Hereford: NVC Year Training 25-26 'Building Community'

Experience the magic of a year-long NVC learning community. Learn how to apply the principles and skills of Nonviolent Communication to building community. There are five 3-day modules offered in the spirit of Gift Culture between October 2025 and June 2026 at Maitreya House, near Hereford. The fifteen days of the training count towards CNVC certification.

Who is this Year Training for?

This Year Training is open to people who have done an NVC Level One training or equivalent Foundation Training with a certified trainer.

Learning objectives

• Learning how to apply the principles and skills of Nonviolent Communication to building community.
• Opportunities for healing and learning a process you can use to support others.
• Developing your communication skills to improve relationships at home, work and in the community.
• Learning and support from fellow-participants in an on-going NVC community.
• Ideas and support to create the kind of world you want to live in

Trainers

All modules are led by CNVC-certified trainers Shantigarbha and Gesine Schrader. About the trainers. Between them they have decades of experience of supporting people in learning and living NVC.

Module Dates

• Online Taster Session: Sunday 7 September, 10.30am  – 12.30pm.
• Module One: Setting up support systems (2–5 October 2025)
• Module Two: Group decision-making by consent (4–7 December 2025).
• Module Three: Healing past pain (12 February – 15 February 2026)
• Module Four: Conflict Transformation (23–26 April 2026).
• Module Five: Access and Resource Allocation systems (11–14 June 2026).

The benefits of a year-long training

• The five modules give a sense of structure and progression.
• The format offers greater depth than one-off workshops.
• We become a community of people living and learning NVC.
• The community offers mutual support.

Learning and living together

As well as learning the principles of NVC, we will also be exploring how to live as a temporary community during our time together. This will include working together on community tasks, such as cooking, washing up and cleaning. We will also be exploring how we make decisions and address conflict as a community.  We invite you to bring your courage and self-responsibility, bearing in mind that coming together as a community can be challenging, and conflicts may arise. It is in these situations that we are most likely to grow in our capacity to build community.

Online taster sessions and interview

We will be going on an intense year-long journey, and we want to get a sense beforehand of how it will be to travel together. We invite you to attend our online taster session: Sunday 7 September, 10.30am  – 12.30pm. Book here.
The fee for attending a taster session will be £25.00, deductible from your organisational fee when you register for the Year Training.

When you register, we will invite you to a short online interview, so that you can ask us questions, and we can get a sense if you’ll thrive on the way.