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Join us for the Dance Floor Festival in July
Would you like to spend five days with one of the developers of the NVC Dance Floors next month?
NVC Parenting: article in The Times!
Hi Everybody,
I’m delighted to say that the article on NVC parenting I helped a journalist from The Times write last year has just appeared in print under the title: ‘All we are saying is: give peace a chance’. The online version features my friend and colleague Sarah Ludford, and Helen Bone, who has been attending [...]
Restorative Circles: an application of NVC
Hi All,
I found this an inspiring and clear introduction to Restorative Circles (NVC applied to Restorative Justice), by their developer, Dominic Barter.
Warmly, Shantigarbha
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Celebration of the Sri Lankan residential training
We’ve just finished a ten-day residential training here in Sri Lanka. We trained a group of fifty Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims from all parts of the country. I’m still feeling uplifted. As far as I know, everybody’s expectations were exceeded in terms of the depth of mutual understanding and community that we felt.
Happy New Year from Sri Lanka!
Here are four short clips from a TV interview I did when I was here in Sri Lanka before. I had a lot of fun doing the puppet show in clip #2!
Sri Lanka International Training plus 2010 dates
We are offering a 10 day International training in Nonviolent Communication from Feb 1-10th, to be held in Sri Lanka…
NVC UK Summer Camp report
Unfurling the Giraffe on the Rainbow Mill
Hi All,
A month has passed since the first NVC Camp in the UK at the Rainbow Mill in North Norfolk, UK. I wanted to write a report about it to celebrate what we created and to inspire others to do the same. There were about sixty-five people, including about [...]
Teapot and Bag: an NVC inner conflict process
While I was in Birmingham, UK last month I ran a training on NVC and Conflict. One of the exercises I led through was on inner conflict – how to mediate a conflict between two different strategies to enrich your life.
Giraffe and Jackal ears exercise
Participants at Stourbridge NVC training demonstrating Giraffe and Jackal ears. Left-Right: Jackal Out, Jackal In, Giraffe In, Giraffe Out
A month ago I did an exercise with a group of participants on a training in Stourbridge, UK, famous for its Rudolph Steiner connection and the Camphill Trust. The purpose of the exercise was to get clear [...]
We’ve all hurt someone: NVC in prison
This time I felt excited and curious about visiting the men of the ‘Khanti Outreach’ Buddhist meditation and study group at Concord state prison. Though I hadn’t been for nearly a year, I’d often thought about the men and how they were getting on with their lives, so it wasn’t a shock to see the walls and razor wire of the prison…