NVC for All - An 8 week Nonviolent Communication Course Attending to Power

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a powerful approach to interpersonal relationships which can transform your ability to care for yourself while enhancing the quality of connections with people with whom you interact. This can be used in personal as well as professional settings.

This course shares NVC and its power to support connection, but also adds an awareness of power, privilege and equity issues. This new integrated approach of NVC has been developed by course mentor Dr Roxy Manning, clinical psychologist and certified trainer and assessor for the Center for Nonviolent Communication.

Over eight sessions, we’ll cover the fundamental concepts of Nonviolent Communication. And we’ll go further. We’ll learn about the ways in which some uses of Nonviolent Communication can inadvertently replicate larger societal structures that silence and disempower people from historically marginalised groups. While we explore the four steps of the basic model, and include strategies to integrate awareness of power, privilege and social inequities designed to decrease the likelihood that the model will perpetuate existing social inequities. We will look at ways to use Nonviolent Communication to lift up and discuss inequities when they exist, rather than contribute to silencing and erasure.

If you’re excited about learning Nonviolent Communication in a way that can support your desire to address larger systemic inequities in addition to supporting personal change, please join us!

What will we explore in the class?

In this course, we plan to:

• Identify what’s important in any situation
• Enhance self-awareness and our capacity to name our experience in the moment
• Promote fierce self-knowledge and self-advocacy
• Strengthen our capacity to acknowledge and lean into interdependence
• Name systemic, oppressive conditions and their internalized impacts on our communication and relationships
• Acknowledge harm and impact in order to support healing and repair
• Develop our capacity to listen to anyone to get to the heart of the matter, even when we disagree with them
• Support healing and repair interpersonally and in our communities
• Explore creative strategies for healing that are aligned with our values
• Recognize and celebrate cultural attributes

What will the class structure be like? We’ll include:

• Ample class time for practice and questions
• An option to pair up with an empathy buddy for learning and healing
• Practice exercises to work on between class meetings
• Extensive journals and worksheets
  
  We’ll meet twice monthly for 2 hours on Zoom, on the following days and times:
  
  Saturday 25 January 10am-12pm GMT
  Saturday 8 February 10am-12pm GMT
  Saturday 22 February 10am-12pm GMT
  Saturday 8 March 10am-12pm GMT
  Saturday 22 March 10am-12pm GMT
  Saturday 5 April 10am-12pm GMT
  Satursday 19 April 6pm-8pm GMT NB different time
  Saturday 3 May 6pm-8pm GMT NB different time

I am excited to be offering this comprehensive approach to NVC that integrates the needs-based consciousness with a critical awareness of power and privilege. For this series only, I will teach NVC for ALL while getting indepth mentoring directly from Roxy Manning, to ensure that you get the most cutting edge thinking on how to apply this to address long standing inequities. Since I’ll be learning along with you, I’m offering this class on a sliding scale basis. I invite you to contribute what you are able. Your contribution will support both my sustainability and Roxy’s.

I invite people who are new to NVC as well as experienced practitioners. I am especially keen to support those from historically marginalised communities. Please get in touch if you require further support or have any questions.

TICKET PRICE INCLUDES ALL 8 SESSIONS
All sessions will be recorded and made available to participants

Lead Facilitator: Rehana Begum, an experienced practitioner in organisational development and inclusion.

Supported by Benjamin Cook, a facilitator, coach and producer working with gestalt and clean language