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Guided Dialogue

In this snippet from Duke Duchscherer's course, Restorative Dialogues: Transforming Conflict, Building Community Resilience, he shares a structured approach for conflict resolution or communication facilitation. It involves a facilitator guiding a conversation between two parties in conflict. The process begins with one party expressing their perspective while the other listens actively. The...
Parenting and Anger

Access this complete 5 session course Combine mediating conflict, parenting skills and study of brain science in this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace in your family. If you ’are tired of exploding, stuffing your anger, or living in endless hopelessness, take this course to learn practical tips for using anger to...
Healing and Reconciliation

Access this complete 7 session course Witness facilitating conflict between individuals and members of a group, where you’ll learn four immensely helpful and practical processes. These have been designed to dramatically augment your ability to respond effectively to and facilitate difficult situations – enabling you, the mediator, to ease suffering and create peaceful, fair solutions you can...
Create a Simple Restorative Agreement For Your Group

Conflict is normal and natural and yet we are still often surprised by it and unprepared to deal with it. You will come away from this session with the tools for creating simple agreements with your group about what to do when conflict arises. Keywords: Jo McHale Ceri Buckmaster Sarah Ludford restorative justice restorative Justice agreements conflict resolution conflict peace groups group...
Every Angry Message is a "Please"

Trainer Tip The only way to master love, is to practice love. —Don Miguel Ruiz Sometimes it is hard to remember, but every time someone speaks or acts in anger or frustration, he is saying "Please!" Consider the please when your child says, "We NEVER get to do what I want to do!" The child is saying, "Please, I want fairness and fun. I want to know that you care about my needs, too." How about...
Deescalate Yourself:

In times of conflict, it’s easy to lose touch with ourselves and our needs. In this heartfelt session, Jesse Wiens Chu shares three practical centering practices—rooted in the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)—to help you find your way back to self-connection, empathy, and choice. Through accessible tools drawn from both personal experience and frontline work, you’ll learn how to...
Peace Is Possible

Access this complete 4 session course When you see violence and conflict among your family, colleagues and neighbors, do you wish you could do something to offer an alternative to violence, force and domination? Listen to this 4-session course recording, and you will learn simple steps for transforming conflicts and mobilizing peace at home, at work and in the world. Through using NVC and...
Confidentiality Agreement

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, In the second meeting of our beginner’s NVC practice group, one of the participants asked us (the two facilitators) if there was any kind of confidentiality agreement that was typically used in NVC practice groups. That question stimulated a number of other participants to feel concerned about confidentiality. One person suggested that we have an agreement to use...
Introduction to NVC Mediation

This Introduction to NVC Mediation provides a conceptual overview and experiential taste of the NVC mediation learning model developed by John Kinyon and Ike Lasater. NVC mediation can be applied to conflict in all types of situations — from organizational and community to personal relationships, and in four mediation contexts – internal, interpersonal, informal, and formal – as well as pre-...
Embracing Nonviolence

Access this complete 4 session course Gandhi spoke about applying nonviolence in thought, word, and action. The heart of the practice of nonviolence is a commitment to live through the powerful combination of compassion, fierceness, and courage, with an uncompromising willingness to stand for truth. The purpose of this course is to place NVC within the tradition of nonviolence and to support...