Are you an essential worker going out each day to keep the infrastructure going, or are you furloughed or working from home? Whatever it is you may be doing, I'm wondering how you are doing under … [Read more...]
Empathy hotline for medical personnel – Covid- 19
“If you are there for others, you need people who are there for you.”- Worldwide Empathy for Medics (WEM) Our answer to the COVID -19 crisis is to show that it is possible to be there for one … [Read more...]
Covid- 19 The border closed behind us – West Bank
International Nonviolent Communication Training (IIT) in Beit Jala, just outside Bethlehem, Palestine West Bank, in February 2020. Time, since I returned to London on March 8th, has passed in a blur, … [Read more...]
Self connection in the turbulent times of Covid-19
Self-connection in the turbulent times of Covid-19. Every day the amount of change has been so huge! Each day lately has felt like a week or even a month. Why? Because the amount of change every day … [Read more...]
Dementia Together with NVC
Dementia together with NVC “Take me home at once! Can you hear me?! Get me out of here! You wretched, stupid woman!” - shouted Yvonne, a lady in her late nineties, who was receiving care in her own … [Read more...]
Thinking invitations for nonviolent response teams
What next? Thinking invitations for our network Members of our network are considering on-going requests from Extinction Rebellion (see previous news “ It feels like the beginning of something"). … [Read more...]
“It feels like the beginning of something…”
A plea for nonviolence expertise gets a quick and competent response Laura Harvey, Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) shares. It all began with a phone call from an organisation … [Read more...]
Breakthroughs in transforming conflict
Embracing uncertainty It all started at the NVC gathering in 2016. I went anticipating a relaxing few days meeting old friends, making new connections and finding out about the New Futures Project. I … [Read more...]
Certification candidate stumbles upon self acceptance
Behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. Marshall Rosenberg Meeting needs – Self Acceptance Most lists of needs include Self … [Read more...]
Maria Arpa tells the “Guardian” about the work she has been completing in Dartmoor Prison
"At Dartmoor prison, inmates are being trained in mediation – a scheme experts hope will tackle the nationwide surge in violence" Last year, this category C men’s prison began working … [Read more...]