Information on this page comes from a site Pace e Bene managed previously, The Nonviolence Training Hub. Thank you to all our partners who worked on this project.
Types of Trainings
In addition to the trainings and workshops held by Pace e Bene, the following trainings, workshops, and webinars held by partner organizations offer tools for unleashing the power and possibility of nonviolent change in our lives, our communities, and our society. These trainings explore many facets of the vision, principles, and concrete methods of active nonviolence, often integrating role-plays, exercises, story-telling, small and large group discussions, short presentations, and journaling.
Introducing Nonviolence
Participants are introduced to the vision and methods of nonviolence by exploring: the creative power of nonviolence; the dynamics of violence and nonviolence; practices for nonviolent living; tools for communicating nonviolently; and/or the process and effectiveness of principled and strategic nonviolent social change. Examples: Nonviolence 101 Training; Active Nonviolence Introductory Workshop.
Training partners that hold this type of training:
Meta Peace Team, Veterans for Peace, War Resisters League, World Beyond War, Alliance of Community Trainers, Backbone Campaign, DC Peace Team, Association for Active Nonviolence, NVC Academy, Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, Alternatives to Violence Project, Bay Area NVC, Center for Nonviolent Communication, Giraffe Social Enterprises, Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute, Nonviolent Communication Australia, Peace Factory, Campaign Nonviolence, Metta Center for Nonviolence, Community Peacemaker Teams, Children And Youth For Peace Agency – Sierra Leone, Nonviolence Institute, Children’s Defense Fund, The Non-Violence Project Uganda, Imani Works, Little Friends for Peace, Moose Anger Management and Healing Anger, MahaKaruna, Active Peace, The Circle Works Social Justice Consultants, East Point Peace Academy, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Beautiful Trouble, Catalizador Social
Nonviolent Social Change
These trainings build skills for changing our communities, our society and our world. These programs include trainings on: models of successful nonviolent social change; the philosophy, dynamics, history, and effectiveness of nonviolent action and civil resistance, including nonviolent civil disobedience; concrete strategies for building campaigns and movements; creating a culture of peace and nonviolence; domestic violence advocacy training; and connecting personal, interpersonal and social change. Examples: Nonviolent Action Training; Social Change Skill Building; Nonviolent Cities Training.
Training partners that hold this type of training:
Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies, Backbone Campaign, Metta Center for Nonviolence, Community Peacemaker Teams, Children And Youth For Peace Agency – Sierra Leone, Nonviolence Institute, Children’s Defense Fund, The Non-Violence Project Uganda, Compassionate Listening Oregon, Imani Works, Little Friends for Peace, YWCA of Greater Portland, Moose Anger Management and Healing Anger, The Article 20 Network, Active Peace, The Circle Works Social Justice Consultants, East Point Peace Academy, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Beautiful Trouble, Catalizador Social
Communicating Nonviolently
These trainings focus on applying nonviolence for more effective communication and relationship-building, often with a focus on active listening, I statements, non-defensive approaches, and identifying the needs of both parties. Examples: Nonviolent Communication (NVC); Powerful Non-Defensive Communication (PNDC); Compassionate Listening.
Training partners that hold this type of training:
NVC Academy, New York Center for Nonviolent Communication, Bay Area NVC, Center for Nonviolent Communication, Giraffe Social Enterprises, Nonviolent Communication Australia, Peace Factory, Family Heart Camp, Community Peacemaker Teams, Children And Youth For Peace Agency – Sierra Leone, Nonviolence Institute, Children’s Defense Fund, Center For Building A Culture Of Empathy, The Non-Violence Project Uganda, Compassionate Listening Oregon, Imani Works, Little Friends for Peace, Moose Anger Management and Healing Anger, MahaKaruna, The Circle Works Social Justice Consultants, East Point Peace Academy, Beautiful Trouble, Catalizador Social
Nonviolent Conflict Transformation
Trainings in unarmed peacekeeping, conflict resolution and restorative justice trainings. Examples: Restorative Justice Peace Circles; Nonviolent Trauma Healing; Domestic Peace Team Training; Mediation Training.
Training partners that hold this type of training:
War Resisters League, World Beyond War, Veterans for Peace, Association for Active Nonviolence, Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute, Alternatives to Violence Project, DC Peace Team, Meta Peace Team, Community Peacemaker Teams, Children And Youth For Peace Agency – Sierra Leone, Nonviolence Institute, Children’s Defense Fund, Center For Building A Culture Of Empathy, The Non-Violence Project Uganda, Compassionate Listening Oregon, Imani Works, Little Friends for Peace, Moose Anger Management and Healing Anger, The Article 20 Network, Active Peace, The Circle Works Social Justice Consultants, East Point Peace Academy, Beautiful Trouble, Catalizador Social
Spiritually-Based Nonviolence
These trainings explore nonviolence rooted in the teaching, principles, and practices of specific faith traditions and spiritualities. Examples: Awakening Soulforce; Gospel Nonviolence Training; Engaged Buddhism Workshop.
Training partners that hold this type of training:
NVC Academy, Center for Nonviolent Communication, Metta Center for Nonviolence, Community Peacemaker Teams, Nonviolence Institute, Children’s Defense Fund, Compassionate Listening Oregon, Little Friends for Peace, East Point Peace Academy, Resource Center for Nonviolence
Training for Trainers
These trainings prepare individuals to facilitate nonviolence programming including trainings, workshops, classes, webinars, etc. Examples: Training for Trainers Weekend Workshop.
Training partners that hold this type of training:
Nonviolence Institute, Children’s Defense Fund, Center For Building A Culture Of Empathy, The Non-Violence Project Uganda, Compassionate Listening Oregon, Imani Works, Little Friends for Peace, Moose Anger Management and Healing Anger, MahaKaruna, The Circle Works Social Justice Consultants, East Point Peace Academy, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Beautiful Trouble
Partner Organizations
ACTIVE PEACE
The Active Peace approach to peacemaker training is comprehensive and grounded in four foundations:
Healing the relationship to self through mindfulness (self-awareness) practices,
Deepening the relationship to nature through nature-based practices,
Transforming interpersonal relationships through relationship skills and tools, and
Restoring the world through consistent nonviolence and using the principles and practices of restorative justice.
Scott Brown, M.A., is the founder of Active Peace. He has been involved in activism and peacemaking for over 25 years. He has worked as a campaigner with organizations including Greenpeace and the Nova Scotia-based Ecology Action Centre. Scott is a professional mediator and brings a deep background in restorative justice and nonviolent communication. He is the author of Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World.
ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY TRAINERS
The Alliance of Community Trainers offers knowledge, tools, and skills to individuals, organizations and communities to empower sustainable transformation.
Whether it be community or organizational development, problem solving or conflict resolution, consensus decision-making, facilitation, strategic campaigns, media and public speaking, alternative technology, nonviolent action and environmental sustainability, we support people starting where they are, learning their vision of what they want.
Solutions to current community problems lie within the communities themselves, when people obtain the information, training and skills needed to facilitate those solutions.
The Alliance of Community Trainers weaves together experiences in different movements, issues, geographic areas and people of different ages, genders, cultures and ethnicities when working with groups to help them best achieve the world and life they want.
ALTERNATIVES TO VIOLENCE PROJECT USA
Founded in prison and developed from the real life experiences of prisoners, Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) has been empowering workshop participants with creative conflict resolution skills for over 40 years. Through a fully-immersive experiential learning model, AVP encourages every person’s innate power to positively transform themselves and the world. We run workshops in prisons, schools, and communities around the country.
THE ARTICLE 20 NETWORK
The Article 20 Network defends and advances the human right to freedom of peaceful assembly worldwide.
Our educational campaigns, direct action, volunteer program, research and trainings will break down barriers to the Freedom of Assembly and encourage more and better assemblies. And that’s good for everyone.
From Gandhi’s March to the Sea to Black Lives Matter, public demonstrations have played a critical role in improving the human condition. So why is free assembly threatened by corrosive laws, state violence and misinformation in every corner of the globe?
Because, when people hold assembly, they shift the power to the people.
ASSOCIATION FOR ACTIVE NONVIOLENCE
The Association for Active Nonviolence was set-up in 1966 and started working against obligatory military conscription, it broadened its scope of nonviolence trainings when joining the army became voluntary. Our topics are quite broad like direct action, community building and group dynamics. Yet since the late nineties interest in such training dropped. The organization continued publishing about nonviolence, as that was also one of the Association’s activities. They translated important English works, which are still available, and there is a web-magazine until today. The Association is currently located in The Netherlands, an innovative country, but very small, so there are simply less opportunities and less expertise here at the moment. Eventually, we hope there will be a “nonviolence trainers without borders” network.
BACKBONE CAMPAIGN
Backbone Campaign’s mission is to provide creative strategies, artful activism trainings, and creative action support to progressive activists, organizers and organizations around the US and beyond in order to invigorate and nurture a people-power, community-based, and internationally-networked nonviolent social movement for human rights, thriving communities, and ecological wellbeing.
Backbone Campaign’s vision is a world where human dignity, community resilience, and ecological well being is built upon a foundation of democratic economic and political systems and diverse, thriving culture where human rights, the rights of communities and nature are truly inalienable and honored.
BAY AREA NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
BayNVC’s vision is a world where everyone’s needs matter and people have the skills to make peace. We are home to a number of projects and groups working under the same umbrella to apply and promote the principles and practices of Nonviolent Communication.
Our mission is two-fold:
Personal Growth: We support individuals and families in experiencing inner peace, greater choice, integrity, and satisfying relationships by offering classes, individual coaching, and intensive programs. We work in-person as well as through phone and Skype.
Leadership & Collaboration: We support organizations and leaders to respond to growing global challenges with effectiveness, creativity, and care for all stakeholders by offering consulting services, facilitation, coaching, and training.
BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE
We are an international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.
We offer innovative, free, resources: A book, strategy card deck, online toolbox and creative campaign incubator–in many languages. We also offer trainings on a wide spectrum of nonviolent people power topics.
Catalizador Social
Catalizador.Social is a non-profit civil organization that contributes to peace culture and peacebuilding from nonviolence, professionalizing evidence-based advocacy activism, during the design, management, and learning from the monitoring and evaluation of Nonviolence projects, incorporating the gender perspective, the differential approach and inclusive language, through technical assistance and accompaniment to initiatives, groups, collectives, and organizations, driven mainly by youth, who seek social justice in Mexico and Latin America.
CENTER FOR BUILDING A CULTURE OF EMPATHY
The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy has the mission to build a global worldwide culture of empathy. We are developing and offering empathy trainings, which is the foundation of nonviolence.
CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE & PEACE STUDIES
Our Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies has been conducting nonviolence trainings and peace education since 1999. Our mission is to provide education and training for nonviolence and peaceful means of addressing conflict and all forms of violence, at institutional and international levels. We believe firmly that the first step to building a beloved community and a culture of peace begins with deep study of nonviolence as a foundation for nonviolent direct action leading to the goal of lasting conflict reconciliation. We specialize in Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation, Nonviolence Leadership, and Inner Peace trainings, based on the philosophy and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a framework both for personal transformation and effective social change. Our work has provided nonviolence training and education at national and international levels through the certification training of trainers living and working in 26 states and 42 countries.
CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
The Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) is a global organization that supports the learning and sharing of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH FOR PEACE AGENCY – SIERRA LEONE
Children and Youth for Peace Agency – Sierra Leone (CYPA-SL) is a non-government, non-political and a nonprofit making civil society, youth-led advocacy and awareness raising organization involved in enhancing and promoting peace and nonviolence, rights of children, youth empowerment and also addressing issues on the needs of both direct and indirect vulnerable and marginalized children, women, physically challenged (disabled) and youth in the society
The organization advocates for and educates youths on peace and nonviolence communication (PNVC) in the society, trains youths and school going pupils on peace building and conflict management in communities.
VISION: We envisage that the society will be free from all forms of substance abuse, violence, discrimination against vulnerable children, women, the disabled and youth. We awaken their ideas on conflict resolution and how to remain calm as a foundation for sustainable peace and development in the society and the nation as a whole.
CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND
The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for more than 40 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. We champion policies and programs that lift children out of poverty; protect them from abuse and neglect; and ensure their access to health care, quality education and a moral and spiritual foundation. Supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations, CDF advocates nationwide on behalf of children to ensure children are always a priority.
We are a national organization with the capacity to work for children at federal, state and community levels across the country. We have our headquarters in Washington, D.C., and offices in California, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. Through these offices, we expand our work into North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Jersey. CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, TN, is our home for spiritual renewal, character and leadership development, intergenerational mentoring, and interracial and interfaith dialog about children’s issues.
COMMUNITY PEACEMAKER TEAMS
CPT’s Corps training is primarily designed to train people who are interested in joining CPT, either as reservists (volunteers who serve on one of our projects for one month per year or so) or as stipended personnel (people who work for one of our projects part-time or full-time with a 1 to 3-year contract that provides a small financial support). Aside from a thorough introduction to CPT’s work, mission, and mandate, CPT training can also be part of a general education for people who want to explore nonviolent, faith-based peacemaking work.
THE CIRCLE WORKS SOCIAL JUSTICE CONSULTANTS
We provide social justice-based training, consultation, and coaching. We assist individuals, K-12 schools, colleges and universities, community groups, non-profit and governmental agencies, faith-based communities, and others by utilizing restorative and transformative processes for problem solving, conflict resolution, peace-building, team and community building, strategic planning, leadership development, racial healing, and equity analysis.
We specialize in research-based and best practices for bringing about reconciliation to conflict and disharmony between individuals and within communities. We offer training utilizing the peacemaking circle process, theories of nonviolence, and other restorative practices to bring about peace, harmony, and balance in relationships. And will customize our services to meet your specific needs.
COMPASSIONATE LISTENING OREGON
Compassionate Listening Oregon has trained hundreds of people in 7 countries in the art of listening and speaking from the heart. We are located in Portland, Oregon and connect with many other interfaith groups as well as peace organizations. Being able to listen non-judgmentally is a prerequisite to creating a non-violent relationship out of conflict.
DC PEACE TEAM
The DC Peace Team is working towards cultivating & sustaining a culture of nonviolent peacemaking by:
developing trusting relationships
providing training/education in nonviolent conflict intervention skills and restorative justice
monitoring key areas of struggle in our communities
accompanying school children through difficult neighborhoods.
Vision
We envision a society committed to sustainable peace and justice.
Mission
We commit to creating and sustaining a DC peace team that cultivates the virtue of nonviolent peacemaking and key corresponding practices. We commit to empowering ordinary civilians to increasingly serve their communities particularly as nonviolent peacekeepers, and by extension as peacemakers and peacebuilders.
EAST POINT PEACE ACADEMY
The East Point Peace Academy is an organization dedicated to bringing about a culture of peace through training, education and the practice of Nonviolence and Conflict Reconciliation. We are grounded in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, and work with incarcerated populations, youth, activists and community leaders working to bring about the Beloved Community.
FAMILY HEART CAMP
Family HEART Camp is a unique community experience for all people who long for more Harmony, Ease, Authenticity, Respect, and Trust in their families, in their communities, and in the world. Grounded in the principles of Nonviolent Communication, our camps offer an unforgettable lived experience of compassionate community, in places of natural beauty, for people of all ages. Family HEART Camp offers week long immersive summer camps for families and individuals in various locations through the United States.
GIRAFFE SOCIAL ENTERPRISES
A hub for nonviolence trainings in the UK. GSE operates as a Community Interest Company committed to being a platform from which we can explore working alongside each other and ways of supporting each other in our endeavors to share NVC in the world. It specifically aims to offer a base for creativity, support and networking; a ‘hub’ for events, courses, workshops, funding opportunities and initiatives and any other such offerings for the co-creation of community, learning, mutual support and healing within NVC.
GSE serves individuals, communities and organizations of all ages, backgrounds or financial means, who wish to learn and contribute to nonviolence primarily through the principles and heart of Nonviolent Communication.
IMANI WORKS
Imani Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity with a goal to promote human rights as we: 1) present opportunities for social change advocacy that are simple and efficient, 2) promote the understanding of nonviolent conflict transformation and reconciliation, and 3) demonstrate principles of sustainable living.
LITTLE FRIENDS FOR PEACE
Little Friends For Peace has, for 35 years, taught inner and interpersonal peace skills to replace instincts of violence with tools for peace.
Through programming in schools, summer camps, homeless shelters, prisons, corporate offices, community centers, churches and more, participants learn methods for personal peace development, nonviolent conflict resolution, nonviolent communication, and empathy enhancement.
We cater all trainings to the needs of each community, and our staff is flexible to meet each person of the group exactly where they are in their socio-emotional development.
Contact us today to help cultivate a culture of peace.
MAHAKARUNA
MahaKaruna aims to co-create a society that is based on compassion, mutual respect, social equality and thereby contributing to the wellbeing of every living being on our planet. To this purpose we run a range of workshops/trainings in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). These include also workshops that focus on the relationship of NVC with Nonviolence actions/movement and workshops that share NVC within the context of the Zen practice.
META PEACE TEAM
Meta Peace Team (MPT) empowers people to engage in active nonviolent peacemaking. MPT was started in 1993 as Michigan Peace Team, in response to the growing need for civilian peace-makers both in the U.S. and abroad. Since that time, we have moved far beyond (in the Greek, Meta) the borders of Michigan.
MPT offers nonviolence training workshops and provides opportunities to join peace teams.
We seek a just world grounded in nonviolence and respect for the sacred interconnectedness of all life.
METTA CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE
Our mission is to promote the transition to a nonviolent future by making the logic, history, and yet-unexplored potential of nonviolence more accessible to activists and agents of cultural change (which ultimately includes all of us). We focus on root causes (sometimes called “upstream” causes) to help people in any walk of life discover their innate capacity for nonviolence and use it more strategically for long-term transformation of themselves and the world. We work to challenge and replace the prevailing worldview with a much higher image of humanity informed by nonviolence and its implications for the meaning of life and value of the person.
MINNESOTA PEACEBUILDING LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
The Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-partisan public charity nonprofit organization transforming psychological trauma into nonviolent power. Our mission is to instigate, train, and support racially, sexually, religiously, ethnically, culturally, and economically diverse individuals and organizations to become trauma-informed, resilience-oriented, and restorative-focused empowering communities in Minnesota, the USA, and around the world.
MOOSE ANGER MANAGEMENT AND HEALING ANGER
We see about 500 people per year who want to change what they are doing in the world and at home from acting their anger out in destructive ways, to becoming constructive, non-violent in their responses. We work with family violence in a very broad perspective. We treat all who come our way with respect and compassion and lead by example. We have been running groups for 21 years. We are a leader in British Columbia in this area, speak at Universities, and have programs that are recognized by business and the government. We also have masters level practicum students co-facilitate many of our groups.
Visit our websites at: www.angerman.ca and www.healinganger.ca
NEW YORK CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
The New York Center for Nonviolent Communication (NYCNVC) is a spontaneous, cooperative network of NVC learners, proponents, trainers, facilitators and practitioners who share a passion for the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Our immediate intention is to carefully develop and deliver amazing NVC trainings within and across pervading geographic, cultural, economic and language bounds. Our long term intention is to establish a widespread understanding of Nonviolent Communication as a key to creating a more compassionate and sustainable world to leave for our children’s children.
We are 30 trainers and staff serving a community of just over 21,000 registered members and an active training participant population of just over 4,000 in over 90 countries. Our offerings are currently available in Arabic, English and German languages. French, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Italian language projects are in process, with completion expected by Summer of 2017.
Nonviolence Institute
The Institute is an innovative and nationally lauded 501(c)3 non-profit organization that targets the reduction of gang or group related violence in Rhode Island. Working with law enforcement and hospitals, we have brought the homicide rate down consistently over the past ten years. The Institute utilizes Nonviolence Trainings in prisons, schools and throughout the community. It also offers street outreach, hospital response to violent crime, employment services and enrichment activities. The Institute is the only organization in the country to serve both victims and perpetrators of violent crime through our Victim Services Department – we respond to all homicide
victims families and living victims of violent crime. Additionally we work with juveniles and adults as they prepare to be released from the Training School or Prison. We work to build the ideal of Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community.
In our training department and throughout the organization, we live by the sentiments of Ken Butigan’s book, From Violence to Wholeness: “Nonviolence is a process of seeing and challenging patterns of violence and injustice. To do this well, we need each other. We need communities of people who are seeking to transform their own violence and the violence around them. We need safe space to reflect on this process with others. We need allies with whom we can practice these methods, and people with whom we can debrief. We need companions when we take nonviolent action. In general, nonviolence is not a solitary activity.”
THE NON-VIOLENCE PROJECT UGANDA
The Non-Violence Project Uganda is a non-profit organization focused on reducing youth violence through increasing knowledge on how to solve conflicts peacefully and creatively through sports, music, entrepreneurship and education. We are inspiring and engaging Uganda’s youth in positive social action for a better nation and world.
NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION AUSTRALIA
Providing Nonviolent Communication in Australia. NVC is based on historical principles of nonviolence– the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart. NVC reminds us what we already instinctively know about how good it feels to authentically connect to another human being.
With NVC we learn to hear our own deeper needs and those of others. Through its emphasis on deep listening—to ourselves as well as others—NVC helps us discover the depth of our own compassion. This language reveals the awareness that all human beings are only trying to honor universal values and needs, every minute, every day.
NVC can be seen as both a spiritual practice that helps us see our common humanity, using our power in a way that honors everyone’s needs, and a concrete set of skills which help us create life-serving families and communities.
NVC Australia is part of a global community supporting the learning and sharing of NVC.
NVC ACADEMY
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand and diagnose — to think and communicate in terms of what is “right“ and “wrong“ with people. Because of this, we express our feelings in terms of what another person has “done to us.” We struggle to understand what we want or need in the moment, and how to effectively ask for what we want without using unhealthy demands, threats or coercion.
At best, thinking and communicating this way can create misunderstanding and frustration, or simply keep us from getting what we want — at home, at work and in our community. It can also keep us from the fulfilling relationships we deserve. And still worse, it can lead to anger, depression and even emotional or physical violence.
Since developing the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process in the 1960’s,Marshall B. Rosenberg Ph.D’s vision has been to teach people of any age, gender, ethnicity or background a much more effective alternative. While very simple, NVC offers a framework to reconnect us to the needs behind our own or another’s behavior, even in the most difficult of interactions.
At present, hundreds of CNVC Certified Trainers and supporters are teaching NVC skills to people from all walks of life around the globe. The NVC Academy provides the first centralized hub for Online NVC learning, where people just like you can learn from more than 40 unique CNVC Certified Trainers right from the comfort of your home.
Through our Live NVC Courses and NVC Multimedia Library subscriptions you’ll learn to transform the thinking, language and moralistic judgments that keep you from the enriching relationships you dream of. As you learn how to apply NVC in all areas of your life, you’ll start to resolve conflicts with more ease, learn to ask for what you want in ways that ensure you’ll receive it, begin to hear the true needs of others with less effort, strengthen your personal and professional relationships and start living to your full potential.
PEACE FACTORY
At Peace Factory, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is our source of inspiration for communication, dialogue and conflict resolution.
Nonviolent Communication can be used to:
– Know yourself better and better meet your needs
– Discover the benefits of listening to feelings and needs
– Align to your life energy
– Be more attuned to the being that you are, behind the personalities that we all build
– Hold the keys to discovering other people and bring you closer
– Discover the origins of most conflicts and how to resolve them
Through concrete examples, practice the process of Nonviolent Communication and make your relationships with others more harmonious! Located in France, we offer courses in English and French led by different trainers who are all certified with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).
RESOURCE CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE
The Resource Center for Nonviolence promotes the powerful combination of antiracism and nonviolence as a means to create a more just, equitable, joyful, and sustainable world. We are multiracial volunteers and staff members who connect in person and online to serve communities of all racial and ethnic groups. Founded in 1976, RCNV builds on local and global histories of multiracial liberation. We offer a community center located on original Awaswas and Amah Mutsun land (Santa Cruz, California). RCNV presents trainings and education for personal and social transformation, cultural expression, advocacy, action, and reconciliation. RCNV builds community to support activists in antiracism and nonviolence as we stand up, create campaigns, transform institutions, and heal ourselves.
VETERANS FOR PEACE
Veterans For Peace is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. We inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars.
Our network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars.
WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE
War Resisters League is the United States’ oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. Our work for nonviolent revolution has spanned decades and has been shaped by the new visions and strategies of each generation’s peacemakers.
A major part of all our programs is to help people organize in their own communities, where real change begins. Our staff and members offer nonviolence and direct action training that helps groups develop strategic nonviolent campaigns and the skills they need to create change. We train people in civil disobedience, war tax resistance, and other ways to put revolutionary nonviolence into action.
Our regional office in New England offers active support to local organizers in the six New England states, and our local chapters are hard at work across the country. We have a network of local groups and contacts around the country, and offer many resources, including organizers’ packets, videos, and a terrific collection of buttons and posters.
WORLD BEYOND WAR
World Beyond War is a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace.
We aim to create awareness of popular support for ending war and to further develop that support. We work to advance the idea of not just preventing any particular war but abolishing the entire institution.
We strive to replace a culture of war with one of peace in which nonviolent means of conflict resolution take the place of bloodshed.
While public opinion has moved against war, we intend to seize this moment to crystallize that opinion into a movement that spreads awareness that war can be ended, that its ending is hugely popular, that war should be ended as it endangers rather than protects — and harms rather than benefits — and that there are steps we can and must take to move toward war’s reduction and abolition.
YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND
The YWCA’s Social Justice Program work conducts advocacy trainings as a catalyst for social change by providing a theoretical and practical understanding of racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression. The aim of this work is to increase awareness of these issues and equip our community with the knowledge and skills needed to help build a more equitable world. Our workshops are conducted using a social justice model, which values what each person brings to the learning environment and strives to draw out and advance a shared understanding of complex social issues.