My goodness where does the time go! I can't believe my last post was on 11 December! Ok, so a quick ten minutes to say a few things:
1) Selene has finished the first few weeks in Amman and is now resting in Thailand before we finalise her next steps. Her experience was the common combination of tough and rewarding as she balanced the realities of working in a very different environment with the undoubted interest of both staff and Iraqis in the benefits of NVC.
2) Sarri's work in Lebanon is developing with more local NGOs requesting further training and support in how to develop and implement NVC in their work.
3) In the UK I am busy coaching managers from Neopost in their use of conflict resolution in the workplace. I am also visiting UK NGOs to 1) develop their teams and 2) look at assisting in their pre-departure training for staff doing international placements. I am engaging in local community mediation, have been asked to train fellow mediators in NVC and also am looking at growing the workplace mediation part of MLCT; to that end I am currently in discussion with other suitably qualified and experienced people. We're excited about the difference we know that transformative mediation can make to relationships in the workplace and want to look at how to grow that part of MLCT>
4) I'm planning to go to Egypt for a month (probably May?) with Tam and Dylan - this would also give a chance to respond to requests for training from 4 different Egypt-based organisations. Funny how these things come together.
5) I'm also going to be trained as a facilitator with an organisation called Khulisa (see http://www.khulisaservices.co.za/). They do restorative justice work based on their model developed in South Africa.
