Global NVC website
Contents
Web group
There was recently (July 2010) a GCC call about setting up a global NVC website.
One possibility would be to use the existing wikis as the basis of a multilingual website.
The main idea is to put in front (this page) what we agree on (at the beginning it might only be what we guess we agree on !). And put the rest on the associated discussion page. It remains possible to receive email notifications about changes on theses pages.
Anybody wanting the join his forces to this project is welcome, within limits: we would ask that people take care before doing major edits and many edits, that they introduce themselves to the existing group HERE, and understand that they are initially accepted for a provisional month during which we would like them to demonstrate their ability to work peacefully and collaboratively.
First call summary
- Simple phase 1 and then celebration
- News/knowledge site
- Beautiful basic structure
- No/little new content creation - drawing on existing sites
- Possible elements:
- landing page with language options
- signposts/Lonely Planet guide to major elements of the network
- network news translated
- trainers operating in Africa, past present and future + how to contact
- NVC chat/empathy service on the site,
- resources (eg how to write a press release, how to start a group)
- searches by topic or category or geography
- Jeff has lots of links
- NVCwiki integrated
Who would work on this
RAY - content + languages + language groups
PAN - yes - drupal, time zones and languages
JEFF - yes, searching for relevant content to link to
JOACHIM - maybe reviewing things, limited energy; partner interested in e-learning
DIEUDONNÉ - taking care (webmaster); loving to transmitt the efficiency of the shared power a community can devellop through the wiki-type approach
NOAM - interested to help out. Want first to investigate english nvcwik to make this effort efficient. Want NVChotline to be part of this effort, as an online connection tool for nvc people. Am software engineer.
Next steps
Ray proposes Ray to talk to Pan about language and time aspects
First content: basic signposting
Pan proposes a write up off these notes and a review of technology
Jeff says "send notes to all GCC telecon group" agreed Pan and Ray will do this
Research
Pan - web architecture
Ray - language software
Pan and Ray make initial proposals and share with Noam and Joachim.
Signposting
Everybody to send ideas for what resources should be signposted on the global site - ideas to be sent to Ray
Next call second week of september (Jeff commits to organize)
Ray's text for a landing page
which will automatically appear in main language of the region of the user
............................................Nonviolent Communication Global Signpost Site ........................
To choose a different language select [here]....... 
On this landing page, you can choose between 1. EMPATHY, 2. NEWS and 3. INFORMATION
SIGNPOST 1: EMPATHY
HOW TO FIND LIFE-TRANSFORMING EMPATHY
.......................................................
....................................For sources of empathy, choose from the following languages: [here]
INVISIBLE NOTE: THIS SIGNPOST IS TO BE UPDATED / MAINTAINED BY A GCC MEMBER
it links primarily to NVChotline and EmpathyNow and a multilingual empathy
chatroom, and maybe a "request empathy" button.
SIGNPOST 2: NEWS
news from the global, multilingual Nonviolent Communication community and related social change projects
............................................................
INVISIBLE NOTE: THIS SIGNPOST IS TO BE UPDATED / MAINTAINED BY A DEDICATED TRANSLATION COORDINATOR
appointed by the GCC; news is in the form of very brief snippets, so that they can be easily translated
and sent/received via text messaging, including Africa
SIGNPOST 3: INFORMATION
PERMANENT INFORMATION CATEGORIES: Click on any item below to be taken to an internet links directory.
...............................................................
A. WHAT'S HAPPENING
1. Social Change projects (includes schools, restorative justice, environment)
2. News (the main thing which we actively translate over time; special Africa section)
3. Get information from a live person via NVC hotline
B. RESOURCES
1. How to get help to start to an NVC group near you
2. Online resources:
wikis (English, French, German, request a wiki in your language here; online study resources; YouTube, clips, and podcasts
3. Organisations: Center for Nonviolent Communication, national and state trainers networks, major centres and well-established online groups that are able to make "whole group" decisions
4. Publications in various languages: books, pdfs, and our publishers + our volunteer translators make a translation request here!
C. COMMUNITY
1. Stories - biographies, celebrations and mournings (an NVC global scrapbook and shared memories)
2. Online groups: Facebook, Linked-In, email groups, personal blogs etc
3. Online Empathy: EmpathyNow and Empathy hotline, empathy chatroom (multilinguial)
D. UNCATEGORIZABLE
1. Synergy project organisations and networks who share some or all of our vision
2. Others - what we haven't been able to fit anywhere else - some of the best stuff is here!
3. The invisible network of empathy - there are no links here: just try all the other links and enjoy connecting!
INVISIBLE NOTE: EACH PART OF THIS SIGNPOST IS CREATED / MAINTAINED BY A SEPARATE PERSON,
appointed by the GSC; the GSC creates and maintains B1 ("starting an NVC group near you")
and B3 (organisations) and A1 (social change, though A1 could on a time-limited basis
link to CNVC)
THE WIKIs AND COMMUNITY CATEGORIES ARE OPEN for contributions from many users
WE WILL NEED VOLUNTEER CREATORS/MAINTAINERS for all other categories
About us GSC: Global service circle runs this website and supports global connection
GLOBAL SERVICE CIRCLE - example draft OF Vision, Mission and Activities
VISION
- The global service circle of the Nonviolent Communication network is dedicated to helping create a world in which the needs* of all are
recognised and taken account of, and where people support each other to connect courageously and compassionately.
- We want to be part of a thriving network which is communicating across language groups and between continents, starting initiatives that support
compassion, connection and the meeting of universal needs worldwide.
- We long to see online resources that make it easy for people to find what they need, especially if they are newcomers to NVC, or in a country where
NVC is just gettying started, or speak a language with fewer translated materials.
- We long to see the network globally able to communicate with itself in a way that supports productive synergies, celebration and, when needed, mourning.
MISSION
- We work to create a quality of connection between ourselves and others where this is more likely.
- We support people who are interested in Nonviolent Communication to connect with others, and with useful resources.
- We try hard to connect up parts of our network which speak different languages.
ACTIVITIES
- We maintain this signposting web site, which intends to be something like
a multilingual "travellers guide" to all elements of the global Nonviolent
Communication network.
- We may help the organisations listed in Information section B2 network with
each other, if requested.
- We resist taking on other roles, so that we can perform these three roles
effectively and to a high quality standard, and not get burnt out from stress.
- We regret we are unable to respond to individual queries at the moment, but
many of the organisations listed in section B2 are able to do so.
* We define needs as "what all humans must have at some time in order to be healthy, happy and fulfilled". We include the need to contribute to the well-being of others, needs for respect/justice/autonomy/freedom/growth, needs for food/movement warmth/a clean environment, and needs for love/community/relationship. We draw on the work of Marshall Rosenberg for our understanding of needs, and some of us refer also to Manfred Max-Neef and Abraham Maslow to inform our definition of needs.
