Center For Nonviolent Communication - Hawaii Retreat
Facilitated by Liv Larsson, Karl Stayaert, Jim and Jori Manske and Annett Zupke
November 10 - 19, 2017
Program: Please join us for this great opportunity to learn about NVC-based mediation, conflict resolution and reconciliation from 5 different CNVC-certified trainers. This event is a 9-day residential training where you will enjoy opportunities to both build your conflict transformation skills and to connect with your intentions behind wanting to be part of supporting others in resolving conflicts.
The training will include experience of and skills around different themes that are part of mediation and reconciliation:
- Empathy (skills, intention, timing, warmth etc)
- Honesty (how to support honesty in others as well as in ourselves as mediators)
- Self-connection (how to remain present in the midst of conflict and recover from your own reactivity
- Creating trust and safety (how to interrupt with care, creating a safe container for facilitating formal and informal restorative processes including mediation, how to make agreements that will actually be lived, structures as a support for connection)
- Self-care (how to care for mental, emotional, physical, economical health, tools and practises that will help you
- navigate supporting others in conflict in restoring connection)
- Tracking the needs and pain of those in conflict
- Conflict transformation as a part of a larger setting
- Conflict transformation between individuals as well as groups
- Supporting others in formal and informal reconciliation processes
- Working with inner conflict
- Shame in mediation and other third party restorative processes
- Shuttle mediation and dealing with violence and threats
- Skills, clarity (key differentiations etc) and intention of mediation and reconciliation
- Restorative circles
- Restorative dialogs
Your stay at Hale Akua includes a complimentary educational Farm Tour.
About the Facilitators

Liv Larsson
Certified Trainer with CNVC since 2002. She has worked as a coach, mediator and workshop leader since 1992. Liv has written 18 books on the theme of NVC, for adults and children, translated to different languages.The titles include Anger Guilt and Shame - Reclaiming Power and Choice, A Helping Hand- Mediation with Nonviolent Communication and […]
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Karl Stayaert
Karl is passionate about co-creating learning experiences and communities that contribute to peace, justice, and sustainability. With over 20 years of experience teaching and facilitating groups, he has helped catalyze learning in settings ranging from university classrooms to ecovillages and urban gardens. As a Certified Trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Karl leads trainings in conflict […]
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Jim and Jori Manske
Trainers: Jim and Jori Manske, married and working together for over 30 years, share the intentions to cooperate together in the great adventure of life, to openly and honestly share their deepest thoughts and feelings, and to honor and accept each other with ever-increasing ability. These intentions continue to frame not only their relationship together, but also all their […]
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Annett Zupke
Annett has been working with international groups for 20 years on cross cultural communication. In the past 9 years, her work has been mainly grounded in the spirit of NVC and she is certified with the CNVC. As a trainer and conflict coach/mediator she worked in a wide spectrum of environments (corporate, NGOs, schools, prisons, […]
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