Sponsored by DC Peace Team
Saturday Sept. 26, 10am-12pm and 1-3pm Full training is both segments.
Location: (Zoom link available after registration)
This training is an introduction to the theory and practice of nonviolent communication, with particular emphasis on key skills.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), or Compassionate Communication, is a powerful tool for transforming and mediating interpersonal, intra-personal, organizational, and inter-group conflicts. It is used worldwide by activists, teachers, conflict specialists, doctors, diplomats, social workers, managers and others to improve their work and home life. The practice of NVC can help us understand ourselves more fully, provide us with a sense of power and choice in our lives, and open our hearts to compassionately connect and collaborate with others.
This is an interactive and beginner’s workshop designed for those that may have no to little prior studies of any special nonviolent communication. This workshop will expose participants to the basic strategies and skills of nonviolent communication that are used in the types of conflicts that might arise in your personal life as well as in other settings. You may want to try out new skills with family members, co-workers, and neighbors. *Please consider bringing a conflict you might like to work on.
The training workshop is designed for anyone.
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Payment is requested on a sliding scale. Please consider $35-$75 to support our work and help us better serve the community. FREE for students. No one will be turned away for lack of payment and we welcome you either way.
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Facilitators:
Aleta Winters lives in Montgomery County and is honored to work and serve in the community she grew up in as a young child. She comes to the DC Peace Team as a volunteer co-facilitator in Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Justice Circles. Aleta seeks to apply Nonviolent communication training in her school and restorative justice circles in the professional community. She has been in the education field for seven years and is currently an Administrator in a private school in Bethesda, MD. In 2018, she earned her Master's degree in Human Services Counseling. Aleta is passionate about advocating for her community, mentoring, facilitating, teaching youth groups, and starting preschools/daycares in the DMV area.
Eli S. McCarthy, Ph.D. (he/his) is a co-founder of the DC Peace Team and has led numerous trainings. He also teaches at Georgetown University in Justice and Peace Studies. Eli has published a book called “A Just Peace Ethic Primer: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence" (2020) along with numerous journal articles such as "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Toward a More Just U.S. Society," and "Will You Really Protect Us Without a Gun?: Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping in the U.S." He has been formed by multiple trips to Haiti working with the poor, working with the homeless in Boston and DC, and monitoring the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce. He has also led strategic nonviolent resistance campaigns, such as on issues of immigration.
