What are the alternatives to avoiding conflict or staying and escalating the conflict? Do you want to learn how to solve inner conflicts, resolve your conflicts with others, and support people around you when they are in conflict with each other?

About this Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Level Two Course

On this course you will practise the skills you’ve learned on your Level One course plus develop further understanding and skills in the area of conflict:

• Learn how to remain centred and break deadlocks in conflicts with others.
• Learn how to make difficult decisions when you're in inner conflict.
• Learn how to learn from your limitations without losing self-respect.
• Learn how to begin mediating between two people who are in conflict in both formal and informal settings.

The other Level Two courses we offer cover empathy and anger.

When and where

Six Mondays: 28 April; 5,12 and 19 (skip 26 May); 2 and 9 June 2025, 19:00 - 21:15 UK time. This is an online course. We will invite you to six online calls, using a platform called Zoom — instructions to follow. Zoom allows us to go into breakout rooms for smaller group work.

Trainer

Shantigarbha, certified trainer with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication. Find out more about the trainer.

Who is this course for?

People who want a practical, experiential introduction to Nonviolent Communication. It's an interactive audio-visual course over the period of six weeks. We ask that you agree to attend at least five of the six sessions. If you are going to miss more than one session, we ask that you book on a later cycle. In order to create a safe space for sharing, we will only be sharing recordings of the sessions with attendees on the course who aren't able to make a particular evening i.e. there isn't a 'watch only' option. To give attention to each person on the course, we are limiting the number of participants to 22.

Preparation

Before applying, we ask you to have completed a Level One course of two days or equivalent with a certified trainer.  Once you have been accepted on this course, we suggest:

• Rereading your Level One notes and handouts.
• Reading Shantigarbha's book on empathy I’ll Meet You There: A Practical Guide to Empathy, Mindfulness and Communication
• If you haven't done already, reading Marshall Rosenberg’s book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
• Watching one of the videos on our training preparation page.
• Sampling our series of NVC Life Hacks on YouTube.

In the spirit of Gift Culture

We offer this course in the spirit of Gift Culture – see More Information for details.