Level 2 – Intermediate: NVC for Skillful Conversations about Power

15th Nov 2025 - 16th Nov 2025
2-5pm UK time
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Led by: Ceri Buckmaster | Contact Ceri

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Having skillful conversations about power

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.

This is what we will cover

  • 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 called them (eg white supremacy) affect you?
  • Challenging people’s 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

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

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)

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, woman and am working to understand how my racialised and gender identity plays out and how I can mitigate for this where necessary. I bring some of this learning , 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.