First residential retreat in Denmark

Draft Contents for the Retreat:

1. Restorative systems
   • Restorative circles
   • Setting up systems in organizations and groups
   • Creating a regenerative culture
2. Nonviolence in practice, de-escalating skills
   • Nonviolent Direct Action Training (affinity groups, decisions in-the-heat, nonviolence in police encounter, consent and self-responsibility and more)
     • Training others in de-escalation
     • Identifying own triggers and building inner as well as group resilience
3. Conflict mediation skills
   • The classical NVC mediation format
   • Group mediation
   • Mediating inner conflicts (pre-requisite for being present and calm with others – PP addition)
   • Improv – when formats don’t work
4. Intercultural meeting and learning
   • Basic diversity training: Identifying privilege and subconscious biases
   • Cultivating curiosity, vulnerability, courage
   • Calling OUT and calling IN – being and ally
   • Implementation in our organizations
5. Feedback
   • The classical NVC format
   • Exploration of what makes honesty so difficult – and how we can grow a culture of authenticity and safety
6. Nonviolent leadership
   • Understanding teal organizations
   • Decentralization and decision-making processes, power, flow of resources and information, feedback
   • Understanding the role of trauma, especially inter-cultural and inter-generational trauma, in how we build our communities and society
   • Antidotes to cultural trauma and how we can support ourselves and each other:
   • Reverence to each other’s experience, Time travel empathy, Sacred vow work, humility and assuming one another’s innocence