Nonviolent Communication™ (and Focusing)

February – June 2010
With Locana and Vajrasara

About the Course

This course is for people who would like to work with Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) as a spiritual influence and practice in their lives. It provides an opportunity to enrich our lives through NVC and to integrate this with deeply-held hopes, values and ideals. There is also be the chance to explore how we share NVC with others, informally in our personal lives and/or as part of our work and livelihood. Peer support groups and mentoring between modules create an enjoyable and beneficial sense of community as the course progresses. While the main emphasis is on NVC, we also include an introduction to Focusing, a practice which both complements NVC and enriches the inner dimensions of our practice. There will also be meditation each day and time to absorb the material. The course takes place over three long weekends at a Buddhist College in Birmingham, and a week’s retreat at a Dhanakosa retreat centre in the Scottish Highlands. Participants will be asked for at least four days formal NVC training in order to attend the course, and some experience of meditation.

“Is this course for me?”
“Yes …” if you want to do all or some of the following:

  • Deepen your practice and understanding of NVC
  • Enrich your meditation and dharma practice through NVC
  • Increase heart connection with yourself and those around you
  • Positively affect the world in the way you choose
  • Learn skills that bring yourself and others more alive
  • Develop your needs consciousness
  • Increase harmony through reconciliation and mediation
  • Explore whether you want to share NVC with others in your life
  • Gain experience of teaching and coaching people using  NVC
  • Learn and practise Focusing

    • Course Details
    The course runs from January to June 2010.
    At Dharmapala College, Birmingham, and Dhanakosa Retreat Centre, Scotland.

    Module 1 February: Thursday 11th 11am–Sunday 14th 3.30pm
    Module 2 March:  Thursday 18th 6pm–Sunday 21st 3.30pm
    Module 3 May (Retreat): Friday 7th 7pm–Friday 14th 11am
    Module 4 June: Thursday 24th 6pm–Sunday 27th 3.30pm

    Information and bookings: Please contact us

    • Download flyer: Living and Working with Nonviolent Communication™ (and Focusing) (PDF)

    • Download booking information (PDF)