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Germany 2024

Germany 2024

Crossing deep valleys with Empathy and Love


International Intensive Training (IIT) by the Center for Nonviolent Communication

Begins: Friday, September 27, 2024
Ends: Sunday, October 06, 2024

Audience: Open to All Experience levels

English, German, Ukrainian
Format: In person
Join us for this residential retreat in Sayda, Germany (27 September - 6 October 2024) that will help you bring nonviolence and peace into all areas of your life. In this event, you can discover skills that will help you improve the quality of your relationships, deepen your inner peace, and increase your contribution to the world. Each session will be in English, and some sessions will be translated into Germand and/or Ukrainian

Crossing deep valleys with Empathy and Love

Please click here for the edited German translation and click here for the edited Ukrainian translation.

Come and live NVC in community, for nine days, in the heart of Europe: The Ore-mountains (Erzgebirge) in the east of Germany, close to the Czech border. We will, in connection with the beautiful surroundings, tap into empathy and love to be able to meet our daily challenges, both in our personal life and the societies and systems we are part of - in ways that serve life for all involved. Connect to yourself, meet the other, and strengthen your contribution to the world.

We want to hold space for the pain associated with past and ongoing historic events in Europe and the other continents we all come from. We will put attention to how they work through in our lives and the way we perceive the world around us and interact with others and ourselves. We will strengthen our resilience and grow our skills for the transformation of conflicts.

Do you strive to enhance your relationships in your personal, professional, and social life?
Do you want to grow your ability to listen to yourself and others, even when they have different ideas?
Do you want to gain more inner peace and contribute to peace in your surroundings?

Then this IIT will be perfect for you!

We explicitly wish to make this IIT accessible for those who do not speak English well enough to express their emotions and needs. Therefore, this IIT offers translation of all plenaries and some workshops during each session into German (consecutive) and partly Ukrainian (in-ear translation).

We have received confirmation from Berlin and Hessen, as federal countries of Germany,  that our IIT is recognised as educational leave! This will be also recognized by the German federal countries: Brandenburg, Saarland, Thüringen, Bremen and Rheinland-Pfalz.

Learn how to restore broken relations with Irmtraud Kauschat, trainer and assessor. 

 


Join us as Irmtraud Kauschat speaks with Iryna Shevchuk, a Certification Candidate from Ukraine about how her participation in the Germany International Intensive Training can help her to contribute in uniting and connecting people in Ukraine.

Donate today to allow Iryna and the others attend this IIT!


9-day residential retreat in Nonviolent Communication

This 9-day immersion experience into Nonviolent Communication (NVC) will offer learning sessions, home groups, coaching and feedback from skilled trainers, and a community environment where you can learn and practice the key skills of NVC.

Our team of Certified Trainers will share both the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique applications. We expect a group of approximately 50 to 60 people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.

People around the world are using Nonviolent Communication skills to transform conflict, create resilience in their relationships, and build a world where everyone's needs matter and are met collaboratively.

We will create a dynamic learning laboratory that will show you how to create a more compassionate and peaceful culture in your life at home, at work, and in your community by learning how to:

  1. Speak from the heart
  2. Practice deep, non-judgmental listening
  3. Build self-empowerment from the inside out

The cost of this training includes two components: 1) Tuition; and 2) Room and Board. Click below for details.

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3 STEPS TO YOUR IIT EXPERIENCE WITH CNVC:

FUN FACT

In front of the hostel are 3 high gates, so-called "Torii" with Japanese signs: Joy, Love, Power. Please discover.

IIT training team for Germany 2024

Introducing the Certified Trainers you will learn from and meet during your stay. Each will share the core curriculum of NVC as developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, as well as their own unique approach and passion for NVC. You'll also connect with many like-minded people from different countries, cultural backgrounds, professions and walks of life.

IIT organizing team for Germany 2024

THE 3 MAIN GOALS OF CNVC'S INTERNATIONAL INTENSIVE TRAINING (IIT)

The purpose of this intensive training is to give you the opportunity to live the process of Nonviolent Communication in community over an extended period of time, in order to develop the mindsets and practical tools to help you in three areas:

Personal and Professional Relationships

  • Increase connection and closeness with the people you love.
  • Speak in a way that inspires compassion and understanding.
  • Initiate difficult conversations with more ease and confidence.
  • Remain centered and peaceful when receiving difficult messages.
  • Express and receive anger fully, safely and respectfully... yet powerfully.
  • Resolve long-standing conflicts and heal painful relationships.
  • Parent children from the heart and move beyond power struggles into cooperation.
  • Translate criticism, judgments and blame into life-serving messages.

Inner Transformation

  • Shift patterns of thinking that lead to depression, guilt and shame and that perpetuate pain.
  • Transform anger into self-understanding, thereby increasing inner peace.
  • Enliven yourself by expressing and receiving gratitude.
  • Learn to embody unconditional love.

Contribution to others and Social Change

  • Share NVC in ways that transmit and model its power to transform and inspire others.
  • Create educational systems where students love learning and teachers love teaching.
  • Learn to engage in effective, lasting nonviolent social change in the tradition of Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Facilitate meetings and support group decision making in a power-sharing, collaborative, and consensus-based ways.
  • Support holistic and human-based workplaces.
  • Engage with others at work and in the community to foster openness, trust and authenticity.
  • Support mutual understanding and connection when working in colonized countries.
  • Foster restoration and harmony by mediating conflicts and helping to resolve differences among others.
While we will prioritize these three areas in the curriculum, there is also room for co-creation. There will be opportunities for you to request specific topics and applications to support you in living and sharing NVC at work, home, and in the community as well as internally in how you relate to yourself.