International Intensive Training in France

Program

This event is a 9-day residential training designed as an “immersion experience” in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) for people at all levels of NVC understanding led by a team of experienced NVC trainers. This particular intensive will include the standard NVC International Intensive curriculum and will also have a special focus on the themes of Power/Rank Privilege, inclusion and equity.

Vision

To bring together the values of Non-Violent Communication (NVC) and social justice to support individuals in facing realities of the world we live in from the multiple social and cultural locations in which we live.

Purpose

To support the movement towards this vision by offering an intensive training in NVC that is informed by the following questions:

How does the lens of Power, Privilege, Access and Inclusion combine with the deep practices of NVC to create relationships with self, other, and the world?

What does social justice look like when putting needs at the center?

* We define power as the capacity to mobilize resources to attend to needs
** The dictionary definition of privilege is “a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people.” We also rely on Stephanie Wildmans’ definition of privilege as “the systemic conferral of benefit and advantage. Members of a privileged group gain this status by affiliation, conscious or not and chosen or not, to the dominant side of a power system.”

Goals

This will be the second international intensive training (IIT) of integrating NVC values and social justice under the theme of Power, Privilege, Access and Inclusion. We anticipate learning and co-creating together.

Prior exposure to NVC or to social justice work are not, in any way, an expectation or condition for attending.

Our goals are affected by this being a first:

Within the training:
Creating the conditions for people to be able to engage meaningfully with their own and others experiences, needs, and challenges across differences in power such as race, nationality, culture, and class.
Supporting people in engaging with their hearts and bodies to learn about and free themselves from the effects of trauma and power differences in their lives.
Facilitating significant learning of NVC principles and practices
Facilitating greater capacity in approaching the daunting task of learning about, mourning, and working to transform the existing power structures in the world.

Beyond the training:
Creating a community of people committed to carrying forward the work of integrating NVC with social analysis and practice.

Trainers

Bios for the trainers are included on the event website: https://www.france-nvc-intensive-2019.fr/

Jeyanthy Siva (Sri Lanka/Netherlands)
Roxy Manning (Haiti/United States)
Anne Bourrit (France)
Bob Wentworth (United States)
Sarri Bater (Sri Lanka/United Kingdom)