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.
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Self-led courses

To help you apply NVC in your everyday life, we’ve started to develop an online membership space where you can learn and apply the principles at your own pace.
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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.
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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 2021-22

This residential Year Training explores the systems you need to build community. There will be five modules between October 2022 and July 2022. These fifteen days count towards CNVC certification.
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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

Bristol: NVC Level One workshop – in person

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

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Online: Six-week NVC Level Two Anger course, Mondays, November

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Online: Compassionate Parenting NVC Level One Six-week Course

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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 2021-22

Registration is now closed for Year Training 21-22. This page gives an introduction; elsewhere you can read up on the five module Syllabus, explore the fees and venue or fill in the online booking form. It's all about building community! This Year Training is ...

Self-led courses

Join the waitlist We’re working on something exciting and wanted to let you know. We’re inviting you to join our waitlist for a new members-only platform that will be full of video lessons and self-led courses to help you grow your NVC practice and apply i...

Is there hope for us in the climate and ecological emergency?

Posted on June 9, 2021June 10, 2021 by Shantigarbha

Rowan Tilly before her arrest at Oxford Circus in the October 2019 Extinction Rebellion It's an awkward time for me. I've written a Buddhist response to the climate and ecological emergency and it's not yet published. The excitement and exhaustion of finishing in time for it to be published before COP26 in November has left me. Spurred on by what I discovered in writing the book, I feel a sens...
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Lucky Monday

Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 by Gesine Schrader

On Monday the UK government again eased Covid restrictions and the four-month-old national lockdown. One of my family members told me that in Hamburg, my hometown, the newspapers described this day in the UK as 'Lucky Monday'. One of my neighbours posted “The opening of society brings new chapters and a fresh beginning,” and invited people to a new group called Running and Movement. One of my...
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