Compassionate Communication Consciousness for Congregations:
Growing in our First Principle as Social Change Agents
First Friday of Every Month
Next One: Friday, June 6, 2008, 7 p.m. EDT
Call: 605-990-0400 - Access Code: 390978#
Over the years Unitarian Universalists share how they might live out our lives authentically and lovingly to all people, regardless of their politics or ideologies – including our fellow congregation members. We ask one another:
This UUA.org-hosted listserv is to facilitate networking among UUs
interested in Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication and other approaches to interpersonal peacemaking. A goal of this network is to make the best of these concepts and skills widely available to congregations during and following the Peacemaking Congregational Study Action Issue (2006-2010).
SPEAKING PEACE:
Gina Lawrie (U.K.), Jeff Brown (U.S.) and Henry Wai (Canada) invite you to 'save the date' for an intermediate Nonviolent Communication (NVC) training using the NVC Dance Floors.
From Judy Morgan, member, Peacemaking Congregational Study/Action Issue Core Team: a recommendation of "an article by Miki Kashtan, an excellent NVC trainer from the Bay Area, on Working for Peace Without Recreating War.
The full article is at http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0803/frontpage/peace and a version of it is attached to this post for use in UU peace work, posted with permission of Tikkun Magazine.
We want to meet needs for clarify and information and support for those wanting to pursue practice and learning of Compassionate (Nonviolent) Communication and other "speaking peace" processes, and also such needs of our website volunteers as ease and clarity and respect for the needs of others. In that context, we request: