Whereas "retributive justice" attempts to figure out who is to blame and how to punish, "restorative justice" aims to restore what was torn in the social fabric, to repair relationships and set things on a better course for the future. Inspired by ancient approaches to justice among a variety of native cultures, restorative justice is proving to be transformational in the modern world where it is used. It is useful in schools, communities, and other places, as well as in criminal/civil justice settings.
Dominic Barter has developed a form of restorative justice called "Restorative Circles" which is inspired by the principles of Nonviolent Communication. While any restorative justice system is likely to have advantages over the alternatives, the hope is that the insights of NVC may make this particular approach even more restorative. Barter developed Restorative Circles in Brazil. They are widely used there, and interest in applying them in other parts of the world has been growing. Dominic will be offering a number of trainings in North America this coming year, as are listed below. For the Restorative Circles web site, and to register for trainings, see http://www.restorativecircles.org/
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA
Dominic Barter is returning to Seattle, Washington for two Restorative Circle events. This will be his only west coast trip in North America in 2010.
An Introduction to Restorative Systems
Sat and Sun, May 22-23, 2010Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice
Mon, Tues & Wed, May 24 – 26, 2010ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, USA
An Introduction to Restorative Systems
Sat and Sun, September 11 - 12, 2010Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice
Mon, Tues & Wed, September 13-15, 2010ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA
An Overview of Restorative Systems
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice
Friday – Sunday, Oct 29 – 31, 2010
Note that, although Dominic himself will not be there, his style of Restorative Circles will also be taught at the New York Intensive Residential Training in NVC, July 31 - August 7, in Geneva, NY.
We would like to acknowledge that in the US, Maryland is a leader in restorative justice, typically referring to it as "Community Conferencing." The pioneering nonprofit Community Conferencing Center founded by Dr. Lauren Abramson is located in Baltimore. And many counties in Maryland, including Montgomery and Prince Georges counties have Community Conferencing programs available to the public for dispute resolution. (We are not familiar with restorative justice programs in DC or Virginia. If you know of any, please let us know.)
We encourage you to support and utilize these existing restorative justice programs. At the same time, we believe Dominic Barter's Restorative Circles add beneficial refinements to prior restorative justice processes, and we encourage you to consider his trainings.
Bob Wentworth has been through Dominic's training and so can potentially answer questions you might have about it.
Whereas "retributive justice" attempts to figure out who is to blame and how to punish, "restorative justice" aims to restore what was torn in the social fabric, to repair relationships and set things on a better course for the future. Inspired by ancient approaches to justice among a variety of native cultures, use of restorative justice is proving to be transformational in the modern world. It is useful in schools, communities, and other places, as well as in criminal/civil justice settings.
Dominic Barter has developed a form of restorative justice called "Restorative Circles" which is inspired by the principles of Nonviolent Communication. While any restorative justice system is likely to have advantages over the alternatives, the hope is that the insights of NVC may make this particular approach even more restorative. Barter developed Restorative Circles in Brazil, where they are widely used now. Interest in applying Restorative Circles in other parts of the world has been growing. Dominic will be offering a number of trainings in North America this coming year, as are listed below. For the Restorative Circles web site, and to register for trainings, see http://www.restorativecircles.org/
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA
Dominic Barter is returning to Seattle, Washington for two Restorative Circle events. This will be his only west coast trip in North America in 2010.
An Introduction to Restorative Systems
Sat and Sun, May 22-23, 2010Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice
Mon, Tues & Wed, May 24 – 26, 2010ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, USA
An Introduction to Restorative Systems
Sat and Sun, September 11 - 12, 2010Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice
Mon, Tues & Wed, September 13-15, 2010ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA
An Overview of Restorative Systems
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice
Friday – Sunday, Oct 29 – 31, 2010
Note that, although Dominic himself will not be there, his style of Restorative Circles will also be taught at the New York Intensive Residential Training in NVC, July 31 - August 7, in Geneva, NY. Those teaching are experienced in using the process and there will be a full week to explore it.
We would like to acknowledge that in the US, Maryland is a leader in restorative justice, typically referring to it as "Community Conferencing." The pioneering nonprofit Community Conferencing Center founded by Dr. Lauren Abramson is located in Baltimore. And many counties in Maryland, including Montgomery and Prince Georges counties have Community Conferencing programs available to the public for dispute resolution. (We are not familiar with restorative justice programs in DC or Virginia. If you know of any, please let us know.)
We encourage you to support and utilize these existing restorative justice programs. At the same time, we believe Dominic Barter's Restorative Circles add beneficial refinements to prior restorative justice processes, and we encourage you to consider his trainings.
Bob Wentworth has been through Dominic's training and so can potentially answer questions you might have about it.
The 7 Month Inner Empathy Multi-Modal Intensive offered by Jerry Donoghue teaches the use of NVC for deep inner work. This is the first retreat of this program.
BePeace is a combination of the HeartMath technique for centering and accessing heart-wisdom, and the Nonviolent Communication approach to communication. It promises to become a nation-wide peace curriculum taught in schools throughout Costa Rica. For details, see http://www.rasurinternational.org/Charlotte2010.html
Dates: Oct. 1, 2010 to June 1, 2011 (periodic teleclasses; not all-day despite above)
Last year, for the first time ever, people from around the world (8 time zones!) had the opportunity to participate in the Parent Peer Leadership Program (PLPP) in its new long-distance-only format. This year, once again, the PPLP is more accessible than ever for parents who may otherwise have no or little access to this level of NVC training.
The PPLP is a 9-month leadership training program for NVC practitioners who are dedicated to integrating NVC into their families as well as spreading and sharing NVC with other parents.
The purpose of the PPLP is to support such lay leaders to deepen their capacity to:
a.) Understand NVC: to have clarity about NVC practices and the consciousness underlying these practices;
b.) Live NVC: to integrate NVC consciousness and skills into daily life;
c.) Share NVC: to have the skills, awareness, materials, and support needed to begin to share NVC with other parents, and to live/model NVC in the learning and teaching process.
PPLP-10 is a very rich 9-month program which includes an abundant wealth of reading, home study and journaling materials, at least 20 teleclasses and ongoing access to audio recordings, monthly feedback opportunities for your work, personal support calls with trainers and the leadership team, weekly empathy buddy connections, a complete 8-week curriculum for sharing NVC with parents, and an active and supportive email group. All this within a committed and consistent learning community of like-minded parents!
The PPLP was founded in 2006 by Inbal Kashtan (founder of the nvc-parenting list!) as a joint project of BayNVC and CNVC. Since 2007, the PPLP has been led by CNVC certified trainer Ingrid Bauer and experienced assistants.
The PPLP is an incredible and unique opportunity for those with some NVC experience to build on and integrate NVC consciousness and skills more deeply, as well as have the tools to share it and build local community for yourself.
If you would like to receive more detailed information and an application, email Ingrid Bauer or Stephanie Bachmann Mattei and we will gladly send you the requested materials. We look forward to hearing from some of you soon.
With love and gratitude in our hearts,
Ingrid Bauer (CNVC certified trainer)
and Stephanie Bachmann Mattei (independent trainer)
INTERNATIONAL NVC ADVANCED TRAINING FOR TRAINERS
WHEN: November 5-10, 2010
LOCATION: The Abode Retreat Center, New Lebanon, New York*
COST: Tuition -$800-1600, Room & Board - $625
This year, BayNVC is offering an intensive training for people who are actively sharing NVC with others and want to increase and deepen their capacity to do so. This training is designed for certified trainers and others at a similar level of experience in NVC and commitment to sharing NVC with others. (See website for requested NVC experience)
This training is likely to focus on the following areas:
§ Teaching skills for interdependence
§ Teaching about power and power relations
§ Advanced empathy skills and teaching empathy skills
§ Body-based NVC practices, especially for inner work and self-connection
§ Feedback giving and receiving about materials, activities, presentations, etc. we anticipate that everyone will have opportunity to share at least once
§ Increasing capacity for living in full authenticity and interdependence
“The Training of Trainers with Inbal and Miki had a higher degree of benefit for me and I have shared more usable learning with others than any other
training in which I have participated. (At least 45 days in residential trainings alone.) I have been profoundly changed by the learning and experiencing at this training, and I have been empowered by the growth I experience in that few days. More often now I ask for what I want, speak up about what isn't working, ask more clarifying questions about what is happening for others.” Jeanne Northsinger
More info
Shivani Carroll at gcarroll@rcn. com (click dots for full address)
To Register:
Lorili Henry at suva...@optonline.net (click dots for full address)
BayNVC office at register@baynvc. org (click dots for full address)
* also offered in Denmark: August 20-26, 2010 www.fivk.dk
This is a 7-day "train-the-trainer" intensive near Columbus Ohio offered by the NVC Training Institute, facilitated by Susan Skye, Gina Lawrie, Jeff Brown and Robert Gonzales. For details see http://www.nvcti.com/train-the-trainer.html
[This program was originally scheduled to begin Sept. 23, 2010. However, in order to make it possible for more participants to attend, the start date has been pushed 6 months out. The program will now start April 14-17 with the 2nd retreat being scheduled approx 6 months later (exact dates are still being negotiated). Dates will be posted here once those dates are established.]
6 Month NVC AND TRANSFORMATION OF
CONSCIOUSNESS PROGRAM with Gina Cenciose
This program is created for all of us who are living with passion
and humour - the deep change of paradigm that NVC calls us
towards. The very source of NVC, at its core, is to inspire us to
investigate all parts of our humanity. It calls us to not just live from
our socially-conditioned familiar parts, but to explore and grow into
what we most enjoy and value about life: to actually become or
embody those qualities (what we call needs) of love, awareness,
community, meaning and intimacy that fill us with aliveness while
radically embracing other parts of us that seem to create pain and
separation.
NVC is a way of embodying our ideals - both within ourselves
and how we are in the world. This way of being weaves into the very
fabric of our social structures; if we are not the same people we were
when we created the social structures, then the structures themselves
gradually change to reflect our own growth.
As a participant in this program, you have the opportunity to
deepen your understanding and experience of NVC and Focusing
processes for healing and transformation. You will be empowered to
grasp, get a “felt sense of “and broaden your capacity to accompany
life inside yourself and within others with Empathic Presence and the
tools of Inner Relationship Focusing.
The three wings of this program:
In my own mind and heart, one of the paths to freedom and
healing lies in the recognition of our essential nature. When we
glimpse who we really are, beyond the stories and the conditioning,
our problems begin to loosen their grip and we naturally start to feel
happier, more peaceful, and more loving.
Our work together will focus on supporting each other to have
more and more glimpses of our true nature by allowing us to
experience the depth of who we really are behind all shame,
negativity, guilt, beliefs, etc. and to know unequivocally that we are
the silent aware presence beyond the mind. At the same time, we will
help each other engage our “problems” stories and especially
BELIEFS by learning to welcome and explore our experience exactly
as it is, including seemingly difficult emotions and mind states. Often
the beliefs and stories that emerge reveal deeper layers that may feel
threatening such as fear, grief, shame, rage, aloneness, or insecurity.
As we gently and compassionately open to these feelings in the
intimacy of our shared awareness, they tend to naturally release,
making more energy available for joyful, spontaneous living. As the
light of awareness illuminates the unconscious patterns that limit us,
we naturally orient toward greater awareness, openness, clarity,
freedom, and love.
Being present to meeting ourselves with unconditional positive
regard and loving-kindness is gradual. Patience, presence, and a
repeated willingness to pause, go inside and be still with what is, all
throughout the day and not just when it is stormy inside, are the keys
to a deeper and deeper inner relationship with self and others.
Sometimes when we are allowing and flowing with what is
there, we connect to a place that holds resistance to loving kindness
for ourselves, and at these times the embodied presence of love needs
to be even more present to the parts that are resisting. Transforming
our lack/scarcity thinking and actions and ripening into living
moment by moment from the fullness of the quality of needs, is a
major focus for us during our time together.
Embodying the "the delicate flower of presence", (Eckhart
Tolle in the Power of Now), alone and with the embodied
presence of others, is healing and transformative.
This very act of clear awareness combined with the deep loving
presence of our being changes our experience which can then be
tracked and noticed, facilitating cohesion and leading safely to deeper
opening and awareness. The act of gently bringing awareness to
something and simply noticing also provides an island of safety that
can be returned to time and again. It is from a place of restored
connection to this part of ourselves, our essence, that we are best able
to be with the more wounded parts of ourselves and process any
blocked or frozen parts that need integration.
BELIEF WORK
From the NVC perspective of Needs Consciousness, we will
explore how that Consciousness is affected by our thoughts
and beliefs. We will use several methods of inquiry to
investigate our beliefs. One very deep and transformative
approach that we will focus on is Byron Katie’s “The Work”.
When done with Empathic Presence (NVC), “The Work” has
a way of adjusting perspective inside of us that is powerfully
transformative. Prepare yourself to change.
(Note: Belief work has been the base of all of Gina’s healing work for 15 years and
she has been doing Byron Katie’s “THE WORK” since 2005. Gina has been with
Byron Katie on many occasions and appreciates all that she helps her to
remember about herself, about life, etc.)
Whole body consciousness will be at the root of all of our
work. Exercises taken from Wholebody Focusing will be
practiced daily to support presence and awareness in the
body.
We will use the body as our main guide through this awareness work
combining Wholebody Focusing and Inner Relationship Focusing.
You will receive an introduction to Inner Relationship Focusing,
proven method for inner growth and awareness, popularized by
world-renowned Focusing trainer, Ann Weiser Cornell.
Together we will:
Focusing offers everything we need to encourage and
sustain all that is emerging and wanting attention within us
and others in a clear, easy, and structured way.
(Note: Gina is in the Certification Program for Inner Relationship
Focusing; she has been IR Focusing daily for the past 5 years and
bringing it to groups for the past 2 years. Ann Weiser Cornell is her
teacher and mentor.)
For more info about focusing please go to www.focusing.org
Inner Relationship focusing www.focusingresources.com
Wholebody focusing does not yet have a website, even if it is very popular in the U.S. here is some
info to read about it: http://www.focusing.org.uk/wholebody_focusing.html
For more information about Byron Katie and “The Work” go to
http://www.thework.com/index.asp
The Center for NonViolent Communication http://www.cnvc.org
Gina’s website www.embodyingempathy.com
FORMAT and LOGISTICS:
1st Session:
April 14-17, 2011 (4 day Retreat) at Pumpkin Hollow
Retreat Center, Craryville, New York (15 minutes from Mass)
www.pumpkinhollow.org
For the first session we request a TUITION fee of $525.00, which
includes a DVD of Inner Relationship focusing, the retreat itself and 6
monthly teleclasses. Lodging and accommodation fees are included in
the registration form below.
2nd session:
Approx. six months later (4 day Retreat), dates TBD, at same location.
For this session we request a TUITION fee of $475.00. Lodging and
accommodation fees are below in the registration form.
Activities between Retreats:
REGISTRATION
For a registration form and other information, contact Lyn...@lynnehutchinson.com (click dots for full address) 207 667-0188.