Practice groups provide opportunities for learning, growth, and connection to the principles of Nonviolent Communication, within a supportive community. The consistent structure can help you apply and integrate NVC awareness in your daily life.
Local practice groups are self forming, and lead by students of NVC, with different levels of experience. Group format and structure can vary widely depending on the needs and learning levels of group participants. We encourage you to find the group that meets your specific learning needs or help to create one yourself.
Open Groups
The following practice groups in your area are open to new members. To learn more about a group or to join, please contact the listed group facilitator.
Communicating with Compassion for a Change! A Bi-Weekly Group
Facilitator: Carol Placer
Description: This group is targeted towards those who are working for social change, but is open to anyone who is interested in a way of communicating that creates more connection, compassion, and collaboration. Even the most beautiful visions of a more peaceful, sustainable world will inevitably fall flat if we can’t communicate that vision to those who embrace a different world view than we do.
Prerequisites: Every First and Third Tuesday, beginning April 20
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:45 PM–9:00 PM
Location: Sellwood Area, Portland, OR 97555
Group Duration: Begins April 20, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: carol.placer@gmail.com,
Compassionate Communication for Couples - Series 1
Facilitator: LaShelle Charde
Description: If your relationship is precious to you and you'd like to see it deepen and strengthen, you will enjoy this series. In the series we will: Learn and practice not just a new way of communicating, but also a new way of seeing yourself and your partner.
Understand how to go to the heart of an issue and bypass the traps of blame and judgment. Learn to ask for what you in need in a way your partner wants to listen to. Read more » www.wiseheartpdx.org/classes.php?id=8
Prerequisites:
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Location: SE Stark and 43rd, Portland, OR 97555
Group Duration: Begins August 31, 2010, Ending September 29, 2010
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: chardelashelle@gmail.com, 503-544-7583
Developing NVC Consciousness
Facilitator: Sadie Gordon
Description: Examine how the domination culture is alive in you. Increase your awareness of what's life serving. Receive support for being yourself and seeing yourself authentically. Increase your capacity to stay in compassion for yourself and others. Give and receive empathy. 10 dollars per session. Located at the Lion & the Rose bed and breakfast, 15th and NE Schuyler. One block north of Broadway.
Prerequisites: Read or be in the process of reading: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg.
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Location: 1810 NE 15th, Portland, OR
Group Duration: Begins February 6, 2006, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: none
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: borageblossoms@yahoo.com, 503-233-1051
NVC Practice Group
Facilitator: Kathy Marchant
Description: Contact Kathy Marchant at 503-768-9008
Prerequisites: Participants in the on-going practice groups have completed a 12-week introductory course or some equivalent
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays, 4:45 PM–6:45 PM
Location: 1509 SW Sunset Blvd, Suite 2A, Portland, OR 97219
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2009, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: klmarchant@comcast.net, 503-768-9008
NVC Practice Group
Facilitator: Kathy Marchant
Description: Contact Kathy Marchant 503-768-9008
Prerequisites: Participants in the on-going practice groups have completed a 12-week introductory course or some equivalent
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 4:45 PM–6:45 PM
Location: 1509 SW Sunset Blvd, Suite 2A, Portland, OR 97219
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2009, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: klmarchant@comcast.net, 503-768-9008
Tuesday Spirituality of NVC Group
Facilitator: Joe Mitchell
Description: NVC Spirituality
Prerequisites: Basic NVC
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: 5232 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97215
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: None
Group Maximum: 10 Members
Contact: jjmit@comcast.net, 503-233-2310
Wednesday NVC Practice Group
Facilitator: Joe Mitchell
Description: Learning basic skills
Prerequisites: None
Meeting Day/Time: Wednesdays, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM
Location: 5232 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97215
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: basic book
Group Maximum: 10 Members
Contact: jjmit@comcast.net, 503-233-2310
Monday NVC Practice Group
Facilitator: Joe Mitchell
Description: The focus of this group is deep empathy and compassion. Contribute only what you would enjoy giving.
Prerequisites: basic NVC
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays, 7:30 PM–9:30 PM
Location: 5232 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97215
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: none
Group Maximum: 10 Members
Contact: jjmit@comcast.net, 503-233-2310
Thursday Mediation Practice Group
Facilitator: Steven Allen Smith and Sadie Gordon
Description: This is transformative mediation. People use it for a range
of personal uses from meeting and getting to know, without the illusions,
the person they are living with to resolving this weeks tensions enabling
them to enjoy living together for another week. Usually this use includes
simultaneously personally learning the skills of Peace-Making to build a
more enjoyable relationship.
Prerequisites: None
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: 5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: None, cost: 2% of monthly gross income
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: sasmith@peace-making.com, (503) 228-7256
NVC and Brain Awareness
Facilitator: Sarah Peyton
Description: A group where we would deepen our NVC skills by bringing in the solid ground of brain research. There would be live empathy rounds to bring the material to life and allow us to integrate it.
Prerequisites: Suitable for all levels of NVC experience
Meeting Day/Time: Fridays, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM
Location: Vancouver area, Vancouver, WA 98655
Group Duration: Begins September 10, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: Group will decide
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: peytwood@isomedia.com, (206) 579-1696
Peace-Making Monthly Practice Group
Facilitator: Steven Allen Smith and Sadie Gordon
Description: Meets on the second Saturday
of each month for training on a focused subject and then practices those
skills every Wednesday evening: http://www.peace-making.com/peace-making-course/?page_id=46 The course will cover one subject a month for nine months. It will cover all aspects of NVC, of maturing one's insight into awareness and practicing empathetic connection with oneself and others, including dealing with shadow or disowned aspects of oneself. Cost: 2% of monthly gross income
Prerequisites: Taking our introductory course which will occur Friday September 10, 2010 or by special arrangement any Friday before a Saturday class.
Meeting Day/Time: Saturdays, 9:00 AM–4:30 PM
Location: 5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
Group Duration: Begins September 11, 2010, Ending June 29, 2011
Required Books/Materials: We provide a Binder of NVC and Conscious
Awareness skills; Recommend reading NVC, a Language of Life by Marshall
Rosenberg, The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and Holosync meditation available
through www.peace-making.com resource page hot link.
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: sasmith@peace-making.com, (503) 228-7256
Tuesday Evening Practice Group with Fred Sly
Facilitator: Fred Sly, CNVC certified trainer
Description: In this practice group we will both create the quality of connection that we all long for as well as review and refine the skills and consciousness that support it.
Prerequisites: Completion of a Basic Skills class within the past year. Or, read Nonviolent Communication; a Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg before attending the first session.
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:00 PM–8:30 PM
Location: 2800 SE Harrison St., Portland, OR 97214
Group Duration: Begins September 14, 2010, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: fsly@pacific.net, 503-953-0333
Peace-Making Wednesday Practice Group
Facilitator: Steven Allen Smith and Sadie Gordon
Description: A weekly practice group including empathy partners to support the monthly Peace-Making course: http://www.peace-making.com/peace-making-course/?page_id=46
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the monthly Peace-Making course.
Meeting Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM
Location: 5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
Group Duration: Begins September 15, 2010, Ending June 29, 2011
Required Books/Materials: None
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: sasmith@peace-making.com, (503) 228-7256
A Women's Six Month NVC Group
Facilitator: LaShelle Charde, CNVC Certified Trainer
Description: My hope in leading a women’s NVC group is to create an intimate and supportive setting where you can begin or continue to integrate Nonviolent Communication within yourself and in your relationships. We will be looking at where your own habits and ways of thinking can disconnect you from yourself and others. There will be opportunities to go deeply into places you get stuck or interactions that leave you frustrated and confused and find clarity about where disconnect occurred.
Prerequisites: Attend: All Day Retreat on September 18, 2010. Read: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg or at least ten articles on my website.
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: Portland Area, Portland, OR 97555
Group Duration: Begins September 18, 2010, Ending March 10, 2011
Required Books/Materials: $290 per person
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: chardelashelle@gmail.com,
NVC Parenting Series
Facilitator: Fred Sly
Description: In this class series we will learn and practice the four steps and two parts of the NVC model using examples from your current relationships to support building skill and competence. This class will meet weekly for twelve weeks excluding Thanksgiving.
Cost: $120.00 - $150.00 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Prerequisites: None
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Location: 7654 N Delaware Ave., Portland, OR 97217
Group Duration: Begins September 9, 2010, Ending December 16, 2010
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: fsly@pacific.net, 503-953-0333
Compassionate Communication for Couples
Facilitator: Tony Marchant
Description: In this 11 week series, we will explore:
• Letting go of our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment, criticism and blame.
• How to deepen intimacy and have more ease in relating.
• How to shift thinking that leads to anger and misunderstandings.
• Be sensitive to others without giving up my own needs.
• How to translate our judgments and evaluations of self and others into a connecting language of feelings and needs.
Prerequisites: None, $490 per couple
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Location: 1509 SW Sunset Blvd. Ste. 2A, Portland, OR 97219
Group Duration: Begins September 9, 2010, Ending November 18, 2010
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: afmarchant@yahoo.com, 971-322-4475
Start a Practice Group
For info on starting your own practice group, see Starting a Practice Group covering the following topics:
- Practice Group Considerations
- Sample Group Structures
- Host or Facilitate a Group
- Find Support
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