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How do you work? In businesses and nonprofits, families and faith communities, how we work matters. Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work reimagines these environments as places that are united with our values. Our work can feel like a nourishing part of our life. We can look forward to meetings. Working groups can become spaces we enjoy being, where learning is continuous and mistakes are welcomed, where each person knows they matter. The skills of nonviolence-changing perspectives, thinking systemically, and enacting patience and courage through feedback and conflict navigation-can change how we work together, and this book offers dozens of ideas and examples of how it's done.

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"""Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work is a book to sit with, savor, and most of all: put to work in your life. Kit Miller has distilled a lifetime of experience into a succinct and highly useful collection of field notes for all of us to explore. The ideas are transformative inside and out. The best way to repay this great gift is to use it!"" Rivera Sun, author of The Dandelion Insurrection and the Ari Ara Series ""Before reading this book, I would have thought it impossible to make the deep essence of nonviolence accessible and so relevant to this task. Kit Miller did just that. Every principle and insight in this book is illustrated with potent stories and anecdotes. Each section ends with reflection questions that support integration and self-trust. And the first few chapters make it deeply clear that there is no jumping over the inside job if we want to change how we function and especially lead in the workplace."" Miki Kashtan, PhD, cofounder of Nonviolent Global Liberation Community, author of The Highest Common Denominator: Using Convergent Facilitation to Reach Breakthrough Collaborative Decisions ""From corporate boardrooms to volunteer organizations, Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work is essential reading for anyone seeking to create meaningful change and foster a more compassionate, equitable, and resilient workplace."" Kobi Skolnick ""We all need thoughtful invitations and reminders to the essence of the good work we each do every day. In Culture Shift, that is exactly what Kit Miller has done for us. Wielding her deep experience and blessing us with so many insights from a rich diversity of activists and thinkers, she offers a path to understanding and practicing nonviolence at our most common site of community: our workplace. As a leader who has struggled with the applicability of nonviolence when facing structural oppression and violence, I found a refreshing and serious approach to facing social justice and community building in principled ways. This is an essential contribution to all our work of improving healthy organizational culture."" Malik Muhammed, EDD, founder of Akoben LLC, author of The Restorative Journey ""We stand at a crossroads, having to choose between extinction and nonviolence-there is no other alternative. Kit Miller has masterfully written this book about the importance of nonviolence in every sphere of life and how an individual can utilize it in the personal as well as public domain. It is a text book on the ideology of nonviolence and a manual for its practice in the present day. Life cannot be sustained if we discard nonviolence. This book demystifies nonviolence and teaches the reader how to use it in various circumstances and in various environments."" Tushar A. Gandhi ""Kit Miller's leadership and capacity to inspire people and groups to collaborate effectively to enact needed social change has long been an inspiration to me. Her book, Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work, is a profound guide to the effective nonviolent leadership she embodies. Packed with practical advice, wisdom, and optimism that is grounded in numerous examples from her life and her work, this text helps readers see themselves as leaders and guides them on how to lead with empathy, foster systemic change, and nurture inclusive communities. Miller talks about the importance of finding our heroes-Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work is a keen example of why she is one of mine."" Roxy Manning, PhD"

Author Information

Kit Miller is director emeritus of the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, serving in that role 2009-2021. The work and reach of the Institute expanded greatly under her stewardship. Prior to the Institute, she worked as director/celebrator of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, California. Currently, Kit serves as a facilitator and educator for a variety of organizations, mainly in education, healthcare, and NGOs. Much of that time is dedicated to conflict work within teams.

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