Membership Options
We would love you to join us in contributing to the growth and awareness of NVC in the UK. We offer two types of membership as well as volunteering opportunities.
NVC Matters CIC is a not-for-profit organisation. Our activities are funded directly through donations, NVC resource sales via our shop and your membership fees.
Log in here if you have a basic (free) account or are already a member
SUPPORTER MEMBER
- Contribute to NVC Matter's predictability of income and ability to make NVC more known and accessible in the UK
- Add your practice group to this website (NVC Matters Facilitator Member reference needed)
- Access members' resources such as how to organise an NVC practice group
- Submit news or blog items for us to consider featuring on the website
We ask for £30 per membership year
If you have capacity and willingness to give more than this please consider giving an extra donation here to help us offer UK wide NVC services.
If you would like to support our cause and don't want to join as a member you can make a donation of any size here.
FACILITATOR MEMBER
- Feature your profile on our Facilitator page
- Advertise unlimited NVC events on this site
- List your practice groups
- Invitation to annual facilitator gathering
- Your events also get linked and shared in our newsletters and on social media channels
- Submit news or blog items for us to consider featuring on the website
Whilst we considered raising our fees for the '25-'26 year after several years of the same price, we decided to keep them the same and to find other ways to raise the organisation's much needed income.
So, for a full year of membership, we are still asking £249. Please contact us to ask for a discount if needed. We don't want this fee to be a barrier to you joining.
We welcome questions and, to support efficiency of volunteers time, please check FAQs below for further questions you may have before contacting us
VOLUNTEERING
- Do meaningful work helping NVC become better known in the UK
- Work non-hierarchically - using a power-distributed and very agile system called Holacracy
- Work from home with very flexible hours
- Bring your unique skills and enthusiasm to the team
- Receive training
- Practice your NVC as you work alongside other NVC enthusiasts
- Automatically become a Supporter Member
- Invitation to the annual facilitator gathering
- If you are a CNVC Certification Candidate, working with us could count towards your requested contribution to the NVC-UK network and your portfolio
- and more...
You can learn more about the way we work and how to become a volunteer here
FAQS
To become a Facilitator Member, we ask for the following criteria to be met:
- 50+ days of NVC learning (unless you are a CNVC Certification Candidate - see below)
- 30+ hours experience of leading NVC sessions
- Agreeing to our code of ethics (you can find this on the footer of the website)
- Agreement to pay our fee (we will consider requests for a discount if you are unable to afford our fee)
- You have an address in Great Britain or Ireland and you reside there full time. Do ask if you are not sure if your circumstances qualify.
I am a CNVC Certification Candidate, do I still need to fulfil the above criteria?
- Yes. Please see the 2nd FAQ for more details
How many hours count as one day?
- 6-8 hours of training counts as one day.
What counts towards the 50 days (300-400 hours) NVC learning
- With whom - You need to have completed training with at least 3 different CNVC certified trainers. The rest can be with independently-trained Facilitators
- In-person - A minimum of 4/5ths of the days need to be in person - so 40 days (or 28 days if you are a Certification Candidate)
- Online - Up to the equivalent of 15 days (90-120 hours) can be online as long as they are interactive and participatory.
- Residential At least one 5-day-long in-person residential (or several in-person weekend residentials) need to be included.
What counts towards the 30 hours of sharing NVC?
Up to 8 of these hours could be offering one-to-one sessions or mediations.
The rest need to be a mix of
- Leading practice groups
- Offering NVC trainings
From 2025 membership, in consultation with the UK CNVC assessor team, we have agreed to make an exception for CNVC Certification Candidates knowing that you are being monitored and overseen by an assessor.
If you have been an actively participating candidate for at least 6 months, instead of the usual criteria, we ask the following:
- 35+ days of NVC learning
- 30+ hours experience of leading NVC sessions
- Agreeing to our code of ethics (you can find this on the footer of the website)
- Agreement to pay our fee (we will consider requests for a discount if you are not yet receiving income or unable to afford our fee)
- If you stop being a CNVC Certification Candidate and do not fulfil the 50+ days of our usual Facilitator membership requirements, your membership will cease until you have completed 50 or more days.
How many hours count as one day?
- 6-8 hours of training counts as one day.
What counts towards the 35 days (210-280 hours) NVC learning?
- With whom - You need to have completed training with at least 3 different CNVC certified trainers. The rest can be with independently-trained trainers/facilitators.
- In-person - A minimum of 28 of the days need to be in person.
- Online - Up to the equivalent of 12 days (72-96 hours) can be online as long as they are interactive and participatory.
- Residential At least one 5-day-long in-person residential (or several in-person weekend residentials) need to be included.
What counts towards the 30 hours of sharing NVC?
Up to 8 of these hours could be offering one-to-one sessions or mediations.
The rest need to be a mix of
- Leading practice groups
- Offering NVC trainings
Following completion of registration which includes completing the registering form and making your payment, you will receive confirmation that your application has been received.
Assuming you fulfil our requirements for membership, your application will be accepted and you will receive a final confirmation and will have access to the relevant areas of the site where you can add your profile etc, upload your events etc.
If for some reason we are unable to accept your membership, any payment you make will be refunded in full.
The fees are there to support the continued running and improvement of this website.
Whilst we hope that most Facilitator members will have the willingness and capacity to pay our full annual rate, and find it excellent value for money, we recognise that this won't be the case for everyone. If you only offer a few events per year where you typically offer them at low cost and/or for free or paying our annual rate is unaffordable to you, please do email us to request a discount code, our membership administrator can discuss this with you.
Following registration, and payment of the membership fee you will receive confirmation that your membership has been received and accepted.
Whether joining as a facilitator or supporter member or simply donating to our cause, if you want to pay directly into our bank account, here are the details:
Account Name: NVC Matters UK CIC
Account number: 65974126
Sort Code: 08-92-99
You can join at any time of the year. Renewal of membership is 31st March yearly. If you join mid-year, you pay pro rata.
If you have any questions about membership please contact Rik at membership@nvc-uk.com.