*Register below for the waitlist. We will let you know by Sunday if a spot opens up. Feel free to check in with esm52@georgetown.edu.

2020 MLK Events at Georgetown University: Building the Beloved Community

Monday Jan. 20th, 10:00-4:30 pm
Location: Arrupe Multi-Purpose Room in Arrupe Hall
*MLK Holiday: no classes

Sponsored by Justice and Peace Studies Program of Georgetown University

This training is an introduction to the theory and practice of nonviolent communication, with particular emphasis on key skills. The facilitator is Ryan McAllister who has facilitated over 400 workshops, support group meetings, and dialogues based on nonviolent communication, peer-counseling, mindfulness, and oppression and liberation theory.

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.

Objectives:
1. identification of basic human needs and broad range of feelings
2. exploration of the theory of nonviolent communication
3. practice and refinement of NVC skills in situations of interpersonal conflict

The training is FREE and primarily for students, faculty, and staff members of Georgetown University and designed for 25 participants maximum. Space is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Participants are asked to commit to the entire session.

*Lunch will be provided.

This is a participatory workshop designed to include those who 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.

All exercises will be optional. Exercises will include-role playing conflict examples taken from real-life situations, and we want participants to assess for themselves if they are comfortable participating in each exercise. *Please consider bringing a conflict you might like to work on.

For more information about the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown, please visit our website at: http://justiceandpeace.georgetown.edu/

Accessibility: includes entry ramps, the room is on the ground floor, and has ADA accessible rest rooms. Other accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by Monday Jan. 13th to Eli McCarthy at esm52@georgetown.edu. A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after Jan. 13th.

For questions or to cancel your spot, contact Eli McCarthy at esm52@georgetown.edu.