Civic Groups

Ways to Engage as a Nonviolent Organization in a Business, Agency or Nonprofit

How Much Extra Work is This for Us?

Writing your own nonviolence resolution, using samples from other Nonviolent Louisville organization, will take enough time to craft it and then to seek buy-in from your leaders or members.

Consider making a three, five, or ten-year commitment.

 

Choose Methods of Expanding the Culture of Nonviolence that work best for Your Organization and Setting

Connect with organizations and individuals that provide training, presentations, or offerings that fit into your structure and your schedule.

Explore the Meaning, Practices, and Applications of Nonviolence.

Share materials on the array of nonviolent practices through print, video, and group discussions.

Schedule a presentation or training for your staff.

Examine conflict resolution practices between levels of leadership and staff.

Include a presentation or video as part of an already-scheduled meeting.

Provide the cost or time for staff/constituents to attend nonviolence education programs, classes or workshops in-person, at work, or online.

Areas of study include: restorative justice methods, building awareness that all hold pieces of the truth, foster skills in de-escalation and bystander intervention, and understand conflict styles, build emotional awareness and self-regulation, and Beloved Community, where all are respected and have a role

 

Examine your Organization's Internal Practices

Consider including values such as “do no harm” to your shareholder profit model, in the way staff members are compensated or cared for, to examining your supplier line.

Explore Dr. Martin Luther King’s definition of “the Beloved Community” and how the organization can embody that move from competitive to collaborative models of working together

Take a look at conflict resolution practices on all levels.