goal is to transform societal beliefs, institutions and practices so as to create a partnership/power-sharing society where basic human needs are met, all needs held with care, and human beings can live together free of violence. Inspired by NVC principles, we seek to create a social activism that is holistic, sustainable, inspiring, powerful, and joyful—transforming hearts, minds, individuals and the world.

Mission
We offer a project-based leadership program, including three residential intensives and an on-line learning community, to foster and support NVC-based social change projects and initiatives. By expanding the number of people who can apply NVC practices to organizations and social change work, the Facilitate Change program contributes to creating a world where all human needs (and the needs of all life) matter and are held with care.

How Nonviolent Communication Supports Social Change
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) offers practical skills to support a consciousness where individuals, groups and communities can fully hear each other, restore care and connection, and discover new strategies that work for everyone. NVC training offers integrated practices (such as deep/empathic listening, group facilitation skills, needs-based decision making) that can support organizations in doing their work and achieving their mission with flow, effectiveness, integrity and ease.

On a larger scale, Nonviolent Communication offers an integrated practice to support the transformation of society and culture towards a “partnership” or collaborative paradigm where all human needs and the needs of all life can be held with care.

Questions to Explore to Facilitate Change:
• What does a “partnership” or “shared-power” culture and society look like, both in our “own” culture/society/neighborhood/home and around the world?
• How do we go about creating such a society in a way that’s already “creating the change” (in integrity with our goal and vision)?
• How does the practice of Nonviolent Communication inform such social change (both in terms of vision and activism)?
• How, in exploring these questions, will the form and practice of our organizations and activism itself transform?

Building a Learning Community—a Live Lab for Social Action
Facilitating Change will address the interests and needs of new and experienced activists, those who work full time in non-profits and NGOs, as well as “grass roots” activists and those wanting support in social entrepreneurship; it will also support CNVC Certified Trainers and candidates for certification wishing to integrate social change in their NVC work and apply NVC skills to organizational planning and development.

In Facilitate Change, we will create a learning community of those who have social change experience and passion with those who are fluent in NVC. We seek to create a “live lab” where, as a community, we address social issues (such as race, class, sexuality, and gender, money and public space ) and our differences, pain, and incompletion in relation to these societal beliefs and practices. While exploring such issues (and how they impact us as a group/community, individually and as a society) we will also learn organizing and organizational skills informed by NVC practice, taking these “resources” back into the community through our social change projects and activist work.

Learning Objectives:
Participants will have an opportunity to develop internal resources and practical skills to:
• Transform enemy images
• Foster self-connection and choice
• Make powerful requests
• Address issues/structures related to diversity
• Shift how you relate to resources of time and money
• Facilitate meetings in NVC consciousness
• Build leadership capacity in others
• Stay grounded and in your own power in the face of authority/power-over
• Give life-serving, needs-based feedback
• Lead mediation and restorative justice circles
• Lead NVC-based strategic planning
• Write and design value-based media
• Design, implement, and effectively manage projects
• Integrate NVC in everyday organizational operations
• Foster community and mutual support
• Work effectively with allied organizations/coalitions
• Create opportunities for social entrepreneurism

Facilitators
The lead facilitators are Dian Killian, Martha Lasley, Gina Cenciose, and Henry Wai. We bring NVC skills and experience in social change and leadership development. For information about each trainer go to http://facilitatechange.org/?q=node/7 During the year, guest trainers from the NVC network will offer special topics via TeleClasses.

We expect to attract many people who want to be part of this program and for the program team to reflect the broad skills, talents, and experiences of the NVC network. Wanting to support diversity, inclusion and the development of leadership within the network, we plan to include both “seasoned” NVC trainers and those relatively “new” as trainers who also bring key experience in organizing and social change.

Participants- Who will this program interest and support?
You don't have to come into the program with a project! You can develop your project during the program or support other participant's projects in whatever way you wish. Projects can be big or small - no pressure!

The NVC Social Change Program is designed to support:
• Those working in not-for-profit and social change organizations who want to maximize the impact of their organization’s vision and work
• Community organizers and grass roots activists who desire “partnership”-based skills to enhance the impact and effectiveness of projects and outcomes
• Activists wanting to create change around particular issues/concerns and desiring resources, skills, companionship, community and support in initiating, designing and implementing a social change project
• “Seasoned” activists and organizers who want to re-invigorate and inspire their organization/mission/work with a community of those practicing a “consciousness-based” form of social change, and the skills to sustain it
• Those interested in learning NVC at depth who are drawn to social change as a way of bringing their NVC skills into the world
• NVC trainers and candidates for CNVC Certification who want to learn about applying NVC to social change and creating NVC-based social change projects
• Those wanting to create social-change enterprises and/or initiatives and desiring community, companionship, support and the integration of NVC principles in their “business” and/or organization’s ventures

Led by a team of CNVC Certified Trainers, completing the FC program also counts towards Certification hours with the Center for Nonviolent Communication.
Retreat Dates
The dates for the 2009 retreats are:
April 1st-5th
August 19th-23rd
October 21st-25th

Each retreat will begin at 5pm on Wednesdays and close at 3pm on Sundays.

For more information please visit http://www.facilitatechange.org/?q=node/6