Online: NVC in the workplace – 6-week Course (Tuesdays)

When Satya Nadella became CEO of Microsoft, he took a bold step to transform the company’s toxic culture. He gave each member of his senior leadership team a copy of Marshall B. Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. At the time, Microsoft was plagued by hostility, infighting, and backstabbing among its top executives. Nadella’s initiative aimed to initiate a cultural turnaround and became a pivotal step in reshaping Microsoft’s corporate ethos.

As the workplace environment continues to evolve, new challenges arise that impact collaboration and the quality of relationships. Are you struggling with communication issues that lead to impasses? Do you want to enhance your communication skills to foster a more cooperative and productive environment?

About this Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Level One course

• Transformational communication tools you can immediately apply in your daily life.
• Learn how to express yourself to others, listen to others, and listen compassionately to yourself in order to communicate effectively with your co-workers.
• Learn how to work constructively with your boss (if you have one)
• Improve your job prospects
• Change the culture in your team from competition to collaboration (to the extent that you can).
• Make use of experiential learning – working with situations from your work life.
• This training is a recognised stepping stone to further NVC courses.

Introducing NVC to your organization has these benefits:

• A reduction in conversations behind people’s back and increase in willingness to attend to conflict.
• Clarity about decision-making authority within the organization.
• Alignment of authority and responsibility for individuals.
• Increased buy-in for projects.
• A reduction in the number of sick days and staff turnover.

When and Where

Six consecutive Tuesdays from 3 November 2026, each time 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 break out into ‘rooms’ for smaller group work.

Trainer

Gesine Schrader, international CNVC-certified trainer. Gesine has been supporting individuals and organizations with mediation and coaching for the past ten years. Find out more about the trainer.

Who is this course for?

This course is for you if you care about the quality of relationships in your workplace and want to increase collaboration. It’s held on Zoom over six weeks. 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.

More detailed information on our website seedofpeace.org.