Online NVC Courses and Events

We can help you experience deeper relationships, greater co-operation, a more just and compassionate world. We've moved all events online during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Find out about our next course.
The Burning House: a Buddhist response to the climate and ecological emergency

Shantigarbha's book exploring what Buddhism has to say about the climate emergency.
Find out more and join our online course.
I’ll Meet You There: a Practical Guide to Empathy, Mindfulness and Communication

Shantigarbha’s book on empathy. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there."
Read the first chapter online and use our discount code.
NVC Camping Space 2021

This year, instead of the Summerfest, we're offering an NVC Camping Space, near Bath, 27 July– 5 August.
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Restorative Circles

Restorative Circles is a community dialogue process that can restore trust and connection when people have got hurt.
Next online course
Corporate Away Days

Are you looking to regroup as a team away from the hustle and bustle of every day?
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NVC Year Training Course

This residential Year Training explores the systems you need to build community. There will be five modules between October 2020 and July 2021. These fifteen days count towards CNVC certification.
Learn more and apply.
Coaching Sessions and Couples Mediation

1:1 coaching sessions and couples mediation
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We offer NVC trainings, courses, and events online, in Bristol and the South West.

Everybody’s needs matter

We work with people who believe that authentic communication is key in creating a more just and compassionate world. Our trainings will bring you inner healing, improved relationships, and support to create the kind of world that you want to live in. We’ve moved our events online during the Coronavirus emergency. Or check out below our series of Life Hacks, as featured on NVC Academy.

Love and life, Shantigarbha and Gesine. Find out more about us.

Forthcoming Events

Online: Six-week, NVC Level Two Course (Anger), Mondays

This course is now fully booked. If you would like to go on the waiting list for this course please ...

Online: Six-week, NVC Level One Course, Mondays, March

Join a community of like-minded people to learn life-changing communication skills. About this C...

Online: Six-week, ‘Embodied’ NVC Level One Course, Wednesdays, March.

We live in a delicate time, in the context of lockdown, the unknown, unpredictable future, and even ...

Online: Six-week, Burning House Course, Part One

How can we wake up and respond to the climate and ecological emergency? In his forthcoming book, ...

About the Team

Nonviolent Communication skills can help transform relationships with friends, family, and colleagues. Shantigarbha and Gesine, CNVC certified trainers, believe that social change starts with compassionate communication, hearing the needs behind our feelings. ...

NVC Year Training 2020-21

This Year Training is now fully booked. If you want to keep in touch about future courses and our Year Training 21-22, subscribe to our twice-monthly NVC Tips and Clips mailer. This page gives an introduction. Elsewhere you can read up on the five modul...

NVC Camping Space 2021

Looking forward to NVC Camping Space 2021 Due to Covid-19 restrictions, we don't see how to offer the Summerfest this year. Instead, we'd like to offer an NVC Camping Space, similar to 2020, at the same venue. We're hopeful that this venue and format will be f...

Self-Empathy: A Life-Changing Bodily Experience!

Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 by Gesine Schrader

In Nonviolent Communication, a fundamental part of what's known as The NVC Tree of Compassionate Connection is 'Self-Empathy'. Self-Empathy is something we teach on our Online: Six-week, NVC Level 1 Course. What can seem like a simple process theoretically can be very unfamiliar with a lot of people. It's a great skill to practice daily. So what can you expect from adopting the practise of self-e...
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Parenting: turning conflict into cooperation

Posted on September 17, 2020September 21, 2020 by Shantigarbha

A constant power struggle What do we want for ourselves and our children? When we ask this question in our parenting workshops, we always hear the same answers: respect, care, cooperation and responsibility. Sadly, the picture we get from people talking about their daily parenting lives is different. We hear of parents in conflict with their children around everyday activities. Whether that's ...
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