About us
This group hosts events aimed at developing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) skills and consciousness, and creating community, based on the work and legacy of Marshall B. Rosenberg and his seminal book, 'Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Life'. It’s a place for community gatherings, peer practice sessions, training and more, run by NVC enthusiasts and sometimes London-based trainers certified by the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (https://www.cnvc.org). If inspired you are welcome to offer NVC-themed learning or social events.
Pathways to learning NVC
If you’d like to learn NVC via formal training, facilitated by London-based CNVC-certified trainers, then hop over to the London Page of the NVC-UK website and find out about the training pathway put together by Ceri Buckmaster, Cath Burke, Carolyn Davies, Daren De Witt, Pauline Doohan and Tracy Seed. We fund this page and are committed to creating community and a supportive network for those learning, living and sharing NVC in London. Many of our trainings are currently online, so if you live outside of London, you are welcome to participate.
For more information about NVC in London and the UK
• The main website for all UK NVC activities, training, practice groups, camps and residentials, blogs, resources and much more. Sign up for a regular newsletter with upcoming events and all things new around NVC in UK: https://nvc-uk.com
• NVC London Facebook for us Londoners to join and find out what is going on! Anybody can post here:[ https://www.facebook.com/groups/502984243229456/](https://www.facebook.com/groups/502984243229456/)
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Keep your NVC fit - Role play
·OnlineOnlineRegister here Keep your NVC fit - Role Play · Dandelion
This session we will focus on Roleplay.
Roleplay is about giving yourself different experiences of dialogue to the ones you normally have, and as you do so, you are creating new neural pathways.
It’s surprising how much is opened up by giving ourselves the opportunity to practice, in a low stakes environment. It’s very difficult to do new things in stressed situations that are already charged.
We aren’t going to do anything different, we are going to do our patterns, the things we always do, we are going to do the things that have always kept us safe.
So, a role play is a low stakes environment, where there are no consequences to getting it wrong, or putting your foot in it. This is a place where you can learn.
Before you come, you can read more in this short post about the purpose of roleplay.
This is a monthly series to practice 3 core NVC practices
- 4 steps of Self-Empathy
- Empathic Listening
- Role Plays of Difficult Conversations
Practical and Logistics
This is a low-cost,drop in, you can come once or every month or something in between.Choose your contribution, including £0 if nothing else works for you this time. I do appreciate your contributions to keep this practice going AND please take it as a gift if that would be lovely for you. NVC needs a lot of practice so I want to make it as easy as possible for you.
This is open to people who have done a Foundation training or Intro to NVC. This is not a beginners class.
Please RegisterKeep your NVC fit - Role Play · Dandelion
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NVC Level 2 Intermediate — The NVC Dyad Process
·OnlineOnlineNVC Level 2 Intermediate — The NVC Dyad Process
Many of you here have kept practising since Foundations. This is the course that takes that practice inward.It comes from the work of the late Robert Gonzales, who brought the traditional dyad meditation process together with NVC.
Over two mornings we work towards a contemplation of needs that's felt in the body rather than worked out in the head. Not naming a need correctly — sitting with it, in the presence of another person.
It's mindfulness within NVC: a deep practice supporting self-connection and connection with others.Once you have learned this practice, you may like to join online practice sessions that run daily with others at no charge.
Open to anyone who has completed and NVC Level 1 Foundation Course.
Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September 2026
9.30am to 1.15pm UK time, both days
Online via Zoom
Cost — Sliding scale £85–£220.Booking is through my website here, rather than through Meetup.
1 attendee
Listening Hour
·OnlineOnlineWhat it is
A weekly 1 hour connection and empathy space currently hosted by people who have experience in NVC, for anyone interested in NVC.
This is not a workshop but a peer listening space to encourage listening.Who it’s for
Everyone who is interested in NVC is welcome. No need for formal training but it’s great if you have been to some trainings.
Come if you want to practice listening.
Come if you’d enjoy a listening ear.What happens
We offer a structure which offers clear guidance to everyone about what to do.
Format (Each host will hold the space in a slightly different way but the overall structure will be the same)
• Check-in
• breakout into 3s for empathy and listening. (Empathy guidelines will be given and you can respond to the generative question ‘What do you want empathy for or to talk through?’)
• ClosingSelf responsibility
This is a reminder that everyone is responsible for themselves and we encourage you to take care of your own emotional safety.
Bear in mind your listening partners aren’t trainers or therapists.Is there any cost?
We’re offering these sessions for free as we’d like to contribute to making empathy support more accessible, especially during these challenging times. Afterwards, if you are moved to do so, and can afford it, we’d be grateful for a donation to our chosen organisation:
NVC Matters (the national organisation for NVC in the UK): Bank account: 65414848 SC: 089299Please register here to get the zoom link sent to you for each session Listening Hour sign up
3 attendeesListening Hour
·OnlineOnlineWhat it is
A weekly 1 hour connection and empathy space currently hosted by people who have experience in NVC, for anyone interested in NVC.
This is not a workshop but a peer listening space to encourage listening.Who it’s for
Everyone who is interested in NVC is welcome. No need for formal training but it’s great if you have been to some trainings.
Come if you want to practice listening.
Come if you’d enjoy a listening ear.What happens
We offer a structure which offers clear guidance to everyone about what to do.
Format (Each host will hold the space in a slightly different way but the overall structure will be the same)
• Check-in
• breakout into 3s for empathy and listening. (Empathy guidelines will be given and you can respond to the generative question ‘What do you want empathy for or to talk through?’)
• ClosingSelf responsibility
This is a reminder that everyone is responsible for themselves and we encourage you to take care of your own emotional safety.
Bear in mind your listening partners aren’t trainers or therapists.Is there any cost?
We’re offering these sessions for free as we’d like to contribute to making empathy support more accessible, especially during these challenging times. Afterwards, if you are moved to do so, and can afford it, we’d be grateful for a donation to our chosen organisation:
NVC Matters (the national organisation for NVC in the UK): Bank account: 65414848 SC: 089299Please register here to get the zoom link sent to you for each session Listening Hour sign up
3 attendees
Past events
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