Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution
in partnership with
NVC Ottawa-Outaouais
Presents
Restorative Circle
Building Compassionate Conflict Resolution Systems
Dates to be determined
Plenary in English: consecutive translation as needed.
Documents and breakout groups will be in choice of English or French.
Restorative Circles allow individuals and communities to establish connection, discover meaning and recover power on profound levels. They create a forum for reaching agreements that help sustain effective and nurturing relationships both personally and within society.
Circles have developed within the RJ (Restorative Justice) movement, which in recent decades has adapted ways for communities to promote responsibility and healing. Rethinking justice, and engaging to consciously build whole-system responses to people’s well-being, has opened up revolutionary possibilities for furthering a culture of peace.
Restorative Training
June 3rd, the first evening, is gratis and open to all friends & families: an intro to 5 pre-requisites for creating RC in communities.
The next 3 days dynamically explore the key assumptions underlying the RC model which Dominic Barter has been sharing all over Brazil for years.
Participants may experience loosening of closed ideas, uncovering of human motives behind painful choices and discovery of effective strategies to meet pressing needs. They will partake first-hand in the RC process, with step-by-step integration of both RC & NVC skills.
NVC is a skill which affirms that we, human beings, share common, universal values (such as needs for community and respect), as well as a desire to see these needs met. By focusing on these shared values, and then moving on to strategies, there can be found solutions which are more satisfying, empowering and sustainable.
NVC is based on the premise that each of us can access our remarkable inner resources if we are given empathy, and that we all fare much better if we know how to do this in collaboration.
Gina Cenciose
Gina has been a practitioner of nonviolence and conflict resolution for many years.
She is a certified community-building facilitator, a certified trainer for the Center for NVC and a Restorative Circle (RC) facilitator. She has been sharing NVC full-time for seven years in prisons, hospitals and non-profits.
She currently runs seven year-long NVC Integration programs, and also mentors others through the Center’s certification process.
Gina offers and teaches NVC-based mediation in families, businesses & groups of all kinds.
A long-time colleague of Dominic’s, Gina has been facilitating Restorative Circles in different environments since learning this wonderful model directly from him.
Valérie Lanctôt-Bédard
Valérie has been teaching NVC since 2003. She intervenes in a variety of environments – including all kinds of organizations at work, couples and families and therapeutic relations in health centers, where she offers empathy in dealing with anger, beliefs, grief, healing, change, parental skills and social activism.
She also works with individuals on their life path, sharing her 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur, facilitator and therapist.
She is a certified trainer of the Center for NVC and co-founder of the Québec Circle of Certified Trainers.
For more information on both trainers:
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$275, 00 for students plus HST – Thursday night free
Location: Saint Paul University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, ON K1S 1C4
Time
Thursday Evening: 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Friday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday: 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
For those with RJ background: experience how inserting NVC's ABA-type listening can enhance resolution sustainability.
For those with NVC background: experience how deepening NVC dialogue can empower facilitation of circles.
For those wanting to contribute to ‘peace’: experience the immediate ‘vigor', in your community, of this unique combination of Alternate Dispute Resolution skills!
NVC Ottawa-Outaouais is a non-profit network offering NonViolent Communication-based facilitation, mediation, practice groups and teaching in businesses and communities.
