Laura Donaldson - Nonviolent Social Processing®
Sun, 18 May
|Webinar
NONVIOLENT SOCIAL PROCESSING® foregrounds dogs’ need for enough time to just “be” with the information they gather from the environment rather than experience a relentless pressure to “do” something about it.
Time & Location
18 May 2025, 19:00
Webinar
About the event
TITLE: Nonviolent Social Processing®: Transformative Practices for Dogs and their Humans
DESCRIPTION:
Just rejecting violence in dog training is not enough. We also need to articulate what a daily ethic of nonviolence would mean for the dogs with whom we live and work. This is because violence does not only imply deliberate physical harm—it also involves a failure to accept the whole subject with their own story, ideas, images, needs, wishes, capacities, pace (Kurtz, 2007, 2015). Evidence-based research has confirmed that dogs and humans have closely parallel social and emotional brains. Thus, the imperative to accept the whole subject includes dogs.
At the center of the nonviolent ethic this webinar will articulate is what I call NONVIOLENT SOCIAL PROCESSING®: NVSP foregrounds dogs’ need for enough time to just “be” with the information they gather from the environment rather than experience a relentless pressure to “do” something about it. Further,…