A year of Nonviolent Communication learning & practice, deep community, and faculty-led depth, woven into one coherent path. Online. Global. Real.
Enormously life-changing. I came out with a much deeper awareness of what truly matters to me.
If you’ve nodded more than once, keep reading.
Mourning is one of the most important practices I’ve learned. To welcome the unpleasant, instead of running from it, and find out what it has to say.
A class ends and you forget. A library sits unread. A weekend workshop lights you up, and three weeks later you’re back where you started. NVC Rising is different on purpose.
Many specialties You’ll learn from 15 CNVC Certified Trainers, across mediation and conflict, trauma and the nervous system, working with difficult feelings, power, privilege and systemic change, NVC as a spiritual practice, and NVC at work. That’s only a taste of it. The full range of what they bring is much wider, all integrated into one container.
Your rhythm A small group, your community within the community. Each Home Group has its own rhythm, some meet weekly, some every two weeks, and some are smaller, some bigger. You’re matched to one that fits your needs at the start of the year. This is where the practice actually lands, with an assistant from our team alongside your group to help hold the space.
Always on You’re not alone in the container. A dedicated team weaves care and empathy support across the year. And during the sessions themselves, a team of assistants is ready to step into a 1:1 with you whenever you need it.
Across difference Time dedicated to intersectionality, power, culture, and meeting across difference.
What’s alive The community surfaces what’s alive, parenting, loss, intimate relationships, NVC at work, and we form listening circles around it.
In the world A space where participants launch and nurture NVC-based projects in the world. Optional, and there for you if you want it.
Year two For second-year participants ready to practice stewardship and creative leadership inside the community.
The main sessions are only part of it. Around them, there’s a whole ecosystem of places to practice and be met:
Each comes for a session or two, and each one might be the one that reaches the part of you that’s been waiting. Tap any trainer to read their full story.
A whole team holds the year, from the first session to the last. Racheli leads the facilitation, Mareidi holds the support around it, and twelve assistants walk alongside you: holding the smaller groups, offering empathy during the sessions and between them, and staying close to your process the whole way through.
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Everything the year touches, gathered from every trainer who joins us and every framework we will use. Not a checklist to finish, but a map of the ground we’ll walk together.
Full program calendar with each session topic is coming soon.
We could keep telling you what the year does. Instead, here is what it felt like from the inside, in under two minutes. Then ten stories, one at a time.
Many trainers’ teaching styles, consistent practice. My NVC language became fluent.
A transformed understanding of empathy, and of my own needs.
I met my best friend here. And found a path toward NVC certification.
Global connection. A supportive atmosphere. I’m shy, and I learned to show up.
Empathy buddies, the Leadership Hub, and Empathy Cafés grew my confidence to lead.
I can now express what it is to be alive in a way I never could growing up.
Clear requests rallied a supportive community of contributors around my purpose.
Thoughtful design, strong support team, many world-class trainers.
I landed in a deep sense of presence and self-expression.
Deep, lasting connections with people across the world, over a screen.
One weekend rhythm, one clock, already translated to yours.
Most people join on their own, and the program fully supports that.
Some come with someone from their life. Then the learning can enter real conversations sooner - at home, at work, around the dinner table.
Not a better path. A different one.
This year is meant to accommodate people with different time capacities.
The ground is the sessions, roughly 4 a month. The full schedule is on this page. That’s the year. If that’s all you ever do, you’ve done the program, and you’ll have gotten what it’s for.
And on top of that: Home Groups. Each one sets its own rhythm. Some meet often, some meet rarely, and you’ll be slotted into the right one for you according to your preferences, taking into consideration what time of day works best for you.
Above this ground, there’s as much as you have appetite for: empathy buddies, drop-in Conflict Cafés, practice spaces, extra sessions for those on the certification path, and more through the year.
The year also has a spring break and a summer break (northern hemisphere), where the pace eases for everyone.
If you miss a session, we’ve got you covered. This cycle is rich on the catch-up options. See here.
Life happens. We built for that, and this cycle is rich on the catch-up options:
You can fall behind and find your way back.
It’s a sliding scale, and you choose what you pay. Today it starts at $1,400 / €1,200. That’s the early bird price, and it holds through 31 August. From 1 September the scale starts at $1,600 / €1,400.
You can begin with $200 today and spread the rest over nine months (Feb to Oct 2027). Or pay in full and take 10% off.
And you’re not locked in. Cancel up to 14 days before the first session and we refund your tuition in full, apart from that registration fee.
On the lower step of the sliding scale we can offer around 20 Supported seats each year, and more than half have already been taken. Coming with someone can lower the price further.The classes are held in English. Many people in the room are not native speakers, so you’ll hear plenty of accents, and that’s simply how this community sounds.
The pace here is unhurried by design. Because this work asks you to find what’s actually true before you say it, and that takes a moment in any language. Every session will be recorded and comes with a written summary (and video ‘bits’), so you can go back over anything at your own pace. In exercises, if you’d like, we can pair you with someone who shares your language.
And the tools have gotten good. Live subtitles and simultaneous translation into your own language are widely available now, and if that would help you, we’re glad to walk you through the options we know of and get you set up. Many people find them genuinely useful. How well they work varies with the session.
If you can read this page easily, your English is probably enough. If you’re not sure, check with us on a 15-minute call.
The year ends in December 2027. The person you’ll be then is shaped by what you choose now.
Book a 15-minute conversation with someone on our team. Bring your questions, your hesitations, your longings. We’ll meet you where you are.
Each month we hold a free Q&A, a chance to hear what the year actually looks like from the people inside it. Past participants, current facilitators, real questions, real answers. You can come and not say a word, or you can ask the thing you’ve been wondering about.
If a year-long commitment isn’t where you are right now, but something on this page reached you, leave us your email. You’ll get one note a week. Small reflections from people inside the practice. Invitations to free sessions when they come around. The occasional thing that helps.
