Experience the magic of a year-long NVC learning community. Our theme is drawn from the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC’s) Certification Preparation Packet, which provides a complete journey from initial encounters with Nonviolent Communication to advanced NVC mediation and facilitation skills:

Knowing: learn and clarify the concepts of Nonviolent Communication.
Living: Embody the compassionate consciousness of NVC in your daily life, including spirituality and social change.
Sharing: Get support to share Nonviolent Communication skills with others at home, at work and in workshops settings.

There are five 3-day modules offered in the spirit of Gift Culture between October 2026 and June 2027 at Maitreya House, near Hereford, UK. The fifteen days of training count towards CNVC certification. 

Who is this Year Training for?

This Year Training is open to people who have done an NVC Level One training or equivalent Foundation Training with a CNVC-certified trainer.

Learning objectives

• Learning how to apply the principles and skills of Nonviolent Communication.
• Opportunities for healing and learning a process you can use to support others.
• Deepening your communication skills to improve relationships at home, work and in the community.
• Learning and support from fellow-participants in an on-going NVC community.
• Ideas and support to create the kind of world you want to live in.
• Opportunities to learn and facilitate Nonviolent Communication.

Trainers

All modules are led by CNVC-certified trainers Shantigarbha and Gesine Schrader. About the trainers. Between them they have decades of experience of supporting people in learning and living NVC.

Dates for your diary

Module One: Knowing NVC 1–4 October 2026.

Module Two: Living NVC 3–6 December 2026.

Module Three: Healing past pain 11–14 February 2027.

Module Four: Transforming conflict 15–18 April 2027.

Module Five: Sharing NVC 10–13 June 2027.

All modules start with a meal at 6.30pm on the Thursday and finish at 4.15 pm on the Sunday.

The benefits of a year-long training

• The five modules give a sense of structure and progression.
• The format offers greater depth than one-off workshops.
• We become a community of people living and learning NVC.
• The community offers mutual support.Learning and living together

As well as learning the principles of NVC, we will also be exploring how to live as a temporary community during our time together. This will include working together on community tasks, such as cooking, washing up and cleaning. We will also be exploring how we make decisions and address conflict as a community.  We invite you to bring your courage and self-responsibility, bearing in mind that coming together as a community can be challenging, and conflicts may arise. It is in these situations that we are most likely to grow in our capacity to live in community.

When you register, we will invite you to a short online interview, so that you can ask us questions, and we can get a sense if you’ll thrive on the way.

For more detailed information, check out our website: seedofpeace.org .