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News - My visit with Marshall
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By Thom Bond, Executive Director, NYCNVC
As part of the CNVC Assessor Training Program, I spent a fine long weekend
in Albuquerque, NM with Certified Trainers from around the world, as well as
the staffers from CNVC and Marshall and Valentina Rosenberg. A couple of
things.
The First Thing
Rita Herzog, who facilitated the training, supported all of us in
deepening our understanding and practice of learning and growth that comes
from a "partnership" paradigm versus the more common "power over" paradigm.
For me, early in life I learned that the teacher was my boss. I was
to submit and/or defer to his or her will. If I did that well, I did
well. If not, not so much. For me learning inside the "power over"
paradigm was painful.
As an NVC trainer I have learned to come from a different place, where skills
and awareness are "power with," in a partnership between trainer and
participants, to share those skills and awareness's. This makes the
experience of an NVC workshop unlike any other. An experience that I am
grateful to have and share. A joy.
If you've never attended an NVC workshop, you can attend a "First Mondays"
free Intro and see what I'm talking about.
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The Second Thing
I had the opportunity to speak with Marshall at length. After a short
while it became clear that we, as New Yorkers, have much to offer, in terms of
supporting CNVC's mission.
As a result of our conversations, NYCNVC will be working much closer, with
CNVC on projects In India, The United Nations and on the Internet.
In the immediate future NYCNVC will be raising funds for the India Project and
sending a team to Albuquerque to set up a "Web Studio" for Marshall Rosenberg
and others.
If you are interested in being part of this, we are looking for volunteers.
In Loving Service,
Thom
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