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Public Offerings from
the Nonviolent Global Liberation Community
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One of the foundations of our work within the Nonviolent Global Liberation community (NGL) is an unwavering trust that a different way of living is entirely possible. We see the possibility of living in flow, togetherness, and choice, in a liberation journey to release scarcity, separation, and powerlessness. We invite you to join us on this journey by engaging in the offerings below and/or participating as an NGL Friend.
Here are the upcoming dates for events and courses that are featured in this newsletter and direct links to more information about them:
February 6 - December 11: Responding to the Call of our Times (open for registration throughout the year)
Aug 8: Conversational Interviews - Miki Kashtan with Noor Alexander
Aug 9, 16, 23: Supporting Others' Liberation (SOL) Lab
Aug 28: NGL Intro: Why ritual when the world is burning?: Exploring the function of ritual in a culture of nonviolence
Aug 30, Oct 4: Nonviolent Activism for Liberation Coaching Calls
Sep 4, Oct 16, Nov 6: Witnessed Accompaniment + Q&A with Sarah Peyton
Sep 7: NVC Q&A Session: Is NVC political or not? (in collaboration with Empathic Way Europe)
Sep 12 - early Nov: All Ages Collaboration Lab
Sep 12: Cultivating Self-Compassion
Sep 12 - Dec 19: Liberating Our Capacity to Engage in the Gift Economy
Sep 13 - Oct 18: Weaving Togetherness Lab
Sep 13 - Oct 25: Choice within Togetherness
Self-paced: Making Life Work
✨We invite you to check here periodically for new events,
courses, labs and other opportunities that sometimes come
together in between our bi-monthly newsletters.
Other Events (not from NGL)
April - September: The Compass: An Integrative Roadmap Towards Personal, Familial, and Collective Nonviolent Liberation, *Drop-in Sessions on Sundays* with Arnina Kashtan and Heather Austin
Aug 11 - Sep 22: The Essentials of Meaningful Connection, with Aya Caspi
Sep 6: Mapping the Gap: From Family Conflict to Clarity, with Lisa Rothman
Ongoing Sundays: Conflict Repair Cafe, with Lisa Rothman
Ongoing Wednesdays: The Collaborative Leadership Lab, with Roni Wiener and Leslie Becknell Marx
Ongoing: The Heart of Parenting: Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Children, and Our World 💙Weekday & Weekend Drop-In Sessions
with Arnina Kashtan and Heather Austin
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Responding to the Call of Our Times
with Miki Kashtan
Fridays, February 6 - December 11, 2025 (45 sessions)
Noon - 2pm PT (local time here)
This ongoing program is designed to support you in freeing yourself to find out what it means to fully step into leadership in all aspects of your life and play your part in making life work for everyone, no exceptions.
This is our tenth year! Whoever you are, and whatever your challenges, this 10-month program offers a unique opportunity to receive acceptance, tenderness, and support as I accompany you on your path towards full empowerment.
Here is the link to more information.
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Conversational Interviews -
Miki Kashtan with Noor Alexander
Saturday August 8, 2026, from 16:30 - 18:00 CET (local time)
You can register here
This series features Miki being interviewed by Noor about topics they both find juicy enough to sink their teeth into. These conversations provide an opportunity to get to know Miki better personally, learn about what her current thinking is about each of the topics they choose, her story, and often also how she got to where she is today. Previous conversations were focused on one topic each, such as “Dialogical Teaching for a Post-Patriarchal Future” (the very first one) or “Individual and Collective Liberation.” For the next period, they are now choosing an open and unstructured format with Noor interviewing Miki for about one hour, and then general Q&A for twenty minutes after.
We plan to make recordings available to all who register.
For more information, see our landing page.
Contact: collaborative-events@nglcommunity.org
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Supporting Others’ Liberation (SOL) Lab
An experiential lab focusing on the NGL approach to supporting liberation
Witness Miki Kashtan supporting others from the NGL Community
Series 3: 6 Sundays, July 19 - August 23, at 19:30 - 21:30 CEST (local time)
The purpose of this iteration of the SOL Lab is to seed the lineage of NGL in relation to supporting others’ liberation and deepen our collective understanding of the significance of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), systemic thinking, and the capacity lens in reclaiming our full humanity.
Are you excited about the insights and tools coming from NGL and wondering how you might integrate them into your accompaniment of others?
Do you offer coaching or one-on-one support to individuals and want to increase your capacity to focus on how people you support can free themselves from socialization from patriarchal conditioning?
See more info here and go here to register to witness, bring questions, and practice.
Contact: SOL Lab Project Stewardship Team
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NGL Introductions Series
Varying dates and times each month
NGL Intros provide a glimpse into our vision in an ongoing series of monthly introductions to the NGL framework, each with a different focus. They are generally scheduled on a rotating time scheme designed to work for multiple time zones over time.
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September NGL Intro:
Why ritual when the world is burning?: Exploring the function of ritual in a culture of nonviolence
with Yaren Kose & Eddy Quinn
Friday, August 28, 2026 - 15:00-17:00 CEST (local time here)
Save the date! More info will be posted to our landing page when it becomes available
If you have any questions, contact gs-leadership-tier@nglcommunity.org
More info here, and register here
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with Miki Kashtan
The content of these calls is designed to support activists in empowering themselves within their groups and movements to increase capacity to align means with ends. This can transform cultures of burnout, conflict, mistrust, blaming and shaming into environments of solidarity, trust, experimentation, and increased capacity to move towards the possibility of a livable future.
The calls are generally on the first Sunday of the month, except when obstacles arise.
Aug 30, 7:30-9 am Pacific // 4:30-6 pm Central Europe (local time)
Oct 4, 7:30-9 am Pacific // 4:30-6 pm Central Europe (local time)
Nov 1, 7:30-9 am Pacific // 4:30-6 pm Central Europe (local time)
More information and register here
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Witnessed Accompaniment + Q&A with Sarah Peyton
Next sessions:
September 4th at 9:00 - 11:00 PDT | 18:00 - 20:00 CEST (local time here)
October 16th at 9:00 - 11:00 PDT | 18:00 - 20:00 CEST (local time here)
November 6th at 9:00 - 11:00 PDT | 18:00 - 20:00 CEST (local time here)
Are you curious to get to know more about Sarah Peyton’s work bringing together neurobiology and NVC for emotional healing? – Then join us for this new series!
This monthly series on Fridays is a collaboration between Sarah Peyton and the Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL) community with the dual focus of offering support to people taking on significant leadership within NGL and an opportunity to learn from Sarah about how she accompanies people.
During the first hour of each session, the plan is for Sarah to offer her unique wisdom and embodied knowledge as accompaniment to someone within NGL. During the second hour, everyone witnessing is invited to ask questions about the process(es) Sarah used in the first hour and her choices in offering support.
More info and register here
Contact: collaborative-events@nglcommunity.org
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NVC Q&A Monthly Calls
in Collaboration with Empathic Way Europe
11th Session:
Is NVC political or not?
with Miki Kashtan and Selene Aswell
Monday, 7th September 2026
19:00-21:00 CEST
(Check your local time here)
One of the applications of NVC is as support in facilitating conversations across major differences, including political. And learning NVC can also support us to express our own ideas in ways that make it more likely for another person to receive, whatever our views may be. So does that mean that NVC itself must be apolitical?
Though we’re looking at the specific question of whether NVC is political or not, we invite you to come with any related questions.
More information and register here
For support, email collaborative-events@nglcommunity.org
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An intensive coaching for transforming the lives of younger people all over the world
with Arnina Kashtan, Aya Caspi, Gina Simm, Heather Austin,
Lisa Rothman, Mareike Haustein, Miki Kashtan
See our landing page for dates and times
Series 3 of this year's lab is planned to start 12th September. We are planning to have 4 sessions of witnessed Coaching as well as a “Co-Working Lab” and a “Stories of Shifts” session.
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First session of this series:
Cultivating Self-Compassion🌿
An Experiential All Ages Collaboration Session
with Heather Austin
Saturday, 12th September
9 - 11 am PT / 6-8pm CEST
(check your local time here)
Self-compassion is not about getting rid of difficult emotions, but about changing how we relate to them. This experiential session offers guided reflections, embodied practices, and relational activities grounded in mindful awareness, shared humanity, and kindness toward ourselves, helping us meet our experience with greater curiosity, warmth, and care.
Because the way we relate to ourselves shapes how we show up with others, cultivating self-compassion can also increase our capacity for presence, steadiness, and responsiveness while modeling for children how to meet themselves with greater kindness and compassion as well.
Participants will be invited to adapt, combine, deepen and expand on what is offered as they create their own personal self-compassion practice to experiment with in daily life.
For more info about all sessions of this series see the landing page and register here to be notified once more details are available.
Contact: le-all-ages-project-stewardship@nglcommunity.org
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Liberating Our Capacity to Engage in the Gift Economy:
Noticing and Coholding Scarcity, Separation, and Powerlessness
With Selene Aswell and Alper Süzer
A 3-part Course September 2026 - October 2027
Part 1: Noticing and Coholding Scarcity:
Every other Saturday, 12 September - 19 December 2026
10.00 - 12.00 ET / 17:00 - 19:00 TRT (find local time here)
🌱Are you experiencing challenges in attempting to engage in the Gift Economy or sharing resources on the basis of needs?
🌱Are you in a Liberation Pod? Are you curious about experiencing a Liberation Pod?
Practicing the gift economy while living in a world based on exchange and extraction, backed up by systemic violence, is extremely challenging. Practicing the gift economy as an individual is even harder.
By deepening our understanding of how Scarcity, Separation, and Powerlessness shows up within practices of the gift economy, and by sharing how to support each other’s liberation within a Liberation Pod, we believe people who take this course will increase capacity to actually practice the gift economy– both within NGL and beyond.
You can find more detailed information about the course here and click here to register.
Curious, but want to give it a try before registering for the full course?
You are welcome to sign up for the first session only without any commitment.
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Weaving Togetherness Lab
An intensive facilitation training for realigning humanity with life
with the Nonviolent Global Liberation Community
Alper Süzer, Carimar Barrientos, Eddy Quinn,
Emma Quayle, Isa Ortega Caro, and Yaren Köse
With anticipation and reverence, the bright flame of the Weaving Togetherness Lab is being carried forward, in Miki’s footsteps, by those named above to whom she has successfully passed the skills, entrusted the holding, and blessed their continued upskilling of more people eager to take on the commitment to weaving togetherness. Will you be one of them?
Offering four series of six sessions each with 2-3 weeks break in between, the lab is held at alternating times to accommodate people from different time zones.
Series #3
6 Sundays
September 13 - October 18, 2026
7pm - 9:30 pm CEST
Find your local time here
We welcome anyone who feels drawn to this work and inspired to contribute to increasing our collective capacity for weaving togetherness, no previous experience with NVC or the NGL Community is needed.
More information here and to register go here.
Contact: Isa and Mica at wtl-pst@nglcommunity.org
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Choice within Togetherness
with Miki Kashtan
Sundays, 13 Sep – 25 Oct 2026
16:30 - 18:30 Central European Time (CEST) (local time)*
This course might be for you if:
- You regularly feel alone in holding the weight of life’s challenges
- You are acutely aware of the global impacts of individualism and longing for a clear vision of what interdependence could actually look like
- You are part of a community which is struggling with conflicts despite having shared values
- You want to learn how to find pathways for integrating seeming opposites such as autonomy and connection or process and results
You are warmly invited to visit our landing page for more information, and click here to register.
Curious, but want to give it a try before registering for the full course?
You are welcome to sign up for the first session only without any commitment.
*if this time doesn't work for you, find out about the "Watch Party" option on our landing page.
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Making Life Work
Online and Ongoing, self-paced on your own time
In the challenging times in which we live, many of us barely dare dream of a world that honors and seeks to meet the needs of everyone. This self-paced self-study course was born from that dream, and it is available without a paywall, on a gift economy basis.
Created by Miki, the course integrates principles and practices that can move you in the direction of making this dream a reality, starting with your own life, exactly where you are. Both people new to NVC and those with extensive experience have appreciated this program. Learn at your own pace, with optional built-in support from others, as part of a vibrant online community practice now numbering hundreds.
More information and register here
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The Compass: An Integrative Roadmap Towards Personal, Familial, and Collective Nonviolent Liberation
with Arnina Kashtan & Heather Austin
*Offering New Drop-in Sessions*
🗓️April - September 2026
2nd Sundays of the month: 9:30 - 11:30 am PT (check your local time here)
4th Sundays of the month: 9:30 - 11:00 am PT (check your local time here)
✨"I think of The Compass as a comprehensive, deep, and fully accessible framework that supports dramatic shifts in the experience of being alive. I see it as a potent approach for how to take steps in the direction of restoring choice. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a passion for freedom." ~ Miki Kashtan
In these sessions, you’re warmly invited into a shared space of inquiry, reflection, and experiential exploration to support you in:
- Gently uncovering the roots of suffering by understanding the collective conditions leading to them
- Healing old wounds and loosening the grip of critical internalized voices
- Transforming painful or limiting thought patterns into greater compassion, clarity, and choice
- Reconnecting with the essence of who you
- Finding your way back to yourself more quickly when old patterns do arise
And much more...
🧭Click HERE for details about the drop-ins and other Compass offerings.
Questions? Contact Heather Austin: Heather4Compass@nglcommunity.org
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Ongoing: Conflict Repair Cafe
with Lisa Rothman
August (except August 16th), September and October:
Sundays at 12noon Pacific (local time here)
Bring a family conflict that matters to you. Together, we’ll explore a new way forward—one that doesn’t require you to give up on what’s important to you or the people you love.
If the person you are in conflict with is willing to come, they are welcome. If you're the only one coming from your family, no problem.
We'll begin with introductions that include the conflict you'd like support with. I'll work with as many people as possible, connecting principles and insights to all the conflicts that have been shared so that everyone leaves with practical next steps.
Click here for more info and to register
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with Aya Caspi
6 Tuesdays, Aug 11 - Sep 22, 2026
7:00 - 9:00 PM CDT, 5:00-7:00 PM PT (local time here)
Join us for this great collaboration between Aya Caspi and Houston-based Power of Compassion. We will explore 7 principles in 7 weeks for bringing NVC into all our relationships:
- Asking fully for what we want while letting go of having to have it.
- Ever growing our inner freedom while stepping fully into interdependence.
- Reclaiming power while fully embracing vulnerability
- Walking towards radical truth-telling without compromising care
- Not taking responsibility for other people’s experience while taking full responsibility for the impact of our choices
- Understanding other people’s experience without having to agree
- Persisting in inviting what we want while holding everyone’s choice.
Click here for more info and to register
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Mapping the Gap: From Family Conflict to Clarity
Stop Repeating the Same Family Conflicts
with Lisa Rothman
September 6, 9 - 10:30 am PDT (local time here)
Do you keep having the same argument with someone in your family?
In this free Mapping the Gap workshop, you’ll learn how to uncover what’s really driving a recurring conflict—and how to begin transforming it into collaboration.
Most participants bring conflicts with their children, but the same process works for conflicts with partners, parents, siblings, and other relatives as well.
Most families don’t need more rules, imposed consequences, or lectures.
They need a way to understand what’s actually happening inside the conflict.
In this live online workshop, the intent is for you to learn how to:
- identify the hidden dynamics driving a recurring conflict
- understand what you and the other person actually want
- see why the strategies you’ve been using haven’t worked
- begin discovering solutions that work better for everyone
Click here for more info and to register
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with Roni Wiener and Leslie Becknell Marx
Wednesdays at 18:00 - 20:00 CET | 9 - 11am PT (check your time zone)
Join the CLL ongoing practice community and explore how to interact, facilitate, and support systemic change through collaborative leadership and nonviolence. The lab centers learning by doing with live coaching, self-organized group practice, real-plays, and navigating emerging situations.
Calls are recorded and shared with people who participate. The CLL community culture emphasizes shared responsibility for caring for needs, getting things done, and engaging with challenges. We ask that you only join if you usually have the capacity to actively participate.
Learn more or register now.
For questions or requests, email cll-support@googlegroups.com.
Hosted by the Integration Station collective.
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Ongoing:💙The Heart of Parenting: Cultivating Compassion for Ourselves, Our Children and Our World with Arnina Kashtan and Heather Austin
Weekday and Weekend Drop-In Sessions (check dates & times here)
These online sessions are intended to support parents, grandparents, educators, extended family, and others caring for children, including those caring for the inner child within themselves.
Participants are invited into a courageously compassionate journey beyond ingrained patterns, limiting beliefs, and socialized parenting paradigms.
Rather than focusing on “parenting techniques” or “behavior management,” participants take away practices and principles for cultivating:
presence 🌱 awareness 🌱 compassion 🌱 resilience
so they can show up in ways more deeply aligned with their values and dreams. And because children learn more from what adults do than what they say, participants are also noticing these same life-serving qualities growing in the children they care for and support.🌿
Click here for more information and to register.
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