About

Viv Slack - NVC Mediation, Restorative Circles, Coaching, Conflict Coaching - Yorkshire, UK

Hi, I’m Viv! I’m currently based in West Wales and am passionate about nonviolence, deep transformation and restorative approaches.

I love working alongside organisations, grassroots groups and communities to support deeper connection and understanding. I also work with one to one with individuals, and support people to restore relationships that have broken down.

My journey

After 15 years working with big charities and businesses, alongside community organising, I co-founded and led Street Support Network for 6 years. This experience of collaboration, sharing power, making inclusive decisions and transforming conflict allowed me to learn and develop as a facilitator, mediator and coach. I realised that this experience and the skills i had learned could support others.

Since then I have worked with many organisations, groups and networks to connect, make decisions together, move through conflict, and act together in solidarity.

Through this work I also learned to support people to walk towards one other when there was conflict, and also to provide one to one support, helping people to understand themselves and each other.

Miki Kashtan once called me an ‘Intuitive Integrator‘ and i think that describes me well. I enjoy bringing in different approaches and frameworks to support people in live contexts, supporting us to step outside our usual patterns and ways of knowing, and allow something new to open up in the moment.

I am passionate about finding ways of living and working together beyond polarisation and separation, co-creating our world based on understanding what we all need to thrive.

Training and experience

I integrate training and experience from a broad variety of traditions, including…

  • Facilitation: Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy, TheoryU, Convergent Facilitation
  • Conflict Transformation: NVC Mediation, Restorative Circles, Restorative Justice
  • One to One: Mind-Body Coaching, IFS, Somatic IFS, Compassionate Inquiry

I am based in West Wales near Caerfiddin/Camarthern. I am open to travel for projects and collaborations that are aligned, and open to working on an exchange basis with intentional communities.

Please get in touch if you would like to explore.