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Over the years we've had a lot of people in our trainings express
interest & excitement about bringing NVC into businesses &
organizations, and now we have developed a training to support those
who are venturing into this territory.

With his background in owning & managing small businesses, Gregg has focused
the last seven years on facilitating NVC consciousness in
organizations—first in his own 19-year-old business, and then as a
consultant to a variety of businesses & nonprofits including a
3-1/2 year engagement at a company that does pharmaceutical studies.
Susan brings her 15+ years of experience of NVC, along with specific
engagements of bringing NVC into the British Columbia provincial
government and General Motors.

The intention within our work is to foster the fullness of NVC consciousness—the living energy
of needs—such that we not only impact the human relationships within
the organization but we systemically transform the organizational
processes, strategies and structures to be in harmony with this
consciousness.

Our intention within this workshop is to:

• Share our experience of NVC as a process for organizational development
• Develop
  NVC skills & consciousness, beyond the intrapersonal &
  interpersonal, to encompass groups of people with a common mission
  & aim
• Learn to introduce NVC to people within businesses & organizations through inspiring rather than selling
• Expand the mission of any organization so that it becomes a "living organization"
• Introduce Dynamic Self-Governance (Sociocracy) as a framework to hold NVC consciousness
• Experience
  circles as the core organizational unit and explore the dynamics within
  those circles that fulfill the needs of the participants and the needs
  of the whole
• Invite hands-on practice of essential
  NVC organizational skills in facilitation of meetings, expressing &
  hearing disagreement without blame, mediation and coaching
• Explore
  how common processes—e.g. meetings, employee reviews, hiring,
  terminations of employment, email communications—are transformed to
  create an environment of authenticity, connection & mutual
  interdependence within the organization
• Witness—and learn the skills of—a new leadership that emerges in living organizations
• Learn the crucial role of systemic feedback for a living organization to thrive

Intended Participants

• People who want to integrate NVC into their organizations (businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, community groups, etc.)
• Consultants who want to facilitate the integration of NVC into client organizations
• Certified & non-certified NVC trainers who want to facilitate the integration of NVC into client organizations

SEE WEBSITE FOR COMPLETE INFO: www.nvctraininginstitute.com

This workshop, consisting mainly of exercises and role plays, is for those who have had at least a one day introductory training in NVC and wish to increase their fluency in the process. Enrollment will be limited to 20 people and there will be an hour lunch break. About the Workshop Leader: Gary Baran is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and served as executive director of the Center from 1998 until 2006. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a member of the board of directors of the Oregon Network for Compassionate Communication.Tuition: $50. To register, please mail check for tuition, payable to Gary Baran, to: 2777 Sorrel Way, Eugene, OR 97401. Include your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address, and indicate the check is payment for the December 13th intermediate workshop. If you would like more information or are registering within a week of the training, please email Gary at garybaran@gmail.com or call him at 541-343-3885 to be sure there is still space open.

Location(s)

Eugene, OR

Get a good night's sleep prior to the training.

WHEN: Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:30 am to 4:30 pm (lunch break from 12:30 to 1:30 pm)
WHERE: Spiritual Growth Center 390 Vernal St., Eugene, OR
FEE: $50
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER: Gary Baran is a Certified Trainer for the Center for Nonviolent Communication; a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy; a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist; and was executive director of CNVC from 1998 until 2006. For more information, call Gary at 541-343-3885. To register, send check (payable to Gary Baran) to: 2777 Sorrel Way, Eugene, OR 97401 Include your mailing address, phone number, and email address, and indicate the check is payment for the October 25th workshop. Space is limited so please register as soon as you can. If you are registering within a week of the training, please call Gary to be sure there is still space open. Refund policy: If you have registered and need to cancel, a full refund will be provided if you cancel by October 19th. No refund will be given thereafter.

Welcome to Stockholm and

SKARPNÄCKS FREE SCHOOL

23 October 2008

9:30 am – 4:00 pm

We open our school this day to share 10 years of experience in building a school

based on the principles of inclusion and partnership relations. The students work from willingness without punishments or rewards. Nonviolent Communication is our main source of inspiration and guidance. We want to share how we:

1.  create a safe and supportive learning environment
2.  organize our school to live democracy in practice
3.  handle conflicts
4.  sustain our vision from compassion and cooperation

During the day you will meet teachers, students, participants of the school board, and parents. You will also get a glimpse of what a school-day at Skarpnäcks looks like,

and visit some classes to see how they work.

Skarpnäcks free school address: Horisontvägen 24, Skarpnäck, Stockholm

Tuition: SEK 2.500 (+VAT), €270. This fee includes the visit day the 23 October. Coffee and tea in breaks are included.

Accommodation will be in hostels or hotels central in Stockholm at extra cost (or private stay in the school/NVC community). We will support participants in finding accommodation.

Registration: towe.widstrand@humanmatters.se,

If you interested in this training please send and email to towe.widstrand@cnvc.se and you will get the registration form. Send registration form at the latest 15 Sept.

More information: marianne@cnvc.se or towe.widstrand@humanmatters.se

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Skarpnäcks free school started with an initiative from a group of parents .They were worried about how their seven-year-olds already were loosing their desire to learn and go to school. These parents wanted a different kind of school for their children—one based on democratic principles outlined in our national curriculum and respectful compassionate interactions, a place where their children could be more active in their learning and free to express themselves.

In 1998 teachers and parents together started to build a school from inclusion, with partnership relations, where students work from willingness, without punishments and rewards. Nonviolent Communication has been the main inspiration and guidance in this work. Now we have 80 students, age between 6 and 15, and we celebrate rewarding results after 10 years of exploring new, more life-affirming ways to be in school and educate our children.