This workshop runs ONLINE over Saturday and Sunday 2-5pm UK time
A 6-hour experiential training for navigating difference, tension and power with greater awareness, choice and self-connection.
NVC offers powerful practices for staying connected to ourselves and others when conversations become difficult. But what happens when the people in a conversation do not have equal power? When hierarchy, identity, privilege, exclusion, institutional authority or access to resources shape what can be said, heard or decided?
Power affects communication — and communication can also reproduce or transform power.
Here are the aims of the day
To strengthen the foundations of your NVC practice
To increase understanding of power and how it impacts communication and choice
To remain grounded and self connected when navigating tension and difference.
We will:
Create a strong container
Create shared reality around understanding power, using various tools and frameworksSteven Lukes - 3 dimensions of power
Miki Kashtan's Scarcity, Separation, Powerlessness (and their antidotes) framing
Pathways to Liberation matrix
increase somatic self-empathy
Resource ourselves and explore options for challenging conversations
Practice giving and receiving feedback within different power dynamics
Body centred, Self-Empathy and Roleplays for exploring situations in which power plays out
All this with a compassionate lens!
The session will involve reflection, discussion, practice and role play.
