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The Magic of Cultivating Deep Connection and Belonging
Join a nurturing community where you can feel safe, build trust and enjoy building deep connection
Without Deep Connection in your Relationships you feel now
✓ Lonely and long for deep connections
✓ Overwhelmed to rebuild broken family relationships
✓ Excluded from a group with shared values
✓ Unfulfilled seeking purpose, joy and connection
✓ The desire to navigate conflicts with empathy
Relationships can be a source of ...
Relationships can be a source of stress and heartache, and they can also be our greatest joy, a source of meaning, and resilience.
When we nurture authentic, nourishing connections, we empower ourselves to shape a world we truly wish to live in.
At NVC Rising, our journey began 14 years ago in an NVC project in Israel/Palestine- transforming the relationships in our lives., and the way we see the world. We’re now dedicated to creating spaces where you can explore and deepen your relationships.
Join us in this 4-month program to invest in YOUR connections, because ‘Relationships Matter’—they truly change the world.
Having the tools to refine and nourish your relationships.
Feeling safe to find nurturing healthy connections.
Develop your ability to maintain emotional balance when triggered.
Transform conflict into moments of trust and growth.
Learn to navigate difficult conversations with connection and clarity.
Cultivate patterns that bring back purpose, joy and connection to your life.
The essence of a Meaningful Life with Deep Connection
"ENOURMOSLY LIFE CHANGING"
- Christine (Germany)
Meet Our Trainers
The Masterclasses are woven into 5 core units. These carefully curated master workshops are taught by a diverse and exciting team of trainers from around the world.
Additionally, practice, integration, and Q&A sessions/opportunities will be hosted by our host facilitators, who will be there with you every step of the way.
The 5 Online Modules to Deep Connection
With Live Master Workshops and Live Practice Sessions
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Reviewing the foundations
We begin with a self-paced immersion into the foundational tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), which you can keep and revisit at any time. This unit also includes two master classes on empathetic communication and needs-based communication, and two live sessions with NVC Rising host facilitators.
02 Compassionate self
Nurturing a deeply compassionate relationship with yourself involves understanding how your internal dialogue influences your interactions with others. By grounding yourself in nonviolent practices and honoring your needs and truth, you will continuously experience the benefits of greater integrity, genuine kindness, and joy in your relationships.
Deep Practice + Q&A
Love Your Parts, They Love You
Unmasking Shame
Deep Practice + Q&A
03
Knowing where I come from
We explore your family of origin and other relational inheritances, examining how they shape your current relationship patterns. Together, we refine what you wish to cherish and carry forward, as well as what you want to intentionally transform.
Early Wounding Makes Us Crazy, Empathy Makes Us Sane
Deep Practice + Q&A
Vision Accelerator
Preparing for authentic Dialogue
04 Choosing Where I'm Going
We attend to consciously shaping the relationships you want to live and love, creating a continuous path toward fulfilling connections. This is a process we enjoy revisiting again and again, bringing more choice, intention, and creativity to all our relationships.
Thrive Together
Deep Practice + Q&A
NVC in the Workplace
Deep Practice + Q&A
05
Lasting Impactful Change
Finally, we address how to transform communication patterns in both the personal and systemic realms, fostering meaningful change in your life and the broader world. We look beyond specific interactions to build conditions where more ease, care, and a world in which the principle "everyone's needs matter" becomes more possible
Integrating Nonviolent Activism and Peacebuilding Approaches
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Deep Practice + Q&A
The Dance Between Inner and Outer Work With NVC
Deep Practice + Q&A
How this Course Supports You
Our Online Academy complements the live sessions with access to all the content and you can refresh and deepen your knowledge in important topics
Live Online Master Workshops to learn and practice each topic perfectly. With highly skilled empathy angels that support you
Feel safe and build deep connections in our live practice sessions with small, supportive groups
In our Golden Age - Life after 60 - Community, you meet like-minded people who truly understand you (Optional)
For your questions, we have Live Q&A + Deep Practice Sessions to ensure that you really understand the topic
Our Empathy Buddies support you with questions and practice between the sessions
One-on-one Sessions to talk about specific topics with a trainer separately (Optional)
When can we start?
Session Times
- January 18 – May 5, 2025
- 4 sessions per month
- Saturdays / Sundays
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CET: 6 – 8:30 / 9 PM
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EST: 12 – 2:30 / 3 PM
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PST: 9 – 11:30 AM/12 PM
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AEST: 5 – 7:30 / 8 AM
How to Join
- Easily online via Live Zoom sessions
Hear from Past Participants
Choose Your Special Focus
Which track/special focus group would you be excited to join?
We encourage you to pick a track and support one another throughout the journey.
The tracks are facilitated by an NVC Rising team member.
*Tracks are part of the "Growth" and "transformation" options.
Not sure yet?
Still have questions or want to know more about the course?
Or feel free to drop us a note at support@nvcrising.org
And hey, we’re just a message away on WhatsApp too!
“There are tears of love and joy and mourning in my heart now. I’ve grown so much.”
Martin (Denmark)
You might think:
If sharing in a group is not your preference you do not have to.
You are always in choice. We give the option of holding your process in a private written format, as we invite you to do a lot of journaling and self-reflection processes, or you can work in a pair and be the listener.
You can choose to share only with one person, or you can decide to share in the bigger circle. You can also choose to share examples that are less private, charged, and revealing, such as your interactions with the salesperson, rather than your intimate relationships. In any case, together we practice clear tools and steps that you can then take home and apply to any area of your life.
Our programs normally have people from all over the world, and for many of us, English is not our first language. We emphasize a safe, compassionate, and nonjudgmental space. We encourage participants again and again to ask to slow down and to always ask questions when things are not clear. Sometimes it can even be possible to practice with people who share your native language. We respect and value that you are meeting us and the trainers in English despite it being your second or third language, and it is important for us that you know this.
The human brain has been scientifically proven to be malleable, flexible, and able to change. In this program, the combination of relatable theory, examples from life, ample opportunities to practice, and tips on how to bring what you learn home is just what CAN make you see the change you long for in your real life. Over the years we have been holding this program, we have seen life-changing transformations in participants of all ages, in many issues and challenges.
Invite them! It is so much fun doing this with someone you love. And, even if the people around you won’t join the program, YOU will have new ways of responding, listening, and holding space for conflict that can bring about a shift in the relational space.
Additionally, we have seen that the insights, information, and transformation you gain in the program may inspire others you love to join. We do not recommend pressuring anyone to join, but it can sometimes naturally happen :). And it’s nice when it does.
You will also likely connect with new friends who are interested in exploring the nuances of communicating and relating and who will be a great resource for support as you set out to strengthen your close relationships.
With NVC, again and again, we, too, are surprised at the depth of connection and intimacy that is created over Zoom. Small group practice allows for a PROFOUND connection with people from all over the world, especially when the invitation is to share what is REALLY going on in your life and the practice is to listen with skillful, non-judgmental, and compassionate ears. We hear again and again that the sense of connection and richness in our program is hugely heartwarming, life-changing, and transformative. In our online programs, people attest to feeling supported and creating warm connections year after year.
That being said, we also have an in-person program that happens a few times a year. You can write to us here for more information.
One way to understand the root of wars is by recognizing that people often turn to conflict to meet essential human needs—belonging, meaning, contribution, and agency. In today’s societies, these needs are often unmet, leaving people disconnected and seeking fulfillment, sometimes through violence.
When people are part of a community, they have the opportunity to meet these needs in life-affirming ways. Communities provide a space for individuals to experience belonging, purpose, and the ability to contribute meaningfully, reducing the likelihood of violent conflict. For us, building communities means creating a world with fewer wars and more harmony
Yes, all live sessions, including workshops and Q&A, will be recorded and made available to participants, so you can access the material at your own pace.
You’ll have access to optional one-on-one mentoring sessions with the NVC Rising team, peer support groups, and live Q&A sessions to help deepen your understanding and apply NVC in your daily life.
NVC is not only about what we normally perceive as violent, it is about all the ways we have grown distant from our authentic selves, others, and life itself. It provides practical skillful tools to grow closer, more intimate, free, and connected.
And if you see others in relationships or around you as the violent ones, this program will support you in finding your voice and impactfully expressing and modeling for others how to methodically bring more compassion, closeness, and real peace to your surroundings. Peace is not about avoiding conflict and silencing your voice, but about learning to express yourself peacefully and navigating conflict in profound ways that bring people together.
Losing your center – getting triggered, upset, and overwhelmed – is a natural part of being human. This never completely disappears. In this program, with NVC and other extremely useful modalities, we will learn together how to skillfully refind our center, to make sense of what happened in a healing, empowering way, and to bring repair, quickly and effectively, to the messy situation.
Besides repairing and healing specific explosive situations, in the longer and wider view of your relationships, we practice healing and leadership tools to make effective requests and create agreements that will build better patterns in the relationships that make up your life. This too has the likely potential to eventually make these incidents of trigger reactivity (small or large) less frequent.
Investing in your relationships is a smart place to put your resources.
Not only are flourishing relationships the top contributor to longevity and overall happiness in life, but healthy relationships also improve our physical health. There is no better place to invest in. And the sooner you do the sooner you will begin to benefit from this investment. For us all, this journey has been life-changing. You can help your loved ones now enjoy this too. Join in.
Additionally, research has also shown that people who enjoy more satisfying relationships also obtain better and more stable incomes in the long run. So it’s very likely that the investment will come back to you even financially.
Short Answer:
A simple yet powerful tool for transforming communication patterns at home, work, and in wider social settings.
Longer Answer:
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a practice that fosters a deeper connection with ourselves and others through clear, compassionate communication. It helps resolve conflicts and build meaningful relationships by promoting clarity, joy, and awareness.
NVC is widely applied in various fields like government, business, education, therapy, and community-building to create life-supporting systems. It aligns our actions with our deepest values and fosters collaboration and mutual respect.
Founded by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg in the 1970s, NVC is rooted in Western psychology and worldwide spiritual traditions of nonviolence, drawing inspiration from leaders like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela.
The program is designed to cover all areas of our circles of relationships and relating:
Revisiting the Basics – We start by offering a self-paced immersion into the foundational tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), which will be yours to keep and revisit anytime.
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Compassionate Self – This section focuses on nurturing a compassionate relationship with yourself, exploring self-awareness, and understanding how your internal dialogue shapes your interactions.
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Knowing Where I Come From – We explore your family of origin and other relational inheritances, helping you understand how past experiences shape your current relationship patterns.
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Knowing Where I’m Heading – This part supports you in consciously choosing the relationships you want to live and love, creating a path toward fulfilling connections.
• 4. Nurturing Impactful Change – Finally, we address how to transform communication patterns in both personal and systemic spaces, fostering meaningful change in your life and the broader world.
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The program runs from January 18 to May 11th, 2025. It consists of five learning units with master workshops, deep practice sessions, optional one-on-one coaching, and peer support opportunities.
This program involves a wide variety of trainers from around the world. (Many wonderful courses are led by 1-2 trainers.) We aim to include leading trainers who bring diverse approaches to what is generally called "NVC," making this a truly one-of-a-kind experience.
With a balance of visiting trainers teaching the program, and a steady presence of host facilitators who will be with you throughout he program. Another beautiful element we’ve prioritized is building community. The NVC Rising team has over 15 years of experience (each!) in building communities, and we believe this is what humanity needs now more than ever. We're here to create it.
In this program, we’ll learn, experience, practice, and lead together through various methods of community building using NVC tools, such as:
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Empathic check-ins: sharing and receiving from the heart
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Community Circle: hearing voices in the community and exploring what is alive in us
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Meditations for self-connection
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Celebrations and mournings
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Home groups
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Empathy buddies and Trios
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Dyad meditation
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Small group practice teaching
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NVC games or other content the group wishes to offer
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Personal meetings with the team during program break time
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Conflict Resolution support
• • Gift circles
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We see this course as something that can transform lives. The course takes place a maximum 4 times per month. By taking the time for it despite all existing limitations, you are gifting yourself a precious opportunity. We understand the difficulties for parents and advise you to simply check if there is another person available to support you in attending. Your partner if you have one, a family member? A friend or a babysitter?
Generally, all our “Trainer-led workshops” are all with CNVC-certified trainers and counted as hours for the certification process. Please be aware that it may vary from assessor to assessor, how many online hours they accept as part of a candidate's learning.
At any point after registering for the program, before/after the course started: The registration fee is generally non-refundable. It is the way we can assure that whoever intends to participate really can make it. However, in exceptional cases please talk to us.
See here the full cancelation policy.
“Thriving relationships are the number one predictor of happiness, overall health, and longevity.”
Harvard Study
Still have questions or want to know more about the course?
Or feel free to drop us a note at support@nvcrising.org
And hey, we’re just a message away on WhatsApp too!
