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We're building The "Beloved Community" is a vision first articulated by philosopher Josiah Royce and later developed by Martin Luther King Jr. It describes a world where poverty, hunger, and racism have been defeated. Former adversaries come together as equals through love, justice, and reconciliation.

Marshall Rosenberg, who developed Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in the same era, shared this vision. He believed every human being carries inherent worth, and that genuine compassion is the foundation of a healed world.

Many NVC practitioners see Rosenberg's work as a practical methodology for building the Beloved Community one honest, caring conversation at a time., and using it to change the world.

NVC Rising is an initiative. The "Beloved Community" is a vision first articulated by philosopher Josiah Royce and later developed by Martin Luther King Jr. It describes a world where poverty, hunger, and racism have been defeated. Former adversaries come together as equals through love, justice, and reconciliation.

Marshall Rosenberg, who developed Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in the same era, shared this vision. He believed every human being carries inherent worth, and that genuine compassion is the foundation of a healed world.

Many NVC practitioners see Rosenberg's work as a practical methodology for building the Beloved Community one honest, caring conversation at a time. is both our goal and our method, the way we find the momentum, resources, and resilience to act, even in the storm.

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Who we are

We draw on rich experience since 2010, through EcoME was an off-grid peace-and-ecology center in Area C of the West Bank, beside Jericho and the Dead Sea, where Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals lived together as a community - with a 24/7 open gate. Using Nonviolent Communication as the daily language tool. It ran 2010–2018 and hosted thousands of people., the The Mid-East IIT is a NVC International Intensive Training that brings together participants from across the region's divides, including Palestinians, Israelis, and others living on "opposing sides" of ongoing conflict, to live, learn, and practice Nonviolent Communication side by side for the duration of the training. By creating a shared container where people who are usually separated by walls, fear, and narrative can hear each other's pain and needs directly, it offers a rare experience of human connection across enmity and a living demonstration that another way of relating is possible., and the work that has grown into NVC Rising today, working across privilege and cultural divides through Nonviolent Communication and a systemic approach.

We're a circle of NVC practitioners whose lives were changed by this practice in the context of Palestine/Israel. What began there is now a global collaboration, working together to make the path of NVC more inclusive and more widely shared. In our own team, we do our best to make decisions, handle conflict, and invest in our relationships using the same tools we teach.

What we believe

Community is the new infrastructure. Roads, power grids, and networks still carry a society's daily life, but alongside them we need another kind of infrastructure: the relationships and trust between people, the quiet web of belonging that holds everything else together. When that web is strong, people can weather hardship, organise, and act together; when it frays, even the best ideas have nowhere to take root. Connection fuels action, and through it, people can transform their relationships, their work, their ventures, and their movements. We believe nonviolence and collective action can be as powerful as armed force, and that lasting change is built bottom-up, grounded in what truly matters to people.

Our mission

To grow a global movement of healing communities, places with the strength to meet conflict rather than avoid it, learning to move through it with care so it leads to understanding instead of war. From there, to help people turn shared visions into meaningful action in their work and their ventures. And at the heart of it all, to tend the relationships between people, because connection is the ground every one of those larger circles grows from.

What makes our approach different

We use NVC to build communities with the capacity to act together.

What we want to bring into the world

The world we're practicing toward.

  • Spaces where the widest possible range of needs are met, where people hear one another and meet difference without blame.
  • Networks that rely on shared knowledge and experience rather than existing power roles.
  • A culture of conflict resolution woven into everyday life.
  • The capacity to name and explore our inner emotional terrain.
  • New ways to foster understanding and connection through practical tools.

How we do it

Any action or project that enough of us agree on, have the resources to create, and that serves these goals.

Including online NVC education, learning for children and across generations, gatherings for connection and rejuvenation, leadership programs, and local-to-global initiatives where empathy and experimentation turn ideas into impact.

We are a team of entrepreneurs, raising donations for the cause and also building business models around it. Our goal is a world where NVC has a real place and a real use, so we work to create mechanisms that can be sustainable, so that NVC keeps living beyond non-profit settings alone. It matters to us to reach the centres of power and, at the same time, to make NVC accessible to anyone whose means fall short. Working from an understanding of power dynamics, we don't see those with less power as weak, and we don't see those with more power as enemies, so we design practices that let the work reach both. This is where much of our creative force as a team lives, along with much of our understanding of how power dynamics work and how NVC can help us meet them.

Gratitude

We learn and practice NVC thanks to Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, who founded Nonviolent Communication, and the many teachers who have made this path their life's work. With much love and gratitude.

Come build it with us.

The deepest way in is to practice together. The next way is to bring your hands to the work.

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