Here are some links to articles and other resources that describe more about how our values can “meet the road,” and how a nonviolent approach to living facilitates both more fulfillment and greater enjoyment in living in community. If you would like more understanding or to bring any of these principles and practices into your life or community, we’re happy to share our current understandings of these approaches. You can write to us here.
Communication and Conflict in Community
- Our internal document on Communication and Conflict (pdf).
Self-Connection
- Connecting with Ourselves by Inbal Kashtan
Connecting with Others
- Key Assumptions and Intentions of NVC (Nonviolent Communication) by Bay NVC
Group Decision Making
- Building Information Resilience in Groups and Communities – a framework for building a resilient information culture; assesses the utility of information sources including caveats and known biases; includes basics on how to spot low-quality ideas, guard against our own biases, and identify malicious arguing techniques.
- Formal Consensus A concise description. It may be helpful for folks new to this approach to decision making to read the manual.
- On Conflict and Consensus: A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decision-Making, by C.T. Butler and Amy Rothstein A short, readable manual on what we’re calling values-based consensus.
Parenting
- Parenting by Connection by Hand in Hand Parenting
- Parenting for Peace by Inbal Kashtan
Leadership and Creating Change
- Leadership from Below: On Becoming a Change Agent by Miki Kashtan
- Gibran Rivera’s Evolutionary Leadership Podcast.
Community Living
- Intentional Communities Website: provides information on the intentional communities movement including a searchable Communities Directory and hundreds of articles on community. Published by the FIC.
Toward a Zero-Waste Lifestyle
- Waste is not only an environmental issue but also a deep and under-discussed social justice, global justice, and class issue.
- The Zero Waste Home blog provides inspiration and practical steps for a lifestyle change that supports social justice by ending institutionalized waste.
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things: describes a hopeful, nature-inspired vision of design principles that would make human technology and industry both prosperous and sustainable.
Facilitation
- Faster Than 20. Frameworks and tools for collaboration and facilitation.
- Tree Breeson’s Group Facilitation Site contains a variety of games, ideas, and practices that support that facilitation of group cohesion and process.
- Liberating Structures is a toolbox for group processes and facilitators.