Geneva Nonviolent Communication Practice Group

Tue, Oct 21 · 8:00 PM CEST

[IN-PERSON & ONLINE] NVC Geneva Book Club

chez David Laou, rue Daubin 14, Genève, al, CH

NVC Book Club was founded in 2021 with the aim of reading Marshall Rosenberg's book "Nonviolent Communication – A language of Life" together. We continue to integrate our own needs with the content of the book.

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If you're not coming in presence, you may join the videoconference with either:

• permanent shortcut http://NVCGeneva.ch/zoom

• using the Zoom Meeting ID 922 005 2018 and passcode NVC

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General introduction:

Creating a group dedicated to the book gives us an opportunity to make space for discussions whilst reading together. It aims to support a deeper learning and understanding of the NVC language, which we believe will enrich the learning process in life and indeed in situations which we would like to compassionately communicate with others.

Through previous sessions, we learnt that it was important to meet the current needs of participants. As we continue to evolve the group and journey through the book together, we would like to invite participants to share anything that resonates when reading passages in the book. Understandably we may therefore share more than we read in some sessions. This can also serve as to guide and prepare us for online and/or live sessions with a co-facilitator.

Afternoon sessions are weekly on a Monday afternoon at 15:15

Evening sessions are fortnightly on a Tuesday evening at 20:00

On Tuesdays, the schedules are according to our collective inspirations, starting with:

• 20:00 check-in
• 20:10 following the flow of the reading
• 20:50 announcing the chair for the next session
• 20:55 check-out

If you want to attend these book club sessions but are unable to attend either the afternoon or the evening sessions listed, please contact us at: bookclub@NVCGeneva.ch or Georgia Knower on MeetUp.

We’d love to hear from you! Let us know when you’re able to participate, even if it is outside of our sessions. We are open to suggestions and looking forward to continuing an inspiring, connecting, and nurturing space through several time zones. Here’s to an NVC-filled world!

Practical information:

If you are brand-new to NVC, please read or watch an introduction so you can come with questions and the first ideas about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TONauJGfc

If participants wish to follow along with the reading, we suggest getting a copy of the book. However, if you do not wish to get a copy right away or at all, you are welcome to listen to the reading and join in the discussions.

Please feel invited to express and share any concerns, suggestions, questions regarding donations (expenses for Zoom,MeetUp,NVC website), we are open to hearing from you!

https://NVCGeneva.ch/giving

Subtitles: closed captioning is available to all participants (both in presence and online), please request us to activate the automatic speech recognition feature if needed.

Sun, Oct 26 · 7:50 PM CET

[IN-PERSON & ONLINE] International listening circle

COLIFE Nations Yoga & Pilates, Chem. des Colombettes 6, Genève, GE, CH

Proposal aligned with http://cercledecoute.ch
We will moderate the circle in English and also provide the moderation guidelines in French if needed. Anyone will then be welcome to share in any language they wish.

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If you're not coming in presence, you may join the videoconference with either:
• permanent shortcut http://NVCGeneva.ch/zoom
• using the Zoom Meeting ID 922 005 2018 and passcode NVC
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General introduction:
In a listening circle, you may share in security and without judgment: your inner thoughts, and possibly those parts that are hurt, anxious, overwhelmed ─ as well as keep silent.
A listening circle is a free space, but does not aim at advising or solving problems. It is not a space for interaction or feedback, or questions-answers either. It is difficult to describe such an experience. Rather than telling about it, you are encouraged to experiment.
To help with the practical set-up, registration here is welcome although not mandatory ─ just come and be willing to welcome the others' speech, their realm and emotion, without counselling or consoling.

The schedule is:
• 19:50 Technical tests (useful if you're not familiar with the videoconferencing tool Zoom), welcome, short Q&A (useful if this is your first contact and need anything before the experience)
• 20:00 Circle starts
• 21:00 Closing of the circle

Practical information:
Optional donation is 5+ CHF for the expenses of the room, Zoom, Meetup, website and NVC Geneva, you may find details here: http://NVCGeneva.ch/giving
Wear comfy clothes, as we sit on cushions and mats.
Subtitles: closed captioning is available to all participants (both in presence and online), please request us to activate the automatic speech recognition feature if needed.

Mon, Oct 27 · 3:15 PM CET

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Online

[ONLINE] NVC Geneva Book Club

Online

NVC Book Club was founded in 2021 with the aim of reading Marshall Rosenberg's book "Nonviolent Communication – A language of Life" together. We continue to integrate our own needs with the content of the book.

We have finished reading "Getting Past the Pain Between Us" and "The Surprising Purpose of Anger" and "We Can Work it Out". On Monday 2nd June, we will begin reading "Practical Spirituality".

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You may join the videoconference with either:
• permanent shortcut http://NVCGeneva.ch/zoom
• Meetup event link to "Online event"
• using the Zoom Meeting ID 922 005 2018 and passcode NVC
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General introduction:

Creating a group dedicated to the book gives us an opportunity to make space for discussions whilst reading together. It aims to support a deeper learning and understanding of the NVC language, which we believe will enrich the learning process in life and indeed in situations which we would like to compassionately communicate with others.

Through previous sessions, we learnt that it was important to meet the current needs of participants. As we continue to evolve the group and journey through the book together, we would like to invite participants to share anything that resonates when reading passages in the book. Understandably we may therefore share more than we read in some sessions. This can also serve as to guide and prepare us for online and/or live sessions with a co-facilitator.

Afternoon sessions are weekly on a Monday afternoon at 15:15

Evening sessions are fortnightly on a Tuesday evening at 20:00

On Mondays, the schedules are according to our collective inspirations, starting with:

• 15:15 space is open, particularly for newcomers or anyone wishing to share ahead of the check-in

• 15:30 check-in

• 15:40 following the flow of the reading

• 16:15 consolidation of current discussion/place in the chapter,conclusion of topic with space for its continuation at the following session; proceed to check-out

• 16:30 proposed finishing time

If you want to attend these book club sessions but are unable to attend either the afternoon or the evening sessions listed, please contact us at: bookclub@NVCGeneva.ch or Georgia Knower on MeetUp.

We’d love to hear from you! Let us know when you’re able to participate, even if it is outside of our sessions. We are open to suggestions and looking forward to continuing an inspiring, connecting, and nurturing space through several time zones. Here’s to an NVC-filled world!

Practical information:

If you are brand-new to NVC, please read or watch an introduction so you can come with questions and the first ideas about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7TONauJGfc

If participants wish to follow along with the reading, we suggest getting a copy of the book. However, if you do not wish to get a copy right away or at all, you are welcome to listen to the reading and join in the discussions.

Please feel invited to express and share any concerns, suggestions, questions regarding donations (expenses for Zoom,MeetUp,NVC website), we are open to hearing from you!

https://NVCGeneva.ch/giving

Subtitles: closed captioning is available to all participants (both in presence and online), please request us to activate the automatic speech recognition feature if needed.

Sat, Nov 1 · 9:00 AM CET

[IN-PERSON] Implementing Nonviolence in the Systems in Which We Live

3DD Espace de Concertation, Rue David Dufour, Geneva, Geneva, CH

A Nonviolent Communication Workshop 1-2 November (9:00-12:00 & 13:30-17:30)

With Marco Bertaglia and Senovio Shish
This is a workshop on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as developed by Marshall Rosenberg.

NVC was created to enable a more peaceful world, to transition from systems of domination to systems of full collaboration where all needs of all people are cared for. Along the journey of systems change, nonviolent agents of change can expect to encounter a range of responses from within domination paradigms they seek to change. This workshop is intended to support further integration of NVC to reconnect with greater resilience and hope for bringing about systems that work for all.

We will work in very practical ways to enhance our resilience and ability to work with and within groups, in ways that support togetherness, choice and shared power.

Among themes that we will deepen the following are included:
- dialogical systems
- support
- mourning the gap between vision and reality
- group facilitation
- an economy that works for all?

To care for space and resource planning, please complete your registration information at this link.

About Marco:
For over 25 years I’ve been a trainer in Nonviolent Communication, mediator, and facilitator of group processes. My journey with NVC began in 2000 and has profoundly transformed my life, including years of direct learning with Marshall Rosenberg. I work with and for children, couples, families, communities, ecovillages, and organizations, offering personal coaching and trainings inspired by the gift economy. My work weaves communication, community, and social transformation in the spirit of nonviolence envisioned by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Read more at https://www.cnvc.org/trainers/marco-bertaglia

About Senovio:
I was raised with values of peace, justice, truth-telling and deep listening as a practicing Quaker (Religious Society of Friends) since childhood. While engaging in anti-racism work, I found Nonviolent Communication in 2018 with the NVC Geneva practice group, and felt a profound resonance with my values. I am committed to systems change through community-building as a way of responding to the crisis of violence among humans and the threat of collapse of the global ecosystem. I include non-human animals in my peace efforts, and have practiced veganism since 2019. I am currently a candidate to become a certified trainer with CNVC.