Level 2 – Intermediate: NVC & Grounded 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 the overview

• Creating a container for doing this work with a group of people coming together for this purpose
• Creating shared reality around understanding why understanding systems, power and privilege is important
• increase somatic self-empathy
• explore your own identity in relation to power and privilege in a supportive, safer environment
• stay with difficult conversations
• do roleplays to become more resilient in situations where an aspect of power is playing out
• Body centred, Self-Empathy for exploring situations in which power and privilege play out
• Practice giving and receiving feedback in different power dynamics
• Explore the Pathways of Liberation Matrix

All this with a compassionate lens!

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)