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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...
Self-Empathy

Trainer Tip When you really listen to yourself, you can heal yourself. —Ceanna DeRohan It is true that we cannot fully understand other people until we understand ourselves. I tried to escape this for years. I told people that I was a caring and loving person. But deep down, I struggled to feel compassion. I was consumed with anger, resentment, and an overriding belief that I was never going to...
Hearing The Yes Behind The No

Trainer Tip "Why do you walk through the field in gloves When the grass is soft as the breasts of doves And shivering sweet to the touch?" —Frances Comford It is often easy for us to hear rejection when someone says “no” to us. If we focus on the rejection, we may feel hurt and fail to take the time to understand what is going on with them. However, if we focus on their feelings and needs, we...
Four Ways to Hear Any Message

Trainer Tip "Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love" —Don Miguel Ruiz How do you hear other people? In Nonviolent Communication, we see four possible ways to hear any message: 1. Judging or blaming others: You never think about my needs, or You’re always late. 2. Judging or blaming ourselves: I...
Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police

With a world in crisis, steeped in incomprehensible violence, how do we then live? What, if anything, could turn this around? Do we stand a chance? If we are all dying, let us die loving everyone, including ourselves and our former enemies. Let us come together behind wanting everyone to be free. Let us align means with ends as we envision a world that, against all odds, moves towards working...
Getting Started

Trainer Tip Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today. —Martial Take the first step today. Don’t wait until tomorrow. Want to have more love in your life? Be more loving right this moment no matter who is in front of you. Want to save more money? Go to your wallet right now and take out some money to put into your savings It doesn’t matter how much or how often. The reward is in taking the first...
Universal Needs

Trainer Tip It is right and necessary that we should be individuals. The Divine Spirit never made any two things alike— No two rosebushes, two snowflakes, two grains of sand, Or two persons. We are all just a little unique for each wears A different face; but behind each is One Presence—God —Ernest Holmes Every human being has the same universal needs. For instance, we all need support but we...
Beyond The Tyranny Of Hard Work

The other day I was going through my calendar in the past ten years, searching for some things, and the more I browsed through it, the more shocked I felt, with memories rushing in. Namely, I used to work so much. I would give four to five training-days per week, with squeezing all the meetings, preparations, mediations, writing articles and handouts into the remaining time. I basically did not...
Do We Stand a Chance?

With a world in crisis, steeped in incomprehensible violence, how do we then live? What, if anything, could turn this around? Do we stand a chance? If we are all dying, let us die loving everyone, including ourselves and our former enemies. Let us come together behind wanting everyone to be free. Let us align means with ends as we envision a world that, against all odds, moves towards working...
Tips for the Road Series Tip 11

When we take a leap in life and put our hearts out into the world in new or bigger ways—sharing a song, dance, or poem, writing a book, competing at a sporting event, giving a speech, and so on—there is greater potential for aliveness but also for shame and pain. It is thrilling to follow our dreams and share our authenticity, creativity, and inspiration. But it is also risky because the parts...