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18 years NVC experience:
"A joy to work with. The best two days at work I’ve had in a long time."
About the Trainer – Laura Harvey (MA Cantab)
Laura Harvey is a certified trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication™. She collaborates as part of a group of facilitators who lead open access workshops in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) across the UK. She is keen to explore the social justice and liberation aspects of nonviolence held within NVC, in addition to
Laura studied with Marshall Rosenberg in Europe and the UK. She has worked widely as a CT in this country since 2004, especially Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield. She is now based in Oxford and works globally.
NVC Foci:
A programme of public training and bespoke in-house consultancies.
Bespoke organisational, one-to-one, couples and family work.
Three decades of experience working internationally in the NGO and Arts sectors
Multiple collaborations with local, regional and national movements working for social transformation. Prison setting facilitation.
Familiarity with Higher Education, secondary and Early Years settings, including direct work with young children (verbal and pre-verbal).
In addition to teaching the process as developed by Marshall Rosenberg, she is also trained in facilitating the NVC Dance Floor technology – a kinesthetic approach to learning Nonviolent Communication - and Convergent Facilitation (CF). CF is a combination of NVC and inclusive leadership, which supports effective decision-making, particularly in settings where purpose and "getting things done" are critical.
Additional Interests:
- Leadership coaching
- In-house team development and conflict work, including building feedback
systems
- Support for public sector workers, including senior leadership, police, local council
employees, frontline workers, teaching staff and SENCOs
- NVC parenting, looked after children and education
- Training for health and social care professionals, including hospital doctors, GPs,
mental health generalists and specialists, social workers, and psychological,
speech and occupational therapists
- Systemic awareness-building
- Theatre and collaborating with writers across media
Background: Concurrent with her training activities in NVC, Laura has worked in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Brazil. She has 30 years’ experience as a facilitator, writer and teacher in many different settings. In 2003 she ran the first NVC training in Cambodia, and over the last five years has collaborated on an initiative to raise awareness of global GBV issues in the UK and beyond. She is currently working with a diverse group of social change activists, over three continents, to research practices which operationalise and support the lived relationship between nonviolence and collective liberation.
Interests:
Anger, Anti-Racism, Climate Justice, Conflict Transformation, Domestic Abuse Prevention, Emotional Intelligence, Facilitation, Healing, Leadership, MBT, Mediation, Mental Health, Parenting, Power & Privilege, Relationships, Schools/Education, Social Change, Spiritual Growth, Systemics, The Enneagram, Trauma, Violence Prevention