NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION
(NVC)
TRAINING TO ADULTS
WORKING WITH CHILDREN
TRAINING TO ADULTS
WORKING WITH CHILDREN
GRUNDTVIG WORKSHOP
(This Grundtvig Workshops project is operating
with a grant from the Turkish National Agency. Ref: 2009-1-TR1-GRU13-05275)
WHERE: Istanbul / Turkey
WHEN: 14-22 NOVEMBER 2009
ORGANIZED BY: YÖRET (Foundation for the Advancement of Counseling in Education)
WORKSHOP LANGUAGE:
English
PARTICIPATION: This workshop will provide opportunity for adult learners to learn and to practice NVC skills in situations involving children.
Please remember that with ‘adult learners’ we do not mean adult educators or professionals. Participants are expected to be engaged with children in daily life. We especially invite adult learners who are willing to strengthen their communication skills with children.
BACKGROUND
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is the key to create a healthy and compassionate understanding between adults and children. It promotes the development of personality and the social awareness; provides the children and adults with the opportunities to become the active participant in the community; strengthens the relations between children and adults and shows how to respect democratic values and stimulate their acceptance through the choice of content.
The workhop programme is based on M. Rosenberg’s Model for Non-violent Communication.
OBJECTIVES
In this workshop participants will acquire the NVC skills through a wide range of interactive, participatory approaches including group sharing, experiential learning, role-play, etc.
They will be able to adopt basic skills of NVC, to learn to manage conflicts and misunderstandings constructively and to learn how to be equal partners in communication with children.
They will also adopt values of culture of NVC: to understand and experience that autonomy does not mean to be free from others, but to be free with others; that self-respect, self-approval, responsibility for one’s own acts imply mutuality, respecting differences, equality, co-operation, support, compassion.
EXPECTED RESULTS
Participants are expected to learn the followings:
1. to communicate with children in a non-judgemental way
2. to promote the development of children’s personality and social awareness
3. to provide them with the opportunities to become the active participant in their own life including educational life
4. to respect democratic values and to stimulate their acceptance through the choice of content.
5. to be a role model for children who are expected, in turn, to show NVC skills in their own life through experiencing with accepting responsibility for their own feelings and acts; using language of needs, values and positive action; expressing appreciation in NVC terms; and using NVC alternatives to punishment and rewards.
VENUE
Participants will be hosted in a hotel located centrally. Workshop sessions will held in the same hotel. It is easy to commute to main attraction areas from the hotel. Participants are also welcomed to leisure activities arranged for them.
BUDGET
Travel costs, hotel and food will be covered by YORET Foundation.
REGISTRATION
Deadline to send application forms is the 15th September 2009. Accepted participants will be notified until the 30th September 2009.
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COUNSELLING IN EDUCATION
YÖRET “The Foundation for the Advancement of Counselling in Education” is a 37 year old NGO, founded in 1972. In its early years when counselling was not known in Turkish society, YORET invited foreign experts mostly from the USA to inform human service professionals in Turkey about the work of counsellors in the western world.
After 1990, the Foundation developed several programs. One Program targeted to support university students who are training to become counsellors. These students had a chance to develop social skills and get involved in cultural activities, develop professional skills and get personal support. Another program aimed to empower the professionals working in the field, mostly in the school system in all parts of Turkey. Throughout the years, hundreds of professionals attended the workshops and seminars, conferences and symposiums organised by YORET.
The Foundation’s contribution to society is through training adults who live with or work with children. Training programs that are done in different parts of the country are organised in residential workshop format. Several residential workshops have been organized in the recent years. In Istanbul we mostly organize day programs that counsellors attend as part of their in service training and development.
CONTACTS
YORET FOUNDATION
Akkavak Sokak No: 17 / 11
NISANTASI / ISTANBUL-TURKEY
Phone / Fax: +90 212 219 28 67
E-mail: yoret@yoret.org.tr
Website: www.yoret.org.tr
APPLICATION FORM
