# NVC Rising > NVC Rising is a global non-profit initiative growing networks of connection, learning, and shared action through Nonviolent Communication (NVC) — online programs, free live events, games, and community projects, centred on a year-long online Learning Community. Markdown versions of key pages are available at the `…/index.md` URLs below and via `Accept: text/markdown` on the page's own URL. All other links serve HTML. Key facts about the NVC Learning Community (our flagship, running through 2027): - Pricing is a self-chosen sliding scale per person: Supported €1400/$1600 · Sustaining €2100/$2400 · Supporter €2800/$3200 — or name your own amount (floor €1400/$1600). - A flat €200/$200 registration fee (included in the tier price) is due at signup; the remainder can be paid in 9 monthly installments during 2027. - Paying everything up front: 10% off by card, 12% off by bank transfer. - Groups pay less per person: 7% off for "As a pair" (partner, family, friend), 12% off for "A circle of 3 to 6" (a friend or peer group), 15% off for "A team or community" (schools, nonprofits, orgs). - Registration is in the Regular phase (standard pricing). - Scholarship applications open on 2026-11-02. Full details and registration: https://www.nvcrising.org/learning-community ## Core - [Home](https://www.nvcrising.org/): NVC Rising is a global initiative growing networks of connection, learning, and shared action through Nonviolent Communication. - [What Is NVC](https://www.nvcrising.org/what-is-nvc/index.md): Nonviolent Communication is a practice of speaking and listening that stays honest about what you feel and need — turning conflict into connection. - [Programs overview](https://www.nvcrising.org/programs): One community at the centre, and a family of focused offerings around it. Find the doorway that fits where you are. - [Our Mission](https://www.nvcrising.org/about-mission): NVC Rising is an initiative. A community of belonging is both our goal and our method. - [Contact](https://www.nvcrising.org/contact): Write to us about anything, programs, getting involved, or just to say hello. ## The NVC Learning Community - [Learning Community — program details](https://www.nvcrising.org/learning-community): A global, year-long, interactive online NVC course and learning community. Live faculty-led Nonviolent Communication training, home groups, and support toward CNVC certification. 2027 cohort now enrolling. - [Register for the Learning Community](https://www.nvcrising.org/learning-community/register): Begin your application to the NVC Learning Community 2027. Choose what you can pay on our sliding scale. Come on your own or bring others with you. - [Cancellation policy](https://www.nvcrising.org/cancellation): Cancellation and refund terms for NVC Rising programs. ## Free live events - [AI: Different Views, One Future](https://www.nvcrising.org/events): Free live event, Sunday, October 25, 2026, 2 hours — A speaker panel on AI, hosted by Yoram Mosenzon. Not who’s right, but how we hear each other beyond our opinions and walk together. - [Playback Theatre meets NVC](https://www.nvcrising.org/events): Free live event, Saturday, November 21, 2026, 2 hours — A live meeting of Playback Theatre and NVC, with True Story Theater. Where empathy stops being talked about and gets put in the body. - [All free events](https://www.nvcrising.org/events): Free, live events from NVC Rising: themed NVC tasters, panels, and open Q&A sessions. Open to everyone, no payment required. ## Programs & offerings - [Themed Workshops](https://www.nvcrising.org/themed-workshops): Focused courses on one theme at a time, lived through over a few weeks, in a small live online group. - [NVC & Healing Our Attachment](https://www.nvcrising.org/healing-attachment): Nonviolent Communication for couples, and for singles preparing for partnership. - [The Voice](https://www.nvcrising.org/the-voice): Creative writing and Nonviolent Communication, as a way to find and free your voice. - [Depolarize This](https://www.nvcrising.org/depolarize-this): An 8-week online course on staying connected across deep divides, without losing your own voice. Sundays, 6 to 8 pm CET, from November 8, 2026. Live and recorded. - [Rising for Life](https://www.nvcrising.org/rising-for-life): Our global, in-person NVC convention, where the community steps off the screen and into the same room. - [The Online Global NVC Festivals](https://www.nvcrising.org/global-festivals): A look back at our three Online Global NVC Festivals: dozens of live workshops, teachers from around the world, and a community practicing NVC together. - [The Global Grassroots Market](https://www.nvcrising.org/grassroots-market): Books, cards, games, and tools made by people in the NVC community, for the NVC community. ## Free resources - [Free content library](https://www.nvcrising.org/free-content): Talks, sessions, and practices we've opened to everyone. No login, no payment, just press play. - [The Empathy Walk](https://www.nvcrising.org/empathy-walk): A gentle seven-step practice for meeting yourself with honesty and compassion, in the spirit of Nonviolent Communication. Ten pages, free, yours to print. No email needed. - [The Feelings Detective](https://www.nvcrising.org/feelings-detective): A printable booklet of games, missions and puzzles that help children get curious about their feelings, in the spirit of Nonviolent Communication. Free, in nine languages. No email needed. - [NVC games](https://www.nvcrising.org/games): Games built on Nonviolent Communication. Small ones to play on your own, connection card games to play with the people you care about, and the Empathy Walk. No scores, no right answers. - [Weekly Harvesting](https://www.nvcrising.org/weekly-harvesting): One real moment a week, harvested through Nonviolent Communication: the feeling under the reaction, the need under the feeling. A minute to read. No promotional material, cancel anytime. - [Blog index](https://www.nvcrising.org/blog/index.md): all 160 posts with one-line summaries, as markdown ## Recent blog posts - [Marshall Rosenberg: The Man Behind Nonviolent Communication](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/marshall-rosenberg/index.md): Marshall Rosenberg created Nonviolent Communication. A look at his life, what he actually did in a room, and what the practice has had to work out since. - [How to Deal With Grief (When the Stages Don't Match What You Feel)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/how-to-deal-with-grief/index.md): How to deal with grief when the five stages don't fit. NVC offers mourning as a practice: staying with the feeling and the need underneath it, not managing it. - [How to Deal With Anger (When Calming Down Isn't the Answer)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/how-to-deal-with-anger/index.md): How to deal with anger without swallowing it or exploding. NVC treats anger as a signal pointing at an unmet need, with a four-step practice and real examples. - [How to Communicate Better in a Relationship (When the Techniques Keep Failing)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/how-to-communicate-better-in-a-relationship/index.md): How to communicate better in a relationship when I statements and active listening keep backfiring. What NVC changes underneath the technique, with real examples. - [The Four Components of Nonviolent Communication (And What Each One Is Actually For)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/four-components-of-nonviolent-communication/index.md): The four components of Nonviolent Communication are observation, feeling, need, request. What each one is for, how each one fails, and how to use them. - [The Best Books on Nonviolent Communication: A Practitioner's Reading Order](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/books-on-nonviolent-communication/index.md): An opinionated guide to the best books on nonviolent communication: what to read first, what to skip, which ones matter for practice, and which are overrated. - [12 Real Nonviolent Communication Examples (With Full Dialogue)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/nonviolent-communication-examples/index.md): Twelve nonviolent communication examples with full dialogue: partner, kids, work, conflict, boundaries. Including what to say when the other person pushes back. - [Empathic Listening: How to Actually Hear Another Person](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/empathic-listening/index.md): Empathic listening means hearing the feelings and needs beneath the words, not fixing or relating. Here's what it is, how to practice it, and why it works. - [Compassionate Communication: A Beginner's Guide to the Practice](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/compassionate-communication/index.md): Compassionate communication is another name for Nonviolent Communication. Here's what the practice actually is, why the name, and how to start using it today. - [The NVC Feelings and Needs List: Words for What Is Actually Happening](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/nvc-feelings-and-needs-list/index.md): The full NVC needs list and feelings list, organized by category, with honest guidance on how to actually use them. Includes a free printable PDF. - [Self-Empathy: The NVC Practice of Turning Toward Yourself](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/self-empathy/index.md): Self-empathy is the NVC practice of meeting your own feelings and needs with the presence you'd give a friend. What it is, how it differs, and how to do it. - [What to Say When Someone Is Upset (NVC's Answer Might Surprise You)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/what-to-say-when-someone-is-upset-nvc-s-answer-might-surprise-you/index.md): When someone is hurting, your brain scrambles for the right words. NVC says that scramble is the problem — and presence is the answer. Here’s why. - [How to Be Present When Someone Is Hurting (What NVC Says About the Scramble)](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/how-to-be-present-when-someone-is-hurting-what-nvc-says-about-the-scramble/index.md): When someone is hurting, your brain scrambles for the right words. NVC says the scramble itself is the problem — and that presence matters more than any sentence. - [When the Map Becomes a Cage: NVC and Power Dynamics](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/when-the-map-becomes-a-cage-nvc-and-power-dynamics/index.md): NVC assumes symmetry. But most conflicts that matter are not symmetric. A rigorous look at what serious practitioners need to add when power is unequal. - [NVC Cult Dynamics: When Compassionate Communities Close In On Themselves](https://www.nvcrising.org/post/nvc-cult-dynamics-when-compassionate-communities-close-in-on-themselves/index.md): Why do NVC communities sometimes slide into hierarchy and coercion? Explore NVC cult dynamics — the warning signs, the mechanism, and what the practice itself says about it. ## Get involved - [Get Involved](https://www.nvcrising.org/get-involved): NVC Rising grows because people show up, to learn, to help, to carry it forward. There's a place here for you. - [Donate](https://www.nvcrising.org/donate): Support NVC Rising, a grassroots non-profit initiative. Your donations help us create more events and platforms that spread an NVC-oriented consciousness. - [Your NVC Story](https://www.nvcrising.org/your-nvc-story): Real stories about NVC, the lived part. Where it helped, where it touched something, where it made the difference. We'd love to hear yours. - [Grants](https://www.nvcrising.org/grants): A look back at how NVC Rising returned a share of what it earned to grassroots NVC projects across the world. ## Optional - [The Global Festivals Library](https://www.nvcrising.org/festivals-library): Three global online festivals. Dozens of sessions with teachers from around the world. If you attended, your recordings are here. - [Our AI Usage Statement](https://www.nvcrising.org/ai-usage): Where NVC Rising stands on artificial intelligence: what we use, what we refuse, the tension we hold, and the questions we are still sitting with. - [Privacy Policy](https://www.nvcrising.org/privacy): How NVC Rising (Rising For Life) collects, uses, and protects your personal data under the Swiss FADP and the GDPR. - [Terms & Conditions](https://www.nvcrising.org/terms): The terms governing use of the NVC Rising website, online seminars, and programs. - [Impressum](https://www.nvcrising.org/impressum): Operator and legal details for NVC Rising (Rising For Life), in line with applicable disclosure requirements.