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News from CCCC...
(Updated March 12, 2008)
NEW WORKSHOP!
Creating Systemic Change in Organizations: Moving Businesses & Organizations toward NVC Consciousness
This
4-day workshop sponsored by the NVC Training Institute and Basileia LLC
is designed for those who want to bring the skills & awareness of
NVC into their organization, or for consultants & NVC Trainers who
want to facilitate the integration of NVC into their client
organizations. Details ...
- Mon-Thu, Sep 29 - Oct 2, 2008
near PORTLAND, OREGON at Menucha Retreat & Conference Center
NEW WORKSHOP!
Creating Compassionate Groups
Beyond intrapersonal skills and interpersonal skills,
bringing NVC consciousness into your group challenges you with
completely new skills and awarenesses. Within this workshop, we'll
explore the essential skills of bringing NVC into groups including
power resting in circles of people rather than individuals; the
importance of connection, inclusion, autonomy & mutuality within
these circles; how leadership transforms to be "power with" rather than
"power over"; and how Dynamic Self-Governance provides a framework to
hold the consciousness of NVC.Details ...
- Fri, April 25, 2008, Charlottesville
Take online NVC courses at the NVC Academy. NVC Live! is a multimedia subscription program that provides dynamic, exciting opportunities to learn Nonviolent Communication from a worldwide network of certified NVC trainers for only $10 USD per month!
Included on NVC Live! is a 3-Part segment entitled "Inspiring Organizations/Businesses to Consider NVC" and a 2-Part segment entitled "Bringing NVC into Organizations & Businesses" both by Gregg Kendrick.
New NVC workshops scheduled in Charlottesville.
- NVC Foundations May 16, 2008
- Creating a Compassionate World within Ourselves
June 20, 2008 - Creating Compassionate Interactions & Relationships
July 25, 2008
Come to an NVC Intro session scheduled in Charlottesville on Mar 18 or May 13. Details ...
NVC Practice Groups in Charlottesville, Richmond, Lexington & Roanoke are active & welcoming new participants. Details ...
We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy by John Buck & Sharon Villines. An overview of Dynamic Self-Governance (Sociocracy)
What is Compassionate or Nonviolent Communicationsm?
- Imagine connecting with the human spirit, in each person, in any situation ...
- Imagine interacting with others in a way that allows everyone's needs to be equally valued ...
- Imagine creating organizations and life-serving systems responsive to our needs and the needs of our environment ...
The process of Nonviolent Communicationsm (NVC) helps connect us with what is alive in ourselves and in others moment-to-moment, with what we or others could do to make life more wonderful, and with an awareness of what gets in the way of natural giving and receiving.
NVC strengthens our ability to inspire compassion from others and respond compassionately to others and ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves, how we hear others and resolve conflicts by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing, feeling, needing, and requesting. It gives us new choices in responding to conflict that we may not be aware we have.
Through the practice of Nonviolent Communication we are able to begin to create peace within ourselves, so that we are able to extend that peace into the relationships that matter to us. Viewed through NVC eyes, all anger and violence--both in the world at large and in our own personal lives--is a tragic and counter-productive attempt by people to meet their needs.
NVC is a process of empathy and honesty, and is sometimes described as "the language of the heart."
Marshall Rosenberg developed the concepts and practice of NVC nearly 40 years ago, based in part on the teachings of psychologist Carl Rogers. In 1984 Marshall founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication which promotes training and use of NVC on a worldwide basis. In 1999 he published the book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Lifewhich describes the process of NVC and in 2005 published the book Speak Peace in a World of Conflict. He engages in peacemaking around the world.
Charlottesville Center for Compassionate Communication
The goal of this site is to foster awareness & consciousness of NVC within Central Virginia and to assist those who want to learn more in finding additional resources.
About Basileia LLC
Basileia LLC helps organizations--businesses, nonprofits, schools, churches, government agencies-- embrace the fullness of Nonviolent Communication. The benefits are a greater sense of meaning in our work, of community and of solidarity of purpose. A particular focus is leadership as "power-with" people, rather than "power-over" people. For details, go to www.basileia.org.
Would you like to see NVC embraced by your organization? We would be grateful for the opportunity to share the potential of NVC with your group. Contact Gregg Kendrick, 434.220.0437, nvcinfo@basileia.org.
