Practice groups provide opportunities for learning, growth, and connection to the principles of Nonviolent Communication, within a supportive community. The consistent structure can help you apply and integrate NVC awareness in your daily life.
Local practice groups are self forming, and lead by students of NVC, with different levels of experience. Group format and structure can vary widely depending on the needs and learning levels of group participants. We encourage you to find the group that meets your specific learning needs or help to create one yourself.
Open Groups
The following practice groups in your area are open to new members. To learn more about a group or to join, please contact the listed group facilitator.
Developing NVC Consciousness
Facilitator: Sadie Gordon
Description: Examine how the domination culture is alive in you. Increase your awareness of what's life serving. Receive support for being yourself and seeing yourself authentically. Increase your capacity to stay in compassion for yourself and others. Give and receive empathy. 10 dollars per session. Located at the Lion & the Rose bed and breakfast, 15th and NE Schuyler. One block north of Broadway.
Prerequisites: Read or be in the process of reading: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg.
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Location: 1810 NE 15th, Portland, OR
Group Duration: Begins February 6, 2006, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: none
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: borageblossoms@yahoo.com, 503-233-1051
NVC Practice Group
Facilitator: Kathy Marchant
Description: Contact Kathy Marchant at 503-768-9008
Prerequisites: Participants in the on-going practice groups have completed a 12-week introductory course or some equivalent
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays, 4:45 PM–6:45 PM
Location: 1509 SW Sunset Blvd, Suite 2A, Portland, OR 97219
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2009, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: klmarchant@comcast.net, 503-768-9008
NVC Practice Group
Facilitator: Kathy Marchant
Description: Contact Kathy Marchant 503-768-9008
Prerequisites: Participants in the on-going practice groups have completed a 12-week introductory course or some equivalent
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 4:45 PM–6:45 PM
Location: 1509 SW Sunset Blvd, Suite 2A, Portland, OR 97219
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2009, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: klmarchant@comcast.net, 503-768-9008
Friday Afternoon IPNB Practice Group
Facilitator: Sarah Peyton
Description: An in-person monthly dialogue practice group for folks in the Vancouver/Portland area who are interested in bringing their NVC practice to life in their daily conversations. There will be live empathy rounds to bring presence to our dialogues. Suitable for all levels of NVC experience. 2 hour time frame.
Prerequisites: Contact Sarah to inquire about details
Meeting Day/Time: Fridays, 12:00 PM–2:00 PM
Location: Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, WA 98665
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2011, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: None
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: peytwood@isomedia.com, (206) 579-1696
Thursday Twice-Monthly Practice Group
Facilitator: Sarah Peyton
Description: An in-person twice-monthly practice group for folks in the Vancouver/Portland area who are interested in deepening their NVC practice with themselves and with others. Lots of live empathy work, a little bit of information on what's happening between brains (some interpersonal neurobiology and neuroscience research). Suitable for all levels of NVC experience. 2 hour time frame. The group opens for new members every three months.
Prerequisites: Contact Sarah to inquire about details
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, WA 98660
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2011, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: peytwood@isomedia.com, (206) 579-1696
Thursday Mediation Practice Group
Facilitator: Steven Allen Smith and Sadie Gordon
Description: This is transformative mediation. People use it for a range
of personal uses from meeting and getting to know, without the illusions,
the person they are living with to resolving this weeks tensions enabling
them to enjoy living together for another week. Usually this use includes
simultaneously personally learning the skills of Peace-Making to build a
more enjoyable relationship.
Prerequisites: None
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: 5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
Group Duration: Begins January 1, 2011, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: None, cost: 2% of monthly gross income
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: sas@peace-making.com, (503) 228-7256
Thursday Twice Monthly Knowing Ourselves in Community
Facilitator: Sarah Peyton
Description: Join Sarah Peyton and a group of 8-12 participants to explore and integrate how you connect with others, what you expect from relationship, and how to start healing and restoring your patterns of being yourself in community. We will be working with NVC empathy and dialogue, and with the concepts of Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Prerequisites: Cost: $400 - early bird payment $300 by Dec. 30
Meeting Day/Time: Thursdays, 9:30 AM–11:30 AM
Location: Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, WA 98662
Group Duration: Begins January 5, 2012, Ending May 17, 2012
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: peytwood@isomedia.com, (206) 579-1696
Mon-Thurs NVC Beginner's Practice Group
Facilitator: Joe Mitchell
Description: Come learn the basics of NVC in a group setting. Practice and enjoy support from likeminded people. Choose your evening: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.
Prerequisites: None
Meeting Day/Time: Mondays, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: 5232 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97215
Group Duration: Begins November 29, 2011, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: Marshall’s book: “The Language of Life.” Suggested donation: $5-20 per session (contribute only what you would enjoy)
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: jjmit@comcast.net, 503-233-2310
Tuesday Evening Practice Group with Fred Sly
Facilitator: Fred Sly, CNVC certified trainer
Description: In this practice group we will both create the quality of connection that we all long for as well as review and refine the skills and consciousness that support it.
Prerequisites: Completion of a Basic Skills class within the past year. Or, read Nonviolent Communication; a Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg before attending the first session.
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Location: 2800 SE Harrison St., Portland, OR 97214
Group Duration: Begins September 1, 2011, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials:
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: fsly@pacific.net, 503-953-0333
Peace-Making Monthly Practice Group
Facilitator: Steven Allen Smith and Sadie Gordon
Description: Meets on the second Saturday
of each month for training on a focused subject and then practices those
skills every Wednesday evening: http://www.peace-making.com/peace-making-course/?page_id=46 The course will cover one subject a month for nine months. It will cover all aspects of NVC, of maturing one's insight into awareness and practicing empathetic connection with oneself and others, including dealing with shadow or disowned aspects of oneself. Cost: 2% of monthly gross income
Prerequisites: Taking our introductory course which will occur Friday September 10, 2010 or by special arrangement any Friday before a Saturday class.
Meeting Day/Time: Saturdays, 9:00 AM–4:30 PM
Location: 5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
Group Duration: Begins September 11, 2011, Ending June 29, 2011
Required Books/Materials: We provide a Binder of NVC and Conscious
Awareness skills; Recommend reading NVC, a Language of Life by Marshall
Rosenberg, The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and Holosync meditation available
through www.peace-making.com resource page hot link.
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: sas@peace-making.com, (503) 228-7256
Twice-monthly Wed Practice Group, Vancouver, WA
Facilitator: Sarah Peyton
Description: An in-person twice-monthly practice group for folks in the Vancouver/Portland area who are interested in deepening their NVC practice with themselves and with others. Lots of live empathy work, a little bit of information on what's happening between brains (some interpersonal neurobiology and neuroscience research). Suitable for all levels of NVC experience. 2 hour time frame. The group opens for new members every 3-4 months.
Prerequisites: Contact Sarah to inquire about details
Meeting Day/Time: Wednesdays, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Location: Downton Vancouver, Vancouver, WA 98661
Group Duration: Begins September 14, 2011, Ending undetermined
Required Books/Materials: None
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: peytwood@isomedia.com, (360) 576-9194
Peace-Making Wednesday Practice Group
Facilitator: Steven Allen Smith and Sadie Gordon
Description: A weekly practice group including empathy partners to support the monthly Peace-Making course: http://www.peace-making.com/peace-making-course/?page_id=46
Prerequisites: Enrollment in the monthly Peace-Making course.
Meeting Day/Time: Wednesdays, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM
Location: 5745 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
Group Duration: Begins September 15, 2011, Ending June 29, 2011
Required Books/Materials: None
Group Maximum: 12 Members
Contact: sas@peace-making.com, (503) 228-7256
Start a Practice Group
For info on starting your own practice group, see Starting a Practice Group covering the following topics:
- Practice Group Considerations
- Sample Group Structures
- Host or Facilitate a Group
- Find Support
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