Light-Up Nonviolent Communication in Ghana

Support Ibrahim in attending NVC-workshop in UK

Ibrahim is a young Ghanaian Youth Activist, a Social Change Trainer & Facilitator and the Initiator of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in Ghana.

Ibrahim first contact with NVC was in 2013 in Switzerland at an International Intensive Training (IIT) were he got introduced to NVC. Ibrahim quoted “I was touched and moved and I asked myself how come for such a long time I never heard of NVC and there is also nothing of such in my country Ghana’’.

He further stated “Haven also realized the power of NVC in helping shape certain cultural and communication patterns in the Ghanaian society, I took it upon myself to share this beautiful and life-enriching language back home”. There the dream of bringing NVC to Ghana came to been. Not only did I had a dream but I made a commitment to realizing the dream.

From 2013 – 2017, Ibrahim worked towards achieving his NVC dream for Ghana and in February 2018, the First Ever Public NVC Workshop was held in Ghana for four (4) days with 70 participants across Ghana and other African countries such as South Sudan, Tanzania, Cameroon and Sierra Leone with Trainers from Kenya and Germany.

In the workshop, NVC–Ghana Network was established. The first ever Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Network or Organization to be established in Ghana with the overall aim of spreading NVC in Ghana.

Ibrahim, as the Initiator, Founder, Director of NVC – Ghana Network, point of contact and reference of NVC in Ghana, he has a big responsibility to sustaining the Network and the achievements of its aims and objectives.

His desire is deepening his understanding, knowledge and experience of NVC to better lead the Network and provide reliable information to Ghanaians who want to learn NVC and to support them in their learning of NVC.

As one way of achieving this, he is seeking your support to attend an NVC Workshop / Retreat in the UK come 28 May – 2 June 2019 called Cultivating Peace and Power in the World.

An NVC Social Change workshop for people who want to affect change in fields like Schools, Prisons, Business, Families, Health Care etc

The workshop will explore principles, practices and processes to:

• Cultivate group resilience with essentials skills in group process and facilitation
• Master effective collaborative decision making
• Build a system of support for whatever project you are working on
• Create foundations of trust and connection
• Be leaderfull – the art of Leading and Following
• Activate and support our social change efforts
• Build collaboration for sustainable organisations
• Transform despair and grief
• Develop systems and practices for conflict transformation – mediation and restorative circles
• Use your strengths in teams
• Take your dreams to the world

The request amount will cover:
Program Fees
Accommodation
Visa Application Process
Flight Ticket

More about the workshop / retreat on: http://www.peaceandpowerseries.info/threeretreats/

Your support will go a long way to spreading Nonviolent Communication in Ghana