Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/author/a_kashtanm/page/3/)
Miki Kashtan, certified NVC trainer (cnvc.org) and cofounder of Bay Area NVC (baynvc.org), teaches and works with organizations, visionary leaders, activists, and others to support the transition to a world that works for all.
This article looks at the limitations of NVC as a personal practice in the face of global systemic challenges and what it might take to restore NVC to its radical roots.
About a shared trip into the desert of Saline Valley and lessons about choice, togetherness and flow
Miki Kashtan looks at how NVC can contribute to our collective ability to face and transform social conditions and systems and at how to align its practice with these intentions.
A letter to Oakland Unified School District about pathways to community collaboration from Miki Kahstan
Miki Kashtan writes about two powers that absolutely no one can take away from us, even under extreme circumstances.
Miki Kashtan writes about designing systems for collectively rediscovering our embeddedness within a larger whole, where care for the whole includes and flows within and from all of us.
Miki Kashtan explores what we need to re-discover, re-invent, and re-create to hold, together, a complex situation of limited resources that cannot possibly address all the known needs.
In this review of David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, Miki Kashtan explains what bullshit jobs are and how they can help us understand “the rightward turn of so many voters around the world.”
The Core Commitments – Miki Kashtan’s best understanding of what it means to live a life of nonviolence and the foundation of a community for living it together.
Miki Kashtan argues that the freedom to make whatever decisions we want to make, so long as we are not harming others, is a consolation prize for the loss of community and care.
A critical discussion of Zionism in the midst of present and historical anti-Semitism by a widely respected teacher of non-violent communications.
What’s most pressing for me is to hold in the foreground two realities simultaneously. One is the red alert danger of erupting violence leading to serious harm to people who are already vulnerable… The other is the commitment to humanize everyone, including the brutalizers.
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier. Review by Miki Kashtan.
The Occupy encampments took on feeding the hungry and housing the homeless, albeit in tents, demonstrating an interdependent way of living. What if the Occupy movement called on all of us to take back access to our most basic human needs that are now primarily in the hands of very large institutions?
History shows that those who gain power tend to recreate structures that work for some and not for others. If, by some miracle, those who resonate with the Tikkun worldview gain sufficient power to have influence on a large scale, I want us to be able to address the pressing issues we are decrying without forcing others, including those who are now in positions of power, to accept our solutions.