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Convergent Facilitation

differences to increase the chances that everyone at the table can offer their needs, ideas, and concerns and speak frankly about what really matters to them. It even works with highly polarized groups, like the longtime political enemies who used Convergent Facilitation to pass landmark legislation in Minnesota. Who It’s For If you work with groups that make decisions and need to collaborate...
The Four Responses Exercise Cards

and develop skills to respond with empathy and express honestly. Keywords: Rachelle Lamb Dialogue preparation conversation preparation learning tool NVC mechanics practice roleplay Practice Groups facilitation facilitator response NVC consciousness triggers
The Unconquerable Virus Of Cult

Even groups and organizations with noblest visions can slide into cult-like swamps. The reasons that bring people together are irrelevant; whether it's politics, spirituality, activism, art… a hidden hierarchy, plus dominance and submission dynamic can sprout, and beliefs that “we, our leader, and our path is better than others, we have all the answers”. As a member it can be hard to see. Here...
The Lonely Trainer

a sad heart, as I had learned and experienced so much in that group. Afterwards I was working as a psychotherapist for 12 years and somehow became very popular amongst survivors of various cult groups, gurus, abusive therapists… Working with them all gave me an incredible insight into the phenomenon. And still nowadays, when collaborating with various trainers and facilitators around the globe,...
Nonviolent Facilitation as a Path to the Future

Access this complete 3 session course What does nonviolence have to do with group facilitation? Miki believes that nonviolence is a way of being and living that orients us in all our thoughts, words and deeds toward the integration of truth, love and courage. All nonviolent individual and collective actions are aimed at preserving what serves life and challenging what does not. Facilitation is...
Creating More Efficient Meetings

Trainer Tip The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. —Lin Yutang I often hear people express their discontent with meetings. They say meetings are long and unproductive. In my experience, meetings are unproductive when the participants aren’t clear about their needs or what they want from the group. If five people hold a meeting and they all express an opinion without...
Connect Before Correct

Ask the Trainer Dear Trainer, I have a question which has been running through my mind for some days now. It was sparked off in our NVC weekly practice group. I was sitting there trying to connect to my reasons for wanting to give empathy to a person who was telling us about some very painful feeling she was having, without connecting to her needs. I recalled hearing Marshall say something like...
Interdependence in Action

The awareness and practice of interdependence is integral to holding an NVC consciousness. Practicing interdependence also means bringing in a quality of care in the moments we want to change agreements with others. This article talks about where our various choices, in regards to changing agreements, fits into different levels of engaging our interdependence. Read this article Keywords:...
Trauma and Sanctuary

One clue we have trauma is when we respond in a way we don't want (eg. being reactive, self sabotaging, etc). Even when we have high level NVC skills our trauma-related mechanisms can activate, and we can lose access to well honed NVC skills. Read on for approaches that involve healing trauma, and approaches that involve managing the effects of trauma and preventing additional trauma. Read this...
Equitable Facilitation

Access this complete 4 session course To get stuff done, groups need to come together. What happens when the group is composed of individuals who share the same mission, but who vary widely in their life experiences? So many times, those groups start out with a clear sense of the ‘what’ that is bringing them together, but fall apart as they try to navigate the ‘how’ of being together. There are...