ONLINE: The Mindful Communication Course, NVC Level One – 6-week (Mondays)

How do you harness the power of mindfulness and empathy to increase trust and connection with others and ourselves, for personal and professional development?

Mindful Communication applies mindfulness skills to the area of communication. The course integrates approaches and exercises from Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), to help us enhance our ability to stay present and listen to the people around us, even when there’s conflict.

About this Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Level One Course

• Feel more fully and richly alive – moment by moment.
• Think and communicate more clearly and effectively.
• Start communicating mindfully in your daily life.
• Develop deeper, more satisfying and longer-lasting relationships.
• Discover that stress and anxiety are optional.
• Free yourself from, ‘re-active’ impulses and habit patterns.
• Recognise and challenge unhelpful thoughts and beliefs.
• Develop safe and positive ways of dealing with chronic mental or physical pain.
• Express and receive anger in ways that increase safety

This course offers:

• guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices.
• gentle mindful stretching.
• group dialogue and mindful communication exercises to enhance awareness in everyday life.
• experiential exercises to bring mindfulness to self-connection, empathizing with others and expressing ourselves.
• transforming anger using the Nonviolent Communication Anger process.
• individually tailored instruction.
• guided meditations and handouts.
• challenge, learning, support and fun!

Home Practice

To support your progress on this course we ask that you do 30 minutes of home practice, six times a week.

When and where

Six Wednesdays: 29 October; 5, 12, 19 and 26 November; 3 December 2025, 12:00 – 14:15 UK time.

This is an online course. I 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 Center for Nonviolent Communication and trained as a Mindfulness teacher at the Center for Mindfulness, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Find out more the trainer.