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Why This Training

 

This training is for community leaders, settlement workers, educators, parents, volunteers, and anyone in Ottawa's Arabic-speaking communities who wants to communicate with more clarity and compassion in their personal, professional, and community life.

 

In Arabic-speaking communities, everyday stresses, cultural transitions, and experiences carried from home can shape how people relate to one another. Misunderstandings rooted in exhaustion, grief, or unfamiliar social norms can quietly erode the trust that communities need to thrive.

 

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, offers a practical approach to transforming how we speak, listen, and connect. Rooted in empathy and honesty, NVC helps people move from reactive patterns toward more conscious, compassionate dialogue.

 

This training brings NVC to Ottawa's Arabic-speaking communities in their own language, with trainers who understand the cultural, social, and emotional realities of displacement, resettlement, and rebuilding life in a new country.

 

It is also, by design, an experience of coming together. Participants from different backgrounds, faiths, and national histories sit together as equals. They practise hearing one another without judgment. They put aside the identities and divisions that may have defined them at home, and engage with one another as neighbours building a shared community in Canada.