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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.

TIME: 10 am - 5 pm

A small one day workshop led by Jeff Brown, Jeff is a certified trainer, the North American Dance Floor distributor and Director of an NVC nonprofit organization in Columbus, Ohio. 

Hosted by Gina at her home in Farnham, Surrey.

Join us for an exploration of how abundance consciousness is interwoven
with NVC, and brings NVC consciousness fully alive in our lives.

In Jeff's words: “I told the participants of our recent course on NVC and
Abundance that instead of taking a vow of poverty, I took a ‘vow of
abundance.’  Why did I do this? I have been so deeply moved by the
transformational work of NVC. Because I see NVC consciousness to be closely
aligned with Abundance Consciousness -- essentially the same, as I see it -- it is
unfathomable for me to embody NVC consciousness while carrying around a
deficit mentality when it comes to my own sustainability and sufficiency.”

This workshop will help you integrate the living reality of abundance into your
practice of NVC -- whether you practice NVC purely in your personal life, or
share it as a livelihood.

We will practice releasing scarcity thinking and discovering the true nature of
joyful giving and receiving -- which helps us to surrender outdated ideas of
self-deprivation that undermine the core NVC principle of everyone's  needs
mattering equally.

You will learn how to:
• Identify when you are operating out of scarcity consciousness, and how to
shift to abundance;
• Transform limiting core beliefs around money, abundance, and prosperity;
• Differentiate money (a common strategy) from abundance (the underlying
state of consciousness);
• Bring full expression to the concepts of joyful giving and receiving; and
• Integrate abundance as a foundation in your life.

This workshop is designed for people with a basic understanding of NVC and who have had some NVC training experience.  

Fee requested: £70.  Bring and share lunch.
For more information on Jeff's work in this area visit: 
http://www.nvcabundance.org

To book: http://www.NvcDanceFloors.com or email:admin [at] NvcDanceFloors [dot] com
or tel: 0845 456 1050

Communicating Through Conflict

• In relationships that matter, at home and at work
• Being connected to our deeper intentions
• Responding to what is actually happening

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

This workshop will present the systemic approach developed by Dominic Barter as he has worked with organizations, schools, families, court systems, intentional communities and prisons. Applied in the Brazilian Justice and Education systems, this process makes profound use of Nonviolent Communication to reconnect those separated by conflict and support them in reaching agreed action.

Through dynamic exploration of the key concepts that underlie this model, participants experience the loosening of closed ideas, the uncovering of human motives behind painful choices and the discovery of effective strategies to meet pressing needs. The practice will be grounded in a step-by-step process, and illustrated through examples - including video of live Restorative Circle sessions. Application in different social contexts – such as education, neighborhood and church groups, families and business - will be explored. Finally, participants will begin exploring the application of this new resource in their communities.

Cost: contact Henry Wai wai_renooy [at] sympatico [dot] ca    Registration required: contact Henry Wai wai_renooy [at] sympatico [dot] ca