A year of 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.
You already know NVC is more than a communication technique. You’ve felt it, in one conversation that didn’t go the way conversations usually go. In one moment of being deeply heard. In a glimpse of who you could be if you weren’t quite so defended.
But you also know: glimpses don’t stick. A weekend workshop ends. A book closes. You go back to your life, and the old patterns close in again.
This year is for you if…
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.
Your rhythm A small group, your community within the community for the whole year. 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.
Themed The community surfaces what’s alive, parenting, loss, intimate relationships, NVC at work, and we form listening circles around it.
Living A living web of giving and receiving: songs, poems, presence, skills, whatever each of us has to offer.
In the world A space where participants launch and nurture NVC-based projects in the world, with the whole community as a support circle.
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.
Year two For second-year participants ready to practice stewardship and creative leadership inside the community.
Across difference Time dedicated to intersectionality, power, culture, and meeting across difference, because we’d rather do this work openly than pretend we already know how.
Many specialties You’ll learn from leading CNVC Certified Trainers, across mediation, somatic healing, shame work, transgenerational healing, systems change, and more, all integrated into one container.
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 teacher 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.
Everything the year touches, gathered from every teacher 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.
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.
No. You’re welcome exactly where you are. The foundational sessions open the door for people who are brand new, so you won’t be lost, and you won’t be the only one. The deeper sessions go somewhere real for people who’ve practiced for years. That mix is part of what makes the year alive.
Plan for roughly 4 sessions a month, plus a Home Group of 4 to 12 people. That’s the heartbeat. Each Home Group has its own rhythm, some meet weekly, some every two weeks, some are smaller, some bigger, and you’re matched to one that fits your needs at the start of the year. The year also has a spring break and a summer break (northern hemisphere), so the rhythm eases at those points. Around it there’s more if you want it: empathy buddies, drop-in Empathy Cafés, practice spaces. None required. Every session is recorded, with a written summary afterward, so a hard week doesn’t cost you the thread.
Life happens. We built for that. Every session is recorded, and the schedule leaves room to catch up. You’ll also get a written summary of each one: the key points, the exercises, the moments that mattered. You can fall behind and find your way back. Nobody’s keeping score.
Through the NVC Learning Community Network: our virtual home between the classes. It’s where we keep in touch, share from ourselves, drop a message, unpack a session, ask a question, or just celebrate something wonderful that happened. It lives on your computer and in your pocket as an app, so you can carry the community with you. For those who like things quick and simple, we also share a WhatsApp group for fast updates and everyday communication. You’ll get your invitation to join about three weeks before the course starts, so you can begin getting to know the other participants before the first session.
We hear this, especially from parents. And we’d gently invite you to look again. The formal sessions run 2 to 6 times a month, not every night. Making room for them, even against real limitations, is a gift you give yourself: a precious window that doesn’t come around often. So the question we’d sit with is a practical one. Is there someone who could hold the evening for you while you attend, a partner, a family member, a friend, a babysitter? You don’t have to carry it alone. Sometimes protecting this space is the first NVC practice of the year.
Both. And we don’t think you can really separate them. You’ll spend the year exploring the full terrain of an inner life: the hard feelings like grief, shame, and anger, and the nourishing ones like joy, celebration, and gratitude; your relationships and the patterns you carry into them; the wisdom of your body; and the quiet work of coming home to yourself. You’ll practice honesty, empathy, and meeting your hardest conversations differently. You’ll also learn to see the systems around you, at work, in your kids’ school, in your healthcare, and find ways to act on what you see. The inner work and the outer work feed each other. That’s the whole design.
Yes. And for some people, that changes things earlier. Each person registers and pays for their own place; there’s no shared seat. But when you come alongside someone, there are real reductions for it. You can come as a pair, a small circle of 3 to 6, or a team. Everyone still holds their own place; the group reduction simply lowers what each of you pays.
The year is taught by internationally renowned NVC trainers, each one personally handpicked by us. Names like Yoram Mosenzon, Sarah Peyton, Roxy Manning, John Kinyon, and more. Between the trainer sessions, the NVC Rising team teaches. They’re the glue and the practice: the ones who help what a trainer opened actually land in your life. On top of that, there are many optional offerings facilitated by our team, there when you want them.
We’ve tried to make this honest and workable, not clever. The year runs on a sliding scale, starting from $1,600 USD / €1,400 EUR, and you choose where you sit on it. Right now, for launch, there’s an extremely large reduction on that price, but only for a short window, so if the year is calling you, this is the moment it costs the least it ever will. The Sustaining rate is what it actually costs us to run the year. Some seats are Supported, subsidized below that cost, and we can carry only a limited number. A few people choose the Supporter rate, which directly opens another Supported seat for someone who couldn’t otherwise come. Payment plans are available. If your life circumstances put even the Supported price out of reach, we hold a small number of scholarships, and applications open in October.
English is the primary language we use. And we’ve built the room to hold every level of it. We slow down, we check for understanding, and we make space for the fact that the most important words are often the hardest to find. Nowadays technology lets us bring in instant translation during live classes, and even subtitles. We won’t promise a fully multilingual experience, but we use the tools, and they keep getting better. In exercises, you can often be paired with someone who speaks your language, if they’re in the room. We do assume you have at least basic English.
Yes. Many people do. Some things only land the second time around. Returning participants can step into the Leadership Hub: a space to practice stewardship and creative leadership, and to help hold the container for those arriving new. You don’t graduate out of a community. You grow into a different place in it.
It can, yes. Any session taught by a CNVC Certified Trainer usually counts toward certification. The one thing we can’t do for you is track the process: that lives between you and your assessor, so stay in contact with them to understand what counts and what you still need. For those who want to make teaching NVC their profession, we also hold a Certification Hub: a space of support for candidates on the path and for working trainers.
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.
