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Miki will take you step-by-step through four vital systems that support radical collaboration and foster meaning. You’ll learn how to design a decision making process, create clear statements of intent, and create a process for resolving conflict.

Want things to change in your community, but feel frustrated or don’t know what to do? Miki’s intriguing overview of how to apply the principles of NVC to social change movements may have the exact blend of inspiration and ideas you’re seeking!

Learn to navigate conflict without reactivating old pain, bringing peace to yourself and others.

Trainer Tip: When there's conflict if you set the intention to connect and build trust first, you're more likely to move towards resolution. This can be built through offering reflections that captures essence of what's important to each party. Once connection and trust is established, then begin the process of creating strategies and solutions.

Trainer Tip: People struggle to come to agreement when they don’t feel heard. So as a mediator, facilitate the process by asking all parties to reflect the essence of what's important to other parties. This is critical. Once everyone is confident that their needs have been heard, you'll notice the energy in the room relaxing. Then you can brainstorm strategies that will value everyone’s needs, and are focused on what they want to happen.

Mediating a conflict conversation can be challenging – but with tools and practice, that challenge can be transformed. If you're curious about the specific steps needed to achieve that transformation, join John for an exploration of his non-dual mindfulness practice.

Trainer Tip: To defuse anger and create space for resolution, hear the other person’s feelings and needs. If this practice is new to you, you're like to experience fear and resistance in trying it out. However, you'll be more likely to experience a powerful shift, and build your capacity, if you try it anyways.

Build thriving communities through dialogue, a collaborative, heart-opening path to shared purpose.

Transform your meeting facilitation with sociocratic tools like circle meetings and more.

Embrace nonviolence with courage and compassion as you learn to stand for truth in everyday life.

Learn simple steps to transform conflict and mobilize peace at home, work and in the wider world.

Strengthen your NVC practice to meet conflict with empathy, and ask for what you need.

Discussion into the difficult topic of parenting, childhood trauma, and social status.

How the "story" we tell ourselves impacts our childhood and the roles we play.

Transform your life by aligning actions with values through NVC and somatic tools.

Imagine a world where mediation is a basic life skill taught early to support cooperation.

Miki Kashtan helps a mother restore connection with her daughter after a painful conflict.

Explore whether bribery works for compliance and learn five common motives behind our actions.

Ask the Trainer: Can all needs be met when illness limits the capacity of one person to meet the needs of her partner?