Praise for Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work

“With wisdom, love, and a wealth of practical experience, Kit Miller shows us how nonviolence can be a force for good and how it can transform our work and our lives. This book is a treasure. I look forward to exploring its many facets with our Zen community.”

Roshi Amala Wrightson, director of the Auckland Zen Centre, New Zealand

“Culture Shift: Nonviolence At Work is a book to sit with, savor, and most of all: put to work in your life. Kit Miller has distilled a lifetime of experience into a succinct and highly useful collection of field notes for all of us to explore. The ideas are transformative inside and out. The best way to repay this great gift is to use it!”

Rivera Sun, author of The Dandelion Insurrection and the Ari Ara Series

“More and more people are aware that the way workplaces function, especially in the US, isn’t conducive to human well-being. Far fewer people believe that anything can be done about it and simply adapt as best they can. This book offers a startlingly simple roadmap for creating workplaces where people can breathe, be themselves, and give from their hearts to things that matter to them. Before reading this book, I would have thought it impossible to make the deep essence of nonviolence accessible and so relevant to this task. Kit Miller did just that. Every principle and insight in this book is illustrated with potent stories and anecdotes. Each section ends with reflection questions that support integration and self-trust. And the first few chapters make it deeply clear that there is no jumping over the inside job if we want to change how we function and especially lead in the workplace.”

Miki Kashtan, PhD, cofounder of Nonviolent Global Liberation Community, author of The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions

“Connecting deeply to global outlooks and trends, Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work addresses the urgent need for compassionate and equitable practices in an increasingly interconnected world. Miller’s profound insights, shaped by her extensive work with local and international organizations, offer valuable perspectives for navigating the complexities of modern workplaces.

From corporate boardrooms to volunteer organizations, Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work is essential reading for anyone seeking to create meaningful change and foster a more compassionate, equitable, and resilient workplace.”

Kobi Skolnick

“I have been working in higher education as a supervisor of people since I began my career. Like most folks, I am reflective of my path. I was brought up to believe that conflict in my professional life was bad, something that should be actively avoided, so I did just that—even when it continued to cost me.

As I pored over the pages in Kit’s book, I could not help but reflect on how different my professional life would have been if someone had given me this book. Kit offers readers lessons, ‘field notes’ where she shares generously what she has learned in her experience. She thoughtfully leads readers through the little-known field of nonviolence at work, carefully including every tool that you will need along your journey in this book. Each chapter is bursting with Kit’s practical magic, complete with reflection questions for the reader. These were my favorite parts, because it felt like we were in conversation—we, my fellow readers, also have to do some work too.

If you have thought to yourself while at your job, ‘I think that things can be different,’ this book is for you. If you have wanted to be in a space at your job where no one runs from conflict, but rather learns and grows from it—this book is for you.”

Nikkie Herman, director of education, Office of Equity and Inclusion, University of Rochester

“We all need thoughtful invitations and reminders to the essence of the good work we each do every day. In Culture Shift, that is exactly what Kit Miller has done for us. Wielding her deep experience and blessing us with so many insights from a rich diversity of activists and thinkers, she offers a path to understanding and practicing nonviolence at our most common site of community: our workplace. As a leader who has struggled with the applicability of nonviolence when facing structural oppression and violence, I found a refreshing and serious approach to facing social justice and community building in principled ways. This is an essential contribution to all our work of improving healthy organizational culture.”

Malik Muhammed, EDD, founder of Akoben LLC, author of The Restorative Journey

“Conflict today is no longer confined to frontiers and in the public domain. It has entered our personal spaces, in society, in our workplaces, in our homes, and even in our relationships. The most worrying fallout of conflict is how it has anesthetized us to hate and to its consequences, the suffering and misery of those we shrug off as ‘others,’ and the devastating effect our internecine violence on our environment is having today, threatening our very existence. We stand at a crossroads, having to choose between extinction and nonviolence—there is no other alternative.

Kit Miller has masterfully written this book about the importance of nonviolence in every sphere of life and how an individual can utilize it in the personal as well as public domain. It is a text book on the ideology of nonviolence and a manual for its practice in the present day.

Life cannot be sustained if we discard nonviolence. This book demystifies nonviolence and teaches the reader how to use it in various circumstances and in various environments.”

Tushar A. Gandhi

“Kit Miller’s writing exudes a profound humility and simplicity, building on years of hard work, rich experiences, and deep consciousness rooted in nonviolence. Working at personal, interpersonal, and systemic levels, her book offers accessible and impactful practices that anyone can use to bring more peace, cooperation, and aliveness to their workplaces and lives.

Reading this book filled me with belief in a peaceful alternative future for our world, one that any one of us can help create through the ‘small’ everyday practices and choices that she guides us through.”

Kıvanç Çubukçu

“Kit Miller’s leadership and capacity to inspire people and groups to collaborate effectively to enact needed social change has long been an inspiration to me. Her book, Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work, is a profound guide to the effective nonviolent leadership she embodies. Packed with practical advice, wisdom, and optimism that is grounded in numerous examples from her life and her work, this text helps readers see themselves as leaders and guides them on how to lead with empathy, foster systemic change, and nurture inclusive communities. Miller talks about the importance of finding our heroes—Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work is a keen example of why she is one of mine.”

Roxy Manning, PhD

“We may not all be blessed to learn the craft of nonviolence at work in Kit Miller’s company, but each of us can sit with the wisdom in this book, knowing every word in it comes from her lived practice.”

Dominic Barter

“Imagine yourself in Kit Miller’s sunlit kitchen, where over several cups of good coffee she generously shares her abundant recipes for transforming a workplace, organization, neighborhood, or community. Throughout the conversation, she invites you to share and reflect on your own embodied experience. Using the practical and accessible tools of nonviolence, she weaves wisdom from both known and unknown heroes. Kit provides all you need to nourish your own brand of humble, skilled, dynamic, and inclusive leadership—the kind of leadership her life and work exemplify. I celebrate this book which demonstrates how heroic acts of everyday life can and do transform the world.”

Anne Symens-Bucher

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