Communication Beyond Violence? A Workshop on Managing Conflict
Friday, November 22, 2024 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm CET/GMT+1W15 Cafe
This workshop will bring together various ideas on how to better communication in conflict situations. The workshop consists of verbal input, collaborative reflection, and exercises, most of which rely on concepts and methods from Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication and the Betzavta approach of the Adam Institute. Our goal is to engage with the basic concepts underlying meaningful communication around the identification and communication of needs in emotionally laden contexts in order to allow us to pay closer attention to our needs and those of others. The promise of the workshop is not to enable us to single-handedly transform communication and solve interpersonal conflict, but to offer concepts and tools for working together to enable healthier ways of communicating that may facilitate compromises that address everyone’s needs.
Till Luge is a historian of religions who worked on religious encounters in South Asia and Islam in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. He lived, studied and worked in the US, Turkey, India and Germany. He currently works as a teacher of humanist ethics in the German school system.
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