Laura Harvey
Name: Laura Harvey
Location: South East England, England
Laura has collaborated widely in the UK to offer consultancy and open access workshops in NVC and other since 2004. She has been involved in 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 and co-created online introductory training in nonviolence and de-escalation for XR activists. 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/
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.
Pronouns: She/her
