The Art of Making Requests
Do you long to live a life aligned with your passions and values?
To deepen your relationships and pursue your dreams?
Life is too short not to go for what you truly want.
Making requests is an art of living—it is the power that makes things happen and brings your dreams into reality.
A workshop dedicated to the Art of Making Requests and the challenging communication dynamics around them.
We will explore
❀ How to stand firmly for your needs and assertively ask for what you really want
❀ How to connect with what is almost hidden deep inside you
❀ How to express a “no” (and stay in connection)
❀ How to hear a “no” (and stay alive…)
❀ The risks and costs of saying a “half yes”
❀ How to initiate and navigate challenging dialogues
❀ How to stand for your need to matter
❀ How to hear the (unspoken) requests of the people we care about
We will be practicing such skills as
❀ The difference between a request and a demand
❀ Principles for making powerful requests that move things forward
❀ The two types of requests: dialogue requests and action requests
❀ Requests from whom? (myself, the other person, others)
❀ Radical honesty, radical empathy.
About NVC
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is widely used all around the globe as a tool for communication, conflict resolution, mediation, coaching and self-development.
NVC takes you from your meditation cushion into real life—it helps you live your deepest values in relationships and in countless day-to-day situations.
It deeply transforms your communication with yourself and others, moving it toward a quality of profound compassion.
NVC is successfully used in organizations, teams, businesses, politics, prisons, schools, families and relationships in millions of everyday life situations.
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.
Where
Mokslo ir menų mokykla TAŠKIUS, Vilnius, Lithuania
Dates
16–18 October 2026
Daily Schedule
Each day, 10:00–18:00
15-minute break every 90 minutes and a 1-hour-15-minute lunch break around 13:30.
Fee
A choice between €350-€700
Organizer
Ieva & Enrika: ievavanveen@gmail.com
❤ 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.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.
To book your place
To book your place, simply follow the 3 steps below.
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If you have any questions please contact us at: Ieva & Enrika: ievavanveen@gmail.com
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 €100 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 48 hours of completing the workshop. We prefer that you pay at the end because we like people to know what they are paying for. We do this because we wish for your payment to be more connected to gratitude than to a sense of duty. If you prefer to pay earlier, that 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 days before the course officially begins.
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