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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.
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.
Off to India & 2009 Training Dates Confirmed
Hi All,
We’re excited to be off to India tomorrow morning. Christa is with me for the first month, then I stay on for another two, taking in Sri Lanka. Here’s our schedule:
Dec 12 – 28, trainings at Bhaja retreat centre, near Pune, India
Jan 7 – 21, trainings at NVC Camp, Auroville, Pondicherry, India
Jan 22 – [...]
Obama on Empathy
Barack Obama
Hi there,
A few days ago I read something inspiring on empathy on the CNVC trainers’ email list. It was a passage from Barack Obama’s ‘The Audacity of Hope’ on the importance and nature of empathy. Gratitude to Alex Censor for posting it there.
There was also a link to a compilation of text and video [...]
Hi Everybody!
Shantigarbha and Christa in India, December 2007
Hi there!
We’ve been redesigning the seedofpeace.org website so that we can keep it up to date while we are on our travels (this picture shows us on a day out from our trainings in India last December – at Lohagaon Fort, near Pune, for those of you who were [...]