Nonviolent Communication: Active Listening

Location: in person, George Washington University, Rome Hall, Room 350; 801 22nd St. NW

Contact: Eli McCarthy (esm52@georgetown.edu)

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DC Peace Team is joining Campaign Nonviolence Action Days on International Day of Peace (September 21st). Please join us and Pace e Bene in taking action to promote peace. This year’s theme is “Cultivating a Culture of Peace”, which is our core mission here at DC Peace Team through providing training and support on nonviolent habits and skills. Active Listening is vital in the skill of Nonviolent Communication. We’ll be handing out campaign stickers at the training. To learn more about Campaign Nonviolence 2024 and other events around the world, head over the campaign’s page.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 community health workers, 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.

Active listening is when you not only hear what someone is saying, but also attune to their thoughts and feelings. It turns a conversation into an active, non-competitive, two-way interaction. This interactive workshop will focus on defining and practicing active listening in real time. Sensitivity to effective communication will be the takeaway goal. As we prepare for the session, please identify a recent conflict that you are comfortable using for our exercises.

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Payment is requested on a sliding scale. Please consider $45-$100 to support the work of the DC Peace Team. No one will be turned away for lack of funds and we welcome always. Please share the event through our social media- FB, Instagram, Twitter

For those who can, please send payment today — https://ssl.charityweb.net/dcpeaceteam/training.htm or checks can be written out to DC Peace Team and mailed to Eli McCarthy, 7305 Baylor Ave., College Park, MD 20740.

For more information about the DC Peace Team, please visit our website @ https://dcpeaceteam.orgFacilitator:
Eli McCarthy, Ph.D. (he/him), has led numerous trainings in nonviolent communication, unarmed civilian protection, and bystander intervention. He also helps facilitate the deployments of DCPT’s unarmed civilian protection units. He is a professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the Justice and Peace Studies Program.  His most recent book is titled A Just Peace Ethic: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence (2020). He has been formed by multiple trips to Haiti, where he worked with people living in poverty, working with people experiencing homelessness in Boston and Washington, DC, monitoring the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and leading strategic nonviolent resistance campaigns.