Intermediate: Grounded Power & NVC In Person

NVC has the potential to support challenging conversations around power differences and imbalances, but you need awareness of systems themselves and of the ways you can ineffectively utilise NVC strategies and this can actually get in the way.

In this session, discover how to:

• look after yourself and others in difficult conversations about power differences,
• increase somatic self-empathy
• explore your own identity in relation to power
• stay with difficult conversations
• change your patterns (if necessary) and become more resilient in situations where an aspect of power is playing out

All this with a compassionate lens!

The session will involve reflection, discussion, practice and role play.

You can watch a short video about this session here.

Here is a testimonial from a participant

I’ve done other workshops addressing equality, diversity, inclusion, racism and privilege, but what made this one stand out – and, I think, made it effective – was regularly returning to our somatic and emotional responses and seeing these as important sources of information. I have sometimes felt frozen and afraid of ‘getting it wrong’ when approaching privilege from a cerebral place and the focus on my body helped me to begin to understand a different way of doing this work. (November 2023)

This is what we will cover in more detail

• Creating a container for doing this work with a group of people coming together for this purpose
• Body centred, Self-Empathy for exploring situations in which power and privilege play out
• Creating shared reality around understanding why understanding systems, power and privilege is important?
• Exploring your own aspects of power and privilege
• Othering and Centring that happens in communication
• How do domination systems, as Marshall Rosenberg called them,  affect you?
• Understanding unconscious bias/ othering/centring without falling into right and wrong or adversarial thinking
• Roleplay of challenging situations where an aspect of power and privilege is playing out

Notes:

       On the booking form, you can indicate if there is any aspect of your identify that you would appreciate being able to explore in breakout rooms eg any kind racial identity group, an all women group, an all men group, a group for people with disabilities etc  You can decide on the day what you do, and it might not be possible to offer you the group you would like. This is just letting you know in advance of this possibility and if you want to share anything with me about it.

I (Ceri) am white identifying and am working to understand how my racialised identity plays out and how I can mitigate for this. I bring some of this learning as a white person, to this course.

       If you have specific issues you need support with, eg mentoring around some work you are involved with, this session might not meet those needs of support. This session would be helpful if you want to discuss and reflect on power and privilege and reflect on how NVC can support you in this reflection and in conversations around this.

       Here is some information about money which I hope you will find useful.

 

You can choose to:

• pay up front
• or pay in 2 installments (50% now and 50% 14 days before the start of the training)

What to do:

Select the price range you want to pay and then on the next screen you will be able to choose whether to pay all up front or in two installment.

If you cannot pay any of these options suggested here:

• Please get in touch to tell me what works for you
• then I’ll give you a discount code so you can pay what is affordable for you.
• once I’ve given you a discount code, please select the lowest price ticket
• then enter the discount code on the next screen that you come to.
• you will then have the option to pay the discounted price in 2 instalments.

Refund Procedure
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If you cancel up to 1 week before the start date, I am willing to refund your contribution less £5 admin fee or transfer to a future training.

If you cancel less than 1 week before start date, I can transfer your booking to a future training.