Venue

All five modules of the NVC Year Training will be hosted at:

Maitreya House
Lower Maescoed
Hereford
HR2 0HP.

Visit the Maitreya House website, including travel directions.

Accommodation

Included in the organisational fee is accommodation at Maitreya House. The accommodation comprises:

1. Twin bedroom upstairs in the Farmhouse.
2. Twin bedroom upstairs in the Farmhouse.
3. Single bedroom upstairs in the Farmhouse reserved for the Host.
4. Three twin cabins near Farmhouse.
5. One single cabin near Farmhouse.

On the application form, we will ask you to indicate your preference for a room in the farmhouse or a cabin. We will make the room allocation to take into account as many of these preferences as possible.

Wifi

Maitreya House is in a rural area, and there is no wifi or mobile phone signal in the house itself. You can find patchy reception if you walk up to the road (one minute). People who come here on retreat say that it gives them a break from their devices. Could you imagine treating the NVC Year Training as a retreat?

Self-catering

We see self-catering as a way to support us to live NVC. We are delighted to welcome back Paul Craig, a participant on this year’s Year Training, as the host in 2026-27. He will plan and buy food for the menu, allocate rooms and organise the kitchen rota. Self-catering keeps the organisational costs low and allows us to cater for specific dietary requirements. On the application form we will ask if you are willing to sign up on a rota to help prepare and cook meals and clean up afterwards.

Group size

Due to the size of the venue, we are limiting the number of places on the Year Training to a maximum of 12 plus one host and two trainers.

Further information

Contact Gesine Schrader via email, or phone her on +44 (0)7840 056 289.

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