Projekte

Nonviolent Communication Training to Adults Working With Children — Grundtvig-Workshop in Istanbul

Wir freuen uns, Sie über ein internationales Training vom 14.-22. November 2009 in Istanbul zu informieren. Vivet Alevi wird das Training auf Englisch leiten. Für diejenigen, die noch über keine Kenntnisse in Gewaltfreier Kommunikation verfügen, wird es eine Einführung geben.

Erwachsene Lernende, die an Gewaltfreier Kommunikation (mit Kindern / in Schulen) interessiert sind, die auch Mitglieder in NGOs sein können und die sich anschließend gerne in weiteren Projekten für Kinder/Schule engagieren können, laden wir ein, sich zu bewerben.

Aus Deutschland können bis zu 6 Lernende teilnehmen. Die Reise, Unterkunft und Teilnahme werden voll finanziert. Die Teilnehmenden aus dem Gastgeberland, in unserem Fall türkische Teilnehmende, werden finanziell nicht unterstützt.

Über die Grundtvig-Workshops können Sie sich auch beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung informieren.

Quick facts

WHERE: Istanbul / Turkey

WHEN: 14-22 NOVEMBER 2009

ORGANIZED BY: Foundation for the Advancement of Counseling in Education (YORET)

WORKSHOP LANGUAGE: English

APPLICATION: until September 15 with this application form (DOC, 130 KB)

GRUNDTVIG WORKSHOP: This Grundtvig Workshops project is operating with a grant from the Turkish National Agency. Ref: 2009-1-TR1-GRU13-05275

Participation

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. The Model operationalizes two basic skills in non-violent communication:

• clearly expressing and
• compassionately receiving messages in four basic steps:

1. expressing/receiving what is observed (facts)
2. expressing/receiving feelings in relation to those facts
3. expressing/receiving needs underlying those feelings
4. expressing/receiving requests in terms of specific action in the present

1. differentiation of observed facts from interpretation, subjective judgements, prejudices, stereotypes;
2. differentiation of clear expressions of feelings from interpretation;
3.  making connection between feelings and underlying needs;
4. differentiation between motivation based on force (must, should) and autonomous motivation (I want);
5. differentiation between needs and requests;
6. differentiation between requests and commands;
7. differentiation of characteristics of communication that leads towards constructive/destructive conflict resolution;
8. ability of decantation and compassionate receiving of four basic elements of messages no matter how they are formulated;
9. differentiation between empathy and other kinds of feed-back.

Objectives

In this workshop participants will acquire the NVC skills given above 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

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 (DOC, 130 KB) is the 15th September 2009. Accepted participants will be notified until the 30th September 2009.

YÖRET

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:
Website: www.yoret.org.tr

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