We are the people who give the gift of contributing to creating the NGL Commons, in this iteration: Nonviolent Communication for Liberation:
Vérène Nicolas is a Certified trainer in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and a member of the Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL) Project. She lives in Scotland.
Menaka Neotia - P&P Tracking: Menaka is deeply engaged in exploring the integration of a power and privilege lens within the NVC for Liberation Framework. As a key person in the development of the P&P tracking function, Menaka supports grounding our movement towards vision in the reality of the present. She currently lives in India where she is valiantly working on untwisting the field in her personal environment. Menaka is an Associate of NGL and an Apprentice.
Shar Molloy - Course content and delivery team holding: Shar first engaged with NVC in 2010 and has been an environmental activist in Australia for over 20 years. She is passionate about experimenting with NVC for Liberation and applying the learnings in her on ground campaigns and projects. Shar is an Associate of NGL and an Apprentice. She mostly lives in Tasmania, Australia and also spends time in Darwin.
Rose (Rosey) Hakim - Power and Privilege (P&P) Shadowing: She is shadowing Menaka tracking P&P. Rosey currently lives in Lucknow, India, grew up in Southern California, and is ethnically Egyptian. She loves bridging across differences and increasing accessibility. Rosey joined NGL as a friend in 2021.
Neesha Noronha- Course delivery team: Neesha first joined the NVC for liberation 'with a system's lens' course in May 2022 after a decade of dancing at the edges of NVC. Loving it, she continued to engage, joining the holding team in Feb 23 as a way to weave this approach into her being and work of re-membering the body and earth in all spaces, especially institutionalised ones. She currently lives in Mysore, India.
Yanae Yang - Liberation Logistics & Admin Holding: Yanae is from a highly submissive culture which results in an experience of powerlessness for her. By experimenting with elements of Vision Mobilisation she is experiencing a gradual transformation in her connection with her power. She, together with Vesta, are exploring how to do the administration work in a liberative way with full integration of her strength and capacity. She’s from China, is currently based in Hong Kong, and is seeking to form a home pod.
Dlyn Fairfax - Holding Team - A daughter of the desert of Tucson Arizona, Dlyn's rich background in counseling, facilitation, and ritual making as well as her artistic sensibilities as a writer, painter, and director, alongside her dedication to the vision of NGL, make her an engaging presenter and holder of spaces for all types of NVCL and NGL gatherings.
Other NGL apprentices may also present small pieces of content during the workshop.
This program is supported by SO many members in NGL: Kaisa, Priyanka, Yaren, Eddy, Emma, Marta, Marieke, Vesta, Kevin who were part of the Workshop Delivery Team holding significant functions of tech, chat and liberation/empathy support.
Neesha, Shar, Yanae, Dlyn, Leif, Matua, Stacey, Marcela held Watch then Integrate Parties for on-going practice.
Liberation cannot be done alone; it is in togetherness that NGL offers all its gifts.