Does anyone implement any form of compassionate communication training in their organization, such as Nonviolent Communication or anything else on developing EG, and particularly any process that helps develop effective communication around concepts of justice and collective sense making?
If so, are your trainings around the onboarding process? Part of development trainings? Ongoing study groups?
-Abe
Hi Abe,
Interesting question 
and I think we might be looking for something similar.
At the moment we’re doing internal trainings on the broooad topic of “conflict”. Mainly with the goal of co-developing tools that can support people to deal differently with disagreements/conflicts (different than the patterns/pitfalls we often fall into). The training is inspired by NVC, process work, deep democracy and also learnings and other insights from the facilitators (things they’ve picked up along their journey on learning about these things).
Something I’m learning is that it’s something that takes time, and one training (no matter how good) won’t be sufficient, at least not on the long term. I’m starting to feel it’s more about a culture of understanding you create and (actively/consciously) maintain together.
I’d like to dearly recommend the work of https://www.eroticsofliberation.com/ and their work on Conflict Archetypes and conflict avoidance (this zine has helped me to understand better why and how people avoid conflict and why I wish so much that they wouldn’t :).
It also sounds like the work of https://www.heldcollective.com/ might interest you :).
Would love to hear/read what others think and continue this conversation :).
PS: what does EG mean?
Thanks for those resources, Mari! It seems as though these somatic practice resources are in line with the org I work at and our affinity group work. Really appreciate it.