All courses are written in Amsterdam time zone: During summer time it is called CEST. During winter time it is CET:
Starting in November 2024:
❀ FACE TO FACE in English:
4 Sundays with Marije:
17 & 24 November, 01 & 08 December 10:00-17:30 (Lunch break from 13:00 to 14:00)
→ Address: Haarlemmerdijk 146, 1013JJ Amsterdam
Starting in January 2025:
❀ ONLINE evenings in English:
Thursday evenings with Yoram:
11 session course: 23 January – 10 April 2025, 18:30-21:30
(with a 1-week break on 03 April)
+ OPTION: for people who did the year course with me and want to learn how to teach the Intermediate course, you have the possibility of joining with ‘Video Recording only’ option.
❀ ONLINE mornings in English:
Wednesday mornings with Bonno:
11 session course: 22 January – 09 April 2025, 09:30-12:30
(with a 1-week break on 12 March)
Details about the trainers: Yoram , Bonno or Marije
The ONLINE courses will be held online with Zoom. Online sessions will be recorded and made available for participants to view (not to download) until 3 weeks after the course is over.
Make NVC become a fluid language
The Intermediate Course is designed to support you in deepening into NVC and making it become a fluid language. A language you can use in millions of everyday life situations to transform conflicts and turn misunderstandings into moments of connection and cooperation – at home, work and everywhere.
For me NVC is not a theory
I want to embody and live it: NVC is a paradigm shift, a profound change in the way I learn to think and relate to myself and others.
It’s very hard to learn NVC alone. We live in a ‘Jackal educated society’, so it makes sense that to live NVC consciousness at home and work is highly challenging and we need support. This course is designed to help us grow together as a community of Giraffes. To support each other in living, learning and embodying NVC both inside and outside of class.
Content
We will address topics such as:
❀ The Dilemma of Honesty – Peeling the Onion toward Vulnerable Honesty
❀ Refining Empathy – Bridging Guesses, Juicing the Needs and more
❀ Liberating from Guilt – a core confusion that leads to tragic actions.
❀ Connecting Beyond (differences in) Opinions
❀ How to enjoy when people complain (even about us)
❀ The Art of Being Torn – how to make decisions that include all the many parts within us
❀ The Beauty of the Need – deepening into the core essence of NVC
❀ Celebration & Mourning as an art of living
❀ Healing Dialogues – transforming hurt and building trust.
❀ Moving from demand energy
❀ Expressing No in Giraffe (and staying alive)
❀ And more…
Learning style
You will be invited to work on examples from your own life in an interactive and safe learning environment. We will practice Nonviolent Communication through demonstrations, role-play and exercises in order to integrate NVC values and language more into our daily lives.
The way we teach is: 30% Theory and 70% of Practice/Demonstration/Learning from LIVE situations that are happening in the here and now. Our focus is very much on the Embodied aspect of ‘Nonviolent Communication’, so be ready to dive.
Extra support
Assistants: We will have assistants accompanying us during this course. They’ve already completed the Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Year Courses with us and some are engaged in their steps toward teaching/sharing NVC.
Desired amount of experience
This course is open to you if you’ve completed a minimum of 30 hours of NVC training, or have completed Connecting2life’s Basic or Connecting with Children Courses.
When
All courses are written in Amsterdam time zone: During summer time it is called CEST. During winter time it is CET:
Starting in November 2024:
❀ FACE TO FACE in English:
4 Sundays with Marije:
17 & 24 November, 01 & 08 December 10:00-17:30 (Lunch break from 13:00 to 14:00)
→ Address: Haarlemmerdijk 146, 1013JJ Amsterdam
Starting in January 2025:
❀ ONLINE evenings in English:
Thursday evenings with Yoram:
11 session course: 23 January – 10 April 2025, 18:30-21:30
(with a 1-week break on 03 April)
+ OPTION: for people who did the year course with me and want to learn how to teach the Intermediate course, you have the possibility of joining with ‘Video Recording only’ option.
❀ ONLINE mornings in English:
Wednesday mornings with Bonno:
11 session course: 22 January – 09 April 2025, 09:30-12:30
(with a 1-week break on 12 March)
Details about the trainers: Yoram , Bonno or Marije
→ The ONLINE courses will be held online with Zoom. Online sessions will be recorded and made available for participants to view (not to download) until 3 weeks after the course is over.
Number of participants in the courses
The max number of participants for the online course with Bonno is 30.
The max number of participants for the online course with Yoram is 60.
The max number of participants for the FACE TO FACE course with Marije is 20.
Fee
– For the ONLINE, 11 session courses: the fee is a choice of between €275-€550
– For the ‘Video Recording only’ with Yoram: the fee is a choice of between €190-€380
– For the FACE TO FACE 4 Sundays course with Marije, the fee is a choice of between €290-€580.
→ 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.
→ When paid by a business, it is the highest fee on the scale
→ 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.
Materials provided
At the end of each session you will receive:
– A written summary of the session
– A Zoom recording of the session to view (not for download), available until 3 weeks after the course is over.
To book your place:
To book your place, simply follow the 3 steps below. If you have any questions please contact us at:
info@connecting2life.net
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 €90 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’: We process a refund for your prepayment only if the cancellation occurs within 14 days from the date you made the prepayment, and if your cancellation request is made at least 5 working days before the course officially begins.
If you want to pay with options such as CREDIT CARD, IDEAL etc. fill in the form below.
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