Contents

Draft Contents for the Retreats

1. Restorative systems
   1. Restorative circles
   2. Setting up systems in organizations and groups
   3. Creating a regenerative culture
2. Nonviolence in practice, de-escalating skills
   1. Nonviolent Direct Action Training (affinity groups, decisions in-the-heat, nonviolence in police encounter, consent and self-responsibility and more)
   2. Training others in de-escalation
   3. Identifying own triggers and building inner as well as group resilience
3. Conflict mediation skills
   1. The classical NVC mediation format
   2. Group mediation
   3. Mediating inner conflicts (pre-requisite for being present and calm with others – PP addition)
   4. Improv – when formats don’t work
4. Intercultural meeting and learning
   1. Basic diversity training: Identifying privilege and subconscious biases
   2. Cultivating curiosity, vulnerability, courage
   3. Calling OUT and calling IN – being and ally
   4. Implementation in our organizations
5. Feedback
   1. The classical NVC format
   2. Exploration of what makes honesty so difficult – and how we can grow a culture of authenticity and safety
6. Nonviolent leadership
   1. Understanding teal organizations
   2. Decentralization and decision-making processes, power, flow of resources and information, feedback
   3. Understanding the role of trauma, especially inter-cultural and inter-generational trauma, in how we build our communities and society
   4. Antidotes to cultural trauma and how we can support ourselves and each other:
   5. Reverence to each other’s experience, Time travel empathy, Sacred vow work, humility and assuming one another’s innocence

Draft Schedule Retreats

On Friday: arrival by 16.00 dinner at 18.30 evening session 19.30 – 21.30 – welcomes/landing

Possible Daily rhythm Saturday and Sunday:

7.30 - 8.30 am.     Breakfast: 
8.30 - 9.00         Home tending (karma yoga): kitchen support, tending group rooms, grounds, bedrooms etc.
9.00 - 9.45         Community Singing 
10.00 - 10.30       All community gathering - 
10.45 - 12.45       First session 
13.00 - 14.30       Lunch
14.30 - 15.30       Quiet time (could be no speaking or empathy groups/sit spots etc)  
15.45 - 17.45       Second session
18.00 - 18.30       Evening community gathering
18.30 - 19.30       Dinner 
19.45  on….         Evening session 

On Monday departure after Lunch at 14.00

Content for the 2nd Weekend (21. – 24.02.2020)

in progress…