NVC Facilitator Gathering (Online) 2020-A Fundraising Event

This years Annual Gathering is to be held online due to the pandemic, there is an option for people to self-organise in local in-person pods, subject to local COVID 19 restrictions.  These are unprecedented times where the benefits of our gifts and services in the world are perhaps needed more than ever, from personal well-being to revolutionary social change. Ahimsa* peoples! (*Ahimsa = Nonviolence as Gandhi used it, "to refer to our natural state of compassion when violence has subsided from the heart"  Marshall Rosenberg)   Strengthen

• • An opportunity for existing weaves to give and receive feedback.
  • Celebrate and tap into the creativity of our individual and collective skills and strength and to enjoy the activity of working together.
  • Contribute to Open Space for topics of group interest to emerge.

  Evolve

• Continue to work with last year's emergent theme of ‘better organising our network’.
• Contribute to the NVC-UK website with your payment to the annual gathering and your ideas and feedback etc, so that it better serves and reflects the activities of the NVC UK network (more about this below)
• Add your voice to the discussions about professionalising the work of NVC Sharers (certified or not) within the UK

  The NVC Facilitator Gathering is a Fundraising Event for NVC Matters UK CIC The cost of the annual gathering is on a sliding scale from £60-£150 however, if you want to come and cannot afford to contribute we would love you to attend - we don't want anyone not to come because of cost. All contributions are valued because we have some big costs to cover in the upcoming year that are vital to the ongoing evolution and contribution of NVC in the UK. Below, we share how your financial contribution (however big or small) will be supporting NVC MATTERS UK CIC. NVC-UK Website

• Transferring our hosting to a new coder, ongoing maintenance and streamlining ‘back end’ for ease of use now the site is becoming more complex.
• Improving search facilities (particularly for regional searches and trainer specialisms).
• Updating the design and ease around functionality.
• Making the site more interactive for the general public.
• Creating an interesting easily searchable library of resources for various groups such as trainers, educators, corporations, parents etc.
• One page for cnvc certified and non-certified facilitators
• Communicating professional standards and ethics about the systems we operate for trainers/sharers of NVC and the way we collaborate, grow and organise.

If you have any concerns regarding the funds from this event contributing to the management and operation of  NVC-UK website - do let us know. We hope you will make the most of this opportunity to join us this year and: connect, meet foundational needs, strengthen and evolve, both as an individual trainer/facilitator/ sharer of NVC, in collaboration with others, and as a community in the UK. Please consider investing in yourself and in contribution to others by bringing your presence, giving and receiving from the heart, curiosity and playfulness. WHAT'S INCLUDED?

• community times
• connection
• games
• giraffe raffle
• updates from NVC groups in the UK
• hot topics
• opportunities
• **optional self-organised in-person pods

  **IN PERSON PODS.  We acknowledge that for some there is no substitute for in-person getting together and so, should you wish, there is the opportunity to self organise, with coordination support, in person pods... to intentionally meet while making clear self-responsibible choices within the context of Governmental (COVID) and personal guidelines, at your own risk. The suggestion is that these would happen in parallel to the online event of Saturday 28th November, for example between 10am and 3pm, with the option of reporting back/ sharing the harvest during the online community time that follows Who is it for? Anyone considering themselves as an NVC sharer/facilitator/trainer in UK including trainer candidates When?7.15 for 7.30pm Thursday November 26th finishing by 1pm Sunday November 29th 2020 Hosts: Annie Scott, Ozge Altinkaya and others, with administrative support from Therese Bentley Costs: Between £60 and £150 to cover expenses and contribute to the ongoing NVC Matters UK CIC website development.  Please speak to Annie Scott mob 07756672392 if you have another request around payment Payment to: NVC MATTERS UK CIC  Account number: 65974126    Sort Code: 08-92-99 Next Steps: * For further information: anniescott@clara.co.uk