Nonviolent Communication and NSP

NSP folks I meet want to learn how affirm their own spiritual values when talking to family/friends/neighbors/politicians who may differ radically in some spiritual and political policy values. At our 2006 Spiritual Activism Conference Inessa Love gave an excellent workshop on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which began to deal with what to do in a conversation when another in essence labels you a heretic/a person is has wrong ideas. She explored how continue the conversation when labeling occurs.

Another highly esteemed NVC teacher, and perhaps a mentor of Inessa, Miki Kastan from California, is going to be in Silver Spring on September 6, leading a workshop titled "No More Enemies: Radical Compassion for Everyone". The description says: How do we create peace in the world, when we cannot ourselves relate to others in peaceful ways?
In this day-long workshop, we will work to uncover deep-seated beliefs about the world, and transform them into: self-connection with our own needs, mourning of our unmet needs, and connection with the human needs of others which are behind any actions that we do not like. The workshop will include a special focus on empowering ourselves through making effective requests.

Leaders request that those who attend have had six hours of previous NVC instruction
(such as the local August 26 introductory workshop).

If you don't have 6 hours of prior NVC experience, an August 26 workshop will provide it. The theme for that workshop, by local NVC teachers including Inessa, is "Saying What You Want Without Regretting It Later" and it is 10am to 4pm near Dupont circle.

See: www.capitolnvc.org/ for details.

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NVC is a great tool for NSP, and we are fortunate to have local NVC trainers and skilled national NVC teachers come to this area.