About NVC mediation
NVC mediation has different meanings for different people depending on if you are looking for a mediator to help you with a current dispute or if you are looking for training to mediate your daily life.
If you are looking for someone to help you with a conflict you are currently experiencing, the NVC mediator will help you prepare for conversations with the others involved in the conflict, and may do the same for the other people. This kind of conflict support can look much like a coaching relationship in which the NVC mediator helps the parties to clarify their needs and to better communicate about those needs. In the mediation session, the NVC mediator helps each person to be heard, as they would like. She (or he) lends skills to the people in conflict to hear each other. Out of this hearing and understanding the needs that are animating each party to the conflict, a kind of re-connection occurs. Out of this connection, with an expended understanding and consideration for the other, the mediator then supports the parties to craft strategies to resolve the dispute that meet the needs of all concerned.
NVC mediation is used for all types of conflict including in:
Marshall Rosenberg (author of Nonviolent Communication) says: “I predict that we will be able to resolve the problem 20 minutes from the point in which it is clear what the needs are that are not being met from both sides.”
On the other hand, if you are looking to develop skills to “mediate” your life, NVC Mediation workshops provide you an opportunity to learn to help yourself and others in difficult conversation by learning communication skills and deepening awareness of your reactions to conflict situations. In the trainings, you will develop the capacity to mediate conflicts (1) within your own head, (2) with others, and (3) between others in situations were they have not requested your aid. (Marshall Rosenberg calls this sticking your nose in other peoples business without being asked.) These “mediate your life” training also will aid you if you are already a mediator or if you considering becoming a mediator. In mediating your life as a practitioner (i.e., some one who is formally asked to facilitate communication in conflicts situations), you are using the same skills for you own self-care as those that you use to help others.
NVC mediation is used for all types of conflict including in:
• personal relationships (between partners, parent-child, child-child)
• organizations and businesses (between businesses, within project teams, employee- employee, employee-manager, employee-client)
Marshall Rosenberg (author of Nonviolent Communication) says: “I predict that we will be able to resolve the problem 20 minutes from the point in which it is clear what the needs are that are not being met from both sides.”
On the other hand, if you are looking to develop skills to “mediate” your life, NVC Mediation workshops provide you an opportunity to learn to help yourself and others in difficult conversation by learning communication skills and deepening awareness of your reactions to conflict situations. In the trainings, you will develop the capacity to mediate conflicts (1) within your own head, (2) with others, and (3) between others in situations were they have not requested your aid. (Marshall Rosenberg calls this sticking your nose in other peoples business without being asked.) These “mediate your life” training also will aid you if you are already a mediator or if you considering becoming a mediator. In mediating your life as a practitioner (i.e., some one who is formally asked to facilitate communication in conflicts situations), you are using the same skills for you own self-care as those that you use to help others.