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2 week long training in Portugal
Week 1: 24–30 October 2027
and
week 2: 09–15 January 2028
Reserve your spot on our website: www.connecting2life.net
Hello everyone,
We’re thrilled to invite you to our ‘Train the Trainer’ Year-Long Course—our 32nd edition (!!!). So far, we have offered 13 such courses in Amsterdam, 09 in France, 08 online, 01 in Belgium, and 01 in Switzerland.
This training is designed for those who wish to dive deeply—alongside a group of fellow NVC enthusiasts—into a fuller embodiment of NVC and toward sharing it with others through one-on-one sessions and teaching
COURSE CONTENT
Scroll all the way down to see the list of topics we are likely to address during this Year Course.
Offering 1 on 1 Empathy Sessions
Learning Empathy is a lifelong practice. This year will be a great opportunity to practice, practice, practice towards gaining confidence and skills in offering private Empathy sessions. There will be 4 workshop days solely dedicated to gaining and deepening Empathy skills. We will learn such practices as Deepening Empathy Skills, Role Play, About ‘Healing’, Empathizing with Inner Jackals and more. You will be invited to practice these skills in 2 other contexts:
Empathy Buddy
Once a week you will be invited to have a 40 minute to 1 hour phone/Skype/Zoom Empathy practice with another participant from the course. The focus will be on specific exercises or general “emotional hygiene”. This will give you the opportunity to practice Empathy and also give you regular Empathic support for any life issues you might be dealing with.
Empathy Project
You will be invited to choose a person(s) to whom you will offer (at least) 20 hours of Empathy sessions.
I’m particularly excited about the Empathy Project as I believe it can meet many needs such as:
❀ Learning and gaining confidence and experience in offering Empathic listening
❀ Contribution to people and society
❀ etc.
This will play as an Empathy lab where we can try things out, deepen and expand our skills, and gain clarity and capacity in Empathic listening. We’ll share and reflect on our challenges with Empathic listening as a group so that we have the opportunity to learn from one another.
Teaching NVC
Teaching NVC to others is one of the most powerful ways to deepen learning and embodiment that I’ve experienced.
Learning to teach
We will touch on such points as:
❀ Tips and structures for introducing NVC: introducing NVC to a single person, a group, in a course setting, a workshop or an evening introduction
❀ Dealing with teaching challenges: looking at the choices you have as a trainer. Exploring ways to stay human in all situations, truly living the principles of NVC at all times
❀ Principles in Leadership ‘Be the Need you wish to see in the world’
❀ How to answer questions: recognizing the choice of when to answer a question versus seeing it as a request for Empathy
❀ Setting up Role-Plays
❀ Facilitating a group: Group consent decision-making processes, and general skills in facilitation
❀ And more…
Teaching each other
You will be encourage to create ‘Teaching Practice Groups’ where you will be teaching each other.
In this way you will gain experience in explaining NVC, answering questions, leading/coaching exercises, and leading sessions.
Community Building & the Art of Facilitation
NVC is a set of skills that helps me to live interdependently in the world. Each time I teach a group a community is created. We will be exploring community in the following ways:
❀ Learning how to build a sense of safety that allows Honesty and Vulnerability. How to create a group where one can truly be themselves.
❀ Exploring how to create the experience of Inclusion, where people experience that they matter and feel they have a place in the group.
❀ Facilitating a group:
– in training
– in circles (such as: gender circles, Celebration/Mourning circles, bridging beyond difference in opinions circle, facilitating a consent group decision making)
❀ The Art of Living Together: Community building weekends. I once saw a performance called If You Really Want to get to Know Me, Come and Live with Me. I don’t remember the performance itself well, but the title has stayed with me for years. We will live, eat, breathe, and practice NVC together.
We will look into subjects such as Radical Empathy/Radical Honesty, Inclusion, Safety, Consensus Group Decision Making, Choice, Freedom, Self-care and more.
Group Platform for connection throughout the Year Course:
We will create an online platform (Mighty network) specifically for the members of this year’s course. It’s a platform for sharing your celebrations, mournings, questions, requests, challenges, wonders… We’ve found it a special community space for connection, sharing and learning in past courses.
Course content: Topics
Here is an overview on the topics we are likely to address during the year course (written based on the bi-monthly online format, yet the more condensed Face to Face format will address the same themes):
Week number (1) October 2027:
1. In the context of offering 1 on 1 sessions:
– Empathy boost, refining skills and choices in the Art of Empathy: Empathy in the body, Juicing the Needs, Street Giraffe, Mourning ⇔ The beauty of the needs, following ⇔ Reaching, rhythm and more
– Role Play: 1-3
– Extra Role Plays (such as speaking with body part or sickness)
– About Healing + Healing Dialogue as a Role Play
2. In the context of Sharing/Teaching NVC:
– The Art of Leadership
– Receiving attention and the skill of transparency
– Humanizing teaching & dealing with challenging teaching situations
– Answering questions
– Structure for facilitating an introduction to NVC for 1 person
– Supporting on the 4 steps
– Role Play: Speaking with myself compassionately
Week number (2) January 2028:
– The Art of Mourning
– Facilitation skills: Interruption, quick reformulations, going under opinions, Need → Request, going beyond ‘objections’, etc.
– Facilitating consent group decision making: Short & Long
– Facilitating gender circle or other circles (such as grieving/despair circles, celebration circles, de-polarization circles etc)
– Structure for Introduction evening
– Radical Honesty: transforming ‘filters of love’
– Challenging topics in the context of being a trainer: Sexuality, Asking Money, use of Power, what is my Responsibility as a trainer, special mental states.
– Structures for teaching NVC: Introduction, course and workshop
– The 4 ears & dealing with judgments and resistance towards the trainer
– Fear process 1 & 2 (what prevents us from offering ourself to the world)
– The healing power of fantasy
– Vision work
– Loose ends
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