Nonviolence At Work

5-Sessions, Thursdays May 5-June 2
9-10:15am PT / 10-11:15am MT / 11am-12:15pm CT / 12-1:15pm ET
$75, scholarships available

Conflict happens. Workplaces and coworkers can stir up challenges. Whether you work in an office, a nonprofit, or your “work” is volunteering for a good cause, this 5-session series on Nonviolence At Work will give you tools and skills for using nonviolence to navigate the arguments and disputes that may arise. We’ll also look at how we can avoid causing violence or harm, including through micro-aggressions, bias, and our own behaviors. 

This series focuses on how we can embody nonviolence at work through our relationships, skills and structures. We’ll explore what nonviolence at work looks and feels like in the workplace on the personal, interpersonal, and professional levels. We’ll dig into how we can co-create processes, practices, policies, and spaces that are anchored in active nonviolence. Each session is 75-minutes long, designed to fit into your workday. Feel free to bring your lunch/breakfast/coffee.

Through readings, conversations, roleplays and other activities, we will examine and practice understanding regarding our personal style in groups, especially while stressed, and our history and relationship to anger.  We will discuss and increase awareness of identity and its relation to bias, rank and privilege especially in terms of groups. Systems thinking, tolerance for ambiguity and feedback skills are also part of this 5-part webinar series. Participant questions and requests will help guide the discussions and content throughout all of the sessions.

Please spread the word! Tell friends, coworkers, colleagues, students, and people in your circles about this course. Nonviolent workplaces are good for everyone!

Facilitator

Kit Miller

Kit Miller is the Director Emeritus for the MK Gandhi Institute. Prior to coming to the Institute, she worked as director/celebrator of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, California. Kit has been learning about nonviolence and organizing on its behalf for the past 28 years. She draws on Gandhian and Kingian nonviolence, as well as Nonviolent Communication and permaculture, for direction and daily practice. Kit sees herself as an educator/practitioner hybrid. In addition to using the Institute itself as a learning laboratory for principled nonviolence, she teaches and works on community projects related to restorative justice, sustainability, and anti-racism in Rochester, and elsewhere. Kit has taught hundreds of groups world-wide and has spoken at the United Nations several times in recent years about nonviolence with youth in the 21st century. Kit has an MA in Social Innovation and Sustainability from Goddard College and a BS from Cornell University.

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