Re: [NVC-EducationUK] NVC in schools and kindergartens Denmark w/s

Workshop 2nd - 4th of May 2008

Dear friends

I am forwarding you an invitation to spend 4 days with Marianne Göthlin, a certified CNVC-trainer, who started a school based on NVC in Stockholm ten years ago.

I trust that many of you will find this attractive. Especially if you life in Europe.

Come to Denmark and have school fun.

Warmly

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Inspiration day 1st of May 2008

A SCHOOL

FOR JOYFUL LEARNING

Experience with Nonviolent Communication in school

Marianne Göthlin started a school in 1998 based on the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in Stockholm.

Marianne Göthlin will share about their most important experiences and learning from building a school from an empathic attitude. Here pupils study from willingness and inner motivation, with a very high degree of inclusion and without punishment and rewards.

Marianne Göthlin says:

We were wishing our students to feel as enthusiastic about learning when they leave school after nine years, as they were their first day in school. Too many children seem to loose their natural joy of learning the way we traditional organize the work in schools. Now after nine years we celebrate the results of our intention and efforts.

In the national evaluation from the ministry of education this is some of what is pointed out as a result:

• Students feel safe, accepted as they are and connected to their joy of learning.

• Students learn from inner motivation and take responsibility for their learning.

• Students learn more in all subjects and also to co-operate.

• We have created a safe and creative learning environment.

• Students learn about democracy in practice.

• No signs of violation in the school.

Marianne will give many examples from the daily work implemen­ting NVC with teachers, students and parents to work towards their vision. She will also point out the key-differences in NVC and tradi­tional schooling that have supported this rewarding school develop­ment.

Practical information

Time: Thursday 1st of May 2008, from 10 am to 4 pm

Place: Tolderlundsvej 7, 5000 Odense C

Price: 300 DKK

If you participate in the following 3-days workshop this day is free.

You can buy lunch at the place.

Language: English, if necessary with translation into Danish.

Registration: Rosenlund Kurser Online on www.rosenlundkurser.dk E-mail: info@rosenlundkurser.dk. Tel. +45 64 88 17 97

Workshop 2nd - 4th of May 2008

Nonviolent Communication

in schools and kindergartens

“Imagine a school where students are as enthusia­stic to explore and learn when they leave after nine years as they were the very first school day.”

This workshop offers an opportunity for everybody working actively in education, or being interested in children’s development, to increase your communica­tion skills and to contribute to joyful learning.

For three days we will practice communication that supports cooperation and get inspiration and clarity on how we can enrich our work in schools and kindergar­tens from nonviolent values and the NVC model.

We will share from our experience on how to create a safe and creative learning environment from an empathic attitude, with a real sense of inclusion, where children learn and work from willingness and where there is no punishment and rewards.

The aim with the training is for participants to:

• Understand how NVC principles and model can guide us to live basic human values as autonomy, mutual respect, equality, inclusion in daily life with children.

• Practice how to implement NVC in daily school and kindergarten life – for example in meetings, when making rules and when handling conflicts.

• Be able to contribute to development based on dia­logue and cooperation supported by NVC skills.

Participants will practice:

• to express honesty, put a clear line around what you are willing to accept.

• empathic understanding in different conversations.

• to demonstrate democratic values through commu­nication.

• communication that supports inner motivation.

• to express criticism and appreciation in ways that contributes to self confidence.

• to mediate between children and be a model for them in dealing with conflicts.

• to handle anger.

Practical information

Time: Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th of May 2008.

Fri. 10 am - 5 pm, Sat. 9 am - 5 pm, Sun. 9 am - 4 pm.

Place: Tolderlundsvej 7, 5000 Odense C.

Tuition: 3.200 DKK (429 €). By registration before 1st of April only 2.800 DKK (375 €)

You can buy lunch at the place. Accommodation can be arranged.
If you participate in this workshop, participation in the Inspiration day 1st of May is free.

Language: English, if necessary translation into Danish.

Registration: Rosenlund Kurser Online on www.rosenlundkurser.dk E-mail: info@rosenlundkurser.dk Tel. +45 64 88 17 97

Trainers:

Marianne Göthlin, Stockholm, is a teacher and has a long experience of NVC with children. A lot of it from Skarpnäcks Free School, outside Stock­holm, a school, based on NVC princi­ples, that she was part in starting in 1998. She also gives training to parents and school staff in Sweden and other countries in NVC.

Kirsten Kristensen, Odense, is a fam­ily counsellor. She is educated at the Kempler Institute and has integrated NVC into her work with families for years. She teaches in international fam­ily summer camps both in Denmark and Germany and gives seminars and one year training programmes in Nonviolent Communication.