What we’re about
This group hosts events aimed at developing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) skills and consciousness, and creating community, based on the work and legacy of Marshall B. Rosenberg and his seminal book, 'Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Life'. It’s a place for community gatherings, peer practice sessions, training and more, run by NVC enthusiasts and sometimes London-based trainers certified by the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (https://www.cnvc.org). If inspired you are welcome to offer NVC-themed learning or social events.
Pathways to learning NVC
If you’d like to learn NVC via formal training, facilitated by London-based CNVC-certified trainers, then hop over to the London Page of the NVC-UK website and find out about the training pathway put together by Ceri Buckmaster, Cath Burke, Carolyn Davies, Daren De Witt, Pauline Doohan and Tracy Seed. We fund this page and are committed to creating community and a supportive network for those learning, living and sharing NVC in London. Many of our trainings are currently online, so if you live outside of London, you are welcome to participate.
For more information about NVC in London and the UK
• The main website for all UK NVC activities, training, practice groups, camps and residentials, blogs, resources and much more. Sign up for a regular newsletter with upcoming events and all things new around NVC in UK: https://nvc-uk.com
• NVC London Facebook for us Londoners to join and find out what is going on! Anybody can post here:[ https://www.facebook.com/groups/502984243229456/](https://www.facebook.com/groups/502984243229456/)
• Conflict Transformation Weave is a group of NVC practitioners who help NVC communities to pre-empt and respond to conflicts, by building internal agreements, developing skills and increasing resilience. They offer conflict transformation support when groups have done what they can and realise they need further support in order to move towards connection: https://ctw-uk.com/
Upcoming events
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a space for grief
Dorset Wharf Comminty Hall, 158 Rainville Road, West London, W6 9HN, London, GBThis is a space to meet our grief in words and sound.
Please Register Here
Grief needs to emerge slowly, without forcing. We will warm up slowly, talk about what we are grieving and find ways of expressing grief in gentle sound exploration.
- Arrive, gently explore how we will continue.
- Resource ourselves with exploring gratitude.
- Describe what we are individually grieving
- Resource ourselves with structured sound exploration.
- Space for exploring grief through sound Integration and grounding. This session plays with these guiding premises:
That Grief is Necessary (you can see a short video about each premise)
That Grief is about unmet needs
That Grief is Fermented Love
That Blame stops Grief
That sound alchemises painHow Grief is situated within my work:
I am a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication and a creative conflict practitioner, mediating with and skilling up people in various kinds of organisations, relationship structures and social settings.
A lot of my conflict work involves creating safer spaces to allow the free expression of grief and to increase capacity to hear it.
I am developing work that brings together Communication skills, Grief work and Conflict transformation as these 3 things are inextricably linked. I have been exploring my own grief and offering grief spaces since 2014, when I began allowing herself to grieve all the ungrieved things in life. Also working with verbal expression of grief, I starting researching embodied ways of expressing grief that seemed to work at a deeper, more mysterious, less logical level. I began witnessing for myself and others, how truly meeting grief softens and revitalises our beings.
Here is my website and contact details2 attendees
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