Laura Harvey

Name: Laura Harvey

Location: South East England, England

Laura collaborates as part of a group of facilitators who lead open access workshops in NVC and other restorative practices. She has worked widely in the UK in this capacity since 2004, building NVC community and expertise in Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, the North East (Newcastle) and the North West (Manchester, Hebden Bridge, Salford and Tameside).

Within NVC-UK she has supported the community to contribute to de-escalation work during climate protests; co-created online introductory training in nonviolence and de-escalation for XR activists; and coordinated offerings to an Empathy Matching initiative for Ukrainians and the Ukraine NVC network. You can read more about the first project on the news pages of this website if you're interested:

https://nvc-uk.com/2018/11/24/a-call-to-our-network-a-plea-for-nonviolent-expertise/

https://nvc-uk.com/2019/02/21/thinking-invitations-for-nonviolent-response-teams/

NVC Focus: A programme of public training and bespoke in-house consultancies.

Further practice:

Communication and systems work with NGOs and activists (priorities: the climate emergency,  power & privilege, nonviolent liberation work)

Leadership coaching

In-house team development and conflict transformation

Support for those working for nonviolent social change in areas of  health care (in particular supporting better mental health), peace-making, justice and environment

NVC education and parenting/fostering

Bespoke one-to-one work

The arts, particularly theatre and collaborating with writers

Other interests:

Convergent Facilitation

Contributing to Social Change as an ally

Mediation

MHFA for adults and for children

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Enneagram practitioner

Prison Reading Groups (PRG)

Celtic Christianity

Theatre (practitioner and literary manager 1992-2005)

Background

Concurrent with her training activities in NVC, Laura has worked  in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Nepal,  Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Brazil. She has 30 years’ experience in UK arts and NGO sectors, as a facilitator, writer and teacher in many different settings. In 2003 she ran the first NVC training in Cambodia. She continues to build awareness of global VAWG issues and Christian persecution in Pakistan.

Preferred Pronouns: She/her