NVC for All – A Nonviolent Communication Foundations Course

Join us online every other Sunday, January 19th – April 27th, 1:30pm – 3:30pm PT.

Over eight sessions, we’ll cover the fundamental concepts of Nonviolent Communication. And we’ll go further. We’ll learn about the ways in which some uses of Nonviolent Communication can inadvertently replicate larger societal structures that silence and disempower people from historically marginalized groups. While we explore the four steps of the basic NVC model, we will include strategies to integrate awareness of power, privilege and social inequities designed to decrease the likelihood that the model will perpetuate existing social inequities. We will look at ways to use Nonviolent Communication to lift up and discuss inequities when they exist, rather than contribute to silencing and erasure. 

If you’re excited about learning Nonviolent Communication in a way that can support your desire to address larger systemic inequities in addition to supporting personal change, please join me!  

In this course, we plan to:

• Identify what’s important in any situation
• Enhance self-awareness and our capacity to name our experience in the moment
• Promote fierce self-knowledge and self-advocacy 
• Strengthen our capacity to acknowledge and lean into interdependence
• Name systemic, oppressive conditions and their internalized impacts on our communication and relationships
• Acknowledge harm and impact in order to support healing and repair 
• Develop our capacity to listen to anyone to get to the heart of the matter, even when we disagree with them
• Support healing and repair interpersonally and in our communities
• Explore creative strategies for healing that are aligned with our values
• Recognize and celebrate cultural attributes 

What will the class structure be like? We’ll include:

• Ample class time for practice and questions
• An option to pair up with an empathy buddy for learning and healing
• Practice exercises to work on between class meetings
• Extensive journals and worksheets
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Class Meeting Dates

The class meets every other Sunday, January 19 through April 27th, 1:30pm – 3:30pm Pacific

• Session 1 – Sunday, January 19
• Session 2 – Sunday, February 2
• Session 3 – Sunday, February 16
• Session 4 – Sunday, March 2
• Session 5 – Sunday, March 16
• Session 6 – Sunday, March 30
• Session 7 – Sunday, April 13
• Session 8 – Sunday, April 27

Where do we meet?

The course will meet via online video conference (zoom). Recordings provided.

Sliding Scale Tuition Options:

$600 – Supporter Rate: If you have financial assets, or identify as middle or upper/owning class, then this is the rate for you. Paying at this rate supports the discount and scholarship fund, making this course accessible to more people including Global Majority people.

$500 – Support Roxy’s Sustainability Rate: If you are able to contribute at this level, you contribute to more spaciousness for Roxy to continue to develop and expand her ideas and work – activities that are not paid through classes or workshops.

$400 – Requested Standard Contribution: This is the true cost of the course. If you are able to pay this amount and still meet your basic needs, then this is the price for you to choose.

$300- Discounted Rate: The Discounted option is reserved for those who sometimes struggle with limited financial resources and would benefit from supported access to this learning experience.

$200 – Scholarship Rate: The Scholarship option is reserved for people experiencing financial hardship.

If you are a member of the Global Majority or experiencing financial hardship and you need additional financial assistance to attend, please submit a request for tuition assistance.

About the Instructor:

Roxy Manning brings decades of service experience to her work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms within individuals, communities, and organizations. Rooted in her experience as an Afro-Caribbean immigrant, Roxy brings a diversity of perspectives to her work that generates profound insights for transformative change. Roxy has worked and consulted across the U.S. with businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations wanting to move towards equitable and diverse hiring practices and workplace cultures, as well as with individuals and groups committed to social justice internationally.

As a facilitator, she’s thrilled by the process of holding opposing voices and ushering groups from discord towards values-driven solutions that work for everyone. Her own inner work coupled with her professional experience has grown her capacity to meet people with varying levels of education, disparate life experiences, and the most intense feelings in ways that help them feel heard, respected, supported, and loved. As a psychologist, she maintains a private therapy practice, and works in San Francisco serving the homeless and disenfranchised mentally ill population. As a Certified Trainer and assessor with CNVC, she works with folks from the Global Majority who are interested in NVC certification and creating ties with the global NVC network to create local communities that thrive.