For organizations · Live online workshops, facilitation & mediation

Bring Nonviolent Communication into the way your organization works.

Live, interactive online workshops, facilitation and mediation for teams that want to disagree well, decide together, and get on with the work. Wherever your people sit, from a two-hour session to a year of practice.

Sound familiar?

Every organization has a conversation it keeps not having.

“There's one topic nobody dares to bring up in the meeting, so it gets talked about everywhere else.”

“Two camps, one team. Everyone is polite. Nothing moves.”

“Feedback ends in silence, or in tears, so managers have quietly stopped giving it.”

“Good people are leaving, and the exit interviews all say the same thing: they didn't feel heard.”

If any of these landed, you are exactly who we built this for. NVC gives people a shared language for what they feel and need, so the hard conversation becomes possible, and then productive.

Our two main offers

One for when you're stuck. One for before you get stuck.

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Offer 01 · Mediation & conflict facilitation

Stuck? We step in.

Is there a polarizing topic in your organization? A fight that never quite ends? A feeling that you cannot move on? Whether you are a small team or a large organization, we come in, hold the room, and help everyone say what has been unsayable.

  • We listen first. Short confidential conversations with the people involved, so nobody walks into the room unheard.
  • We facilitate the real conversation. A structured, safe process where each side is fully heard before anyone is asked to move.
  • We leave you with agreements. Concrete, needs-based agreements the team wrote itself, plus a way to revisit them.
Tell us what's going on Two people to a whole department · live online · from one intensive day
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Offer 02 · NVC foundations for teams

Simple NVC.

The foundations of Nonviolent Communication, taught for the workplace and practiced on your real situations. Teams that share this language give clearer feedback, argue about the work instead of about each other, and make decisions that hold.

  • The four moves. Observation, feeling, need, request. Simple to learn, surprisingly hard to fake, and immediately usable.
  • Practiced on real cases. Bring the email that went wrong, the review that stung, the meeting that stalled.
  • Built to stick. Short formats, spaced over weeks, with practice in between, because a single inspiring day fades.
Ask about Simple NVC Live online · half-day intro · two-day foundations · six-week series
When Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft in 2014, one of his first moves was to hand his senior leadership team a copy of Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication. The shift from a combative culture to a collaborative one is now the textbook example of what happens when an organization learns to talk about needs instead of blame.
Read the Microsoft story on Inc.  · also covered by the Center for Nonviolent Communication

How we work

Live, online, and closer than people expect.

Our workshops are live and fully interactive. Not a webinar, not a video course, not slides with a voice over them. Small groups, breakout pairs, real practice on real situations, and a facilitator in the room the whole way through.

Here is the part that surprises almost everyone: something opens up on those calls that rarely happens in the office. Colleagues who have worked side by side for years hear each other, sometimes for the first time. The person who is always brief turns out to have been carrying something. The one everyone found difficult turns out to have a need nobody had asked about. People laugh. Occasionally people cry. And then they go back to work knowing each other differently.

That connection is not a bonus on top of the training. It is the training. NVC is learned in the moment you are actually understood by someone, and the moment you actually understand them. We simply build the conditions for that to happen, and then get out of the way.

Because we work online, it doesn't matter whether your team sits in one building or across eight time zones. Remote and hybrid teams get the thing they miss most, real contact, without anyone booking a flight.

More ways to work with us

Formats we shape around your people.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about what is actually going on. These are the shapes it most often takes.

Leading with Empathy

NVC for managers and team leads. One-to-ones, hard conversations, performance reviews and saying no, without the dread on either side of the table.

Leadership teams · live online · 1–2 days + coaching

Feedback That Lands

A focused session on giving and receiving feedback that people can actually hear. Observation instead of judgment, requests instead of demands, and what to do when it still stings.

Whole teams · live online · half day

Depolarize Your Workplace

When politics, world events or identity have split a team into camps. We help people stay colleagues across deep differences, drawing on our Depolarize This program.

Divided teams · live online · 1 day or a 4-week series

Meetings People Don't Dread

Facilitation and decision-making with NVC. Fewer circular debates, clearer requests, and decisions that everyone can live with because everyone was heard.

Teams & boards · live online · workshop + facilitation

Burnout & Boundaries

Self-empathy, sustainable pace and the art of a clean no. Made for people who care a lot: NGOs, healthcare, education, social work, and founders.

Mission-driven teams · live online · half day or series

Ongoing Practice & Talks

A monthly practice circle embedded in your organization, or an inspiring 45-minute talk for your all-hands. The practice keeps growing between our sessions, and long after the last one.

Retainers · keynotes · live online

How it works

From first call to lasting change.

No slide decks about slide decks. We keep the path short and the work real.

Book the first call
01

A 15-minute call

You tell us what is going on. We tell you honestly whether and how we can help.

Not

A sales pitch.

02

A tailored proposal

Format, length, group size, session rhythm and a clear price. Shaped around your situation, not a catalogue.

Not

A generic training package.

03

The work itself

Practical, participatory, and built on your real conversations. People leave with something they used the same afternoon.

Not

A day of theory.

04

Follow-through

Concrete next practices for the team, and optional follow-up circles so the change keeps living in the organization.

Not

A certificate and goodbye.

What changes

What teams tell us afterwards.

  • Conflicts surface earlier, while they are still small enough to talk about.
  • Feedback flows both ways, and people ask for it instead of bracing for it.
  • Meetings get shorter, because requests are clear and positions turn into needs.
  • Difference stops being dangerous. Disagreement becomes information instead of a threat.
  • People stay. Being heard is one of the cheapest and most underused retention strategies there is.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
Marshall B. Rosenberg · founder of Nonviolent Communication

Who we work with

Startups & scale-ups NGOs & foundations Schools & universities Healthcare teams Public sector Cooperatives & collectives Family businesses Boards & leadership teams

Let's talk

Three ways to start.

Pick whichever feels easiest. We answer every message personally, usually within two working days.

Send us a voice message

Open the chat on WhatsApp, hold the mic button and say what is going on, in your own words. No script needed. We listen to every message ourselves and reply the same way, or by email if you prefer.

Just checking you're human…

Write to us

Tell us a little about your situation.

We read every message ourselves. No newsletter, no automated sequences, just a reply from a person.

Good to know

Questions we often hear.

Our workshops are live and online, and they are genuinely interactive: small groups, breakout pairs, real practice, cameras on. That is not a compromise, it is what lets us work with teams spread across offices, countries and time zones, and it is where we do our best work. We also come in person, but only in Germany and in Israel/Palestine.

Mediation and facilitation work best with the people directly involved, from two colleagues to a leadership team. Workshops run well up to about 30 people, and for larger groups we add facilitators so the breakout rooms stay small and the practice stays real. Talks scale to a full all-hands.

English and German, with a wider network of certified NVC trainers we bring in for other languages. Tell us what your team speaks and we will find the right fit.

Neither. NVC is a practical skill, not a personality change. Nobody is asked to share more than they want to, and nobody is asked to agree. The aim is people who can be honest and still in the room together.

It depends on format, group size and location, so we prepare a proposal after a short call. As a non-profit initiative we keep pricing fair, and organizations with smaller budgets, such as schools and grassroots groups, can ask about reduced rates.

Every engagement ends with concrete next practices for the team, and we offer optional follow-up circles so what was learned keeps living inside the organization.

Ready when you are

The hard conversation is possible.

Fifteen minutes is enough to find out whether we are the right people to help. Wherever in the world your team sits. No preparation, no obligation.

How the raffle works

  • On the first Monday of every month we draw three names from everyone who entered since the previous draw. Each entry takes part in exactly one draw.
  • The first name drawn wins free participation in the 2027 NVC Learning Community. The second and third each win €500 (or $500) off.
  • One entry per person per month. You need to be 18 or older. Entry to the raffle is free.
  • Already registered for the Learning Community? You can still win: your prize is applied as a refund of the difference.
  • Winners are notified by email and have 7 days to respond, otherwise we draw a new name.
  • Prizes are personal and cannot be paid out in cash.
  • This raffle is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Facebook or Meta.
  • Questions? Write to support@nvcrising.org.