Regenerative communication

Regenerative communication is a heart-based communication practice that empathic organizing =Transformative facilitation

Foundational practices

Community conferencing

Community conferencing is a voluntary one-time circle process that includes everyone involved in and affected by an incident, crime, or conflict, and their respective support networks. A trained, invested facilitator brings everyone together to provide a space and structure for people in conflict to have a dialogue with each other. Being invested simply means that while the facilitator doesn’t take a side in matters, they have everyone’s well-being in mind during the conferencing process. Each person has a voice, and everyone collectively decides how to make things right and prevent a conflict from happening again. Participants have a chance to heal and learn from the incident, and everyone decides how to be accountable to one another. Here’s how community conferencing works in these types of conflicts:

Conflict resolution

Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution. Committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest of group (e.g., intentions; reasons for holding certain beliefs) and by engaging in collective negotiation. Dimensions of resolution typically parallel the dimensions of conflict in the way the conflict is processed. Cognitive resolution is the way disputants understand and view the conflict, with beliefs, perspectives, understandings and attitudes. Emotional resolution is in the way disputants feel about a conflict, the emotional energy. Behavioral resolution is reflective of how the disputants act, their behavior.Ultimately a wide range of methods and procedures for addressing conflict exist, including negotiation, mediation, mediation-arbitration, diplomacy, and creative peacebuilding.

Restorative practice

Restorative practice is a social science that studies how to improve and repair relationships between people and communities. The purpose is to build healthy communities, increase social capital, decrease crime and antisocial behavior, repair harm and restore relationships. It ties together research in a variety of social science fields, including education, psychology, social work, criminology, sociology, organizational development and leadership. learning and decision making.

Basic training

12 participants in SEEDS will be trained in regenerative communication through a one-year program known as the Dialogue Road Map.

The trainer, Maria Arpa, is phenomenal. https://www.centreforpeacefulsolutions.org/staff/maria-arpa. She was recently the executive director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication. The video is from a recent conversation where she talks about the origin of her work, and what it takes to implement in a community: https://youtu.be/3eNDcJKMJrM.

The commitment for the basic training is: April 7, 11, 14, 18 from 3-7pm UTC, at no cost. This is essentially for those looking to be trained as a certified mediation counselor, and these graduates will be a foundation from which we develop a caring-based culture in SEEDS, not to mention a practical conflict resolution program.

Please reply or ask questions in this thread if you're interested.

Facilitator training

To be able to train others requires a year-long commitment that I am working on securing sponsors to finance: • 20 total days (5 hours a day) in a year. That’s 100 total hours in a year. This is facilitated 2-3 days at a time, 6 times a year • 4 hours/month practice with fellow participants