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Are you NEW to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and want to know more?
Are you looking to EXPAND your conflict transformation and empathy skills with our training events?
Are you wanting to fully IMMERSE yourself in NVC in a multi-day experience, meet our Certified Trainers, and connect with passionate learners like you?

If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, you are in the right place. Click through one of the categories below to get started.

Learn, Stretch, Grow, Nonviolent Communication

New to NVC? Start here

What is NVC?

If you heard of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and would like to learn more, here is where you will find free videos, resources, and downloadable files available to you right now.

You'll also learn some fun NVC terms:

What does it mean to be a giraffe?
What does it mean to howl like a jackal?

It's our “ABCs of NVC” to share with the world.

Find many FREE resources

Learn NVC

Here is how to learn and practice NVC

TRAINING EVENTS

Like any language, to become fluent in NVC will take time, intention, and practice. Explore our events and programs, offered by CNVC's Certified Trainers:

For beginners
Intermediate
Trainings for trainers
Programs toward earning your CNVC trainer certification

Hundreds of events around the world

Find an NVC event

International Intensive Training (IIT)

INTENSIVE TRAININGS

Our IITs are a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the language of NVC in a multi-day, in-residence, experience.

You'll be surrounded by a caring, learning, practicing, and engaging community from the moment you sign up.

Our IITs are hosted in different countries and languages in an effort to expand our reach for all who wish to experience the depth of NVC and connect with a growing community of passionate learners and practitioners.

Open to all levels — beginner to advanced

Immerse in NVC

You can find our trainers and trainings all around the world!

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What is with giraffes and NVC?

Of all land mammals, giraffes have the biggest hearts, measuring up to two feet long and weighing about twenty-one pounds. In NVC it symbolizes the intention and capacity to recieve and speak with compassion and empathy — a big heart!

Do you know about CNVC's supporting membership?

OPEN TO ALL!

SUPPORTING MEMBER BENEFITS:

IMMEDIATELY UPON JOINING:

Official alignment with the global home of Nonviolent Communication
Invitation to a free online annual membership event
Opportunities to shape the future of CNVC
Video library of exclusive full-length, live recordings from Certified Trainers from around the world

AFTER SIX MONTHS OF MEMBERSHIP:

Receive a 10%* discount on tuition at CNVC’s immersive trainings
Priority consideration for financial assistance for immersive trainings

BECOME A CNVC SUPPORTING MEMBER TODAY!

The original book by our founder that launched NVC into the world:

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

By Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD, Foreword by Deepak Chopra

Over six millions copies sold worldwide. Translated in over 35 languages

DID YOU KNOW: "One of Nadella’s [Satya Nadella of Microsoft] first acts after becoming CEO, in February 2014, was to ask the company’s top executives to read Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication, a treatise on empathic collaboration." [FAST COMPANY]