NYCNVC Practice Groups 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

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. 

 


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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The Empathy Cafe - Friday Evenings

 

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
Tuesdays
Advanced Led Practice Group

Status: Open

Ongoing

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   Led Beginner/Intermediate Practice Group
With Elizabeth Banner

Status: open

 

 

 

 Wednesdays
 6:30 - 9:00 pm

Jan 25th

to

Mar 28th

Open

 


Columbus Circle

 $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 have read at least the first 4 chapters of the book before the first group meeting.		 This program is beginners and intermediate practitioners.

With Elizabeth Banner

For more information or to register email

or call 212 307 7150
Fridays

The Empathy Cafe

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Ongoing Empathy Practice Group and Community

Status: Very Open
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Fridays
7:00 - 9:15 pm

Ongoing from February 11th

Locations throughout Manhattan

Free

$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

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

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