NVC TRAINING INSTITUTE and BASILEIA LLC OFFER:
CREATING WORKPLACES WHERE PEOPLE THRIVE:
SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING NEEDS-BASED SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN BUSINESSES AND NONPROFITS
using the processes of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
and Dynamic Governance (DG)
A Six-Day Intensive
Facilitated by Gregg Kendrick
- October 14-21, 2012:
EUROPE: Hamburg, Germany - NEW LOCATION!
Details coming soon! - November 18-25, 2012:
ASIA: Seoul, South Korea
This is not your typical NVC workshop. Grounded in the "living energy of needs," this workshop offers a unique experience of NVC where you will experience both the gentleness of compassion and empathy AND the fierceness of purpose and clarity. We will introduce you to a new level of needs, the needs of the WE, which is the heart of any living organization.
This is also not your typical business workshop. The learning experience is rich with somatic/"whole body" exercises, percussion beats, creative expressions of your deepest potential, and daily rememberings. We want you to experience the "power" within "power-with" leadership.
And we also have a depth of structure and content to give you pragmatic tools to transform your real-world workplace situations: a 120-page Participants' Manual, role plays, a business simulation, small affinity groups, sociocratic governance structures, and community meetings.
With his background in owning & managing small businesses, Gregg has focused the last ten years on facilitating needs-based consciousness in organizations—first in his own 19-year-old business, and then as a consultant to a variety of businesses & nonprofits including a 6-year engagement at a company that does pharmaceutical studies.
The intention within our work is to foster the fullness of needs-based consciousness—the living energy of needs—such that we not only impact the human relationships within the organization but we systemically transform the organizational processes, strategies and structures to be in harmony with this consciousness.
Come explore with us how a needs-consciousness transforms our workplaces into places where people thrive. In this six-day workshop we give a glimpse into the experience of a "living organization" which vibrantly fulfill their purpose in harmony with valuing the human needs of people involved in or touched by the organization.
NEW! We've heard from many of you who have already attended a "Creating Workplaces Where People Thrive" (CWWPT) workshop, and who want to come back for more … more inspiration, more skills development, more enlivening transformation energy. Now we've added one more reason for you to consider returning: to expand your learning by having a role on the Event Support Team during the workshop. (more >>)
OUR INTENTIONS WITHIN THIS WORKSHOP
Share our experience of Needs-based Communication (NVC) and Dynamic Governance (DG) as processes for organizational development
Develop NVC skills & needs-based consciousness, beyond the intrapersonal & interpersonal, to encompass groups of people with a common mission & aim
Learn to introduce NVC to people within businesses & organizations through inspiring rather than selling
Expand the mission of any organization so that it becomes a "living organization"
Introduce Dynamic Governance (Sociocracy) as a framework to hold needs-based consciousness
Experience circles as the core organizational unit and explore the dynamics within those circles that fulfill the needs of the participants and the needs of the whole
Invite hands-on practice of essential NVC organizational skills in facilitation of meetings, expressing & hearing disagreement without blame, mediating conflicts and coaching
Explore how common processes—e.g. meetings, employee reviews, hiring, terminations of employment, email communications—are transformed to create an environment of authenticity, connection & mutual interdependence within the organization
Witness—and learn the skills of—a new leadership that emerges in living organizations
Learn the crucial role of systemic feedback for a living organization to thrive
Varied Learning Modalities
Large group sessions to enhance awareness of significant concepts using short lectures combined with role play demonstrations and somatic "whole body" exercises.
An integral Business Simulation throughout the workshop provides a common context for dynamic learning through role plays and group interactions … every participant has a role in the business
Each participant co-creates and participates in a small group of three to five people called an Affinity Group which has scheduled time to meet each day of the workshop with the purpose of practicing and integrating core concepts and applying the workshop material to your real-world situations
Each day has scheduled Personal Integration time in which each participant makes choices as to how to best integrate the material, e.g. an information discussion with another participant, personal reflection, taking a walk, etc.
We encourage you to "get out of your head," tap into your creativity and experience the core concepts and awarenesses using somatic movement exercises and simple percussion instruments.
Each evening we invite everyone to a Community Meeting to celebrate and mourn our experience of the day, to offer feedback, and to reflect on how we are doing at creating community.
On the final evening of the workshop, we host a Grand Finale Celebration where each participant is invited to express how we intend to carry this transformative work out into the world.
We invite participants to offer session of their own that they want to share with other participants in Open Evening Sessions
Each participant receives a comprehensive 100+ page Participant Workbook that includes session notes, drawings and diagrams, and supplemental resources. See the following sample from the Workbook:
Co-CreatingtheLearningEnvironment.pdf
Intended Participants
Business owners, managers and NVC/DG "champions" who want to integrate NVC/DG into their businesses and non-profits
Consultants who want to facilitate the integration of NVC/DG into client organizations
Certified & non-certified NVC trainers who want to facilitate the integration of NVC/DG into client organizations
DG (Sociocracy) consultants who want to understand how NVC integrates into DG
Co-Requisite
NVC Training Institute's Seven-Day "Living Energy of Needs" Training or equivalent foundations in NVC skills & consciousness