Miki Kashtan is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, and the NVC North America Leadership Program. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads workshops and intensive retreats in Nonviolent Communication and offers mediation, meeting facilitation, coaching, and training for organizations throughout the United States. She has been supporting the US Department of Peace campaign with monthly conference calls since 2005. From time to time she hosts a call-in show on the radio through KPFA, a listener-sponsored radio station in Berkeley, CA. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from University of California at Berkeley.
Miki is inspired by the contribution that NVC can make to social change movements and values sharing these skills with leaders and activists. She also particularly enjoys working with and coaching people interested in learning to teach NVC.
Miki is available to lead NVC trainings and can be reached at BayNVC.
Miki has authored:
“The Pain, The Anger, and the Hope: Women Peace Workers in Israel”, Magazine of Creation Spirituality, March 1992
“Nonviolent Communication: Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection in Communities”, Communities Magazine, September 1999
“No Enemies, No Demands”, Tikkun Magazine, September-October 2002
“Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution”, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, September 2002
“The Gift of Self: The Art of Transparent Facilitation”, in Sandor Schuman, ed., The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, Jossey-Bass, 2005
“Beacon for Peace in the Promised Land: Transforming Palestinian-Israeli Relationships with Nonviolent Communication,” with Hagit Lifshitz and Arnina Kashtan, in Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding Between Israelis And Palestinians, edited by Judy Kuriansky, Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2007.
Arnina Kashtan is the founder of Meitarim, the Center for NVC in Israel, which delivers workshops and trainings to individuals and groups, couples & parents, teachers & psychologists, as well as social, governmental and business organizations. In 2004 she founded the NVC Concsious Leadership bi-annual training for trainers in Israel. She has been teaching NVC since 1992 in Israel, the US and Europe, and also offers mediation, meeting facilitation, and private coaching and trainings.
The author of the first comprehensive NVC workbook in Hebrew, Arnina also specializes in developing practical materials and workshops in areas such as NVC coaching, working with anger, fear, guilt and shame, working with limiting patterns and beliefs, and parent-child relationships. A senior facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, Arnina has also developed a special path of working with needs through weaving these two modalities.
Arnina's passion and special gifts are in enhancing breakthroughs in consciousness, which are assisted by her unique approach – a profound, laser-like exploration into our innermost core, supported by a rare sense of humor, and embedded in deep, embracing empathy.
Arnina has appeared in numerous radio and TV programs in Israel, and interviewed in leading magazines. She is now editing Marshall's first book in Hebrew, to be published in March; her second poetry book (in Hebrew) is to be published this year, and she holds a B.A. in Music from Tel-Aviv University.
She is available to lead NVC trainings in English and Spanish, and can be reached at info@meitarim.com
"Arnina, thank you for your full, loving, sensitive and attentive leadership. Thank you for the heart, the laughter, the pure intention. Thank you for being".
"Thank you for showing me, in your unique way, what is really important and how to allow myself to finally trust my inner-self".
"I wish to thank you, Arnina, for your special listening presence, for the relentless, deep questions, for the precise, sharp responses, the way you hold the memory of each and everyone in the group, and bring it up so beautifully. All these have brought up in me a deep appreciation and respect to you, and a clear sense that I am here to stay".
"Miki, I really admire the way you are able to be so present in the moment and are able to respond so well to what you see and sense. Just watching you in action makes this course worthwhile to me."
— S.G., Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
”Miki's workshop was exceptional in giving an overview of the work, while calmly meeting the emotional challenges everyone brought to the table.” —Class Participant
Dancing in the Gap of Uncertainty: Embracing Discomfort as a Path to True Freedom
with CNVC Certified Trainers Miki Kashtan and Arnina Kashtan
An 11 Session Telephone Course (Telecourse) meeting monthly at two different times (You may register for single sessions, or for all 11 as a discounted package. Each session is 2 hours long.)
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Section A: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST/PDT (1:00 AM GMT), especially suitable for US, Japan, and Australia, with Miki Kashtan, CNVC Certified Trainer, Author and Co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication and the North America NVC Leadership Program, from Oakland, California, USA
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Section B: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT (6:00 AM PST), especially suitable for Europe, Africa, and Asia, with Arnina Kashtan, CNVC Certified Trainer from Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Fee for each 2-hour session: $30 USD: All registrants receive access to a recording of the session.
Fee for the 11 session package: $275 USD, save $55 USD. All registrants receive access to a recording of each session
Do you want to increase your ability to embrace fully who you are and reach for life without attachment? Would you like to expand your capacity to face and transform inner obstacles so you can have more choice? Are you hoping you could keep your heart open to yourself and others more of the time? Do you long to gain awareness of your inner experience and beliefs, and have the freedom to make choices that serve your deepest aspirations? |
This telecourse focuses primarily on inner work, and is available as individual sessions or as a series. Each session stands on its own, and together they comprise a journey of self-discovery and inner alignment.
Along the way you are likely to notice where shame, guilt, fear, and anger block you from authentic living. As you become more conscious of your needs and habits, you might find yourself embracing vulnerability where previously you were afraid; experiencing more choice; increasing your willingness to rely on others for support and creating connections and community; taking greater responsibility for your actions and your life; and working for change where you want it with loving energy instead of anger.
Session 1 – Wanting Fully without Attachment:
Overcoming shame about having needs; making requests without attachment to outcome; experiencing needs fully even when unmet.
Section A: January 6, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: January 14, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 2 – Vulnerability in the Face of Fear:
Unpacking “rejection” and “humiliation;” learning to experience an intrinsic source of safety.
Section A: February 3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: February 11, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 3 – Choice in the Face of Demands:
Hearing requests regardless of how they are expressed; overcoming the submit/rebel dynamic; redefining autonomy by connecting with needs.
Section A: March 3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: March 11, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 4 – Taking Responsibility in the Face of Guilt and Judgment:
Increasing self-acceptance; overcoming defensiveness; facing and understanding the effects of our actions.
Section A: May 5, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: May 13, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 5 – Inner Spaciousness in the Face of Habits:
Discovering needs underneath habits; consciousness about shoulds and other forms of self-talk; making requests of self.
Section A: June 2, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: June 10, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 6 – Interdependence in the Face of Cultural Imperatives:
Holding everyone’s needs dear; learning to rely on others; risking our significance; shifting our use of power.
Section A: July 7, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: July 15, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 7 – Witnessing Humanity:
Cultivating presence with another’s experience; seeing another’s humanity regardless of their actions.
Section A: August 4, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: August 12, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 8 – The Heart of Our “Yes”:
Distinguishing between giving up and shifting; opening to another person’s experience; letting go of “rightness” about our own strategies.
Section A: September 1, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: September 9, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 9 – The Heart of Our “No”:
Distinguishing between care for another person and willingness to be a strategy to meet their needs; holding on to care when saying No.
Section A: October 6, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: October 14, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 10 – Living Without Enemies:
Humanizing others by connecting to underlying needs; mourning my own needs; identifying strategies that attend to everyone’s needs.
Section A: November 3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: November 11, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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Session 11 – Moving from the Heart:
Working towards vision instead of against what we don’t like; relying on love rather than anger as the motivation for our work.
Section A: December 1, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PST with Miki — My Time Zone?
Section B: December 9, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT with Arnina — My Time Zone?
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All Sessions: 1 through 11
You may register for all 11 sessions, you will receive access to recordings of any telcourses which have already occurred: : $275 USD, save $55 USD. All registrants receive access to a recording of each session.
Section A: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PST/PDT (1:00 AM GMT)
with Miki Kashtan
Register for all 11 Sessions: Section A
Section B: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT (6:00 AM PST)
with Arnina Kashtan
Register for all 11 Sessions: Section B
All materials gathered in this telecourse will be used in a book that Miki and Arnina are writing together with their sister Inbal.
Each session will also be a mini-fundraiser to support the project of getting the book written. We will ask participants to contribute to BayNVC beyond the cost of the class if circumstances permit.
Prerequisite: This class is open to everyone who wants to attend. You can benefit from this telecourse no matter how much previous experience you have with Nonviolent Communication, as each person will be invited to work at their own edge of development regardless of where anyone else is on their path. To learn the basics in preparation for the class, you can take the NVC Academy's free Introduction to NVC online course, or read the first 8 chapters of Marshall B. Rosenberg's book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life.
Upon registration, you will receive an e-mail with complete instructions for how to access the call, and suggestions to maximize the benefits of your experience.
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