<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Claudia-</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I want to echo much of what Birgitt said. I'd add that the Genuine Contact approach is - among other things- about how do we create and sustain powerful containers for collaboration. That to me is an essential element for nonviolence.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Also, as someone who worked intensively with "energizers," "games" etc. for nonviolence for a number of years, I find I really can't suggest working that way anymore. I don't think it really brings us to peace. So, while there is much of value to the work of organizations like Training for Change- I don't think overall it takes us to a new place. I speak as someone who has experienced their work. I think the T4C people are great people; I'm very grateful for what i learned there (and yes
the Moyer model is great) and to me the world has moved on...</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>For me the piece that comes after OST, beyond using it regularly in communities/organizations, is how do we embody it on a physical level...how do we live it?</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div>And to me, that's about doing the innerwork, about opening inner space- </div><div>I think Nonviolent Communication (the newer iterations of it, mind you--- Robert Gonzales and others; from what I can see NVC has evolved greatly since Marshall Rosenberg's first books came out and those first books can give a limited understanding of this powerful system), the Byron Katie's Work, and (physically-based) mindfulness training take us there...</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I'd like to offer this provocative article on community written by Robert Augustus Masters. I think it may speak to the challenges of deepening non-violence
work:</div><div><a href="http://www.masterscenter.net/authentic-community">http://www.masterscenter.net/authentic-community</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>much two rials/kopecks/drams,</div><div>from this southwestern corner of Obamastan,</div><div>raffi</div><div> </div><div>powered by ubuntu 10.4</div></div></body></html>