Year Course: Embodying & Teaching NVC- Switzerland

Hello everyone,

We’re thrilled to invite you to our new 6 months ‘Train the Trainer’ Course in  Langwies/Arosa, (near Zurich), Switzerland. 

This training is aimed at those who want to dive, with a group of other NVC enthusiasts, into deeply embodying NVC. Together we will move slowly towards sharing NVC with others through one on one sessions and teaching NVC.

The training design:
– 2 week long with Yoram “Embodying & Teaching NVC”
– 2 weekends with Sonja & Tanja “Teaching Each Other and Art of Living Together” with Sonja and Tanja from Empathy City Zurich

• The course is planned to take place Face to Face. We hope there will be no covid-19 measures that prevent us from holding the training Face to Face. In case there would be, we would shift the training to being online. In such case you will of course have a choice whether you would like to cancel your participation with no costs.
  If you can join only an online version of the Year Course: Let us know and we will inform you in case this year it shifts to being online.

This course is meant for those of you who would like to take the next steps toward embodying and teaching NVC.

Embodying NVC

We will create a context to deepen into NVC, to manifest it in millions of situations in our lives. For me teaching NVC comes directly from the way we embody it – this is the bread and butter of it all.

Learning NVC is different from learning mathematics. It’s not something you can ‘study and then know it’. I experience the learning as deepening in spirals of embodiment, leading to super-powerful paradigm shifts, skills and awareness. 

Teaching NVC

You will learn and gain confidence in:

❀ Offering 1 on 1 Empathy sessions

❀ Teaching/sharing NVC

❀ Team and community building

❀ Coaching and consulting based on NVC

❀ Being a leader of a group/team/community, etc.

COURSE CONTENT

Learning Empathy is a lifelong practice. This year will be a great opportunity to practice, practice, practice towards gaining confidence and skills in offering private Empathy sessions. There will be 4 workshop days solely dedicated to gaining and deepening Empathy skills. We will learn such practices as Deepening Empathy Skills, Role Play, About ‘Healing’, Empathizing with Inner Jackals and more. You will be invited to practice these skills in 2 other contexts:

❀ Empathy Buddy

Once a week you will be invited to have a 40 minute to 1 hour phone/Skype/Zoom Empathy practice with another participant from the course. The focus will be on specific exercises or general “emotional hygiene”. This will give you the opportunity to practice Empathy and also give you regular Empathic support for any life issues you might be dealing with.

❀ Empathy Project

You will be invited to choose a person(s) to whom you will offer (at least) 20 hours of Empathy sessions.

I’m particularly excited about the Empathy Project as I believe it can meet many needs. A couple of examples are:

– Learning and gaining confidence and experience in offering Empathic listening

– Contribution to people and society

This will play as an Empathy lab where we can try things out, deepen and expand our skills, and gain clarity and capacity in Empathic listening. We’ll share and reflect on our challenges with Empathic listening as a group so that we have the opportunity to learn from one another.

Teaching NVC to others is one of the most powerful ways to deepen learning and embodiment that I’ve experienced.

❀ Learning to teach

We will touch on such points as:

– Tips and structures for introducing NVC – introducing NVC to a single person, a group, in a course setting, a workshop or an evening introduction

– Dealing with teaching challenges – looking at the choices you have as a trainer. Exploring ways to stay human in all situations, truly living the principles of NVC at all times

– How to answer questions – recognizing the choice of when to answer a question versus seeing it as a request for Empathy 

– Roleplay facilitating a group – group consent decision-making processes

– And more…

❀ Teaching each other

You will be encourage to create ‘Teaching Practice Groups’ where you will be teaching each other.
 In this way you will gain experience in explaining NVC, answering questions, leading/coaching exercises, and leading sessions.

NVC is a set of skills that helps me to live interdependently in the world. Each time I teach a group a community is created. We will be exploring community, NVC and teaching in the following ways:

❀ Learning how to build a sense of safety that allows Honesty and Vulnerability. How to create a group where one can truly be themselves.

❀ Exploring how to create the experience of Inclusion, where people experience that they matter and feel they have a place in the group.

The Art of Living Together: Community building weekends. I once saw a performance called If You Really Want to get to Know Me, Come and Live with Me. I don’t remember the performance itself well, but the title has stayed with me for years. We will live, eat, breathe, and practice NVC together 24/7.

We will look into subjects such as Radical Empathy and Honesty, Inclusion, Safety, Consensus Group Decision Making, Choice, Freedom, Self-care and more.

We create an online private platform (not FB!) specifically for the members of this year’s course. It’s a platform for sharing your celebrations, mournings, questions, requests, challenges, wonders… We’ve found it a special community space for connection, sharing and learning in past courses.

With any questions, please contact Tanja:
hallo@empathiestadt.ch

We find it very helpful if people joining this program have already acquired a base in understanding the 4 Steps (of NVC) and Empathy. We ask that you have a minimum 100 hours of previous NVC training before joining. If you have questions or doubts about how your level of experience fits this course you’re welcome to share this with us and we can figure it out together.

Haus Strela,  Langwies/Arosa, Switzerland
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This training consist of 2 week long training with Yoram and 2 weekends with Sonja & Tanja:

❀  Week long with Yoram:  30 September – 6 October 2022
❀  Weekend with Sonja and Tanja: 18-20 November 2022
❀  Week long with Yoram:  06-12 January 2023
❀  Weekend with Sonja and Tanja: 24-26 March 2023

Week long: Friday 13:00 till Thursday 15:00
Weekend: Friday 18:00 till Sunday 16:00

Full days will go from 09:00-20:30 with 2 long breaks for Lunch & Dinner as well as few 20 minutes coffee/tea breaks.
In the week long training will take 1 afternoon off for refreshment and variety.

Food: We will have breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared daily from two cooks. The meals are organic, vegan, local and seasonal. The cost includes snacks (nuts, chocolate, fruit)

Accommodation: there are 2-7 bed bedrooms. Link to the house:  Link

There are 2 separate payments to this training:
1. Fee for Yoram’s teaching, food and accommodation: A choice of between €2620-€4020
This is the fee for Yoram’s Teaching (2 X week long) as well as for the all the food and accommodation (Incl. the 2 weeks and the 2 weekends).
2. Fee for Sonja & Tanja’s teaching: Gift economy
Fee for the teachings of Sonja and Tanja (2 weekends). Gift economy in short means: pay as much as feels good for you

→  The choice of fees depends on your income and free will. The idea behind a sliding scale is that we all have different current financial situations, and we like to be flexible so that your financial contribution fits your financial situation as well as your personal wish to support us.

→  Invoices are Vrijgesteld (VAT free).

❤ Regarding Money
We wouldn’t want money to prevent anyone from learning NVC! We see money as a strategy to care for the sustainability of our giving. It’s important for us to have a sense of mutual contribution. ‘Receiving’ supports us in meeting our practical stability (money), as well as supports us emotionally to be in balance and keep our hearts open to more giving. While we stand firmly for our need of mutual contribution, we’re flexible about possible strategies on how to meet this need. Money is our preferred strategy, as it’s easy for us to transfer it to the exact things that contribute to us. That being said, if the amount we ask would prevent you from joining, we can offer the following:
1. If you’re coming from a country where the income/currency is lower than the prices in euros, we’re open to finding a price that makes sense and keeps hearts open.
2. If you’re currently having a challenging period financially, you can pay us at a later date when your finances are better. Sometimes people even pay us a few years later.
3. We’re open to brainstorming other ways you can contribute to us, though it’s not always easy to find things that both you would enjoy contributing and that would actually be contributing to us.

❀  Training days:  2 weeks (Friday lunch till Thursday early evening) and 2 weekends (Friday evening till Sunday)
❀  Call/s with your Empathy buddy: minimum 1 hour a week
❀  Empathy project: minimum of 20 hours
❀  Exercise: between classes you will be invited to explore a specific practice. You will be encouraged to focus on this practice:
→ Externally: by bringing it to many different situations in your life.
→ Internally: through journaling, inner dialogues, keeping track of your challenges and learnings.

The main spoken language in the course will be English. Small group work can be held in English or in other languages (if your exercise partner speaks your language). Translation may be available if at any moment one wishes to express oneself in their own language.

Yoram is a CNVC certified trainer and will offer you a Certificate of Attendance.

This course can support you in the process of becoming a CNVC certified trainer. It counts both as hours with a certified trainer as well as experience in sharing NVC.

Contact us if you wish for more information regarding how this course fits the requirements for becoming a certified trainer.

At the end of each meeting you will receive a summary of the learning in the last session by email. Other handouts will be provided, depending on the learning theme.
AS an extra, you will receive a 30 page booklet written by Yoram: “Basket for offering 1 on 1 sessions”

Assistants: We will have 8 assistants accompanying us during this course. They’ve already completed the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Year courses with us and are engaged in their steps toward teaching/sharing NVC.

In order to help us getting to know you a little please fill in this questionnaire when booking your place:

There is now the very last spot available for this course. Please contact us to book your place: annabelle@empathiestadt.ch

To book your place you can simply follow the 3 steps below:

1. Read the Terms & Conditions (Many of us never read ‘Terms & Conditions’… and, we would recommend you to read this one to be sure we’re together and on the same page).
2. Fill in the form below.
3. Complete the €200 non-refundable prepayment (To see the complete course fee click on the tab ‘Practical information’)
Regarding the remainder of the payment:  We ask that you pay the remainder of the course fees within a week of finishing the course. We suggest you pay at the end because we like people to know what they’re paying for. We do this because we wish for your payment to be more connected to gratitude rather than to a sense of duty. If you prefer to pay earlier this is also welcome.

‘The regret period’:  If you change your mind within 14 days after sending the prepayment (and 3 days before the course has actually begun), we will fully refund your prepayment.

If you want to pay with options such as CREDIT CARD, IDEAL etc. fill in the form below.
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