NVC Classes
At Rose City NVC we bring the latest developments in effective communication, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and mindfulness in service of calm, peace, and joy in your relationships. Our classes address your experience of disconnection, and provide you the skills necessary to establish meaningful and authentic relationships.
Our program is incremental because we believe that more than intellectual understanding is necessary to achieving the peace that you long for. Each course in our Speaking Peace Series below builds on the one before it resulting in a depth of practice that cements your new skills. Our program is diverse and covers the full range of topics and experiences necessary for successful growth in human connection.
Expand the sections below to learn more about what each class offers and specific details. All our weekly courses are currently online and times are in PST (Pacific time zone).
NVC Foundation Course
Do you want a solid foundation on which to build cooperative and peaceful relationships?
Our Foundations class is designed to not only provide you with clarity and understanding of the Basic Skills of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), but to also immerse you in experiences and practice designed to make your new skills immediately usable. During this 8-week Foundations class you’ll learn:
• The basic skills of NVC.
• How to identify the difference between judgment of others and observation in order to create new clarity and understanding that will support your capacity to thrive in relationships.
• A powerful personal vocabulary that will increase the chances you’ll be heard in the way you hope and intend.
• How to hear others with compassion even when it’s hardest to do.
• Tools to get yourself more clarity about what strategies would best meet your needs.
• Ways to ask for what you want in a way that will be better received.
• Skills that will increase your trust that everyone’s needs can be met, even when it seems hopeless.
Prerequisites: None. However, we believe you would benefit from reading Nonviolent Communication; “A Language of Life” by Marshall Rosenberg.
Meeting Schedule: This class meets for 8 consecutive Mondays.
Organizer: Sandra Amiry
Where: Zoom
Start Date: January 25, 2027
End Date: March 15, 2027
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
Cost: $295 – $495 Sliding Scale
Maximum Class Size: 24
NVC Integration Course
Integrate and deepen your command of NVC skills and consciousness with the support of a compassionate learning community.
We offer our Integration Class because we recognize that incorporating NVC consciousness into our lives can be a lonely and uncomfortable process, and we want you to have all of the support you need to have the life and relationships that you really want. In our Integration Class you’ll engage in active dialog with self and others as you learn how to:
• Deepen your connection with yourself, including developing greater awareness of your feelings and a greater understanding of the needs your feelings are announcing.
• Develop an ever-increasing felt-sense of presence.
• Discern and honor your own wisdom.
• Make needs-informed choices that expand your sense of well-being, satisfaction, confidence, and peace.
• Expand your skill at asking for what you want, and your confidence that your needs can and will be met.
• Enjoy the companionship of others with whom you can practice your new consciousness, deepening your experience of community as well as your skill.
• Increase your sense of ease and comfort with living the promise of NVC consciousness.
We’re excited to welcome you into our community of people committed to co-creating and sustaining joyous, authentic, cooperative relationships.
Prerequisites: Completion of NVC Foundations Class or equivalent. Have questions about the prerequisite? (Click here to contact us and request details.)
Meeting Schedule: This class meets for 8 consecutive Tuesdays.
Where: Online. Complete registration to receive zoom link and other details.
Organizer: Sandra Amiry
Start Date: January 26, 2027
End Date: March 16, 2027
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
Cost: $295 – $495 sliding scale
Maximum Class Size: 24
NVC Life Applications
Continue learning and practicing in community to further strengthen your current skills and learn new tools.
Our Life Applications workshop will support you to extend your new skills and understandings into all the areas of your life. We will explore the most common kinds of missed connections that occur in our lives, and practice having successful and satisfying outcomes instead as well as learning some new concepts and tools. In our Life Applications workshop we will:
• Examine what still holds us back when engaging fully both in what can be charged conversations and in all areas of our lives.
• Practice new tools, and tools from previous courses, within a safe supportive space with others in a similar place in the journey.
• Refresh strategies that support us to automatically turn toward self-connection whenever anything appears “difficult”.
• Experience successful outcomes in situations you’ve lost hope achieving satisfying outcomes for through engaging in and observing role plays.
• Learn the power of authentic accountability and how it can support you in whatever circumstances you are wanting to explore.
• Dabble in NVC Mediation and how it may be a tool for us interacting in groups or more than one person.
Prerequisites: Completion of NVC Foundations & Integration Course or equivalent. This course is run once per year. Have questions about the prerequisite? (Click here to contact us and request details.) Meeting Schedule: This workshop meets 8 consecutive Wednesdays
Where: Zoom
Organizer: Sandra Amiry
Start Date: 6/23/2027
End Date: 8/11/2027
Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm
Cost: $295 – $495 Sliding Scale
Maximum Class Size: 24