Experience the magic of a year-long NVC learning community. Our theme is drawn from the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC’s) Certification Preparation Packet, which provides a complete journey from initial encounters with Nonviolent Communication to advanced NVC mediation and facilitation skills:

• Knowing: learn and clarify the concepts of Nonviolent Communication.
• Living: Embody the compassionate consciousness of NVC in your daily life, including spirituality and social change.
• Sharing: Get support to share Nonviolent Communication skills with others at home, at work and in workshops settings.

There are five 3-day modules offered in the spirit of Gift Culture between October 2026 and June 2027 at Maitreya House, near Hereford. The fifteen days of training count towards CNVC certification. 

Who is this Year Training for?

This Year Training is open to people who have done an NVC Level One training or equivalent Foundation Training with a CNVC-certified trainer.

Trainers

All modules are led by CNVC-certified trainers Shantigarbha and Gesine Schrader About them. Between them they have decades of experience of supporting people in learning, living and sharing NVC.

Dates for your diary

• Online Taster Session: Sunday 6 September, 10.30am  – 12.30pm. Book here.
• Module One: Knowing NVC (1–4 October 2026)
• Module Two: Living NVC (3–6 December 2026).
• Module Three: Healing past pain (11–14 February 2027).
• Module Four: Transforming conflict (15–18 April 2027).
• Module Five: Sharing NVC (10–13 June 2027).

All modules start with a meal at 6.30pm on the Thursday and finish at 4.15 pm on the Sunday.

Topics by module

Module One: Knowing NVC (1–4 October 2026)

• Being in groups: do I belong?
• Regulating intensity: staying in the learning zone.
• What happens in conflict?
• The NVC Tree of Compassionate Connection.
• Embodied NVC.
• The 13 Step Inner/Outer NVC Dance Floor.
• Introducing the NVC Key Differentiations (KDs).
• Introduction to the CNVC certification process.
• Community Gift Culture conversation.

Module Two: Living NVC (3–6 December 2026)

• The intention to live in NVC consciousness.
• Self-empathy NVC Dance Floor.
• Empathy Archery.
• NVC spirituality.
• Exploring the NVC Key Differentiations.
• Community Gift Culture conversation.

Module Three: Healing past pain (11–14 February 2027)

• Transforming anger, guilt, shame and depression with the NVC Dance Floors.
• Steps to Mourning and Healing.
• How to enjoy ‘bad sex’.
• Exploring the NVC Key Differentiations.
• Community Gift Culture conversation.

Module Four: Transforming conflict (15–18 April 2027)

• Understanding conflict and your conflict history.
• Restorative Circles: introduction and practice.
• Inner conflict: impact, intention and action plan.
• Mediating an inner conflict: a difficult decision.
• Exploring the NVC Key Differentiations.
• Community Gift Culture conversation.

Module Five: Sharing NVC (10–13 June 2027)

• Social change: Be the change exercise.
• NVC facilitation skills.
• NVC presentations with coaching / feedback (optional).
• Reviewing the NVC Key Differentiations.
• Community Gift Culture conversation.

Daily Programme

• 7.30 – 8.30     Breakfast
• 9.00                 Remembering our collective intention & day planning 
• 9.30 – 12.45   Morning session, including comfort breaks.
• 13.00               Lunch and integration time.
• 15.00 – 16.00  Empathy Home Groups.
• 16.15 – 18.15  Afternoon session including comfort break.
• 18.45               Evening meal.
• 19.45               Harvesting the day’s learning.
• 20.15               Open Space.

Staying connected

You will be invited to join an Empathy Home Group to meet daily during the modules. We will encourage these to meet (face-to-face or online) between the modules to foster community and for ongoing support. We will also offer a community call between modules to support learning, integration, and connection.

Further information, financial contribution and booking

See the Year Training Pages.