Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC) is an approach that underpins all our courses and interventions in the field of communication. Our trainers are skilled and experienced NVC trainers, an annually renew their highly-valued international certification for trainers.

What are the benefits?

NVC is highly effective for:

• maintaining good communication
• preventing difficulties or conflicts
• repairing difficulties and damaged relationships

This approach has a profound effect on all relationships — work, home, social and political. It is taught worldwide, and is practised by people from very diverse cultural contexts (see www.cnvc.org).

NVC enables you to make clear requests to get the results you want, especially in tricky situations. It helps you to communicate with increasing honesty and empathy, and to transform blame into genuine trust and understanding. It also uncovers the underlying thinking patterns that hinder communication, and shows how we may actually benefit from the messages they are trying to give.

You will have an increasing ability to:

• Be honest without insulting people
• Transform blame and criticism
• Handle conflict with confidence
• Take actions that meet everyone's needs
• Create a quality of connection that heals rifts
• Develop your emotional intelligence

• Businesses increase goodwill and cooperation with co-workers and customers
• Health-care professionals develop systems that support patient-centred care
• Social service agencies and NGOs find ways to meet staff and client needs constructively
  Police, military and prison personnel prevent and peacefully resolve conflicts
• Education systems create healthy respect for diversity and differences
• Families and couples communicate with mutual respect and understanding
• Individuals break patterns of thinking that lead to arguments, anger and depression

Further Information about Nonviolent Communication™ (NVC)

• Life at Work offers training by internationally certified trainers with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication.
  
• Nonviolent Communication™ was developed by clinical psychologist, Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, in the 1960s in the U.S., and is now taught world-wide within business, education, justice, peace-keeping, health-care, and personal development. Marshall will be in the UK in 2006.
• Nonviolent Communication (Wikipedia)
  
• In addition to a wide base in the U.S., teams of trainers now operate in Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, and several countries in Latin America.

Useful Links

• Centre for Nonviolent Communication: www. cnvc.org
• Nonviolent Communication in UK: www.nvc-uk.info
• Puddledancer Press: www.nonviolentcommunication.com
• Life Resources: www.liferesources.org.uk
• Gina Lawrie and Bridget Belgrave: GnB.org.uk

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