Reality NVC 1: Revolutionary Thinkers and Leaders 

A series of 6 lunchtime drop in sessions

Living Truth

Welcome to Reality NVC 

The Reality NVC program aims to bring stimulating and exciting themes into the realm of NVC, inviting a live correspondence in the moment for a more enlivening and connecting experience.  We will be bringing alive the poets, writers, artists, philosophers, community movers and makers, and the such like.  

This transformative series explores how revolutionary leaders embody nonviolent principles—discovering how personal truthfulness, relational awareness, and compassionate action can create deep personal and social change.

We start with the Revolutionary Thinkers.

The Experience

Through NVC lens and practice, we'll explore how these visionaries integrated inner work with outer transformation. Sessions include dialogue, reflection, needs exploration, and practices for embodying their wisdom in our own lives and communities.

Who's Welcome?

NVC practitioners at all levels, activists, change-makers, and anyone seeking to align personal integrity with collective liberation. Bring your questions, your struggles, and your longing for a better world.

When?

27 November. 4, 11, 18 December 2025. 8, 15 January 2026   (Thursdays 12.15 - 1.15)

Reality NVC: The Revolutionary Thinkers Program

Core Themes We'll Explore

• How inner truthfulness (self-connection) generates outer power (effective action)
• The relationship between personal needs and collective liberation
• Nonviolence as meeting needs without domination or submission
• How authenticity, vulnerability, and integrity challenge oppressive systems
• Building beloved community through mutual care and interdependence
• Sustaining activism through contemplative practice and self-compassion

Thursday 27 November  

Nelson Mandela: Ubuntu - I Am Because We Are
Personhood Through Relationship
Mandela embodied ubuntu philosophy: we exist only through connection. We'll explore how this African wisdom challenges Western individualism and reveals interdependence as the foundation of both personal identity and social justice—discovering the needs we can only meet together. 

(COMPLETED)

Thursday 4  December

Martin Luther King Jr.: Beloved Community
Love as Social Architecture
King's dream wasn't just equality but society organized around love and mutual care. We'll explore his vision of transformation working simultaneously on inner and outer dimensions—how meeting our need for connection and belonging creates the foundation for justice. (COMPLETED)

Thursday 11 December

Gandhi: Satyagraha - Truth-Force from Within
Body-Based Integrity as Power
Gandhi insisted nonviolent resistance emerges from inner truthfulness, not strategy. We'll explore how listening to our bodies' truth becomes satyagraha (truth-force)—discovering how authentic self-connection and honest expression create unstoppable power for transformation.(COMPLETED)

Thursday 8 January

Václav Havel: Living in Truth
Refusing the Lie
Czech playwright-president Havel taught that dissent begins with refusing to live the lie. We'll explore how embodied integrity—speaking and living our truth—becomes political resistance. When we honor our need for authenticity and self-expression, we challenge systems built on compliance and pretense. COMPLETED

Thursday 15 January 2026

Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
Contemplation as Radical Action
Day founded the Catholic Worker movement, wedding mysticism with activism. We'll explore how her life demonstrates that meeting our needs for meaning, contribution, and spiritual connection fuels rather than distracts from meeting collective needs for justice, shelter, and dignity.

NO SESSION 22 JANUARY 2026

COMING UP NEXT

Thursday 29 January 2026 (recovered from cancelled Thursday 18 December 2025)

Joanna Macy: The Work that Reconnects
Despair and Hope as Partners
Macy teaches that despair and hope aren't opposites but stages in a spiral of engagement. We'll practice her Work That Reconnects as embodied NVC response to global crisis—honoring pain, celebrating life, seeing with new eyes, and going forth with renewed commitment.

Session Format

• Opening connection and centering
• Exploring the thinker's core teachings through NVC framework
• Paired practice and small group dialogue
• Identifying needs at play in their work and our own
• Integration: How does this wisdom live in my life today?

Contribution and Sustainable based Pricing

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These sessions require significant preparation, facilitation, and follow-through. Pay what feels true for your circumstances, honouring both your financial means whilst valuing this creation. Your honest self-assessment—supported by those who can contribute more—keeps this work available to all. I am of course delighted to receive what you give. My dog, Skye, and cat, Miss Pippin, will also wag their tails.

• Any Session: General Admission                   £15.00
• Any Session: Concession                                £12.50
• Super-save on All 6 Sessions                         £60.00
• Per Session Financially Strapped                  £6.00
• Per Session Beyond Financially Strapped:   By Donation

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Next in the Reality NVC Series!

Remarkable Women  First up 12 Feb: Malala Yousafzai: "Speaking Truth to Violence)

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In the Focusers Guide Series, you might also be interested in:

FOCUSERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: POETS OF EMBODIED WISDOM. 

What are you going to do with your one and only Precious Life? 

See also Focusers Guide to GREAT PHILOSOPHERS and INDIGENOUS WISDOM HOLDERS

Deepen your NVC and Focusing Training:

Focusing Skills Training and Events      Nonviolent Communication      

Embodied Empathic Presence Trilogy for Restorative Wellbeing & Community - 3 Residentials @ Braziers Park.

Meet Simon 'K2' McKibbin

Presence Guide, Mentor, Friend and Coach.

We are living in unprecedented times—both thrilling and unsettling with forces beyond our control at play on financial, global, environmental, and social levels. The lack of meaning in materialism has left our culture's social fabric empty, sowing confusion in our identities and a sense of lostness about what it means to feel secure, grounded in the natural order, and truly connected to others and the awe and mystery of the universe.

We live in a culture of atomization where technology promises connection yet alienates us further—moving from Cartesian "I am" to Apple "I-Phone," faces frozen and hypnotized by screens. The proliferation of information competes for our attention—it's hard to draw breath and sense our true identity as sovereign beings.

And yet... in every moment, the sun rises and stars offer their soft light. The ground remains ever faithful, lovingly supporting us. Birds continue to sing, trees remain rooted, oceans stay deep, and there is richness and beauty in every precious, tingling, vibrant moment. A silky breath slides into our bodies from the skies as the universe continues breathing through us, perfuming every cell with vibrancy and warmth. We are here now, alive—coming home to ourselves is the prayer of every star, every mote of dust. Something deep within knows how to return to its authentic original self—like a hidden gem stitched into a garment's lining, we had it all the time. Embodied Relational Presence offers a portal to true self-empowerment where we realize we are not foam buffeted by waves, but the ocean itself.

For over 34 years, I've supported individuals and communities toward greater personal and professional empowerment through Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and Focusing—practices that unlock our capacity to live more fully, creatively, and courageously. My work bridges inner transformation with outer change, rooted in active commitment to ecological regeneration, social equity, and nonviolent living through grassroots organising and co-creation. I invite you into this portal of Embodied Relational Presence—where there is autonomous, sovereign, connected, and irrepressible life—to become both magician of your own wholeness and powerful ally for planetary regeneration and collective wellbeing.

Experience: CNVC Certified NVC Trainer | BFA Focusing Teacher | Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher | Associate Mindfulness Teacher, University of Cambridge (2017–2023) | Extinction Rebellion consultant, mediator & trainer | Møller Institute Cambridge University Executive Coaching Guest Lecturer | Mindfulness in Schools Project (MISP) teacher | Triratna Buddhist Order member | Samaritans volunteer

Contact Simon simon@living-presence.co.uk