Nonviolent Communication: The Basics

Transformational Communication

Intensive, online, self-paced Nonviolent Communication (NVC) course. Learn how to apply NVC in your daily life. Access is for one year, including our monthly group coaching sessions. Choose a one-off fee or spread the cost over 12 months.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to your course
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2. Meet your trainers
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3. How to use this course
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4. Monthly group coaching sessions
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5. Zoom links for group coaching sessions
6. 1:1 Coaching sessions
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7. Before we begin...
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. Why NVC?
3. Quiz: Why NVC?
4. Marshall Rosenberg, founder of Nonviolent Communication
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5. Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
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6. Key Terms
7. Further reading
8. Reflect on your learning
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. Introducing the Tree
3. More about the Tree of Compassionate Connection
4. Quiz: the Tree of Compassionate Connection
5. Assignment: Draw your own tree!
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. Understanding conflict
3. Reflecting on Jo and Maureen's text conversation
4. Quiz: Jo and Maureen
5. Is there a different way of doing this?
6. How could Jo and Maureen do things differently?
7. Survey: How would it affect the relationship?
8. Quiz: how could Jo and Maureen do things differently?
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. The Stick Men
3. Take the quiz!
4. Reflecting on the lesson
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. Jackal and Giraffe Language
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3. Take the Jackal and Giraffe quiz!
4. Translating Jackal language into Giraffe language
5. Reflecting on the lesson
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. What are observations and why are they important in NVC?
3. Take the observation quiz!
4. Observation exercises: what can you see and hear in the room?
5. What can you see in the room?
6. What can you hear in the room?
7. Observation exercise: how do you feel now?
8. Take the quiz: Is this an Observation?
1. Introduction and Arriving Exercise
2. Our feelings come from our needs
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3. Take the quiz: feelings come from needs!
4. Building a feelings vocabulary
5. Exercise: building a feelings vocabulary
6. Taking responsibility for how you feel
7. Exercise: taking responsibility for how you feel.
8. Pseudo-feelings
9. Translating pseudo-feelings
10. That's it for this lesson
1. Credits
2. Sad
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3. Angry
4. Frustrated
5. Surprised
6. Afraid
7. Curious
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8. Happy
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9. Loving
10. Peaceful
1. Introduction and Self-empathy guided reflection
2. What are needs?
3. Quiz: what are needs?
4. Our feelings come from our needs
5. Quiz: feelings come from needs
6. More about needs: is there a hierarchy of needs?
7. Quiz: more about needs
8. Guided reflection: the Feelings and Needs Wheel
9. Quiz: guided reflection on the Feelings and Needs Wheel
10. The Needs Café
11. Quiz: the Needs Café
12. Tasting the needs
13. Guided audio reflection: tasting your needs
1. Credits
2. Connection
3. Freedom
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4. Honesty
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5. Survival
6. Protection
7. Wellbeing
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8. To matter
9. Regeneration
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10. Transcendence
1. Introduction and Self-empathy guided reflection
2. How to make compassionate requests
3. Quiz: how to make compassionate requests
4. Connection request or action request?
5. Quiz: connection request or action request?
6. Turning demands into requests
7. Quiz: turning demands into requests
8. Fill-in sheet: Making a compassionate request
1. Introduction and Self-empathy guided reflection
2. The power of self-empathy
3. Quiz: the power of self-empathy
4. Self-empathy v. wallowing and self-pity
5. Quiz: Self-empathy v. wallowing and self-pity
6. Self-empathy guided reflection
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7. Self-empathy fill-in sheet instructions
8. Assignment: Self-empathy-fill-in-sheet
9. Demo: coaching a self-empathy dance
10. Quiz: coaching a self-empathy dance
11. Further watching
1. Introduction and Self-empathy guided reflection
2. How not to empathize!
3. Quiz: how not to empathize!
4. Introducing Empathy Archery
5. Quiz: introducing Empathy Archery
6. Exploring the rings of the Empathy Archery diagram
7. Quiz: exploring the rings of the Empathy Archery diagram
8. Demo: coaching empathy on the 13 Step Inner Outer Dance Floor
9. Quiz: coaching empathy on the 13 Step Dance Floor
10. Test your empathy skills #1: the meeting
11. Quiz: empathy skills #1: the meeting
12. Test your empathy skills #2: composting
13. Quiz: empathy skills #2: composting
14. Test your empathy skills #3: wild singing walk
15. Quiz: empathy skills #3: wild singing walk
1. Introduction and Self-empathy guided reflection
2. Saying what’s alive in us
3. Quiz: saying what's alive in us
4. Demo: coaching self-expression
5. Quiz: coaching self-expression
6. Scary honesty fill-in sheet
7. Further video resources
1. Introduction and Self-empathy guided reflection
2. What fluency means in NVC
3. Quiz: what fluency means in NVC
4. Coaching fluency on the 13-Step Inner/Outer Dance Floor
5. Quiz: fluency on the 13-Step Inner/Outer Dance Floor
6. Round table discussion of NVC learners
7. Quiz: Round Table discussion
8. Quiz: Translating static language into process language
9. Closing the lesson and the module
1. More resources for you
2. Before you go...

About this course

£200.00
140 lessons
4 hours of video content

Transformational Communication

Course curriculum

Welcome to the course!

Lesson 1. The Purpose of NVC

Lesson 2. Tree of Compassionate Connection

Lesson 3. Understanding conflict

Lesson 4: The Stick Men

Lesson 5. Jackal and Giraffe Language

Lesson 6. OFNR: Observations

Lesson 7. OFNR: Feelings

Feelings Visual Library

Lesson 8. OFNR: Needs

Needs Visual Library

Lesson 9. OFNR: Requests

Lesson 10. Self-empathy

Lesson 11. Empathy

Lesson 12. Self-expression

Lesson 13. Fluency

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