NVC Santa Cruz Classes - Power, Resources and Choice with Miki Kashtan

With Miki Kashtan
How do we communicate when we have different life experiences or different interpretations of what we see around us? Are there ways to foster connection and trust even across the biggest divisions in our cultures? And to begin with, how do we make sense of power and choice, and how can we speak about them without getting lost in judgments of ourselves or of others?

Discover how you can:

• Increase authenticity, connection and power-sharing in your relationships
• Honor your longing for community, belonging, and love
• Grow your awareness of the effects of your actions, and take more responsibility without guilt or obligation

Miki’s style of teaching is highly interactive. You will work individually and in small groups with your own situations to learn specific practices for immediate use in daily life.

Saturday, March 6th, 10-5:30pm
$75-150 per person

Location: Center for Compassion, 225 Rooney Street - Map

Miki Kashtan, is a co-founder of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication, and the BayNVC Leadership Program. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads workshops and intensive retreats in Nonviolent Communication and offers mediation, meeting facilitation, coaching, and training for organizations throughout the United States and internationally. She has been supporting the US Department of Peace campaign with monthly conference calls since 2005. Miki hosts the Conflict Hotline, a monthly live call-in TV show on the Berkeley Community Media channel BETV, which can be viewed on YouTube. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley and her articles have appeared in Communities magazine, Tikkun magazine, and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice.

Miki is inspired by the contribution that NVC can make to social change movements and values sharing these skills with leaders and activists. She most enjoys working with and coaching people who are deeply committed to integrating and sharing the consciousness of NVC.

Miki is available to lead NVC trainings and can be reached at BayNVC.

Miki talks about her experience with NVC, powerful moments of healing
and the benefits of empathy (part of the Empathy Documentary Project):

Miki has authored:
§ “The Pain, The Anger, and the Hope: Women Peace Workers in Israel”, Magazine of Creation Spirituality, March 1992

§ “Nonviolent Communication: Transforming Conflict and Enhancing Connection in Communities”,Communities Magazine, September 1999

§ “No Enemies, No Demands”, Tikkun Magazine, September-October 2002

§ “Transforming Power Relations: The Invisible Revolution”, Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, September 2002

§ “The Gift of Self: The Art of Transparent Facilitation”, in Sandor Schuman, ed., The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, Jossey-Bass, 2005

§ “Beacon for Peace in the Promised Land: Transforming Palestinian-Israeli Relationships with Nonviolent Communication,” with Hagit Lifshitz and Arnina Kashtan, Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding Between Israelis And Palestinians, edited by Judy Kuriansky, Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2007.

§ “Working for Peace without Recreating War” (with Dot Maver), Tikkun Magazine, March/April 2008.

§ “Wanting Fully without Attachment”, Tikkun Magazine, January/February 2010.

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This event has been canceled due to low preregistration

We appreciate your interest & wish we were able to have the number to confidently invite Miki to travel down and have fruitful session here in Santa Cruz. If you had been interested in coming we ask that next time please either register in advance or notify us by phone or email about your interest that we might realistically forecast turnout.

We're guessing that perhaps it might have been hard to commit much in advance to how you'd spend your day & you would have loved the option to be there when you found that the timing would have worked for you. Unfortunately this time around the numbers weren't there!

"Miki, I really admire the way you are able to be so present in the moment and are able to respond so well to what you see and sense. Just watching you in action makes this course worthwhile to me."
— S.G., Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

”Miki's workshop was exceptional in giving an overview of the work, while calmly meeting the emotional challenges everyone brought to the table.” —Class Participant