Welcome to your training on Nonviolent and Empathy Based Communication. We are very pleased that you are here.
We present you an approach inspired by the work of Marshall Rosenberg and the Centre for Nonviolent Communication, as well as other people collaborating there.
This approach was developed from a need for honest connection and finding win – win solutions in a conflict. It is in fact learning a new language, with vocabulary which names feelings and needs, using facts and observations to describe the situation, and structures of sentences which start from „I”. And this language comes with a specific attitude where communication is a means for building relations and for finding solutions which would help all of the involved parties feel safe, noticed with their needs, and equally important for moving forward from the situation where we might feel stuck or attacked. Attention! Empathy doesn’t mean here being always nice and polite, which will be explained in the following sections.
This course is designed in a way that you can go through all the materials in 2 hours and finish it, or do it at your own pace, finishing smaller parts of the course and taking breaks between them.
Our intention is that the material from this course inspires you to look at your life-work situations from a fresh perspective. We hope that you can take parts of the course into your work, try them out, experiment, check how it fits you and how it can complement other methods and tools which you are using already. In this sense, we invite you to take more than 2 hours to finish the course, to walk with the questions it might generate, and to come back to it time after time.
However you choose to approach it, we wish you a fruitful learning experience. Enjoy!
INSTRUCTOR
Marta Skorczyńska, psychologist, non-formal education trainer, youth worker. Experienced in coaching and mentoring youth since 2009. Currently involved in street work with youth in the neighbourhoods of Gdansk, Poland. Since 2017 training youth workers, educators and community workers as an independent international trainer. Working with applied drama, kinesthetic learning, playful and games based learning. In 2017 she added the aspect of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to the projects run by KOBIETY.LODZ.PL association, including volunteering projects, mentoring and training for youth as well as educators. She is constantly developing her own practice of empathy-based tools, combining it with coaching, mediations, and embodied practices for self-connection. She has practiced NVC with such trainers as Kay Rung, Dominika Jasińska, Marta Kułaga, Pernille Plantener. She is also involved in Peace Education projects which aim at developing innovative tools (courses, educational games) to promote empathy for a more peaceful world.
For questions, comments and feedback, please contact skorczynska.marta@gmail.com
For technical support, please contact maailmaharidus@mondo.org.ee