Skip to content
Nonviolent Global Liberation Community
Nonviolent Global Liberation Community

Nonviolent Global Liberation Community

Apprenticeship Program and Learning Community

  • Home
  • About
    • Purpose, Mission, Vision, Values and Theory of Change
    • Scope of the NGL Approach
    • Current Components
    • Commitment requested
    • Potential Projects
    • How We Work
  • What we offer
  • Resources
    • Aligning Systems with Purpose and Values
    • Videos
  • Join NGL Friends
  • Login
  • Contact

Quotes from Miki

“Conflicts can be dealt by seeing the information their offer about the other systems, so that we can see for each conflict what systems has not worked.” – Miki Kashtan

Donate to NGL

Subscribe to receive NGL news

By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: BayNVC, PO Box 22872, Oakland, CA, 94609, http://www.baynvc.org. You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribe® link, found at the bottom of every email. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact

What we offer

Belonging to a community of practitioners

Coming soon

Retreats

Mexico Retreat 2019, Sept 15-21, 2019

East Coast NGL Retreat, New York, Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2019

Past Retreats

Poland Retreat
California Retreat 2019

Free Coaching Calls

You can access information about Miki’s free coaching calls at The Fearless Heart website.

Collaboration in projects and activities

Coming soon

 

 

 

 

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
Contact form 1 Proudly powered by WordPress
Requests to Friends from the NGL community

As we mentioned in the introduction to Join NGL Friends, we have a number of requests of you that we want you to engage with seriously as you decide whether being an NGL Friend is a fit for you.

The overall principle we are asking of you is that you recognize the limits of our collective resources as a community, and adopt the attitude of reverence and “do no harm.” We have worked for a long time with much care to create this space.  We want it to be as welcoming as we know how, and we know it’s not perfect.

We want to learn from and with you, and our capacity is limited to engage with you beyond what we offer generally. We ask that you act with awareness of being a guest in our community. We have attempted to offer as much guidance as we can to support your journey into and within NGL, and we may have not given sufficient clarity.

If so, let us know when we ask for feedback, and we will aim to find a way to offer more guidance in new ways. We deeply believe that you will learn and get a sense of belonging from attending calls and we ask that you do this with care for all of our specific requests (which mostly focus on your overall intention and focus, not concrete actions):

  1. Nurture deep respect, curiosity, and openness to the power of togetherness and operating in gift based on willingness.
  2. Honor our space by acting with awareness and care, with us, for our limited resources by:
    1. having as few expectations as possible in terms of individual guidance, support, and attention;
    2. lending your energy to support what is happening;
    3. channeling what you want to question or challenge to opportunities that we will provide in spaces specifically designated for this kind of exchange;
    4. as a way of supporting our capacity to focus on our own relationships and purpose for our meetings, muting yourself and having your video off on all meetings except for designated moments when we ask to hear from you. (Note: for coaching calls, with their different purpose, we welcome you to participate fully.);
  3. When you want to share with others about being an NGL Friend:
    1. share your excitement, what you are learning and why you are happy to be an NGL Friend, so that other people might want to become NGL Friends too;
    2. honor the importance that the process to become an NGL Friend has in sustaining what we do by only sharing documents and links you have access to when there is explicit agreement to do so with the D&M Team member you are collaborating with.
Data Processing & Information Sharing

Before you enter more personal data we want to inform you that in accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR:

– the administrator of the personal data collected in this form is Bay Area Nonviolent Communication (BayNVC), P.O. Box 22872, Oakland, CA 94609, United States.

– your personal information is collected for the following purposes:

  – completing the registration as an NGL Friend;
  – having the access to the information and documentation shared with NGL Friends and to the meetings open to NGL Friends;
  – working on projects within NGL as an NGL Friend.

– processing of your personal data is necessary to deliver our service to you, without this data we are unable to register you as an NGL Friend.- collected data will be stored as long as you are registered as NGL Friend and for 3 month after your unsubscribe as NGL Friend, for claiming and defending against claims, unless longer period is required by law.


– you have the right to request to update or correct your personal information or to withdraw or limit your consent.– you have the right to data portability, i.e. that on your request your data will be sent directly to another company, where technically feasible.- your personal data will be transferred to recipients, who will indicate the legal basis and legal interest, as well as to the following categories of entities: accounting firms, law firms, IT firms, public bodies resulting from the obligation to provide access on the basis of separate law.

– you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.

Conflict engagement, including termination of an NGL Friend’s access - terms & process

Important: Clicking on a link in this page will open it in a new page or tab – when you close that tab, you will come back to this page.

In order to become an NGL Friend we are asking you to accept that the Conflict Engagement (CE) system applies to you in your relation with NGL. This section is longer than others, because we are aiming to attend to what often destroys groups: lack of attention to the core significance of attending to conflict in conscious and proactive ways.

While laying out the entirety of the CE system here would be overwhelming, we want to give you a taste of how our system functions as you consider whether this would be a fit for you:

  • we base ourselves on the assumption of innocence throughout the system (see the Nonviolent Core Commitment #8);
  • we see conflicts as an integral part of life and an opportunity for learning in any community;
  • we recognize that under patriarchal conditioning we almost always need support when we are in conflict;
  • we trust in our shared capacity to find solutions that work for everyone;
  • we offer specific processes and types of support to D&M Team members to engage with conflict .

In preparation for inviting people to join as NGL Friends, we began conversations about two additional topics that are still in developments:

  • due to the limited resources of the community, we do not have the capacity to offer any active support with conflicts that arise between NGL Friends. We do, however, have learning resources available and reflection questions that you can use to work your way through a conflict;
  • when conflicts arise between a member of the D&M Team and an NGL Friend, we do aim to include that within what the CE system covers. In this case, the process can be activated by any of the parties;
  • as no group can include “everyone” we recognize that under rare and extreme conditions, we may choose to terminate someone’s NGL Friend access. We are still developing the criteria and processes that would lead to activating this, with the aim to infuse it with as much care, clarity, integrity, and empathy as possible.
Test 2

Can I open Test1 popup  from here?

How about with a shortcode?

Show test1 popup
Test 1

Testing opening a popup from a popup

Introduction

Your “Become a Friend Journey” begins!

The following four sections are intended to initiate the process of alignment between you and NGL. Please take your time reading them. Our intention in communicating with you in this way is to bring clarity to your involvement in NGL as a Friend and for that clarity to live in both your mind and in your body. The more clearly you understand the invitation by which you are welcomed into NGL, the more ease we anticipate having in meeting our purpose together. For us, NGL Friends contributes to our intent to practice openness and build relationships that will mutually support our collaboration towards nonviolent global liberation.  

iv Contributions DO NOT USE

PayPal form doesn’t work from popup, so do NOT use this popup – I’m using a page instead, called Contributions