What we’re about
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/)
• Conflict Transformation Weave is a group of NVC practitioners who help NVC communities to pre-empt and respond to conflicts, by building internal agreements, developing skills and increasing resilience. They offer conflict transformation support when groups have done what they can and realise they need further support in order to move towards connection: https://ctw-uk.com/
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Keep your NVC fit - Role playNeeds location
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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.These practice sessions aren’t refundable or transferable, except in exceptional circumstances.
This is open to people who have done a Foundation training or Intro to NVC. This is not a beginners class.
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