Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan - Oakland-based Nonviolent Communication (NVC) expert, Bay Area NVC co-founder. Author "Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions" (2021), "Reweaving Our Human Fabric" (2019). PhD Sociology UC Berkeley. Created Convergent Facilitation method for consensus without compromise. CNVC Certified Trainer teaching collaborative leadership, conflict resolution, gift economy. New York Times contributor on power dynamics, patriarchy alternatives. Founded Nonviolent Global Liberation Community. Consultant for self-managing organizations on decision-making systems, needs-based organizing. Visit thefearlessheart.org.

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Episodes featuring Miki Kashtan

2 episodes

Miki Kashtan and Emma Quayle - Leadermorphosis episode 92: Miki Kashtan and Emma Quayle from NGL on the capacity lens as a path to reinvent ourselves and our organisations

Miki Kashtan and Emma Quayle from NGL on the capacity lens as a path to reinvent ourselves and our organisations

Miki is the seed founder and Emma a founding member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation community (NGL), which runs entirely as a gift economy. They and NGL as a whole are knee-deep in visionary experimentation about what it would take to realign humanity with life through online and community living experiments. We explore the "capacity lens" - a framework for organizational transformation that starts with realistic assessment of where we are rather than forcing idealistic visions - and discuss how to honor individual and collective capacity limits, embrace baby steps over radical overnight changes, and replace coercion-based systems with willingness and authentic collaboration.

Ep. 92 1 Feb 2024

Miki Kashtan on the three shifts needed for self-managing organisations to thrive

Miki Kashtan is an author and an international teacher and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication. In this conversation we talk about the three different places shifts need to occur in order for a self-managing human system to thrive, and how we can start to talk about needs more in order to awaken the collective responsibility of groups of people working together. She also shares the five core systems we need to redesign in our organisations as well as the mindset shifts and dialogue skills we need to develop in order to collaborate on a deeper, more purposeful level.

Ep. 37 16 Sept 2019