Fwd: Conflict Mediation for Social Change - John Kinyon - March 14

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"Common Circle Education" <newsletterConflict Mediation for Social Change - John Kinyon - March 14 Dear Friends,We hope you will be able to join us for this incredible workshop with John Kinyon, trainer with the Center for Non-Violent Communication and founder of BayNVC. What: Conflict Mediation for Social Change WorkshopWho: John Kinyon (johnkinyon.com)When: March 14th - 10-6pmWhere: Common Circle Education - Berkeley 2130 Center Street - commoncircle.com/berkeleyCost: $150 (early registration before March 1st) $225 (afterwards) Registration: http://commoncircle.com/medeventWhen there’s conflict, do you want to learn how to:∼ Facilitate mutual understanding and compassionate connection∼ Empathically connect to others’ experience when it’schallenging ∼ Translate judgments into need language with greater ease ∼ Return to presence, connection & compassion with self and others∼ Support clear requests and collaborative solutions Would you like to develop skills in various conflict contexts?∼ Effectively mediate as a “third side†professionally or in work?∼ Lend your skills to support people in conflict in life?∼ Peacefully resolve conflicts you are having with others?∼ Transform warring voices in your own head?∼ Apply mediation skills to conflict coaching & group work?Central to our training is the conviction that increasing your capacity to be with conflict and intervene effectively involves learnable skills. This one-day workshop gives an introduction to our training program that we’ve developed over the past 7 years, which strengthens your abilities to apply the skills of NonviolentCommunication (NVC) to all aspects of conflict - inner and outer,in your own life as well as others’, and in all types of conflict situations – from business/organizational to personal, family and community relationships. Emphasis is placed on seeing one’s relationship with conflict as a life practice of returning to presence (i.e. mindful awareness) and mediating from empathic connection with the needs of self and others and making clear,“doable†requests to meet the needs of all compassionately.Our training offers: a five-step model, nine mediation skills, a pre-post mediation framework, four mediation contexts (internal, self-other, informal and formal), mediator self-care and applications to conflict such as conflict coaching, mediating with groups, “accreted†mediation, and reconciliation when there is deeper interpersonal pain. The NVC mediation process can also usedto transcend inner conflicts and outer challenges regarding professional development issues such as sustainability, livelihood and relationship with money. At the heart of the training is a three chair process designed to create an experiential environment with multiple modes of learning, based in real time feedback, in-the-moment coaching and self-directed learning. Communication and mediation skills and challenges are differentiated and layered in ways that you can direct the level of challenge and complexity within your particularlearning zone. On a larger process level, the training itself is set up for you to “mediate your life,†with the opportunity to “put into the chairs†real conflicts from your own life and mediatethe needs of self and others in practice situations and in the group process.About John Kinyon (www.johnkinyon.com)John has been training with NVC for over 10 years and togetherwith colleague Ike Lasater have been developing and evolving their approach to mediation and training for the past 7 years, beginning with a journey together to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to work with Afghan tribal elders in early 2002, shortly after the bombings following 9/11. From this experience they saw first hand that despite at least eight languages being used and layers of cobbled-together, ad hoc translation, connection to universal human needs and the NVC mediation approach worked even with a realdispute that came alive in the room during the training. Their mediation training now includes telecourses, workshops, residential retreats and year-long training programs in the U.S. and a growing number of countries around the world includingSweden, Holland, Poland, Hungary, and Australia.--common circle, inc. // 2130 center, berkeley, ca 94705preferences: http://commoncircle.com/pref