Embracing Longing

These workshops offer an introduction to basics of NVC.

We will cover the theory and apply it to examples from our own lives to bring it to life.

Participants are requested to have read Marshall Rosenberg’s book ”Nonviolent Communication”.

I teach in an experiential way, and try and bring the essential elements of NVC alive in a felt way for participants. I seek also to model the NVC process in how I interact with participants. This means that rather than “leading from the front” I seek to foster a learning environment that is full of listening and awareness, where we can all learn from what is arising in the present moment.

I emphasise NVC as a way of living, a new and highly beneficial way of seeing the world. The work begins inside, with a personal grasp of the basic concepts and an ability to “self empathise”. As NVC begins to function inside us then we can begin to use it in our communication. But without that inner work, our new NVC language can sound a bit fake, forced. I do my best to steer people away from that, and to build up the consciousness first.

This work has untold benefits. It can truly transform how we experience life. But nothing of real worth matures in a weekend. However, NVC is such a felt experience, that to fully grasp it one needs to be amongst people who are living it together. That is the experience I hope that we can all generate together in this weekend – a new way of relating, that is just the first step towards a more open-hearted, honest and courageous way of being in the world.

See calendar right for details of my next intro weekend.