The Journey Toward NVC Certification (JTNC)

 

Click here for the course starting 5th September 2024

 

This page and information below is for a previously held course.

This program is a fully online 18 month program offered by LIVKOM. The programs curriculum is broken down into three six-month semesters:

1) From learning and knowing the elements of NVC, to integrating and living NVC
2) From living NVC in all my thinking, speaking and acting in daily life, to sharing NVC with others
3) Sharing NVC with others while caring for own resources, and continue learning in a warm, supportive community.

It will cover a majority of what current CNVC certification candidates need to learn on their path toward certification. We will meet twice a month for 3 hours and the next group begins 3rd November 2022.

 

If you have questions, please check our Q & A.

To join use the signup form.

The signup process is complete once payment is received. Please use one of the methods below by Bank.

 

Intentions for the Program

• This is for everyone who wants to learn, live and share NVC including those who would like support along the path towards certification with CNVC.
• We will weave together the suggested learnings of the Certification Preparation Packet – CPP with the learning needs of the participants in the program – to embody a partnership paradigm of learning.
• We encourage participants to start sharing NVC while taking this program and the third semester will include mentorship and support in this area.

 

NVC Model: Parts and Components

Some of the knowing parts – will be covered in each semester – although much of it will be covered in the first semester. Some of this learning comes from lived experience – and can involve lifelong learning, but we will cover an introduction to, and deepening of, much of the suggested material from the CPP.

Expansion of an inner space/capacity to stay connected to yourself and others in challenging situations. If you can stay connected to yourself in challenging situations then you are already on your way – the solution is inside. How do I find this energy in me? Moving from inner transformation to outer transformation.

All along these 18 months we will explore and work as a learning organization where feedback serves as learning opportunities. We will invite you for meetings with empathy buddies and for home-work between our meetings in the group.

 

This training will support you in getting ready for pre-assessment and to dive deeper into topics in the CPP that are of special interest to you. For example:

Social Change plan

How do you use NVC to create the social change you want to see in the world?
In this work there is a personal aspect to how you are in the world and a systemic aspect of what you experience as being available to you. NVC consciousness involves skills, awareness, learning and wisdom on both sides – both the personal and the systemic.

Spiritual aspect

How do you teach your view of NVC spirituality or NVC consciousness?
Do you see NVC as having a spiritual aspect? How do you speak about it? Do you get the idea that when you are deeply connected to energy of gratitude you are actually connecting to the Beloved Divine Energy. See the little booklet Practical Spirituality by Marshall Rosenberg.

Relationship to money

Do you live the concept of compassionate giving and receiving, which includes your relationship to the exchange of money?
Exploring your own understanding of how resources flow in our shared world. Getting inspiration for how to share resources, attract resources and give resources.

In this program you will

• Learn a majority of the NVC parts and components/processes/distinctions as outlined in the CPP
• Learn from a CNVC certified trainer who has decades of experience
• Be in an active community with other NVC learners in a international group of support and practice partners, with plenty of opportunities for practicing what you are learning in a warm, supportive community.
• The curriculum of the program will be guided by Kirsten Kristensen – a CNVC certified trainer with 100 days of training with Marshall Rosenberg! You can find more information about Kirsten here: LINK

Click here to jump down to suggested curriculum

PRACTICALS

Dates

First semester:
November 2022 3. + 17.
December 1. + 15. (skipping 29.)
January 2023 12. + 26.
February 9. + 23.
March 9. + 23.
April 6. + 20.

Second semester:
May 4. + 18.
June 1. + 15. + 29.
July (skipping 13.)  27.
August 10. + 24.
September 7. + 21.
October 5. + 19.

Third semester:
November 2. + 16. + 30.
December 14. (skipping 28.)
January 2024 11. + 25.
February 8. + 22.
March 7. + 21.
April 4. + 18.

 

Time of day

We’ll meet twice monthly for 3 hours on Thursdays at these start times:
9 am PDT – Pacific (From 17th November it will be 8 am PST – Pacific)
12 am EDT – Eastern (From 17th November it will be 11m EST – Pacific)
17:00 CET – Central Europe (Copenhagen)
21:30 IST – India

Denmark and some other countries change from winter to summer time on 26th of March 2023 and back to winter time on 29th October 2023
USA and some other countries change from winter to summer time on 12th March 2023 and back to winter time on 5th November 2023.
Through all changes we keep 17:00 Central Europe (Copenhagen) as the fix point.

 

Prerequisite(s)

We ask participants to be registered by CNVC as certification candidates, or to have at least 12 days of NVC training with a CNVC certified trainer.
If you have not worked with Kirsten before and would like to have a talk with her before you sign up, she invites you for a free 30 min. conversation to clarify whether what you are looking for matches what she offers.

Book appointment

 

Number of participants

Min. 12 – max. 24

 

Money

What we would like to receive for the 3 modules of 6 months with biweekly meetings of 3 hours on Thursdays:

Sliding scale 5-100 Euro / 37-744 DKK per person per meeting.

Example if you choose to contribute 40€ / 300 DKK  per meeting:

Pay for 6 months at a time: 12 meetings of 40€ = 480€ / 3.570 DKK
Pay for 12 months at a time: 24 meetings of 38€ = 912€ / 6.785 DKK
Pay for 18 months at a time: 36 meetings of 36€ = 1.296€ / 9.641 DKK

If your financial situation leads to you wanting to pay in shorter intervals please get in touch with us.

We like you to commit to at least one module = 6 months when you begin.
And if you choose to continue after first module we like you to commit for the whole training.

 

Repeating the course: We value people who wants to repeat the course, because we like to contribute to integration and also because it adds to the group dynamic. If you choose this we offer half price. So you pay half of what you would otherwise pay according to the sliding scale.

 

How to use the sliding scale

Our preference is to receive an average of 40€ per person per meeting for this course.

We want to acknowledge that we have very different living conditions from country to country and from person to person. So you might live for example in Iceland where the parity rate indicates that 40€ in Denmark equals 53€ in Iceland. Or you might live in Venezuela where the parity rate equals 12€.

We also want to acknowledge that we have very big differences from person to person. You might live in a so-called poor country and have access to abundant resources. Or you might live in a so-called rich country and struggle to pay your day to day expenses.
Please use the sliding scale with awareness of this.

If you give more than 40€, together we can support another person to participate for less.

 

Bank

Please find our payment information on this page: https://livkom.dk/bank-information/

 

If you have questions, please check our Q & A.

To join use the signup form.

The signup process is complete once payment is received. Please use one of the methods that you find on the link to our bank.

 

Recommendations

“Kirsten is an absolute treasure in the NVC community. Her NVC workshops have been some of the best that I’ve taken. If you are looking for a structured way to learn and practice NVC (especially along a certification path) I can full-heartedly recommend this program!”

by Aiden Moore

“During the course with Kirsten, I gained many new insights that help me understand interpersonal relationships in a better way. Kirsten has the ability to explain complex things in a way that is both easy to understand and at the same time goes deep.
Her way of communicating creates a beautiful dance between empathy, honesty and connection.”

by Kristiina Krank

* SUGGESTED CURRICULUM – BASIC SEMESTER BREAKDOWN

1st semester/module/6 month = knowing and living (key differentiations) – Deepening an understanding of the suggested aims of the CPP – within a partnership paradigm. Starting the exploration around how to learn from both positive and negative feedback. How do you know that your actions are coming from beloved divine energy? – when you appreciate so called negative and positive feedback equally.

2nd semester/module/6 month = living and sharing. We will dive deeper into feelings and needs – including the ideas of transforming guilt and shame into freedom and joy – and to liberate yourself from cultural crap – transforming limiting beliefs (the inherited beliefs and programming from our childhood) into the discovery of the incredible power each and every one of us has to enrich life. We will dive deeper into certain topics based on the participants needs. What does it mean to you to live NVC – to deeply integrate it – to be marinated in the consciousness so that it oozes out of every pore and not just that the good head has understood it.

3rd semester/module/module = sharing and ongoing mentoring/supervision = if you havent started already, this is the time to start sharing NVC with others. This is for everyone who wants to learn, live and share NVC – including those who want to become certified trainers.

From CPP
1 – The NVC Model: expressing honesty and receiving empathetically, the four components (purpose and characteristics of each), the Giraffe Dance
2 – The four ears (four choices we have when hearing a difficult-to-receive message)
3 – Three kinds of Giraffe requests

NVC Processes
1 – Hearing anothers anger (blame, criticism)
2 – Expressing no
3 – Hearing no
4 – Self empathy when (a) stimulus is external and (b) stimulus is internal
5 – Mourning and learning from our regrets
6 – Screaming in Giraffe
7 – Interrupting
8 – Expressing gratitude
9 – Receiving gratitude
10 – Making conscious choices with an awareness of needs
11 – Expressing an apology
12 – Resolving an inner conflict through NVC dialogue

Key Differentiations
1 – Being Giraffe vs doing Giraffe
2 – Giraffe honesty vs jackal honesty
3 – Empathy vs sympathy and other forms of response (fixing, reassuring, storytelling, etc.)
4 – Protective vs punitive use of force
5 – Power with vs power over
6 – Appreciation vs approval, compliments or praise
7 – Choice vs submission or rebellion
8 – Observation vs observation mixed with evaluation
9 – Feeling vs feeling mixed with thoughts
10 – Need vs request
11 – Request vs demand
12 – Stimulus vs cause
13 – Value judgment vs moralistic judgement
14 – Natural vs habitual
15 – Interdependence vs dependence or independence
16 – Life connected vs life alienated
17 – Shift vs compromise
18 – Persisting vs demanding
19 – Self discipline vs obedience
20 – Respect of authority vs fear of authority
21 – Vulnerability vs weakness
22 – Love as action vs love as need and feeling
23 – Self empathy vs acting out, repressing or wallowing in feelings
24 – Idiomatic vs classical (formal) Giraffe
25 – Empathetic sensing vs intellectual understanding

If you have questions, please check our Q & A.

To join use the signup form.

The signup process is complete once payment is received. Please use one of the methods above by Bank.