NYCNVC Practice and Empathy Groups

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Practice Groups

Are gatherings to help us integrate our learning into real life. NVC skills are often readily understood, yet they can be challenging to use when we need them the most. By using practice exercises, role plays and sharing our struggles and successes with one another, Practice Groups provide the content and support to help us develop and use the skills to practice Nonviolent Communication in our daily lives.

NYCNVC offers Facilitated Practice Groups in the NYC area. Beginning and intermediate groups generally follow either the Lucy Leu Companion Workbook or the 64 Days curriculum that includes readings, exercises and role plays. Advanced groups are self-directed. Sessions take place in someone's home or a small public meeting room. They range in size from 5 to 20 people, and cost from $20 to $25 per night. Starting times are usually 6:30 to 7:00 with 2 1/2 hours for the meeting.

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Quality Facilitation

All NYCNVC facilitators have experience in NVC practice groups. Group Leaders are either Certified Trainers with The Center for Nonviolent Communication or are being coached and supported by a Certified Trainer throughout the course of the group.

Advanced Practice

There are groups for those who are looking for beginning, intermediate and advanced integration for personal and professional growth, including training to be an NVC facilitator or trainer. In these groups we work with empathy, self-empathy, speaking and living from an awareness of feelings and needs requests, connection requests, working with tense situations, deep empathy practice, mediation and dialogue, enriching our relationship to needs, feelings and the mind, sharing NVC with others and using NVC as a spiritual practice.

Practice to

Be more compassionate with ourselves and others by increasing our awareness of our feelings and needs

Distinguish our actual observations from our story about what happened

Translate our judgmental thoughts into the underlying feelings and needs

Listen empathically

Receive "hard to hear" statements without taking it personally

Make requests

Support our own values while equally honoring the needs of others

Connect with a sense of aliveness and appreciation

Description/Status	Dates	Location	Fees	Suggested Exp	Comment
Mondays Beginner Practice Group Status: Open	Mondays, 6:45 - 9:15 pm Starting Sept Exact Dates TBA	NYCNVC Main Office 36 East 23rd Street Suite 6R Buzzer 10	TBA	Have a copy of Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication - A Language for Life. In order to begin with a shared understanding, we are requesting that you have read at least the first 4 chapters of the book before the first group meeting.	This is a co-facilitated beginner group For more information or to register email or call 646 201 9226
10 Tuesdays Beginner Practice Group Status: Closed - call or email re: waiting list for next group	Tuesdays 7:00 - 9:00 pm Starting June 29 to August 24th	NYCNVC Main Office 36 East 23rd Street Suite 6R Buzzer 10	Suggested donation $20/night	Have a copy of Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication - A Language for Life.	This is a co-facilitated beginner group with David Browning and Paula Carino. For more information, and to register, email paulamariecarino@gmail.com, or call 347-332-3685
Tuesdays Ongoing Practice Group for Professionals, Trainers and Dedicated Practitioners Intermediate and advanced practice and training skills, professional application Status: Ongoing/Open by application	Tuesdays 7:00 - 9:15 pm	West 50s Manhattan	$100 per month	6 months to 1 year practice group experience; Read "Nonviolent Communication, a Language of Life" by Marshall Rosenberg at least once, preferably twice; 12 -20 hours training with a certified trainer; or equivalent; dialogue with Thom Bond	This is an ongoing, led, advanced level group with Thom Bond, Certified Trainer, CNVC and Executive director of NYCNVC. It's for people who are looking for deeper integration and/or practice NVC on a professional level, including therapists, healers, teachers, coaches, NVC facilitators and NVC trainers. For more information please call Thom Bond at 646 201 9226 or email to
Wednesdays 10-Week Int/Adv Led Practice Group "Peer Leadership II" Status: open	Wednesdays 6:30 - 9:00 pm Starting September 22nd	NYCNVC Main Office 36 East 23rd Street Suite 6R Buzzer 10	$325 for 10 weeks	For people who have completed the Peer Leadership course or equivalent.	This is a co-led Intermediate/Advanced group with a Thom Bond and Elizabeth Banner For more information or to register email or call 646 201 9226
Thursdays 10-Week Beginner Practice Group Status: Open	Thursdays, 6:30 - 9:00 pm Starting September 16th	NYCNVC Main Office 36 East 23rd Street Suite 6R Buzzer 10	$250 for 10 weeks	Have a copy of Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication - A Language for Life. In order to begin with a shared understanding, we are requesting that you read chapters 1-8 before the first group meeting.	This is a co-facilitated beginner and advancing beginner group with Elizabeth Banner and Richard Zayas. For more information or to register email or call 646 201 9226
Fridays The Empathy Cafe Click Here for More Info Ongoing Empathy Practice Group and Community Status: Very Open (heheheh)	Fridays 7:00 - 9:15 pm Starting July 9th	NYCNVC Main Office 36 East 23rd Street Suite 6R Buzzer 10	$20 per evening suggested donation	1/2-hour orientation	For folks who would like to Give, Receive or Coach others in the practice of Empathy For more information please email or call 646 201 9226 You can "drop in" without registering or you can register for $20 to guarantee a seat. CLICK HERE to Register for July 30th CLICK HERE to Register for August 6th CLICK HERE to Register for August 13th CLICK HERE to Register for August 20th CLICK HERE to Register for August 27th

For more information or to register for a practice group, call (646) 201-9226 or email to

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