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Building Community on the NVC Year Training

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We're preparing for our next NVC Year Training, starting in October, on the topic of Building Community. We offer five 3-day modules in the spirit of Gift Culture between October 2025 and June 2026 at Maitreya House, near Hereford. The fifteen days of the training count towards CNVC certification. The benefits of meeting in-person Generally there is a sense of relief and celebration to meet in per...
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Sharing NVC in a US State Prison

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  The scariest part for me was waiting to be let in, expecting to be strip-searched, looking at the razor wire and the heavy, magnetic remote-controlled doors.  Once we were inside, I felt more relaxed, though I had to keep reminding myself where I was – a state prison on the East Coast of the US, and why I’d come – to share Nonviolent Communication (NVC) with a group of prison i...
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The Art of Loving

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Erich Fromm in 1974, by Müller-May / Rainer Funk, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, I'm just coming to the end of writing a book on love in the context of Buddhist partnership and practice. In the three years I've been working on it, I've read several dozen books as background material. Which one has touched me most deeply? Without doubt, it's Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, which I first read as a ...
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