Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a process, skill and consciousness which can be learned. It rests upon the ability to sense into and reveal your own internal world and sense into and be curious about the internal worlds of other people.
In Foundation trainings, we will cover the Foundations of Nonviolent Communication, including Core principles and Assumptions as well as Key skills that will support you.
At its core, NVC is about: nonharming truthtelling courage and compassion inner peace interdependence
Each session explores one of the practical interpersonal communication skills below:
De-escalating tense situations,
Scary honesty in difficult conversations
Self-empathy skills
Making, clarifying and breaking agreements with care
Transforming habits and patterns of behaviour
Transforming judgments
Learning to make clear requests
saying no and hearing a no
Expressing frustration and anger
Receiving another’s frustration and anger
Exploring fear
Exploring joy and pain
Unacknowledged power in relationships
Making decisions
Giving feedback
Learning how to truly receive (and how scary that can be!)
Connecting with vision
Cultivating the strength to love even in challenging situations
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Nonviolent Communication was developed by Marshall Rosenberg who drew on the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers and the nonviolence of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and give you the tools to approach life in a way that includes your own needs, while considering others' and the needs of the wider environment. It is a process and a support for complicated times.
You might like to read Marshall Rosenberg's book A language of Life or watch some of his youtube videos of which this is one example before you do a training in NVC. Alternatively, here are some of the Foundations of NVC that I put together that you can read before coming to a training with me.
